David S. Bardenstein, MD Dr. David S. Bardenstein is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Case Western Reserve University Medical School and Director of the Ocular Oncology and Orbital Diseases Service and the Ocular Pathology Service at University Hospitals of Cleveland.  He received his medical degree from the University of Michigan and his residency training in ophthalmology from Sinai Hospital of Detroit, Detroit Michigan.  He has completed fellowship training in Ocular Oncology and Orbital Disease with Devron Char at the University of California, San Francisco and in Ophthalmic Pathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C.   Dr. Bardenstein is board certified as a diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology.  He has held leadership positions in the American Academy of Ophthalmology as a council delegate for the American Association of Ophthalmic Pathologists and participates actively in multiple ophthalmic pathology societies.  he has served as a program committee chair for ARVO.   His clinical practice has several foci:  comprehensive ocular oncology, managing all aspects of tumors of the eye, eyelids, orbit, ocular adnexa and optic nerve; orbital and periocular disease such as thyroid associated orbitopathy, idiopathic orbital inflammatory disease, orbital trauma; imaging of the eye and orbit, and diagnostic ophthalmic pathology.  Clinical research activities involve the biology of retinoblastoma, therapeutic trials relating to CMV and other AIDS-related eye disease.   He has an active laboratory research program with support from the National Eye Institute and Research to Prevent Blindness, as well as, commercial granting sources.  Current areas of activity include:  complement regulation on the ocular surface, ocular inflammatory disease, genetic control of ocular development and ocular tumor immunopathology.
	Julie K. Belkin, MD Dr. Julie K. Belkin is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland and has been in full-time practice with University Ophthalmologists, Inc. since 1994.  She received her undergraduate degree for Northwestern University and her medical degree from the Medical College of Ohio and completed residency training at the Mount Sinai Medical Center of Cleveland.   Dr. Belkin is board certified as a diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology.  In her full-time faculty position at the Case Medical School, Dr. Belkin is involved in medical student and resident education.  In her clinical position, Dr. Belkin provides comprehensive services including eye examinations and surgery.  She is also a native of Cleveland.
	Beth Ann Benetz, MA, CRA Beth Ann Benetz, MA, CRA is an Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University and Director of Ophthalmic Photography for University Ophthalmologists, Inc., University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University.  She completed her BS in Biomedical Photographic Communications at Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York and her MA in Liberal Studies at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.   Ms. Benetz serves as an active member of the Ophthalmic Photographers' Society's Board of Certification.  In her faculty and clinical positions, Ms. Benetz is responsible for all aspects of photographic services for both clinical and research based ophthalmology programs.
	Edward N. Burney, MD Dr. Edward N. Burney is a Professor of Ophthalmology at Case Western Reserve University and Director of Glaucoma Services for University Hospitals of Cleveland.  Dr. Burney also serves as the Director of Ophthalmology at the Veteran's Administration Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio .  He received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University and completed residency training at University Hospitals of Cleveland, Veteran's Administration Medical Center and MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio.  He also studied glaucoma at the Wilmer Eye Institute from 1985 - 1986.   Dr. Burney is board certified as a diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology.  His interests are medical and surgical management of glaucoma and cataracts in glaucoma patients.
	Forrest J. Ellis, MD Dr. Forrest J. Ellis is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics with a secondary appointment in Ophthalmology at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland and Co-Director of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital.  Dr. Ellis also serves as a Consultant in Ophthalmic Plastic, Orbital and Reconstructive Surgery.  He received his medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine and completed residency training at Will's Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He was Fellowship trained at Wilmer Ophthalmologic Institute, The John's Hopkins University School of Medicine, in Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus in 1994-1995, and performed a fellowship in Ophthalmic Plastics, Orbital and Reconstructive Surgery in 1995 and 1996.    Dr. Ellis is board certified as a diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology.  His interests include all forms of eye muscle and ocular motility disorders in adults and children, eyelid and orbital abnormalities, congenital ocular defects, pediatric cataract surgery and correction of congenital malformations of the eyelids and orbit.
	Michael C. Heeg, MD Dr. Michael C. Heeg is a Senior Instructor of Ophthalmology at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland.  Dr. Heeg is providing specialized vitreo-retinal services and vitreo-retinal surgeries.   Dr. Heeg received his medical degree from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He did his residency training at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.  he then received fellowship training in retina-vitreous at the University of Kentucky Department of Ophthalmology in Lexington, Kentucky.   Dr. Heeg is board certified and has a special interest in the medical, laser and surgical treatment of retinal diseases.
