David Greenfield

Affiliation

Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Biography

David S. Greenfield, MD is Professor of Ophthalmology and serves as the Douglas R. Anderson Distinguished Chair in Ophthalmology, Vice Chair for Academic Affairs for the Department of Ophthalmology, Co-Director of the Glaucoma Service, and Director of the Glaucoma Fellowship Program at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL. He earned his medical degree from the New York University School of Medicine in 1990 and completed his residency at the New England Eye Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, in 1994. Dr. Greenfield completed a 1994-5 Heed Fellowship in Glaucoma and a 1995 Heed-Knapp Fellowship in Neuro-Ophthalmology at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami School of Medicine. He previously joined The New York Eye & Ear Infirmary in 1996 as Clinical Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurology. Dr. Greenfield is a clinician, surgeon, and scientist, and has held prestigious leadership positions throughout Ophthalmology. Dr. Greenfield is the Past President of the American Glaucoma Society and the American Glaucoma Society Foundation (2014-16). He is the co-founder of the International Society for Imaging in the Eye (ISIE) and served as Secretary-Treasurer from 2002 – 2007, and is the Executive Vice President and co-founder of The Florida Glaucoma Society. Dr. Greenfield is a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Glaucoma and International Glaucoma Review, and has served as the Executive Editor of American Journal of Ophthalmology and Associate Editor of Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers and Imaging. Dr. Greenfield has served as past Chair of the AGS Scientific Program Committee, Bylaws and Strategic Planning Committees, and member of the AAO Glaucoma Subspecialty Day Committee, Technology Assessment Committee, and EyeCare America Glaucoma Education Committee. Dr. Greenfield has served as Co-Chair of the Glaucoma Subspecialty Day of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (2003-4), and was awarded the 2010 AGS Clinician-Scientist Lectureship, 2011 American Academy of Ophthalmology Senior Achievement Award, 2015 American Academy of Ophthalmology Robert N. Shaffer Lectureship, and 2016 AAO Secretariat Award. Dr. Greenfield has taught and published extensively in all aspects of glaucoma diagnosis, monitoring, and therapy and has an H-index impact factor of 46. His research interests include optic disc and retinal nerve fiber imaging, reflectance properties of the retinal nerve fiber layer, normal-tension glaucoma, bleb-related ocular infection, and complex glaucoma filtration surgery. He was the recipient of a National Eye Institute consortium grant studying advanced imaging technology in glaucoma, and received continuous funding from the NIH from 1999-2013. He has delivered numerous guest lectures and named lectures nationally and internationally, and has published over 300 original scientific papers, abstracts and book chapters with an H-index impact factor of 46. He has trained numerous clinical and research fellows, many of whom hold distinguished academic positions worldwide.