The Pacific Vision

Foundation Newsletter

SPRING 2017

The Pacific Vision Foundation (PVF) is proud to provide substantial support for two world-class, post-grad-uate educational programs at Califor-nia Pacific Medical Center (CPMC). Physicians admitted to these highly selective training programs treat pa-tients at the CPMC Lions Eye Clinic which is located at The Eye Institute.

Patients also benefit from the care provided by the Retina Fellows who are part of the Retinal Fel-lowship Program created in 1995 to provide further specialized training in retina. This fellowship program is administered by the West Coast Retina practice head-quartered in San Francisco.

OUTSTANDING EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED BY PVF

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(L to R): Drs. Geraldine Slean, Poorav Patel, Sam Reiter, Maria Govorkova, Matthew Denny, Jonathan Hernandez, Meron Haile, Michael Hemond, Ann Leu Thomas

Ophthalmology Residency Program—three years in the life of a young doctor

A residency is a powerful time in a physician’s life, sandwiched between an internship and a career, in which he or she is trained as a specialist. This graduate medical education (GME) represents what has been called a “journey to authenticity” from medical school. It is an essential step in meeting society’s medical needs—in expertise, in skills, and in compassionate care—and an indispensable core component of The Eye Institute.

— Susan Day, MD, Former Chair, Department of Ophthalmology, currently, Senior Vice President, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education International

The Ophthalmology Residency Program is highly competitive for applicants, with 3 positions available for about 400 applications received. Three graduates of the residency program have gone on to serve as president of the American Academy of Ophthalmol-ogy which has about 30,000 members

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and many serve as professors, and researchers, actively engaged in giving back to disadvantaged patients in their communities and volunteering their skills serving around the globe.

The three-year, post medical school program is taught by widely-respected ophthalmologists who form a volunteer core teaching faculty, led by Dr. Kevin Denny, Chair; Dr. Erich Horn, Vice-Chair Dr. Taliva Martin, Residency Program Director; and Dr. Edie DeNiro, Associate Program Director. Currently there are about 80 board certified ophthalmologist volunteers who serve as teachers and mentors in the program.

The majority of the first year of training is spent in the CPMC Lions Clinic which is the sole referral center for patients whose care is largely under-written by The Lion’s Eye Foundation of Northern California and Nevada. The residents also train in the private practice offices of the volunteer faculty. A nurturing environment is provided, as residents learn the foundations of the examination, diagnosis, and management of ocular disease in all of the major subspecialties: Cornea, Glaucoma, Oculoplastics, Pediatric & Strabismus, and Retina etc. Surgery techniques are first taught in a laboratory setting; currently the department is looking forward to the delivery of a virtual reality eye surgery simulator which will enhance the teaching program. During the summer of their first year, residents attend the Ophthalmology Basic Science Course at Stanford University. A unique element of the CPMC program is that incoming residents are offered the choice of starting their training beginning July 1, November 1, or March 1. This allows them to start immediately after complet-ing medical school or to take time for travel or wedding or perhaps engage in a particular research project.

A resident’s second year is spent mostly at Alameda County Medical Cen-ter in Oakland (Highland Hospital), di-rected by Richard Imes, MD, where there is a large diverse patient volume.During this year the resident develops decision-making capacity and autonomy. This busy county facility promotes the resident’s increasing responsibility in caring for both medical and surgical eye disease.

In their final year, residents’ surgical experience is expanded further as they spend four months at Kaiser Hospital, San Francisco, which provides first-hand knowledge of an HMO setting. A four-month elective period follows, during which the resident has the opportunity to pursue a wide variety of interests, including international ophthalmology in India, Cuba, Peru, England, Mexico, Nepal, or Guatemala. Frequently resi-dents choose to travel to India to work at the highly regarded Aravind Eye Hospital which is advising PVF regard-ing the formation of The Eye Institute. In the final four months of training, serving as Chief Resident at the Lion’s Eye Clinic, each resident becomes more involved in teaching junior residents and bearing primary responsibility for all clinic patients similar to the situation of running a private practice.

