The LEO Lifelong Education for the Ophthalmologist Continuing Education Recognition Award is annually presented to Academy members in recognition of their ongoing participation in the Academy’s education programs and publications.
The Academy’s LEO Lifelong Education for the Ophthalmologist Award has been recognized by the American Medical Association (AMA) as qualifying for reciprocity with their Physician’s Recognition Award (PRA). The Academy was the first national medical specialty society to arrange for this benefit on behalf of its members.
Criteria for LEO Lifelong Education for the Ophthalmologist Award Eligibility
- Minimum of 150 AAO CME credits earned during a 3-year period from July 1 through June 30
- Must have claimed CME credit for at least 1 Annual Meeting during the three year time period
- Must not have been a LEO Award recipient during the same 3 year date range
- Must be an active member of AAO and AMA
International members may be interested in the International Ophthalmologist Education Award and the International Scholar Award.
2022 LEO Lifelong Education for the Ophthalmologist Award Recipients
Ahmed Abdelsalam MD |
Ashim Aggarwal MD |
Levent Akduman MD |
Trent D Albright MD |
Mouhab Aljajeh MD |
Anas A Anbari MD, PhD, FACS |
Christopher M Andreoli MD |
J Fernando Arevalo, MD, PHD, FACS |
Brian K Armstrong MD |
Barinder S Athwal, MD |
Sharmini A Balakrishnan, MD |
Robert C Baldwin MD |
Michelle C Banks MD |
Gregory M Barban MD FACS |
Monique M Barbour MD |
Jonathan M Barofsky MD |
John Mark Bell MD |
Kurt T Benham MD |
Gabriel A Benitez-Bajandas MD |
John S Berestka MD |
Anuja Bhandari MD |
Ravinder D Bhui MD |
Michael P Blair MD |
Jay O Brainard MD |
Arthur M Brant MD PhD |
Jamin S Brown MD |
Curtis R Brown, MD |
Mark P Buranosky MD |
Sheldon M Buzney, MD |
Mark A Calderwood MD |
Maria E Castillejos MD |
David Castillejos-Rios |
Mark A Cepela MD |
Olga M Ceron MD |
Richard Inki Chang MD |
Howard C Charles MD |
Candice S Chen MD |
Saradha Chexal, MD |
Ho Sun Choi MD |
Benjamin B Chun MD |
Monica Cid MD |
Lawrence M Clewner MD |
Rodney P Coe, MD |
Kenneth L Cohen MD |
Sandya Thimmappa Cohen MD |
Michael James Coleman Jr, MD |
Charles G Colombo MD |
Joseph M Coney MD |
Mandi D Conway MD |
Vanessa Cruz-Villegas MD |
Jeremy R Cuthbertson MD |
Norbert P Czajkowski MD |
Ralph N Dado Jr MD |
Nataliya Danylkova, MD |
Michael J Davis MD |
Stephen A M De Souza MD |
Prajay Dhir MD |
Perin W Diana Jr MD |
Jeffrey A Diskin MD |
Michael J Drinnan MD |
David S Dyer MD |
Deepak Paul Edward MD |
Deborah Eezzuduemhoi MD |
Robert Eisenberg MD |
Fadi Z El Baba MD |
Hosam El Sheha, MD, PhD |
William Ellis MD |
Joseph S Elman MD |
Phyllis I Eze MD |
Ronald Leigh Fellman MD OCS |
Joseph D Fishkin MD |
Harvey A Fishman MD PhD |
Ellen C Fitzgerald-Farkas MD |
W Craig Fowler MD |
Andrew W Francis, MD |
Lawrence Frieman MD FACS |
Brett Frieman DO |
Omer Gal, MD |
Miguel A Garcia-Llorens MD |
Robert Garoon, MD |
Rana R Ghauri MD |
Monica F Giganti MD |
Paul H Gilwit MD FACS |
Burt A Ginsburg MD |
Liliya Golas, MD |
David Goldblum MD |
Gustavo A Gonzalez MD PhD |
Anika G Goodwin, MD |
Anil K Goyal MD |
Kenneth B Graham MD |
Scott A Griffith MD |
Paul B Griggs MD |
Suqin Guo MD |
Pranay Gupta MD |
Keith G Gurland MD |
Froncie A Gutman MD |
Arlene E Gwon MD |
Ilyse D Haberman, MD |
Ramez I Haddadin, MD |
Andrew P Hammer MD |
