Daniel M. Albert

Daniel M. Albert (born December 19, 1936) is an American ophthalmologist, ocular cancer researcher, medical historian, and collector of rare books and ocular equipment. As of 2018, he is Professor of Ophthalmology at the Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health & Science University.

Early life and education Albert was born in Newark, New Jersey, on December 19, 1936. He attended Weequahic High School. He studied biology at Franklin and Marshall University in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, graduating cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1958. He earned his medical degree in 1962 from the University of Pennsylvania. During the last year of his residency, he was appointed an instructor in the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. He received a two-year fellowship at the ophthalmology division of the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Blindness (later the National Eye Institute). In 1968 he became NIH Special Fellow in Ophthalmic Pathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, where he worked under Lorenz E. Zimmerman. a position he held for ten years.

Between 1970 and 1995, Albert additionally held visiting appointments in hospitals across the United States. In 1985, he spent a semester in London, England, where he was a visiting professor at the University of London and a visiting scientist at the Institute of Ophthalmology at Moorfields Eye Hospital. He has also been a guest lecturer in France, and Japan.

Research

Albert's research has focused on ocular tumors, particularly melanoma and retinoblastoma.

Albert has published over 600 journal articles and he is the author or co-author of forty texts and monographs. and the second appeared in Archives of Ophthalmology.

Editorial work Albert served as Editor of the academic journals History of Ophthalmology (Documenta Ophthalmologica) (from 1994) and Archives of Ophthalmology (1994–2013). (1994–2013) and Ophthalmology (from 2014), as well as Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (from 1969).

With Frederick A. Jakobiec, Albert co-edited the textbook, Principles and Practices of Ophthalmology, which was first published in 1994 in six volumes, and remains in print in its third edition. In a review of the first edition for Archives of Ophthalmology, Bradley Straatsma wrote:

He wrote a series of blog posts for the journal Science between 2009 and 2013, offering career advice to students considering a career in medicine.

History of science and medicine Albert has contributed to documenting the history of ophthalmology.

Awards, honors and professional activities

Albert was given an honorary MA from the Harvard Medical School in 1976; eight years later, he was conferred with the degree Doctor Honoris Causa, from the Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France. He has received numerous other awards, including the Albert C. Muse Prize, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology's Friedenwald Award, Humboldt Research Award, American Ophthalmological Society's Lucien Howe Medal, Pisart Vision Award and the American Association of Ocular Pathologists' Zimmerman Medal. (from 1962), the American Medical Association (from 1963), and the American Ophthalmological Society (from 1973). In 1985, he was appointed to the Executive Committee of the Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study. He directed the American Board of Ophthalmology (1997–2005). )

Monographs and textbooks

Albert Daniel M. and Harold Scheie. A History of Ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania. Springfield, Ill.: C.C. Thomas 1965. Albert, Daniel M. and Eduard von Jaeger. Jaeger's Atlas of Diseases of the Ocular Fundus: With New Descriptions, Revisions and Additions. Philadelphia and London: W.B. Saunders, 1972. Albert, Daniel, M and Paul Henkind. Men of Vision: Lives of Notable Figures in Ophthalmology. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1993. Classics of Ophthalmology Library Series. Albert, Daniel M. Frederick A. Jakobiec, Eds. Principles and Practice of Ophthalmology. 6 vols. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1994. Albert, Daniel M, Edward W.D. Norton, and Reva Hurtes. Source Book of Ophthalmology. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Science, 1995. Albert, Daniel M. and Diane D. Edwards. The History of Ophthalmology. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Science, 1996. Albert, Daniel M. and Frederick A. Jakobiec, Eds. Atlas of Clinical Ophthalmology. Philadelphia, Saunders, 2000. 2nd Ed. Albert, Daniel M. and Arthur Polans. Ocular Oncology. New York: Marcel Dekker, 2003. Albert, Daniel M. & Mark J. Lucarelli, Eds. Clinical Atlas of Procedures in Ophthalmic and Oculofacial Surgery. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 2nd Ed. Albert, Daniel M. The Dean and the Historian: Their Lives and Times Through Letters. Philadelphia: Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 2014. Albert, Daniel M. and Carol Benenson Perloff. Tickets to the Healing Arts: Medical Lecture Tickets of the 18th and 19th Centuries. New Castle, DE and Philadelphia: Oak Knoll Press and University of Pennsylvania Archives, 2015. Scheie, Harold and Daniel M. Albert. Textbook of Ophthalmology. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1977. 9th ed.