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Dr. Robert Harry Ritch, MD
Dr. Robert Harry Ritch, MD

Dr. Robert Harry Ritch, MD

Dr. Robert Harry Ritch, MD

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Dr. Robert Ritch holds the Shelley and Steven Einhorn Distinguished Chair in Ophthalmology and is Chief of Glaucoma Services at the New York Eye & Ear Infirmary. He has broadened our understanding of the causes and mechanisms of glaucoma and its medical, laser, and surgical treatment. He initiated the first course on laser treatment of glaucoma at the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He developed argon laser peripheral iridoplasty for the treatment of complicated angle closure, and has taught on angle closure around the world. His other major interests throughout his career have been pigment dispersion syndrome, exfoliation syndrome, and normal-tension glaucoma.
Dr. Ritch has co-authored or edited nine textbooks and over 1600 medical and scientific papers, book chapters, articles and abstracts. He has presented nearly 700 lectures worldwide, including 40 named lectures and has received over 40 awards and medals.
Dr. Ritch’s awards include the Heed Ophthalmic Foundation …Ophthalmologist of the Year, Gold Medal of the Greek Glaucoma Society, Ophthalmology Times Achievement Award, Louis Rudin Award, Jesse H. Neal Award for Editorial Achievement, Albion O. Bernstein Award for outstanding contributions to medicine, American Academy of Ophthalmology Lifetime Achievement Honor Award, Dean’s Distinguished Research Award from New York Medical College, Dominick Purpura Distinguished Alumnus Award from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, HRH Prince Abdulaziz Al-Saud Prevention of Blindness Award, Jose Rizal International Medal, El-Maghraby International Achievement Award, inaugural Asia-Pacific Glaucoma Society International Achievement Award, World Glaucoma Association Recognition Award, and the Moacyr Alvaro Gold Medal (Brazil). He is a member of Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis and the American Glaucoma Society Guest of Honor. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Council of Ophthalmology and was Vice-President of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.
Dr. Ritch has edited 9 textbooks and over 1600 medical and scientific papers, chapters, articles and abstracts. He has presented 700 lectures worldwide, including 40 named lectures. In 1985, he founded the Glaucoma Foundation. He started the annual Optic Nerve Rescue and Regeneration Think Tank, which has attracted successful researchers from other fields into glaucoma research. He co-founded the New York Glaucoma Research Institute, the alt.support.glaucoma Internet newsgroup, the New York Glaucoma Support and Education Group, and the World Glaucoma Patient Association. He was one of the three organizers of the first annual World Glaucoma Day in 2008. He was co-founder of the Ophthalmic Laser Surgical Society, the New York Glaucoma Society, and the Lindberg Society, the ARVO Host-a-Research Program, the ARVO U.S.-Russia Ophthalmology Task Force, the Von Graefe Society, dedicated to the study of risk factors for glaucoma other than intraocular pressure.
Dr. Ritch has trained over 140 clinical and research fellows, many of whom occupy academic positions worldwide. The international training program that he established at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary has hosted over 60 International Council of Ophthalmology fellows and more than 100 observers from over 40 countries. He has worked and lectured extensively at the international level and has organized many symposia and conferences both in the United States and abroad. He has dedicated much of his time internationally over the last 30 years, and has organized conferences and symposia, trained over 80 fellows, ICO fellows, and observers from Asia, helped to establish residency and teaching programs and has made fundamental contributions to the modernization of ophthalmology in Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Laos, Myanmar and other countries in Asia, and in Latin America. There are Asian, Brazilian, and International Ritch Fellows Societies.

  • New York Eye And Ear Infirmary Of Mount Sinai

Medical School

- 1972

Albert Einstein College Of Medicine Of Yeshiva University

Beth Israel Medical Center

281 1st Ave

New York

NY

10003

USA

+12124202000

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