Throughout the residency, there is a requirement to participate in research and many collaborate with faculty mem-bers to publish their findings. The an-nual Barkan Day Scientific Symposium provides a venue for residents to present their work to colleagues and faculty.

Residency programs and specialized fellowships are generally administered as part of medical school training pro-grams, however the CPMC program is unique. It is historically based on the first formal teaching of ophthalmology west of the Mississippi in 1873 by Dr. Adolph Barkan. Eventually the program became part of Stanford Hospital and then cut

“The day after my first cata-ract surgery as a primary surgeon I removed the patch from my patient’s eye and he started to cry because he was so excited to see. I was really ecstatic with his reaction.” —Jonathan Hernandez, MD Second Year Resident

“I was on call and examined a patient with blurry vision. The cause was a left homony-mous hemianopsia and we discovered that he actually had an acute stroke. That was an “Aha moment.” —Ann Leu Thomas, MD First Year Resident

“We learn, laugh, and cry with our patients, all the while having a supportive faculty to teach us about and help care for our complex disadvantaged patients. —Sam Reiter, MD Third Year Resident

“I assisted in a two-stage reconstruction procedure on a patient devastated by an exten-sive defect on her eyelid after removal of basal cell carcino-ma. The results were astonish-ing: The eyelid was formed as if the defect was never there, with only mild scarring. I real-ized this was one of the best days in my residency.” —Maria Govorkova, MD Second Year Resident

IN THEIR WORDS

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Additionally, while she was attending the University of Illinois, Chicago, the Chief Resident was Dr. Kevin Patel. He went on to a Retina Fellowship at WCR, and, because the two of them stayed in touch over the years, she heard from him that

adrift in 1960 when Stanford moved its medical school to Palo Alto. Physicians who remained in San Francisco joined forces with the Lions Eye Foundation and created a stand-alone residency now accredited to CPMC.

Retina Fellowship Program

Dr. H. Richard McDonald and Dr. J. Michael Jumper of of West Coast Retina are Co-Directors of the Retinal Fellowship Program at CPMC. It is a comprehensive two-year clinical pro-gram in the diagnosis and management of the diseases of the retina and vitre-ous. Fellows develop clinical, research and surgical skills by working with members of the retina faculty. Fellows are involved in many ongoing research activities and actively participate in the department’s teaching program.

The prestige of the Fellowship Pro-gram is well summed up by current fellow, Dr. Andy Kalevar, “I wanted a high-value, strong academic kind of fellowship, and, given that the CPMC/WCR Fellow-ship is known as one of the top 10 in the country, I came from my home in Canada for a site visit. I knew right away it was a good fit. Some fellowships are based on one or two good mentors who are known internationally, but at West Coast Retina there are a lot of powerhouses, and they are great mentors.”

The other current fellow, Dr. Judy Chen, explained that when choosing a residency program, the various choices are ranked nationally by U.S. News and World Report. However, with fellowships, comparisons are based on the reputation of the program. She had become aware of the CPMC/WCR Retina Fellowship Program while completing her fourth year medical-student rotation at CPMC, regu-larly interacting with the retina fellows.

the fellowship is outstanding. Having been in the WCR Fellowship since July 2016, Judy confirmed that her choice us a good one: “Everyone is friendly, knowledgeable, and super excited. Every day is awesome!”

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Take care of your contacts!Margaret P. Liu, MDChief of Cornea

During a Warriors game, I was ap-palled to see one of my favorite players, Draymond Green, pick his soft contact lens off the court, swirl it around in his unwashed hands with some unmarked solution, and pop it back in his eye. As passionately as those watching with me might yell at a bad play, I jumped up and shouted, “What are you doing, Dray-mond!!??” If you wear contacts, here is some good advice:

The following guidelines for care of contact lenses have been developed in partnership by the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Contact Lens Asso-ciation for Ophthalmologists, the Cornea Society and the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery.

