Newswise — The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology is honored to announce this year’s class of distinguished Fellows. The title of ARVO Fellow recognizes members for their accomplishments, leadership and contributions to the Association.

By accepting this honor, ARVO anticipates that Fellows will continue to serve as role models and mentors for individuals pursuing careers in vision and ophthalmology research and to further ARVO’s vision ”… to facilitate the advancement of vision research and the prevention and cure of disorders of the visual system worldwide.” This includes advancing basic and clinical knowledge and serving as the leading international forum for vision research and the primary advocate for vision science worldwide.

“These are individuals with extraordinary records of service and leadership,” said ARVO President Nick Delamere, PhD, FARVO. “The Fellows have each displayed an admirable degree of commitment and loyalty to ARVO and have been instrumental in creating a sense of community within the Association.”

The ARVO fellows will be officially inducted at the Association’s Annual Meeting this May. ARVO congratulates the Fellows and thanks them for their dedication.

The ARVO 2009 ARVO Fellows are:

2010 ARVO Gold Fellows

Acott, Ted S Albert, Daniel M Baum, Jules Becker, Bernard Bennett, Jean Berson, Eliot L Bressler, Neil M Bron, Anthony J Caspi, Rachel R Chader, Gerald J Chodosh, James Craft, Cheryl M Curcio, Christine A Das, Arup Dorey, C Kathleen Dryja, Thaddeus P Enoch, Jay M Ernest, J Terry Folberg, Robert Gipson, Ilene K Goldberg, Morton F Gouras, Peter Green, Daniel Hageman, Gregory S Hjelmeland, Leonard M Horwitz, Joseph Jampol, Lee M Kampik, Anselm Kaplan, Henry J Kiel, Jeffrey W Kijlstra, Aize Krupin, Theodore Legge, Gordon E Levin, Leonard A Maguire, Maureen G Masland, Richard H McGahan, Mary Christine Milam, Ann Mitchell, Paul Mittag, Thomas W Mochizuki, Manabu Odom, J Vernon Pe'er, Jacob Pepose, Jay Stuart Pugh, Edward N Reddy, Venkat N Sarthy, Vijay P Silverstein, Arthur Smith, Lois E H Smith, Ronald E Spector, Abraham Trinkaus-Randall, Vickery E Tso, Mark O M Ubels, John L Werblin, Frank S Wiggs, Janey L Winkler, Barry S Zelenka, Peggy S

2010 ARVO Silver Fellows

Abel, Larry A Adamis, Anthony P Adamus, Grazyna Alm, Albert Andley, Usha P Austin, ClaytonJanine Azar, Dimitri T Bateman, J Bronwyn Bernstein, Paul S Bhat, Suraj P Birk, David E Blake, Randolph Blumenkranz, Mark S Boatright, Jeffrey H Bone, Richard A Borras, Terete Bullimore, Mark A Calkins, David J Callegan, Michelle Cammarata, Patrick R Carper, Deborah Carter-Dawson, Louvenia D Chakravarthy, Usha Chang, Stanley Chung, Susana Coleman, Anne L Conrad, Gary W Costello, M Joseph Courtois, Yves G Danciger, Michael Danis, Ronald P Davis, Janet L Delori, Francois C Dobson, Velma Elner, Susan G Elner, Victor M Feke, Gilbert T Ferguson, Thomas A Fitzgerald, Malinda EC. Fleiszig, Suzanne MJ Flynn, John T Foster, C Stephen Freddo, Thomas F Gabel, Veit-Peter Gallie, Brenda L Garland, Donita Goldbaum, Michael Henry Gottsch, John D Griep, Anne E Grierson, Ian Gwiazda, Jane E Haller, Julia A Hansen, Ronald M Harrad, Richard A Harris, Alon Hartzer, Michael K Hassell, John R Helbig, Horst Hendricks, Robert L Hill, James M Holopigian, Karen Honda, Yoshihito Hurwitz, Richard L Hyman, Leslie Inana, George Jaffe, Glenn J Jampel, Henry D Johnson, Mark W Johnson, Mary A Kardon, Randy H Kay, EunDuck P Kellner, Ulrich Kenney, M Cristina Khaw, Peng T King, George Liang Kitazawa, Yoshiaki Klein, Ronald Kompella, Uday Koretz, Jane F Kowluru, Renu A Laurie, Gordon W Lausch, Robert N Lee, David A Lee, Paul P Li, Tiansen Lindsey, James D Ljubimov, Alexander Mackey, David A Manny, Ruth E Marmorstein, Alan D Marshak, David W McCally, Russell L McCarey, Bernard E McCarty, Catherine A McCormick, Steven A McLaren, Jay W McMenamin, Paul

Meek, Keith M Menko, A Sue Midena, Edoardo Miller, Joan W Miller, Joseph M Mircheff, Austin K Miyake, Yozo Molday, Robert S Movshon, J Anthony Murray, Timothy G Naash, Muna I Nesburn, Anthony B Newsome, David A Nickells, Robert W Nickla, Debora L Nishida, Kohji Nork, T Michael O'Brien, Colm J O'Brien, William J O'Day, Denis M Olsen, Timothy W Pang, Iok-Hou Panjwani, Noorjahan A Parel, Jean-Marie A Parrish, Richard K Pasquale, Louis R Pepperberg, David R Petrash, J Mark Pfister, Roswell R Pittler, Steven J Pournaras, Constantin J Puklin, James E Reid, Ted W Reinecke, Robert D Repka, Michael X Richards, Julia E Ripps, Harris Rizzolo, Lawrence J Robin, Alan L Robinson, Michael L Roth, Steven Russell, Paul Ryan, Stephen J Sakamoto, Taiji Schor, Clifton M Schultz, Gregory S Schuman, Joel S Schwartz, Michal Sebag, Jerry Seiple, William H Shevell, Steven K Smith, Justine Smolek, Michael K Soubrane, Gisele Stamer, W Daniel Steinbach, Martin Stepp, Mary Ann Stone, Edwin M Sunness, Janet S Svoboda, Kathy K H Takemoto, Dolores J Tamai, Makoto Tamm, Ernst R Taylor, Andrew W Taylor, Hugh R Tervo, Timo MT Thompson, Debra A Tielsch, James M Toth, Cynthia Travis, Gabriel H Trevithick, John R Trick, Gary L Tripathi, B J Troilo, David Trousdale, Melvin D Twining, Sally S Vingrys, Algis J Vinores, Stanley Wagner, B J Walcott, Benjamin Watsky, Mitchell A Watson, Andrew B Wen, Rong Wensel, Theodore G Westall, Carol A West-Mays, Judith A Whitcup, Scott M Wiedemann, Peter Wiggert, Barbara N Wilhelmus, Kirk R WoldeMussie, Elizabeth Wyatt, Harry J Yazulla, Stephen Yu, Fushin Zangwill, Linda M Zee, David S Zemon, Vance M Zrenner, Eberhart

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) is the largest eye and vision research organization in the world. Members include more than 12,500 eye and vision researchers from over 80 countries. ARVO encourages and assists research, training, publication and knowledge-sharing in vision and ophthalmology.