Lawrence Yannuzzi

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Lawrence Yannuzzi is an American physician, ophthalmologist, and vitreo-retinal surgeon who is noted as as an internationally recognized ^[1] retinal specialist.

Contents 1 Early career and family 2 Career 3 Lifetime Achievement Award 4 External links 5 References

[edit] Early career and family

Yannuzzi graduated from Harvard College. He graduated from the Boston University School of Medicine where he received an M.D. degree in 1964. He did a residency in ophthalmology at the New York Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital from 1965 to 1968. He was board certified in ophthalmology in 1971. ^[2]

He is married and has two sons and a daughter, who is a psychiatrist. ^[3]

[edit] Career

He is a professor of clinical ophthalmology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, vice–chairman and director of The Retinal Research Center of the Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital, and founder and president of The Macula Foundation. ^[4]

Yannuzzi has published more than 300 scientific papers and 11 textbooks, with particular concentration in diseases of the macula such as diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration.^[5]

He is on the Board of Directors for Lighthouse International, a non-profit organization that does work in vision rehabilitation services, education, research, prevention and advocacy. ^[6]

Yannuzzi is a pioneer in angiography. ^[7] He and his colleagues are credited as describing and coining the term "idiopathic polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy", a particular type of hemorrhagic maculopathy. ^[8]

[edit] Lifetime Achievement Award

He is a recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology. ^[9]

Yannuzzi practices in New York City.

[edit] External links

• 2006 photo of Lawrence Yannuzzi, M.D. [1]

[edit] References