Risk of infection varies somewhat depending on the type of contact lens. Single-use daily disposable lenses are the safest type of soft contact lens, in terms of reducing the risk of infection. Rigid gas permeable lenses are a safer alternative than any type of soft contact lens. Your ophthalmologist can help you decide which type of lens is right for you.

Regardless of the type you decide on, proper care of the lenses is essential to eye health.• Before handling contact lenses, wash your hands with soap and water, then rinse and dry them with a lint-free towel.• Minimize contact with water, including removing lenses before going swimming or in a hot tub.

• Contact lenses should not be rinsed with or stored in water (tap or sterile water).• Do not put your lenses in your mouth to wet them. Saliva is not a sterile solution.• Do not use saline solution and rewet-ting drops to disinfect lenses. Neither is an effective or approved disinfectant.• Wear and replace contact lenses according to the schedule prescribed by your eye care professional.• Follow the specific contact lens cleaning and storage guidelines from your eye care professional and the solution manufacturer.• During cleaning, rub your contact lenses with your fingers, then rinse the lenses with solution before soaking them. This “rub and rinse” method is considered by some experts to be a superior method of cleaning, even if the solution you are using is a “no- rub” variety.• Rinse the contact lens case with fresh solution—not water. Then leave the empty case open to air dry.• Keep the contact lens case clean and replace it regularly, at least every three months. Lens cases can be a source of contamination and infection. Do not use cracked or damaged lens cases.

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A GIFT FROM DR. ALAN AND JOANN HARLEY Dr. Alan and JoAnn Harley live an extraordinary life, and they recently made an extraordinary gift to the Pacific Vision Foundation for The Eye Institute. They travel extensively, and have covered all seven continents at least four times. Now, their recent gift of stock, valued at nearly $78,000, is the highlight of a fifty-year involve-ment with the Ophthalmology Depart-ment at CPMC.

Dr. Harley’s career in ophthalmol-ogy began in 1967 when he interned at what was then known as Pacific Pres-byterian. He got to know the ophthal-mology department and liked it so well that it was, in fact, the only department to which he applied for a residency. Once accepted, he went into the Navy, and, when he came back to begin, the department had been decimated by the move of the Stanford Eye Department to Palo Alto. Some physicians who had private practices remained, but, as Dr. Harley put it, “There was no supporting cast. However there was a good input of patients through the Lions Eye Foun-dation, so the residents did all of the procedures, collected eyes from the Eye Bank, assisted in surgeries, everything!” He underscored that the challenging work and the broad exposure turned out to be great training.

It was appreciation for that training that motivated the Harleys to respond so generously when Dr. Bruce Spivey came to discuss a gift. Plus, they had been preparing for his visit. Many months earlier, they had attended an event to tour the new facility at 711 Van Ness. JoAnn, who has been involved in fund-raising for decades at the schools of her children, her own alma mater, and the Oakland Zoo, knew that an ‘ask’ would be coming. The Harleys discussed what size gift they could potentially stretch to give, and, as Dr. Harley said, “We ended up giving three times that much! Bruce knew all the buttons to push. I believe that the residents and fellows will benefit greatly from the hands-on time with new instrumentation and a wet lab in the planned Surgical Skills Center.”

When asked how it feels to give the largest gift they’ve ever given, Dr. Harley replied warmly, “It feels good.” And JoAnn added, “It’s nice to give back when you can. Additionally, this gift was helpful for tax purposes.” They went on to explain that the gifted shares of Chevron stock had appreciated so much since she had acquired them (“You could call them my dowry” she said with a laugh) that transferring them to a not-for profit organization helped them to avoid a considerable tax liability if they had

chosen to sell the stock for their own use. Instead, they will be eligible for a healthy tax deduction this year. They also chose to make theirs an unrestricted gift, trusting the PVF board to use it as most needed.

