Gregory L. Skuta, MD

Dr. Skuta has served on the Academy’s Board of Trustees since 2007 and on the Committee of Secretaries (previously as secretary for ophthalmic knowledge) since 2001. He currently serves or has served on many Academy committees, including the Executive Committee, Nominating Committee, Awards Committee, EyeNet editorial board, Ophthalmic Knowledge Assessment Program (OKAP) Committee, and Lifelong Education for the Ophthalmologist Task Force. He is past chair of the Self-Assessment Committee and has been an editor for the Academy's ProVision print and CD-ROM educational products.

A native of Illinois, he received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Illinois College of Medicine respectively. He completed an ophthalmology residency at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where he was chief resident, and a glaucoma fellowship at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami. Dr. Skuta served on the faculty at the University of Michigan's W. K. Kellogg Eye Center from 1987 to 1992. Currently, he is the president and CEO of the Dean McGee Eye Institute and the Edward L. Gaylord professor and chair of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine's department of ophthalmology in Oklahoma City.

Dr. Skuta has contributed to more than 100 publications, book chapters and educational products and has a particular research and clinical interest in wound healing and its modulation in glaucoma filtering surgery. He is a past president of the American Glaucoma Society (2005 to 2006) and a past director/senior examiner (2001 to 2008) for the American Board of Ophthalmology (ABO). Dr. Skuta was chair of the ABO's Written Examinations Committee and served on its Executive Committee, Nominating Committee, Examiners Committee and Maintenance of Certification Committee. He also was an ABO representative to the American Board of Medical Specialties. He is a past member (2004 to 2007) of the Board of Governors of the World Glaucoma Association (formerly the Association of International Glaucoma Societies). Dr. Skuta has served as a principal investigator for the National Eye Institute-sponsored Advanced Glaucoma Intervention Study and Collaborative Initial Glaucoma Treatment Study. In addition, he was a member of the Data and Safety Monitoring Committee for the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study.

He is a past chair of the American Glaucoma Society's Program Committee. Dr. Skuta is a current member of the editorial board for the Journal of Glaucoma, past president of the American Eye Study Club, and a past director-at-large for the Oklahoma Academy of Ophthalmology. In 2003, Dr. Skuta was elected to active membership in the Glaucoma Research Society (formerly known as the Glaucoma Society of the International Congress of Ophthalmology). He has delivered lectures and presentations at more than 180 meetings throughout the United States and also in South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia and South Africa.

Among Dr. Skuta's honors and awards are Phi Beta Kappa, president of the University of Illinois Varsity Men's Glee Club, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, the Resident Teaching Award from the University of Michigan Department of Ophthalmology and the Academy's Honor Award and Senior Achievement Award. He is listed in Marquis' Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World, in Woodward/White's The Best Doctors in America, and among America's Top Ophthalmologists by the Consumers' Research Council of America.

He and his wife Anne, who is a nurse and director of cardiovascular education at Integris Heart Hospital in Oklahoma City, have three children, Jon (age 24 and a graduate student at the University of North Texas), Cate (age 22 and a physical therapy student at the University of Oklahoma), and Matt (age 20 and an undergraduate student at the University of Oklahoma). They reside in Edmond, Okla.

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Last updated Sept. 7, 2011