George A. Cioffi, MD

Dr. George A. (Jack) Cioffi is an internationally recognized glaucoma scientist and clinician and is the Edward S. Harkness Chairman and Ophthalmologist-in-Chief of the Department of Ophthalmology at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center.

Dr. Cioffi presently holds the Jean and Richard Deems Professorship at Columbia University and formerly held the Richard Chenoweth Chair of Ophthalmology at the Devers Eye Institute. He was also the Chief Medical Officer & Senior Vice President at Legacy Health System in Portland, Oregon. He received his medical degree at the University of South Carolina, completed a residency in ophthalmology at the University of Maryland, and a fellowship in Research & Clinical Glaucoma at Devers Eye Institute under Dr. E. Michael Van Buskirk. More recently, he completed the inaugural Harvard Business School program in Managing Healthcare Delivery.

Dr. Cioffi received his undergraduate degree (magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of Vermont and his medical degree (cum laude) from the University of South Carolina. He completed his residency at the University of Maryland, where he was chief resident. Since 2002, he has been listed among Castle Connolly's America's Top Doctors.

Dr. Cioffi has received numerous honors in his career, including the Clinician-Scientist Award from the American Glaucoma Society, the Senior Achievement Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and the 2010 Shaffer-Hetherington-Hoskins award from the Glaucoma Research Foundation in San Francisco.