The Harleys love to share a passion for their travels, focused primarily on nature and wildlife and they often join Lindblad/National Geographic tours which gives them rare access to remote places. JoAnn commented that it’s some-times best when they take one of their three children or two grandchildren at a time, and that it’s also wonderful when all of them can travel together, (even though it’s logistically more challenging.) Dr. Harley has a website with videos and pho-tographs of their many trips which serve to raise awareness of their philosophy: “If we don’t care for Mother Earth, nothing else really matters.” The address is: http://www.alanharleysimage.com/

After Dr. Harley retired from his Ophthalmology practice in 2001, he con-tinued to volunteer as an attending physi-cian to surgeries performed by residents at Oakland’s Highland Hospital. He and JoAnn had always been travelers, but, after retirement, and as their family grew up, they were able to gradually increase the time away. JoAnn emphasized, “It’s always been family first.”

A final note that Dr. Harley chose to add: “It’s amazing how the CPMC Department of Ophthalmology has gotten world-wide attention, especially compared to how small it was when I got started. Once Bruce got moving on it—and later Susan Day—the program has gotten internationally known. And one of the characteristics that’s unique is the whole atmosphere of camara-derie. It’s not necessarily universal in medical practices, but here, it’s a real family of people.” N

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The inaugural lecture at the new Eye Institute Education Center was delivered by Joan O’Brien, MD, Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also Director of the Scheie Eye Institute. Dr. Rona Silkiss introduced her longtime colleague noting that the bar was being set “very high” for future speakers and Dr. O’Brien proceeded to deliver an excellent lecture on the findings of the ENCODE Project launched by the National Human Genome Research Institute and conditions associated with mutations in mitochondrial DNA.

Asked how they knew they wanted to specialize in retina, Dr. Chen said, “I did a research project on diabetic reti-nopathy when in medical school, and I just love that you can see the disease. You can take a picture and show the patient, and it really helps to motivate the patients to help themselves.” Simi-larly, Dr. Kalevar said, “Unlike most other specialties, with instrumentation, you can see the disease. It’s the only part of the brain you can see!”

The Fellowship includes conduct-ing surgeries at the following Sutter Health hospitals: Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Berkeley; John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek; and St. Mary’s Medical Center, San Francisco. Additionally, the fellows supervise the residents’ care of retina patients at the

Lions Eye Clinic at CPMC, and they administer injections and provide other routine care to patients at the Eastmont Clinic, an extension of Highlands

Hospital in Oakland, operated by the Alameda Health System.

Reflecting upon the value of the Retinal Fellowship Program, Dr. Chen shared her appreciation for the op-portunity to make presentations and to practice public speaking. She said, with a laugh, “It can be daunting as a young doctor to present what you think is right to a group of senior colleagues, but I have had a lot of help from the attending physicians. It’s great to have their support.” Dr. Kalevar has been fascinated by a study of long-acting, surgically-implanted drug delivery de-vices that may, one day, replace month-ly injections for macular degeneration. He also finds the microsurgical field very exciting, saying that technological advances make an already sophisticated field a dynamic frontier.

“Some fellowships are based on one or two good mentors

who are known internationally,

but at West Coast Retina there are a

lot of powerhouses, and they are

great mentors.”

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THANK YOU TO PACIFIC VISION FOUNDATION 2016 DONORS

Gifts of $150,000 - $349,999Dr. and Mrs. Stanley TruhlsenLions Eye Foundation

Gifts of $100,000 - $149,999Herbst Foundation, Inc.The Hearst Foundations

Gifts of $50,000 - $99,999The Frederick Stroh Memorial Foundation for the Estate of Frederic “Ted” PickrellMr. and Mrs. Martin Roher

Gifts of $10,000 - $49,999Brooks-Mathews FoundationMs. Connie KruseG. Hanmin Liu, DDS, PhDMr. Michael RuddLee K. Schwartz, MD*†§ and Madeline Levine, PhDDr. Robert G. Webster, Jr.*† and Mrs. Robert G. Webster, Jr.Bradley Straatsma, MD, JDDiane C. Albracht, MD† and Mr. John Benson

Gifts of $5,000 - $9,999California HealthCare FoundationMr. David Cuneo* Kevin Denny, MD*†§ and Susan Denny, MDDr. and Mrs. Wayne Fung*†§ Mr. and Mrs. Rick HerreroErich Horn, MD*†§ and Biljana Horn, MDMs. Ellen Jamason* Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth NovackMr. and Mrs. David O’Neill* Dr. and Mrs. Bruce E. Spivey*Mr. Dale Walker*

