Dale Heuer

Affiliation

Senior Volunteer Research Scientist, Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles, California; Volunteer Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California

Biography

Dr. Dale Heuer received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Northwestern University. He completed his ophthalmology residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin and a two-year National Research Service Award-funded glaucoma fellowship at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami School of Medicine. He was a full-time faculty member at the University of Florida College of Medicine (1984-1986), University of Southern California School of Medicine (1986-1997), and Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) (1997-2018). At MCW, Dr. Heuer served as Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences and as the Director of the Froedtert & MCW Eye Institute. He has published extensively on the use of conventional filtering procedures with wound-healing modulation and aqueous shunting procedures for the management of glaucomas with poor surgical prognoses. Dr. Heuer has participated in several glaucoma clinical trials, including the Fluorouracil Filtering Surgery Study, Collaborative Normal-Tension Glaucoma Study, Collaborative Initial Glaucoma Study, Tube Versus Trabeculectomy Study; he is also one of the three Vice Chairs of the National Eye Institute-sponsored Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study. Dr. Heuer currently serves in the following capacities: Past President of the American Glaucoma Society (AGS) and Consulting Member of the US Food & Drug Administration’s Ophthalmic Device Panel. He was the founding Board Chair and former Board Member for Friends for Health in Haiti.