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).

Part of the Power List 2016

Welcome to The Power List 2016 – our second foray into the Top 100 most influential people in the world of ophthalmology.

Though we realize our list can (and should) never be definitive, who can argue that the faces within – both familiar and new – do not beautifully highlight the brilliance and diversity found within the field?

Here, we celebrate 100 reasons to be proud of ophthalmology.

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