Background
Ritch, Robert Harry was born on May 14, 1944 in New Haven. Son of Edward Lewis and Minerva (Grosberg) Ritch.
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Robert Harry Ritch
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Graduate (Harvard traveling fellow), RiceU., 1967-1968.
Career
Intern, Saint Vincent"s Medical Center, New York City, 1972-1973. Resident in ophthalmology Mount Sinai School Medicine, New York City, 1973-1975, chief resident, 1975-1976, Heed Ophthalmic Foundation fellow, 1976-1977, National Institutes of Health-National Research Svc. fellow, 1976-1978, assistant clin.ophthalmologist, 1976-1977, instructor, 1977-1978, assistant professor, 1978-1980, associate professor, 1980-1982. Attending ophthalmologist Beth Israel Medical Center, New York City, 1978.
Consultant ophthalmologist Veterans Administration Hospital., Bronx, 1978-1982, Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, 1989.
Director glaucoma service Elmhurst Hospital, 1978-1982, acting director department ophthalmology, 1979-1982. Chief glaucomasvc. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, New York City, 1983, surgeon director, 1991;professor clinical ophthalmology New York Medical College, Valhalla, 1983.
Arthur BedellMeml. lecturer Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, 1995. John Edwin Brown Memorial lecturer Ohio State University, Columbus, 1996.
Schoenburg Memorial lecturer Illinois.Eye and Ear Infirmary, Chicago, 1996.
Schlaegel lecturer U. Indiana, Indianapolis, 1996. Gerasimos Frenimopoulos Memorial lecturer Duke University, 1997, Joseph M. Bryan Memorial lecturer, 1997.
Achievements
Membership
Mason Memorial lecturer Howard University, 1997. Member of advisory board Doctor-to-Doctor, Berkeley, California, 1995. Member glaucoma advising committee National Society to PreventBlindness, 1986.
Fellow American Academy Ophthalmology (education distribution subcommittee 1994-1997, book/journal link subcommittee 1994-1997, distribution advisory subcommittee 1997, Honor award 1985, senior honor award 1995), Heed Ophthalmic Foundation (ophthalmologist of year award 1996), American Ophthalmol.
Society, New York Academy of Medicine, Royal College Ophthalmologists (United Kingdom), American College Surgeons, International College Surgeons, American Society Laser Surgical Medicine (chairman ophthalmology section 1991-1992, moderator and program chairman joint science symposium on glaucoma 1991), New York Academy of Medicine (secretary section on ophthalmology 1991-1992, chairman 1993-1994, Charles May Memorial Lecture 1991). Member American Medical Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York State Medical Society, New York County Medical Society, Association Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (program committee, glaucoma section 1991-1993, program chairman 1993-1994), American Association Ophthalmology, Ophthalmological Society United Kingdom, International Association Ocular Surgeons, International Congress Ophthalmology (glaucoma committee 1994), New York Intra-Ocular Lens Implant Society, Manhattan Ophthalmological Society, International Society Eye Research, Society for Clinical Trials, Pan-Pacific Anterior Segment Society (vice president 1985-1988), New York Academy Science, Ophthalmic Laser Surgical Society (secretary-treasurer 1982-1998, president 1998), New York Society Clinical Ophthalmology (recording secretary 1988-1990, program chairman 1990-1991, president 1991-1992), New York Glaucoma Research Institute (president 1996), American Society Cell Biology, American Telemed.
Association, International Society On-Lincolnshire Ophthalmologists (member organization committee, chairman glaucoma section 1995), International Federation Cell Biologists, Philippine Society Ophthalmology (honorary), Thailand Ophthalmological Society (honorary), Italian Association.for the Study of Glaucoma (honorary), Louisiana-Mississippi Ophthalmological and Otolarygol.Soc. (honorary), Canada Implant Society (honorary), Chinese-American Ophthalomology Society, Ophthalmic Genetics Discussion.