	Suber S. Huang, MD Dr. Suber S. Huang is the Philip F. and Elizabeth G. Searle – Suber Huang MD Professor of Ophthalmology at Case Western Reserve University, Vice Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology, and the Director of Vitreoretinal Diseases and Surgery at University Hospitals Case Medical Center.  He received his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, and his residency training at the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.  He completed a fellowship in surgical and medical retina at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute of the University of Miami.  He received his MBA from the Case Weatherhead School of Management.   Dr. Huang is board certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology.  He serves on the Executive Board of Directors and is the current Credentials Committee Chairperson of the American Society of Retina Specialists, the world's largest organization of retinal specialists. He served as Ophthalmology Residency Training Program Director from 2001-2003 and was President of the Cleveland Ophthalmological Society during 2003-2004.     Dr. Huang is active in research and is the Director of Clinical Research in the Department of Ophthalmology and head of the Retinal Diseases Image Analysis Reading Center (REDIARC) at University Hospitals Case Medical Center.   Dr. Huang is a member of the Diabetes Association of Cleveland, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Association for Research and Vision in Ophthalmology, and the Vitreous Society Foundation. He serves as a reviewer for Archives of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, and Current Eye Research and was on the program committee of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Dr. Huang is the Director of the Diabetic Eye Disease Committee of the National Eye Health Education Program, which is the advisory committee of the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health. Since 2003 he has served on the Board of Directors of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Northeast Ohio Chapter. In 2006 Dr. Huang was appointed to the Ophthalmic Technology Assessment Committee (OTAC) – Retina/Vitreous Panel and to the Research Regulatory & External Scientific Relations Committee, both committees associated with the American Academy of Ophthalmology.   Dr. Huang was selected as one of “The Best Doctors in America” by Best Doctors® in 2003-2004 and 2005-2006 and has been listed by Northern Ohio Live Magazine and Cleveland Magazine as one of the areas “Top Docs” every year since 2004. He was the recipient of the Top Doctors in America award in 1996 and received the Vitreous Society Honor Award in 1999. He also received the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Health Care Foundation of New Jersey 2000 Humanism in Medicine Award and the American Academy of Ophthalmology Achievement Award in 2002.
	Donald T. Hudak, MD Dr. Donald T. Hudak is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Surgery at Case Western Reserve University and Director of Ophthalmic Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery at University Hospitals of Cleveland.     Dr. Hudak will be providing both Ophthalmology and Plastic Surgery specialized oculoplastic and reconstructive surgical services and be part of the team of plastics and reconstructive surgeons under the direction of the newly appointed head of the Division of Plastic Surgery, Dr. Bahman Guyuron, an internationally recognized plastic surgeon and Professor of Surgery at Case.   Dr. Hudak, a native Clevelander, received his medical degree from Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine in Rootstown, Ohio.  He did his ophthalmology residency training at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana and at the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio.  He then received fellowship training in Oculoplastics & Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Cincinnati/Cincinnati Eye Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio. He went on to a faculty position in the Department of Ophthalmology at Penn State in Hershey, Pennsylvania.  Dr. Hudak is board certified as a diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology.
	Amy Ruth Jeffery, MD Dr. Amy Ruth Jeffery is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics with a secondary appointment in Ophthalmology at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center and Co-Director of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital.  Dr. Jeffery also serves as a Consultants in Neuro-Ophthalmology.  She received her medical degree and residency in ophthalmology from the State University of New York at Buffalo Medical School and completed fellowship training at Wills Eye hospital, Jefferson Medical School, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the University of Toronto Hospital for Sick Children.  Dr. Jeffery is board certified as a diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology.
	Jonathan H. Lass, MD Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology  University Hospitals of Cleveland   Dr. Jonathan H. Lass is the Charles I Thomas Professor of Ophthalmology at Case Western Reserve University, the Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at University Hospitals of Cleveland, and the President of University Ophthalmologists, Inc.  He received his medical degree from Boston University and completed his residency training at the Boston University Medical Center.  He went on to complete a two-year fellowship in cornea/external diseases at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and the Eye Research Institute of the Retina Foundation.    Dr. Lass is a diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology. He is a member of numerous professional societies and has received the Senior Honor Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology.   His research interests have been in the area of corneal immunology and physiology, specular miscroscopy, clinical trials, and molecular genetics of corneal diseases. He is currently funded by grants from the National Eye Institute, corporate funding, and Research to Prevent Blindness Foundation. He has more than 125 publications in peer-reviewed journals along with numerous chapters and presentations at national and international meetings. He has served on the boards of the Castroviejo Corneal Society and International Society of Refractive Surgery and is currently on the Editorial Board of the journal, Cornea.   Dr. Lass' main avocation is chamber music as a cellist. He has served as the artistic director and has performed for both American Academy of Ophthalmology and ARVO concerts since 1988.
	William J. Reinhart, MD Dr. William J. Reinhart is a Professor of Ophthalmology and Ophthalmology Residency Program Director at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland and the Medical Director for The Cleveland Eye Bank.  He received his medical degree and completed his residency training at Case Western Reserve University.  He was fellowship training in Corneal and External Disease at the Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital in London England.   Dr. Reinhart is a diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology.  He is a cornea specialist and belongs to many professional societies, among them are AAO, COS and EBAA.     Dr. Reinhart has received many honors & awards including 1996 The Best Doctors in America: Midwest Region; 03/96, Top Doctors: Cleveland Magazine; '97 The Paton Society Award. He has many Committee Appointments, among them Credential Committee, Dept. of Ophth, UHC, Committee on Eye Banks, AAO, and Formulary Advisory Committee, Dept. of Ophthalmology. He also participates in lectures for Staff & Residents.
