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Associate
OCLI
NYU Langone Medical Center
Port Washington, New York
Professional Biography: Marguerite B. McDonald, MD, FACS
Dr. McDonald, born in Chicago, Illinois, received her medical degree from Columbia University in 1976, followed by an internship at Lenox Hill Hospital and ophthalmology residency at Manhattan EET Hospital. She finished her training in 1981 after a fellowship in corneal and external diseases with Dr. Herbert E. Kaufman at the LSU Medical School in New Orleans.
From 1981 Dr. McDonald held tenure at LSU Medical School and became Full Professor of Ophthalmology, Director of the Corneal Service, and Chairman of Promotions and Tenure before she established the Southern Vision Institute in New Orleans in 1994. She joined the Ophthalmic Consultants of Long Island in Lynbrook, NY, in 2006. Currently, she is a Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at New York University and a Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at Tulane Medical School in New Orleans.
For her pioneering work in refractive surgery that also included development and performance of the first excimer laser procedure in patients, she has received over 90 professional recognition awards including the ISRK Lans Distinguished Refractive Surgeon Lecture, the ISRK/AAO Barraquer Lecture, the AAO Whitney Sampson Lecture, the AAO Binkhorst Lecture, and the ASCRS Steinert Lecture. She has received recognition including: Honorary President, Founding Member, International Association of Women Eye Surgeons; President, Association of Women Eye Surgeons; President, ASCRS; President, ISRS/AAO; and President, ISCLR. She has over 1,800 publications and a number of patents in the fields of cornea and refractive surgery.
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Thursday, March 17, 2022
9:00 AM – 9:55 AM ET