Robert N. Weinreb, M.D., is a clinician, a surgeon and scientist. He is Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology and holds the Morris Gleich MD Chair of Glaucoma. He oversees all clinical aspects of glaucoma diagnosis and treatment within the Department of Ophthalmology at the Shiley Eye Center. Patients from throughout the world seek his diagnostic and surgical expertise.
Dr. Weinreb is also the Director of the Hamilton Glaucoma Center, which provides state of the art laboratory and clinical research facilities for glaucoma, and a home for a world-renowned team of scientists and staff. Known for its unique cross-disciplinary investigative programs, the scientists at the Hamilton Glaucoma Center seek to enhance the discovery and translation of innovative research to prevent and cure glaucoma blindness.
Dr. Weinreb graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed his residency and fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco.
A prolific researcher and writer, he has more than 1200 scientific publications and 19 books, including Glaucoma Surgery: Principles and Techniques (2001), Glaucoma Diagnosis (2004), Open Angle Glaucoma Surgery (2005), Glaucoma Answers (2005), Glaucoma Neuroprotection (2006), and Ocular Blood Flow in Glaucoma (2009). He has delivered 67 named lectures including the Wilmer Distinguished Faculty Lecture, Johns Hopkins University; Jules Stein Lecture: University of California Los Angeles; Transamerica Lecture, University of California, San Francisco; Robert N. Schaffer Lecture, 105th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology; the Joseph M. Bryan Lecture, Duke University; and the Helen Keller Lecture, University of Alabama School of Medicine.
Dr. Weinreb has served as President of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (2002-2003), President of the World Glaucoma Association (WGA) (2004-2006) and President of the American Glaucoma Society (2007 - 2009).
Recipient of numerous awards including the Alcon Research Institute Award for Outstanding Contributions to Research in Visual Sciences (1988 and 1992), the Heed Ophthalmic Foundation Award in recognition of leadership and contributions in ophthalmology (1997), the Research to Prevent Blindness Physician-Scientist Award (2003) and the IGR Prize for Outstanding Glaucoma Research (2003), he has been cited in every edition of Woodward/White, The Best Doctors in America and is an elected member of the prestigious American Ophthalmological Society. Dr. Weinreb was the recipient of the Ridley Medal of St. Thomas' Hospital, London in 2006 and the Moecyr E. Alvaro Medal of Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2009.
Dr. Weinreb serves on 29 Editorial Boards including Journal of Glaucoma (Co-Editor), International Glaucoma Review (Editor), Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Archives of Ophthalmology, Graefe’s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology (Co-Editor) and Survey of Ophthalmology (Research Editor). He is also Editor of Essentials in Ophthalmology, a multi-volume textbook of ophthalmology. Dr. Weinreb has trained more than 100 post-doctoral Fellows in Glaucoma, many of whom hold distinguished academic positions throughout the world.