Gifts of $1,000 - $4,999Lillian C. Albertsen FundBausch & Lomb Inc.Warren Browner, MDMs. Carolyn Burnett*California Academy of Eye Physicians & SurgeonsMr. William CannadyElder and Mrs. Quentin CookDavid R. Demartini, MD†Mrs. Rita DennyThe Grey Family FoundationMrs. Sallie GriffithMrs. Mary HauserMelanie Hom, MD†§ Charlene Hsu-Winges, MD†§ and Mr. Jerry WingesScott Hyver, MD† Richard Imes, MD§ Mr. Jaeame KoyilDr. and Mrs. Richard H. Lee, Jr.†Ms. Dominique LienMark R. Mandel, MD†Mr. and Mrs. Jim McCaugheyMs. Cynthia MoranDr. and Mrs. Robert A. Nelson*Mr. and Mrs. Jim ParasVincent Ray, MD†§Mr. and Mrs. Arthur RothMr. and Mrs. Gary SchlarbaumMs. Virginia SchurzDr. and Mrs. Ivan R. Schwab†Mr. G. Aubrey SerflingRona Z. Silkiss, MD*§ and Mr. Neil JacobsteinPaul Tornambe, MD†Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth TuckMr. Ken WalterMr. and Mrs. F. Clark Warden*Mr. Jon Taylor and Mr. Peter WaterlooMr. Robert WidiMrs. Diane B. WilseyVernon Wong, MD*Mr. and Mrs. Steven R. Young*§

Gifts under $1,000 Dr. and Mrs. Richard Abbott†Ms. Helen AdlerBenedictus G. Ajayi, MDMr. James A. Aleveras, JrEduardo Alfonso, MDMs. Ruth J. AllenHaris Amin, MD†Mr. and Mrs. David AngerJoe F. Arterberry, MD, FACSMs. Nancy BeattyMrs. Dean BemusCarol Berkowitz, MDMs. and Mr. Edie BiddleMs. Cynthia BishopMs. Ava Jean BrumbaumCol. Sharon and Mr. Edward BystranMr. and Mrs. Peter ChiarellaMs. Eleanor ChingMr. Roger V. ChristensenMr. Joseph ClarePatrick Coady, MD†Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. ColskyMs. Geraldine ConradMs. Maureen CorcoranMrs. Carol CostiganMs. Cherry CotterMr. and Mrs. Art DanaMs. Nancy De LaraMs. Helen DellMr. and Mrs. John DellarMr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. DenickeMr. Martin DenickeMr. and Mrs. Edward DerkumJason Dilly, MD†Ms. Joyce Donohue Rishi Doshi, MD†Mrs. Betty DvorsonMs. Esther DyerMs. Sharon EntwistleMs. Courtenay EversoleMs. Anna EwinsMr. and Mrs. William FeatherMs. Rose Marie FerranteJohn Fiore, Jr., MD

Pacific Vision Foundation annually raises funds to support the ophthalmology residency program at California Pacific Medical Center, and to support innovative ophthalmic research. Additionally, capital gifts are raised for the founding of The Eye Institute. The giving levels below recognize our 2016 donors’ cumulative gifts and/or pledges to one or both of these areas of focus. Pledges received and recognized prior to 2016 do not appear in this list. We are grateful for the generous donors listed below.

