Dr. D. Jackson Coleman
Dr. D. Jackson Coleman, chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology and the John Milton McLean Professor of Ophthalmology, has been named the recipient of the 2001 Maurice R. Greenberg Distinguished Service Award. He will receive the award at a gala dinner to be held on May 2 at the Plaza Hotel. For information about tickets, please call Christann Giordano at ext. 10533 (212-821-0533).
The Greenberg Award honors a senior member of the medical staff at NewYork Weill Cornell Medical Center who has given exceptional and long-standing service. The award includes a $50,000 grant to be used by the recipient in connection with his or her work.
Dr. Coleman has been chairman and McLean Professor of Ophthalmology since 1979. He received his M.D. degree from the University of Buffalo School of Medicine and served his internship at Bellevue Hospital's First (Columbia) Medical Division in New York. Before joining Cornell, he was associated with Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. His research has concerned the development, refinement and uses of ultrasonography in ophthalmology, as well as new techniques of vitreous and retinal surgery. The senior co-author of the textbook "Ultrasonography of the Eye and Orbit," he has to his credit 56 book chapters, more than 150 articles, more than 230 abstracts and presentations, and 11 inventions.