Anne L. Coleman, MD, PhD

Anne L. Coleman, MD, PhD. Born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Anne L. Coleman studied chemistry at Duke University, received her M.D. degree with Alpha Omega Alpha honors from the Medical College of Virginia, completed an ophthalmology residency at University of Illinois-Chicago followed by a glaucoma fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, and earned a PhD. in epidemiology with Delta Omega honors from UCLA in 1997.

Dr. Coleman is now the Fran and Ray Stark Professor of Ophthalmology at the Jules Stein Eye Institute (JSEI) in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, as well as Professor of Epidemiology at UCLA's Fielding School of Public Health. Her research interests span the interface of ophthalmology and public health, with emphasis on comparative effectiveness research, visual functioning, and societal impacts of age-related eye diseases. Her ongoing research includes investigating risk factors for glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration in the population-based Thessaloniki Eye Study in Greece, understanding geographic variation in diagnosis and outcomes among Medicare eye patients,
and identifying vision-related factors that predict falls and fractures among the elderly. She serves as Director of the JSEI Center for Community Outreach, overseeing both the UCLA Mobile Eye Clinic and the UCLA Center for Eye Epidemiology.

Recent awards include an American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Senior Achievement Award, Silver Fellow of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, the Australia New Zealand Glaucoma Interest Group's Ronald Lowe Medal, and membership in the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem. Among over 400 professional presentations, including numerous educational contributions worldwide, she has given multiple named lectureships including the Clinician Scientist Lecture of the American Glaucoma Society. She is currently the Senior Secretary for Quality of Care for the AAO, Chair of the NEI's National Eye Health Education Program, and a member of the American Ophthalmological Society Council, the U.S. FDA Ophthalmic Devices Panel, and the Board of Trustees of Helen Keller International. Previously she served as President of Women in Ophthalmology
and on the AAO Board of Trustees.

Dr. Coleman has been an author of over 140 original research articles and over 40 book chapters, and she has mentored over 70 fellows and international scholars. Among numerous other editorial activities, since 2003 she has served as Executive Editor for Glaucoma for the American Journal of Ophthalmology.