* = PVF Board Member † = Alumni of the CPMC Residency Program§ = Volunteer Faculty of the CPMC Residency Program

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Ms. Jennie FongMs. Lea GambleMarc A. Goldberg, MD†William V. Good, MD§Mr. and Mrs. Denny HansonMr. Thomas HarlanMs. Karen HartDavid Heiden, MD†§Mr. and Mrs. Karl F. HeislerJames Heltzer, MD†Dr. and Mrs. Eugene HelvestonMs. Elaine A. HilpMs. Sue Honig WeinsteinMs. Jennifer HoustonMrs. O. J. HoutzMs. Cecilia HurwichDr. and Mrs. Bruce W. Hutchinson†Michael Hwang, MD†George Brinnig Jastrzebski, MD† and Ms. Nelia BoccardiMr. and Mrs. Ardon JuddMs. Anne Kaiser and Mr. Robert TaylorW.K. Kellogg FoundationMs. Margaret Keough-CheneyMr. and Mrs. Douglas KramlichThe Kresge FoundationBernd Kutzscher, MD† and Marilyn Kutzscher, MDMr. Ronald LauDonna J. Lee, MD†Mrs. Phyllis Lee

Mrs. Patricia LesterMr. and Mrs. John LesterJoel Levine, MD†Ms. Janet LimingMs. Nancy LioneMr. and Mrs. Douglas B. LloydMark Lowe, MD†Alan Lowinger, MD†Mr. and Mrs. Maurice H. LuntzMs. Joyce L. MatherMs. Dee Ann McIntyreMs. Hermine McLeranMs. Joann Giles and Ms. Judith MeltonMr. and Mrs. Martha MertzMr. Irving MeyerMr. Frederick C. MeyerMs. Jeanie H. MohanMr. and Mrs. Bruno MorelliMr. and Mrs. Lloyd MorganMr. Frederick MorrisSachin S. Mudvari, MD†Mr. D.B. MurrayNgoc Nguyen, MD†Marvin Noble, MDMs. Julia NorrellPaul N. Orloff, MDMs. Joy OuMr. and Mrs. Timothy PadoveseT. Otis Paul, MDHung Pham, MD† and Ms. Thao Vu

Jon M. Portis, MD†Mr. Dennis RaybuckKyle Rhodes, MD†Mrs. Jean RhodesMr. William RikerMs. Helen RippleMs. Mary Kate RittmannDouglas W. Roblin, PhDMr. and Mrs. J. Nielsen RogersMs. Nancy J. RussellLawrence J. Schwartz, MD†Mr. and Mrs. Thomas SeenoJames S. Shapiro, MDMrs. Richard SheldonRand Siekert, MDMr. and Mrs. Charles SizemoreLeonid Sobolev and Marina Soboleva, MD§Ms. Nancy SpiveyMr. Ross E. StrombergMrs. Penny Stroud and Mr. Rick PamWilliam Tasman, MD and Ms. Alice LeaMr. and Mrs. J. Curtiss TaylorMr. and Mrs. Charles ToothRobert R. & Joyce E. Tufts TrustJon Wender, MD† Geoffrey Wilkes, MD†Richard Wolitz, MDRobert Wong, MD†Ms. Beverly WuRobert Yohai, MD

GIFTS IN MEMORY OF: Diane C. Albracht, MD from Mr. John Benson, Dr. Rona Z. Silkiss, MD and Mr. Neil Jacobstein; Mrs. Helen Randel from Ms. Cynthia Bishop; Mr. Mel Dvorson from Mrs. Betty Dvorson; Ms. Marion Paquette, Mr. Ron Ball, and Mrs. Lou Gadsby and Mr. Jim Diehr from Ms. Joann Giles and Ms. Judith Melton;

