CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
Nominations are now being accepted for the Roger H. Johnson Memorial Award for Macular Degeneration Research.
The award recognizes outstanding contribution to our understanding of the pathogenesis and treatment of age-related macular degeneration by a clinician or basic science researcher working anywhere in the world.
A cash award will be made to the individual selected for this honor, and the recipient will be invited to deliver a lecture at the UW Department of Ophthalmology’s Resident Alumni Day in June 2010.
Nominations should be addressed to:
Russell Van Gelder, MD, PhD
Boyd K. Bucey Professor and Chair
UW Department of Ophthalmology
All material should be sent electronically in PDF or Word files to RHJaward@uw.edu
An application will not be considered without the following:
* A nominating letter, detailing the individual’s contribution to the field
* Two additional letters of support
* A complete and current curriculum vitae of the nominee.
Material may be sent separately, but all most be received before Saturday, October 31, 2009 to be considered. Please indicate the name of the nominee in the subject line.
The selection will be made by a committee composed of faculty members from the University of Washington.
For more information, or if you have any questions, please contact:
Mary Prudden
Administrator
UW Medicine / Eye Institute
mprudden@uw.edu
T: 206.543.4899
Roger H. Johnson, MD
1914-2007
After medical education at the University of Wisconsin and residency in Ophthalmology at the Mayo clinic, Dr. Roger Johnson began 53 years of practice in Seattle. For forty years, he served as volunteer Chief of Ophthalmology at Seattle Children’s Hospital, where an annual lectureship and a research facility carry his name. Generations of residents benefited from his teaching and leadership.
In 1999, alarmed by the growing epidemic of untreatable vision loss due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD), Dr. Johnson endowed a Macular Degeneration Prize at UW, to be awarded every two years. The prize honors a clinician or scientist who has made the most significant contribution to the field.
Previous Recipients
2002
Christine Curcio, PhD
University of Alabama, Birmingham
2004
Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth, MD
University Eye Hospital, Vienna, Austria
2006
Gregory Hageman, PhD
University of Iowa
2008
Francois Delori, PhD
Schepens Eye Research Institute
