Department News
Infirmary Doctors to Receive American Academy of Ophthalmology Achievement Award
CHICAGO, July 15 – The University of Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary’s Jennifer Lim, MD, and Debra Goldstein, MD, will be presented with the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s 2008 Senior Achievement Award this fall. This year, only 47 eye doctors will be recognized for their contributions to the Academy.
“I was delighted, grateful and proud to receive the AAO Senior Achievement Award,” says Dr. Lim, Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of Retina Services, University of Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary (IEEI). “It represents recognition from the AAO for service to the AAO [such as committee work], publications, research and teaching presentations at the Annual Meeting. I appreciate the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s recognition, although the word ‘senior’ does make me feel a bit older.”
The award credits doctors’ contributions to the Academy such as serving as an instructor, authoring scientific papers and posters, presenting scientific exhibits, chairing a subspecialty day, serving as a committee member, state society president or trustee, and authoring or co-authoring Academy educational materials.
The Senior Achievement Awards will be presented at the 2008 Joint Meeting held in Atlanta, November 8-11. More information will be posted on the Academy’s Web site and monthly publication, EyeNet, in September.
Dr. Lim, Professor and Director of Retina of Retina Service, has been named one of the Best Doctors in America. Over the last 10 years, she has been the principal investigator of over 25 retina clinical trials, and hopes to bring more to the IEEI. Her clinical interests include age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, macular diseases, retinal vascular occlusion, vitreoretinal surgery, ciliary body and choroidal tumors. She has held several leadership positions within the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and currently serves as Retina Subcommittee Chair for the Annual Meeting Program and on the Web Communications Committee, Media Advisory Task Force (Non-Macula Retina and Vitreous) Committee, EyeNet Editorial Advisory Board and Specialty Information Team-Retina.
Dr. Lim’s undergraduate and medical degree is from Northwestern University’s Six Year Honors Program in Medical Education, with her internal medicine internship from the McGaw Medical Center at Northwestern University. Her ophthalmology residency was performed at the University of Illinois, and she was a medical retina and surgical retina fellow at the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Learn more about Dr. Lim at www.uic.edu/com/eye/Department/FullTimeFaculty/Lim_Jennifer.shtml.
Dr. Goldstein has also been listed as one of the Best Doctors in America. She is an Associate Professor and Director of the Uveitis Service and Ocular AIDS Service with IEEI, specializing in research into and treatment of ocular inflammatory disease. Dr. Goldstein also has a special interest in cataract surgery.
For the American Academy of Ophthalmology, Dr. Goldstein currently serves as the Panel Chair for Uveitis, on the AAO COMPASS committee and is on the Ophthalmic Knowledge Base panel for Uveitis. She previously was a member of the AAO Focal Points Editorial Review Board and Committee for the Medically Underserved. In addition, she’s been published several times in AAO publications, such as American Academy of Ophthalmology Focal Points and Current Insight, and led numerous instructional courses.
Her undergraduate and medical degrees were from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. From there, Dr. Goldstein was an internal medicine resident at Jewish General Hospital at McGill University, an ophthalmology resident at McGill University, and uveitis and external disease fellow at Royal Victoria Hospital. Her ocular immunology fellowship was at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Learn more about Dr. Goldstein.
About the American Academy of Ophthalmology
The American Academy of Ophthalmology is the world’s largest association of eye physicians and surgeons—Eye MDs—with more than 27,000 members worldwide. Eye health care is provided by the three “O’s”: opticians, optometrists and ophthalmologists. To learn more about the Academy, please visit www.aao.org.
About the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary
Celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, the University of Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary has been among the leading centers of ophthalmology care, education and research throughout its history. Our clinical faculty, known for the expert, tertiary care they provide, consistently are selected as “Best Doctors.” Please call (312) 996-7030 for more information.