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Joe G. Hollyfield, Ph.D.
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Joe G. Hollyfield, PhD, is Professor of Ophthalmology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. In addition to his work at the Cole Eye Institute, Dr. Hollyfield also serves as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan and is a member of the Graduate School Faculty, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. He was Professor of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio from 1996-2003. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Hubrecht Laboratory in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Dr. Hollyfield has previously held faculty positions at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City and at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. He was Director of the Foundation Fighting Blindness Research Center in The Cullen Eye Institute at Baylor College of Medicine from 1978 until his move to The Cleveland Clinic Foundation in 1995. Dr. Hollyfield has published over 198 papers in the area of cell and developmental biology of the retina and retinal pigment epithelium in both normal and retinal degeneration tissues. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Experimental Eye Research published by Elsevier Science. He has edited twelve books, eleven on retinal degenerations and one on the structure of the eye. Dr. Hollyfield has received the Marjorie W. Margolin Prize (1981, 1994), the Sam and Bertha Brochstein Award (1985) and the Award of Merit in Retina Research (1998) from the Retina Research Foundation; the Olga Keith Wiess Distinguished Scholars' Award (1981), two Senior Scientific Investigator Awards (1988, 1994) from Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc.; an award for Outstanding Contributions to Vision Research from the Alcon Research Institute (1987); the Distinguished Alumnus Award (1991) from Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas; and the Endre A. Balazs Prize (1994) from the International Society for Eye Research (ISER). He will receive the Proctor Medal and give the Proctor Lecture at the 2009 meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). Dr. Hollyfield has been active in the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) serving on the Program Committee, as a Trustee and as President. He is also a past President and former Secretary of the International Society of Eye Research. He currently serves on the Scientific Advisory Boards of The Helen Keller Eye Research Foundation, The Foundation Fighting Blindness, Research to Prevent Blindness, The South Africa Retinitis Pigmentosa Foundation, and Knights Templar Eye Foundation. He is Chairman of the Macular Degeneration Review Panel for the American Health Assistance Foundation and is Co-Chairman of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Board of Retina International. |
