June 2023
On June 9, 2023, The Glaucoma Foundation will be presenting The Dr. Robert Ritch Award for Excellence and Innovation in Glaucoma to Louis R. Pasquale, MD, FARVO, Professor of Ophthalmology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Dr. Pasquale is Site Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at Mt. Sinai Hospital and Vice Chair of Translational Ophthalmology Research for the Mount Sinai Healthcare System. He is a member of the PLOS One, Journal of Glaucoma, Ophthalmology Glaucoma, Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology and American Journal of Ophthalmology editorial boards. He currently serves as Glaucoma Trustee for ARVO and is a member of the National Institute of Health’s National Advisory Eye Council. As an NIH Principal Investigator, Dr. Pasquale has had continuous support since 2006. His research, which leverages the rich resources available in the Nurses Health Study, Health Professional Follow-up Study and the Women’s Genome Health Study, focuses on the discovery of primary prevention strategies in the open-angle glaucomas.
Dr. Pasquale is a member of the Board of Directors of The Glaucoma Foundation, and Co-Chair of our Scientific Advisory Board and Annual Think Tank. The Dr. Robert Ritch Award was first given to Dr. Robert Ritch, Founder of TGF, and in subsequent years to Drs. Paul Kaufman, Ted Krupin, Jost Jonas, George Spaeth, Ivan Goldberg, Bruce Shields, Ursula Schlötzer-Schrehardt, Tin Aung, Paul Palmberg, Terete Borrás, Emmett T. Cunningham, Ahti H. A. Tarkkanen, and Robert N. Weinreb.