Dr. Van Gelder is chairman of the University of Washington department of ophthalmology in Seattle, director of the school’s Medicine Eye Institute and holder of the Boyd K. Bucey Memorial endowed chair. Dr. Van Gelder is a clinician-scientist interested in the pathogenesis of uveitis and non-visual photoreception. He runs an active laboratory investigating uses of polymerase chain reaction diagnostics in uveitis. He is also the 118th president of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.