L. Jay Katz

About L. Jay Katz

L. Jay Katz

Director, Glaucoma Service, Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Katz has wide-ranging interests in glaucoma, including drug evaluation, the roles of laser and medical management, optic nerve scanning methodologies, and new instrumentation for eye pressure measurement. The author of more than 170 journal articles and 34 book chapters, Katz has delivered hundreds of lectures, teaching sessions and courses. He has been an investigator in landmark multicenter trials in glaucoma such as the Glaucoma Laser Trial (GLT), the Advanced Glaucoma Intervention Study (AGIS), and the Collaborative Initial Glaucoma Treatment Study (CIGTS).