2024 Post Graduate Convention

University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Professor Emeritus
Iowa City, Iowa

Wallace L.M. Alward, M.D. is Professor Emeritus at the University of Iowa, where he the Director of the Glaucoma Service from 1987 to 2020. Dr. Alward has coauthored more than 150 peer-reviewed papers that have been cited over 12,000 times. The primary focus of his research has been the molecular genetics of glaucoma. He and his colleagues first described several glaucoma genes including myocilin, PITX2, FOXC1, and TBK1.  He has authored two textbooks (Color Atlas of Gonioscopy and The Requisites: Glaucoma) and one iBook (The Iowa Glaucoma Curriculum). He maintains two websites: one to teach gonioscopy (www.gonioscopy.org) and an introduction to glaucoma for residents (http://curriculum.iowaglaucoma.org). Dr. Alward served as a Director of the American Board of Ophthalmology from 2006 to 2013 and was Chair in 2012. In 2016 he received the inaugural Educator Award from the American Glaucoma Society. He has given 25 named lectures including the Hans Goldmann Lecture of the Glaucoma Research Society. In 2022 he was the Guest of Honor of the American Glaucoma Society.

Associate Professor, Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Dr. Gonzales is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the Francis I. Proctor Foundation at the University of California, San Francisco specializing in uveitis and medical cornea. He has been supported by an early career award from the National Institutes of Health – National Eye Institute to study the spectrum of keratoconjunctivitis sicca in Sjögren’s syndrome utilizing the Sjögren’s International Collaborative Clinical Alliance (SICCA) cohort. Dr. Gonzales is also the PI for an international randomized clinical trial evaluating treatments for cytomegalovirus anterior uveitis in immunocompetent individuals. Dr. Gonzales’s interests also extend to ocular oncology, specifically primary vitreoretinal lymphoma, and he is interested in how clinical features may be correlated with mutations associated with lymphoproliferation as well as resistance to chemotherapeutics. 

Dr. Gonzales is a Section Editor for Current Opinion in Ophthalmology, Associate Editor for the Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection and is the uveitis fellowship program director at the Proctor Foundation. 

Doheny Eye Institute, UCLA 
Pasadena, California

Dr. Quirós is currently Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of California Los Angeles and Director of the neuro-ophthalmology fellowship program as well as Chief of Service for Neuro-ophthalmology for Doheny Eye Centers UCLA.

He is an Educator for Excellence at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine (DGSOM) and Director of Foundations of Practice at DGSOM (first-year medical school curriculum). Prior to coming to UCLA, he was on the faculty at the University of Southern California for over a decade, where he was the residency program director.

Dr. Quirós obtained his MD from The Yale University School of Medicine. He trained at the Los Angeles County Hospital/University of Southern California Ophthalmology residency training program and completed a Neuro-Ophthalmology fellowship at the Doheny Eye Institute.

He is one of the founding members of the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s LGBTQ+ Community and one of the Executive Directors of the AAO Minority Ophthalmology Mentoring Program. Dr. Quirós is currently the President-elect of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society. He has been recognized internationally for his contributions to the future of residency education and is a recipient of the International Council of Ophthalmology Mark Tso Golden Apple Award for Medical Educators. One of his latest publications analyzes diversity within the North-American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society and other ophthalmic societies.

Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology & Dermatology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
Director, Bascom Palmer Aesthetic Center
Miami, Florida

Wendy W. Lee, MD, MS, is Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology and Dermatology at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She serves as director of the Bascom Palmer Aesthetic Center and co-director of the university’s Cosmetic Medicine Group, a multidisciplinary group comprised of the ophthalmology, dermatology, ENT, and plastic surgery departments.

Dr. Lee earned her medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine, in New Orleans, Louisiana, and a Master of Science degree in physiology from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. She completed both her residency and internship at Tulane, and a fellowship in ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute.

Dr. Lee conducts research at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute with special interests in eyelid reconstruction, the aging eyelid skin, and aesthetic lasers. She also lectures around the world on oculoplastic disorders and aesthetic treatments related to the eye. She’s been published extensively, both in peer-reviewed journals and in teaching text books. She also serves as chief medical editor for FacialAestheticsCE and as a section editor for Ocular Surgery News.

Dr. Lee serves as a key opinion leader for many aesthetic and functional companies.  She has received the Achievement Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology, The Henry Baylis Award for Excellence in Cosmetic Surgery from the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Professor of the Year Award from the residents at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Outstanding Alumnus from the Tulane University Department of Ophthalmology and was featured on CNN for her charitable work on patients from developing countries, among other honors. 

Linda Harrison, PhD
Ophthalmic Mutual Insurance Company (OMIC)

Linda Harrison is the VP of Risk Management at OMIC. Dr. Harrison has lectured nationally on topics in health care risk management, litigation stress syndrome, physician burnout, and negotiation strategies. She also leads efforts to improve organizational effectiveness through process analysis, re-engineering and implementation, team building and coaching.

Dr. Harrison received her AB from Smith College, her master’s in Psychology and Human Development from Harvard, and PhD in Organizational Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology.