Cynthia A. Bradford, MD

Dr. Bradford has served on the Academy’s Committee of Secretaries as the Secretary for State Affairs since 2004. She has served on many Academy committees, including State Affairs Secretariat, associate secretary to the Committee for State Affairs Organizational Development, Interspecialty Education Committee, Basic and Clinical Science Committee-Section 11 and Federal Health Manpower Task Force.

A native of Texas, she received her medical degree with high honors from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. She moved to Oklahoma and completed her ophthalmology training at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.

Dr. Bradford's clinical focus is in cataract and intraocular implant lens surgery, with special interests in complicated cataract surgeries such as after trauma or prior ocular surgery, with extensive experience performing cataract surgery on patients with prior retinal and glaucoma surgeries, or after refractive surgeries such as RK, PRK or LASIK. She has been active in teaching throughout her career. She has authored modules and books to teach ophthalmology to medical students and primary care physicians. She is the executive editor for the Academy's Basic Ophthalmology, which is used to teach students in most medical schools in the United States, and has been translated into both the Chinese and Russian languages. She is the coordinator for medical student and primary care resident education in ophthalmology at Oklahoma University. For over 15 years, she has taught the University of Oklahoma ophthalmology residents to perform cataract surgery. She participates in clinical research involving cataract surgery.

Dr. Bradford is an associate professor of ophthalmology at the Dean A. McGee Eye Institute/Department of Ophthalmology of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City.