	Anna Singh, MD Dr. Anna Singh is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland.  She received her medical degree from the Armed Forces Medical College in Pune, India.  She then trained in Ophthalmology in the United Kingdom where she obtained a Fellowship of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists.  After coming to the US, she did her residency training at the State University of New York in Buffalo and the University of Florida in Gainesville.  She then completed fellowship training in glaucoma at the Scheie Eye Institute in Philadelphia with Drs. Jody Pilz-Seymour, Evan Dreyer and Richard Stone.    Dr. Singh is a diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology.  She specializes in the medical, laser and surgical treatment of glaucoma, the treatment of cataracts in glaucoma patients, and clinical trials for new glaucoma agents.
	Thomas J.W. Stokkermans, OD, PhD Dr. Thomas J.W. Stokkermans is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and a Staff Optometrist and Director of Low Vision Services with University Hospitals of Cleveland.  He received his doctorate in optometry from the New England College of Optometry, Boston, MA and completed an optometric residency in ocular disease at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, FL.  He also received an M.S. in biochemistry from Leiden University, the Netherlands, a Ph.D. in molecular biology from The Ohio State University, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in parasitology at the Dartmouth Medical School, NH, where he discovered novel drugs against the eye parasite Toxoplasma gondii.    Dr. Stokkermans has been providing general eye care, contact lens services, nursing home care, and low vision services in Cleveland and Westlake since 1998.  He is a low vision consultant to the Cleveland Sight Center and the Cleveland Veteran Administration Medical Center in Brecksville.    He currently is an investigator in the National Eye Institute sponsored 'Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation of Keratoconus Study', and has participated in studies including the 'NEI Refractive Error Correction Questionnaire Study', and several contact lens industry sponsored studies.  He lectures ophthalmology physicians in training in optics, low vision, and primary eye care.   Dr. Stokkermans has published 14 peer reviewed article in molecular biology and diseases of the eye.  He has lectured nationally on ocular disease and low vision topics.  He is a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry and he is one of the organizers of the Ohio Optometric Association’s East West Eye Conference.
	Loretta B. Szczotka-Flynn, OD, MS Dr. Loretta B. Szczotka-Flynn is an Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University Department of Ophthalmology and Director of the Contact Lens Service at University Hospitals of Cleveland.  She received her doctorate in optometry from The Ohio State University College of Optometry.   Dr. Szczotka-Flynn is a Diplomate in the Cornea and Contact Lens Section of the American Academy of Optometry, a Contributing Editor for Contact Lens Spectrum and Review of Optometry, and a Topical Editor for Optometry and Vision Science.  She also lectures and publishes nationally and internationally on her research related to contact lenses, oxygen permeability, keratoconus, post-surgical contact lens fittings and corneal topography.  She has written 25 peer reviewed manuscripts and 9 book chapters.  She currently serves as the Principal Investigator at the Case  Department of Ophthalmology Participating Clinic for the National Eye Institute sponsored study: The Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation of Keratoconus (CLEK) Study.  She serves as a Principal Investigator for clinical trials from major contact lens companies and she continues to consult and test new products for industry.  She was the education chair for  the Ohio Optometric Association’s East West Eye Conference from 1998-2003, she was Ohio’s 1997 Young Optometrist of the Year, and she received the Nissel Award for excellence in rigid contact lens research in London, England in November 2000.  In 2004, she received a Patient Oriented Research Career Development Award from the National Eye Institute to study longitudinal changes with silicone hydrogel lenses. She is also the recipient of a 2004-05 Ezell Fellowship from the American Optometric Foundation.
	Robert L. Tomsak, MD, PhD Dr. Robert L. Tomsak is an Associate Professor of Neurology, with a secondary appointment in Ophthalmology, and Assistant Program Director of the Ophthalmology Residency Program at Case Western Reserve University and is the Director of Neuro-Ophthalmology at University Hospitals of Cleveland.  He has 25 years of experience in clinical neuro-ophthalmology. His fellowship was done at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, FL in 1979 with Dr. J. Lawton Smith.   Dr. Tomsak is a diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology.  He has written 2 books about neuro-ophthalmology and has authored or co-authored over 70 peer reviewed scientific papers in this field.  He has received a number of awards for his teaching skills and clinical acumen and is a full-time faculty member in the departments of Neurology and Ophthalmology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.   Dr. Tomsak specializes in double vision; visual field defects; optic nerve diseases; temporal arteritis; ocular myasthenia; thyroid eye disease; pseudotumor cerebri; BOTOX injections; headaches; visual complications of Alzheimer's disease; eye movement abnormalities; eye problems associated with multiple sclerosis, stroke and brain tumors; disorders of the pupil; eye muscle surgery for double vision and nystagmus.