DonMincklerMDMS

Summary

• I retired from full full-time academic ophthalmology and ocular pathology practice at UCI July 2011. My main clinical interest was glaucoma and my main research interest has been the pathogenesis of optic nerve injury in glaucoma. B.A. Biology Reed College Portland, OR 1962, M.D. Cum Laude University of Oregon in 1964. Rotating Internship San Diego Naval Hospital 1964; USN Aviation Medicine, Pensacola, Florida 1966. USN Station Hospital Taipei, Taiwan 1966-68. San Point NAS, Seattle 1969-70. General and Neuropathology 1969-70 University of Washington (UW) Seattle. Ophthalmology UW, 1970-73. Ophthalmic Pathology Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) Washington, D.C. 1973-75. Ophthalmology faculty at UW 1975-6. Board Certified Ophthalmology 1975 and Anatomic Pathology in 1978. Doheny Eye Institute USC Director of Laboratories 1976-2006. American Academy of Ophthalmology 1976-present. AAO Lifetime Achievement Award 2007. Shaffer-UCSF glaucoma fellowship 1980-81. Charter member American Glaucoma Society 1987. Glaucoma Chief USC 1981-2005. Elected American Ophthalmological Society 1986, MS in Biomedical and Clinical Research USC 2006. ABO examiner 1978-98, ABO Director 1999-2006. Chair ABO 2006. International Glaucoma Research Society 1986, President GRS 1998-2006. Glaucoma Chief Scripps Clinic, San Diego 1987-88. UCI Glaucoma Director 2006-2012. Elected Verhoeff-Zimmerman Ophthalmic Pathology Society 2014. 12 Named lectures; 53 Visiting Professorships, 217 Peer-reviewed publications; 132 abstracts; Co-author 18 published symposia, 30 text chapters, 37 editorials; 8 manuals. Editor-in-Chief AAO Journal Ophthalmology 1995-2003. Recipient of teaching wards at USC and UCI. Outstanding Physician Award UCI 2011. Retired from Gavin Herbert Eye Institute faculty & Laboratory Medicine at UCI June 30, 2020, Reappointed as recall Professor for Teaching UCI March 2021. To teach first-year college seminar class Pathophysiology of Human Vision at UCI beginning Jan. 4.