Up Close and Personal with 1997 Award Winners

Jeremiah Brown, Jr., MD, MS

Dr. Jeremiah Brown is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of California, San Francisco medical school. He completed a Masters Degree in Health Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Brown completed residency and retina fellowship at the University of Iowa. He served as director of ophthalmology research at the US Army's Laser Research Laboratory, a division of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.

Research interests include age related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and the genetics of retinal diseases. Dr. Brown served on the FDA's Ophthalmic Devices Committee and continues to serve on OMIC's claims and finance committees.

Ron P. Gallemore, MD, PhD

I am an Assistant Clinical Professor at UCLA School of Medicine and the Founder and Director of the Retina Macula Institute and Research Center with offices in Torrance and Los Angeles. I have 3 associates and 40 staff members. In addition to disorders of the retina, macula and vitreous, we have a fellowship trained uveitis specialist and also do ocular tumors as well as neuroophthalmology.

We focus on clinical research and continue to publish each year. We have had a number of investigator sponsored trials over the years and have completed over 70 clinical trials in both retina and uveitis. We develop new approaches to managing sight threatening disorders. I am the founder of Macula Science, an ocular vitamin development and distribution company, and the nonprofit, PreserveVisionandHope.org.

I enjoy hanging with the family, ocean sports (surfing, SUPing, foiling, prone and stand up paddle racing), coaching the kids sports, golf, and cooking with my wife, Brianna.