Centennial Celebration Archive
In honor of our centennial anniversary, we have featured members of our optometry & vision science community — past and present — each day of 2023! Read each celebration profile by clicking on the weekly links below.
January 3-6
Daphne Chan, OD, FAAO
Marlena Chu, OD, FAAO
Vicki Hugues, OD
Kenneth Polse, OD, MS, FAAO
January 9-13
Kathy Tran, OD, FAAO
Sheldon Miller, PhD
Ruth Shoge, OD, MPH, FAAO
Karen Walker-Brandreth, OD, FAAO
Dennis Levi, OD, PhD
January 17-20
Kelly Nichols, OD, MPH, PhD, FAAO
Donald Korb, OD, FAAO
Chris Wilmer, OD, FAAO
Sheryl Guillory Reaves, OD
January 23-27
Karla Zadnik OD, PhD
Mike Hoffshire, PhD
Almadora Henry
Donald E. Mitchell, PhD
Catherine McChrystal, MA, MAEd
January 30–February 3rd
Jeremey Shumaker,OD
Lawrence W. Stark, MD
Deanna Alexander, OD, FAAO
Stan Woo, OD, MS, MBA, FAAO
Gunilla Haegerstrom-Portnoy, OD, PhD, FAAO
February 6–10
Carl Jacobsen, OD, FAAO
Debora M. Lee Chen, OD, MPH, FAAO
Solon M. Braff, OD, FAAO
Jennie Chai Louie Mew, BS
Irving Fatt, PhD, FAAO
February 13–17
Raveena Dhiman
Karen Griffith, OD, MBA
Kuniyoshi Kanai, OD, FAAO
Merton C. Flom, OD, PhD
Maria Liu, OD, PhD, MPH, MBA, FAAO
February 21–24
Sandra Peña
Allan N. Freid, OD, FAAO
Suzanne M.J. Fleiszig, OD, PhD
Reverend Clyde Oden Jr., OD
February 27–March 3
William Tuten, OD, PhD
Eleanor W. Kung, OD
Michael Twa, OD, PhD
Marvin Poston, OD
Angie Godinez, PhD
March 6–10
Martin S. Banks, PhD
Justin Kwan, OD, FAAO
Monroe J. Hirsch, OD, PhD, FAAO
Jorge Cuadros, OD, PhD
Pam Satjawatcharaphong, OD, FAAO, FSLS
March 13–17
Jack T. Hobson, OD
Anne Tasaki, OD
Joseph A. Bonanno, OD, PhD
Reem Almagati, OD, MS
Charlotte Yiyi Wang, OD, FAAO
March 20–25
Orneika Flandrin, BS
Elwin Marg, OD, PhD
David Yang, OD, FAAO
Lewis Reich, OD, PhD
Sarah Singh, OD, PhD
March 27–30
Edwin Mehr, OD, FAAO
Lu Chen, MD, PhD
Clayton J. Radke, PhD
Lauren Ogata, OD
April 3-7
Joy Harewood, OD, FAAO, Dipl ABO
Ralph S. Minor, PhD, FAAO
Saya Hayashi, OD
Emily Gorski, OD
Billie Beckwith-Cohen, PhD
April 10-14
Avigael Aizenman, PhD
Meredith W. Morgan, OD, PhD
David Redman, OD
Shayda Mardi, OD
Ardi Samonte, MA
April 17-21
Lillian Wang, OD
Sherrie Stewart
Stephen R. Chun, OD, FAAO
David Geffen, OD
Ava Wu, DDS
April 24-28
Emily Cooper, PhD
Sandhya Andrews, BA
Xiaohua Gong, PhD
Morton D. Sarver, OD, MS, FAAO
Etchi Ako, BS
May 1-5
Alexander Belsten, BS
Cristen Adams, OD
George L. Schneider, OD
Cheyenne Chinea, OD
Caitlin Dabatos
May 8-12
Christine F. Wildsoet, OD, PhD, FAAO, FARVO
Kenneth B. Stoddard, OD, PhD
Ciel Mahoney
Dan Harvitt, OD, PhD
Galen Chuang, BS
May 15-19
Nancy McNamara, OD, PhD
Quan Dao, OD
Bernhardt N. Thal, OD, FAAO
Brian Levy, OD, MSc
Maxwell Greene, OD
May 22-26
Angelica Gonzalez
W. Rowland Taylor, PhD
Karthik Shekhar, PhD
Gordon L. Walls, PhD
Briana Yik, BS
May 30-June 2
Izdihar Salman
Horace B. Barlow, MD
Alexandria Marquez
Liandra Jung, OD
June 5-9
Roy Brandreth, OD, FAAO
Sonali Singh, BS
Rand Seikert, OD
Pamela P. Fong, OD
Tsung-Wei Ke, PhD
June 12-16
John G. Flannery, PhD
Daniel Frozenfar, BS
Russell De Valois, PhD
Minqi Wang, PhD
Denise Tirado, OD
June 20-23
Christian Shewmake, MS
Sophie Lam, OD
Melissa Rezk
Lesley L. Walls, OD, MD, FAAO
June 26-30
Andrea Antonelli, OD
Karen Springer Kronick, OD
Frances Tsai, OD
Gerald Westheimer, OD, PhD, FAAO
John (JT) Pirog, BS
July 3-7
Deborah Orel-Bixler, OD, Phd, FAAO
Edward I. Goodlaw, OD, FAAO
Timothy C. Jankowski, OD, FAAO
Pabita Dhungel, BOPTOM, MS
July 10-14
Samantha Zepeda
Henry B. Peters, OD, MA, FAAO
Matangi Kumar, BS
Jeanette Lee, OD
Jorge Otero-Millan, PhD
July 17-21
Melissa Dacumos, OD
Savanah Litton, BS
Stephen Lundquist, OD
Anthony J. Adams, OD, PhD, FAAO
Meng C, Lin, OD, PhD
July 24-28
Joselyne Calvillo, BS
Karsten Gronert, PhD
Kerri Yoshiyama, OD
Sir Colin Blakemore, PhD, ScD, FMedSci, FRS
Josephine D’Angelo, BS
July 31-August 4
Brenda Espinoza
Frank W. Weymouth, AM, PhD, FAAO
Vickie Kuo, BS
Thomas H. Peters, OD
Hany Farid, PhD
August 7-11
Britta Hansen Brown, OD, FAAO
Darrell Carter, OD, PhD, FAAO
Samantha Zepeda
Victoria Cynthia Fong, MA
Glen Ozawa, OD
August 14-18
Zhihang Peter Ren, MS
Theodore Cohn, PhD
Sherrell Gordon
Bruno A. Olshausen, PhD
Navjot Pannu, BS
August 21-25
Chiara Miranda, BS
L. Edward Elliott, OD, FAAO
Iona McLean, BA
Matthieu Kaminski
Joan Castañeda, OD
August 28-September 1
Taishi Painter, BA
Ursula Moonsamy, OD
Michael Harris, OD, JD, MS, FAAO
Celia Gong, OD
Lauren King, BS
September 5-8
Michelle Winter, BS
Gordon W. Duffy, OD, FAAO
Bhavjot Kaur Nanda, BS
Andrew Wong, OD, FAAO
September 11-15
Kathryn Dumbleton, PhD, MCOptom, FAAO
Daniel Chun-Hsiao Yeh, MS
Jay M. Enoch, OD, PhD, FAAO
Sara Abboud, OD
Linda Vang, OD
September 18-22
Lawrence Man, BSc
Stephanie Reeves, BS
Robert B. Mandell, OD, PhD, FAAO
Gordon G. Heath, OD, PhD, FAAO
Svetlana Nunez, BS
September 25-29
Jacob Yates, PhD
Mika Moy, OD, FAAO
Richard M. Hill, OD, PhD, FAAO
Leah Johnston, BS
Teresa Puthussery, OD, PhD
October 2-6
Susana Chung, OD, PhD
Arthur J. Jampolsky, OD, MD, FACS
Terence Tyson, MS
Siu G. Wong, OD, MPH
Jiayun (Peter) Wang, PhD
October 9-13
Alisa Braun, BS
Robert Lester, OD, FAAO
Jennifer Fisher, OD, FAAO, FCOVD
Ralph Freeman, OD, PhD, FAAO
Kalina Grimm, OD
October 16-20
Alexis Meyer, BS
Charles E. Seger, OD, FAAO
Cyrus McHugh, BS
Andrew Mick, OD, FAAO
Britney Kitamata-Wong, OD
October 23-27
Frank Balestrery, OD
Chi N. Quang, OD
Raymond Alan Applegate, OD, PhD, FAAO
Ian L. Bailey, OD, MS, FBCO, FAAO
Vivien Tse, OD, FAAO, FSLS
October 30-November 3
Emily Ward, MSc
John Corzine, OD, FAAO
Graham K. Chung, OD
Melanie Akau, OD, FAAO
Larry Thibos, PhD, DSc, FAAO, FOSA
November 6-9
Arthur Bradley, PhD
Daisy Dominguez, BS
Stanley Klein, PhD
Haley Frey, BS
November 13-17
Laura Patak, BS
Bernard J. Dolan, OD, MS, FAAO
Jeffrey J. Walline, OD, PhD
Brandon Friedman, OD
Kaitlyn Lee, BS
November 20-22
Abraham Bromberg, OD
Dasheng Bi, BS
Bianca Angelica Nunez
November 27-December 1
Leon Lewis, MD
Elizabeth “Liz” Doty
Baldemar Torres, BS
Peter Bergenske, OD
Farayha Zaidi, BS
November 20-22
Lee A Goldstein, OD, MPA
Beatrice Le, BS
Landen Longson, BS
Donald Mutti, OD, PhD, FAAO, FARVO
Eloisa Morfin, BS
December 11-14
Angela Shahbazian, OD, FAAO
Vincent Michael Patella, OD, FAAO
Angeline Yang, BS
Evan Toy, BS
Liza Shevchuk, BA
December 18-22
Tejasvi Kothapalli, BS
Edward Revelli, OD, FAAO
Ziwei Kitty Sun, BS
Jean Writghtnour, OD, FAAO
Taea Jackson, BS
December 27-29
Jessica Wang, BS
Michael Silver, PhD
Keith Uyemura, BS
January 12th, 2024
John G. Flanagan, PhD, DSc, FCOptom, FAAO, FARVO
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