Donald L. Budenz, MD, MPH
Department of Ophthalmology

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Donald L. Budenz, MD, MPH, received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, USA. He completed an ophthalmology residency at the University of Pennsylvania, Scheie Eye Institute, USA. Dr Budenz then completed a Heed Foundation Fellowship in glaucoma at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami School of Medicine, USA, where he subsequently was a faculty member for 17 years. In 2004, he received a Masters in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is currently the Kittner Distinguished Professor and Chairman of Ophthalmology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA and President of the American Glaucoma Society.

Dr Budenz is an editorial reviewer for numerous medical journals, is on the Editorial Board of theAmerican Journal of Ophthalmologyand theJournal of Glaucoma, as well as serving as the Editor of the Glaucoma issue ofCurrent Opinion in Ophthalmology. He has been principal investigator in numerous glaucoma clinical trials. Concurrent with his research, Dr Budenz has been published widely in the field of glaucoma; he has authored a textbook,Atlas of Visual Fields, contributed numerous chapters to other books, and written or coauthored 250 peer-reviewed journal articles.