GIFTS IN HONOR OF: All Chief Residents from Charlene Hsu-Winges, MD and Mr. Jerry Winges; Susan H. Day, MD from Mr. and Mrs. Art Dana; Hung Pham, MD and Ms. Thao Vu; Geoffrey Wilkes, MD; Kevin Denny, MD from Ms. Ruth J. Allen, Warren Browner, MD, Mr. and Mrs. John Dellar, Mrs. Rita Denny, Mrs. Sallie Griffith, Ms. Karen Hart, Mrs. Mary Hauser, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Kramlich, Bernd Kutzscher, MD and Marilyn Kutzscher, MD, Ms. Jeanie H. Mohan, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tooth; Wayne Fung, MD from Mrs. Jean Rhodes; David Heiden, MD from Mr. Michael Rudd; Ms. Bea Lee from Dr. and Mrs. Robert G. Webster, Jr.; Taliva Martin, MD and Susan H. Day, MD from Melanie Hom, MD; Lee K. Schwartz, MD from Ms. Helen Ripple; William H. Spencer, MD from Leonid Sobolev and Marina Soboleva; Bruce E. Spivey, MD from Benedictus G. Ajayi, MD, Eduardo Alfonso, MD, Ms. Nancy Beatty, Ms. Carolyn Burnett, Col. Sharon and Mr. Edward Bystran, Ms. Geraldine Conrad, Elder and Mrs. Quentin Cook, Ms. Maureen Corcoran, Ms. Helen Dell, Kevin Denny, MD and Susan Denny, MD, Ms. Esther Dyer, Mr. and Mrs. William Feather, Dr. and Mrs. Wayne Fung, Mr. and Mrs. Denny Hanson, Mr. Thom-as Harlan, Charlene Hsu-Winges, MD and Mr. Jerry Winges, Mr. and Mrs. Ardon Judd, Mr. Jaeame Koyil, Dr. and Mrs. Richard H. Lee, Jr., Ms. Hermine McLeran, Mr. Frederick C. Meyer, Ms. Cynthia Moran, Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Nelson, Marvin Noble, MD, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Novack, Mr. and Mrs. David O’Neill, Dr. Paul N. Orloff, Mr. and Mrs. J. Nielsen Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. Gary Schlarbaum, Mrs. Richard Sheldon, Rona Z. Silkiss, MD and Mr. Neil Jacobstein, Bradley Straatsma, MD, JD, Paul Tornambe, MD, Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Truhlsen, Dr. and Mrs. Robert G. Webster, Jr.; H. George Tanaka, MD from Jason Dilly, MD Ms. Rose Marie Ferrante; Jon D. Wender, MD from Mr. Irving Meyer

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Pacific Vision Foundation was founded in 1977 with the mission to prevent blindness and to improve vision for those who see imperfectly by fostering the highest level of eye care for the public. This is to be accom-plished through contributing to excellence in patient care, im- proving eye care education of both medical professionals and the public, and supporting innovative ophthalmic research.

Ex OfficioJo Burnett, Executive Director Pacific Vision Foundation Kevin J. Denny, MD, Chair CPMC Ophthalmology DepartmentMichael P. Mahoney, CEO Pacific Vision FoundationJohn Schroeder, Executive Director Lions Eye Foundation of CA and NV

711 Van Ness Avenue #260San Francisco, CA 94102www.pacificvisionfoundation.org 415-393-1225Horizon is published quarterly by the Pacific Vision Foundation, a 501(c)(3) corporation.

Board of TrusteesBruce E. Spivey, ChairmanDavid D. O’Neill, Vice ChairmanDale R. Walker, Vice ChairmanEllen E. Jamason, SecretaryDavid Cuneo, Treasurer

Usha Arunachalam, PhD, MBA Wayne E. Fung, MDRick HerreroErich P. Horn, MDRobert A. Nelson, MDLee K. Schwartz, MDRona Z. Silkiss, MD, FACSEric W. SpiveyF. Clark WardenRobert G. Webster, Jr., MDVernon G. Wong, MDSteven R. Young, BCO

PVF M ISSION STATEMENT & BOARD

Giving Guide: Buy Low-Give High

If you are considering a gift to PVF, talk to your tax advisor about the possible

benefits of giving appreciated securities. Selling shares for personal use some-times creates tax liabilities while trans-ferring them to PVF will likely result in a tax deduction instead. See story on Dr. Alan and JoAnn Harley, page 4.

Seventy and 1/2?

In the year after you reach age 70½, and in every subsequent year, you are required to take a yearly distribution from your 401k, 403b, or other retirement plans. (Roth IRAs are not included) Ask your tax advisor about your required minimum distribution (RMD) this year and consider making a quali-fied charitable distribution to PVF, which will decrease the tax bite of your RMD.

Horizon is published quarterly by the Pacific Vision Foundation, a 501(c)(3) corporation.