Anne Coleman

Affiliation

UCLA Stein Eye Institute

Biography

Dr. Coleman is currently the immediate past President of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. She has served as an at-large member for the Board of Trustees, Knowledge Base Development/Glaucoma Chair, Secretary of Quality of Care, and Pyott Glaucoma Center Co-Chair. She is currently the Academy H. Dunbar Hoskins, Jr., MD Center for Quality of Eye Care Director. Dr. Coleman is the Fran and Ray Stark Foundation Professor of Ophthalmology in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA as well as Professor of Epidemiology in the UCLA Jonathan Karin Fielding School of Public Health. She is Vice-Chair for Academic Affairs for the Department of Ophthalmology and Director of the Stein Eye Institute Center for Community Outreach and Policy, overseeing both the UCLA Mobile Eye Clinic and the UCLA Center for Eye Epidemiology. Dr. Coleman received her medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia, completed her residency training at the University of Illinois in Chicago and her fellowship training in glaucoma at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, and received a PhD in Epidemiology from UCLA. Dr. Coleman’s research is focused on the diagnosis, treatment, genetic-environment interactions, and societal impact of glaucoma, cataracts, and age-related macular degeneration, including the study of lifestyle limitations imposed on patients with these eye diseases. With contributions to numerous studies and peer-reviewed journal articles and other publications, Dr. Coleman continues to serve as an investigator for a number of ongoing studies and clinical trials. She is currently a member of the Scientific Advisory Panel for Research to Prevent Blindness and is previous Executive Editor of Glaucoma for the American Journal of Ophthalmology and currently is an Associate Editor. Dr. Coleman has been actively involved in national outreach programs in ophthalmology. She was elected to the National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine in 2016, was a member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly Institute of Medicine) Committee on Public Health Approaches to Reduce Vision and Promote Eye Health, and Chair of the National Eye Institute National Eye Health Educational Program. She is former president of Women in Ophthalmology and of the Los Angeles Society of Ophthalmology. She is recipient of the Academy’s Life Achievement Award and Secretariat Awards and gave the LXXII Edward Jackson Memorial Lecture at the annual Academy meeting in 2015. She was a member of the St. John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital Group Board of Trustees and the Helen Keller International Board of Trustees, and a former member of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Ophthalmic Devices Panel. She is past Chair of the Council for the American Ophthalmological Society.