David R Hardten MD |
K. Dwight Hendricks, MD |
Viet H Ho MD |
Bryan K Hong, MD |
Lawrence M Hopp MD |
Benjamin Van Hu MD |
Bret A Hughes MD |
Mark S Humayun, MD, PHD |
Paul D Huynh MD PhD |
Inci Irak-Dersu MD |
Alexander A Izad MD |
Natalio J Izquierdo MD |
Vivek K Jain MD |
Daniel A Jewelewicz MD |
Paul B Johnson MD |
Bart A Jones MD |
Andrea T Jue MD |
Anna K Junk MD |
Emilio M Justo MD |
Yasier Kanawati MD |
Joann J Kang, MD |
Jeffrey S Karlik MD |
Joseph A Khawly MD |
Ali Mohammad Khorrami MD PhD |
Kianoush Kian MD |
Yu Hyon Kim MD |
Joan T Kim MD |
Brian T Kim, MD |
Gene Kim, MD |
John W Kitchens MD |
Kim Knowles MD |
Ramesh M Kode MD |
Ernest W Kornmehl, MD |
Hratch D Kourouyan, MD |
Gregory F Kozielec MD OCS |
Asha Kumar, MD |
Nitin Kumar MD |
Leila I Kump MD |
Allan R Kunimoto MD |
Rod B Kusumi MD |
Michael K Lam MD |
Har Hiu D Lam MD |
Todd R Larson DO |
Babur B Lateef MD |
David B Lazar, MD |
Rene F Lazcano MD |
Dung Q Le, MD |
David A Lee MD |
Paul J Lee MD |
Sangwoo Lee MD |
John J Lee, MD MPH |
Olivia L Lee MD |
Jeffrey S Leen MD |
Steven Leibowitz MD |
Nicole Lemanski, MD |
Craig J Leong MD |
Thellea K Leveque, MD, MPH |
Benjamin M Levine MD |
Robert Lewen MD |
James S Lewis MD |
Suzanne G Li MD |
Hyun Jin Lim-Soh MD |
Carol Ann Ling MD |
Alan David Listhaus MD |
Douglas F Liva MD |
Danielle Monica Lo, MD |
Sanjay Logani MD MBA |
Sangeeta Logani MD |
Matthew D Lowrance DO |
Luis W Lu MD |
Rajiv Luthra MD MPH |
Jennifer L Lyons MD |
Srilakshmi Maguluri MD |
Christopher P Majka MD |
Ranjan P Malhotra MD |
Joshua O Mali, MD |
Linn M Mangano MD |
Eric S Mann, MD, PHD |
Alan R Margherio MD |
Jeffrey L Martin MD |
Jose Gabriel Matos MD |
Ronald C May MD |
Mark L Mazow, MD |
Thomas McCauley MD |
Robert G McMahon MD |
Roger F Meyer MD |
Kelly T Mitchell, MD |
Kenneth E Morgenstern MD |
Christie L Morse, MD |
Craig J Moskowitz MD |
Arash Mozayan-Isfahani, MD |
Ananth V Mudgil MD |
Craig Munger MD |
Kathryn K Najafi-Tagol MD |
Julio C Narvaez MD |
Ahmed Nasrullah MD |
Kambiz Negahban MD |
Peter Andreas Netland MD PhD |
Philip Newman MD |
Tuong T Nguyen MD |
John Nguyen MD |
Eddy V Nguyen MD |
Michael Nissen MD |
Marc G Odrich MD |
John S O'Keefe MD |
Mildred M G Olivier MD |
Luis C Omphroy MD |
Ozgur I Ozkan MD |
Brenda Pagan-Duran MD |
M Pierre Pang MD |
Robert W Panton MD |
Leon G Partamian, MD |
Shamil S Patel MD |
Clifton Peay, MD, MBA |
David F Peck MD |
Kevin Ira Perman MD |
George B Peters, MD |
Gholam A Peyman MD |
Lan Phuong V Pham MD |
Paul H Phillips MD |
Sean M Platt, MD |
Mary Elizabeth Price MD |
Joanna D Pruzon DO |
Karim G Punja MD |
Surendar S Purohit MD |
Sujata S Purohit MD |
Alexander Rabinovich MD |
Peter J Racciato MD |
Amy Stock Ranger, MD |
Milan P Ranka MD |
Pooja Jamnadas Rao, MD |
Shobit Rastogi MD |
Davinder S Rehsia MD |
Steven David Reinglass MD |
Warren J Reingold MD |
Ronald John Rescigno MD |
Robert G Reuther MD |
John S Rizzo MD |
Michael E Rom MD |
Lauren R Rosecan MD PhD FACS |
David Rubaltelli MD |
Paul E Runge MD |
Christopher S Rusinek MD |
Saloomeh Saati, MD |
Taoufik A Sadat MD |
Ammar N Safar MD |
Farhad Safi MD |
Hazem M Samy MD |
Prithvi S Sankar MD |
Juan G Santiago, MD |
Byron A Santos-Flores MD |
S John Saragas, MD |
Michael Savetsky MD |
Ronald A Schachar MD PhD |
Lisa S Schocket MD |
Thomas Lee Schwartz MD |
Winston Scott, MD |
Robert F See MD |
Leonard S Seifter MD |
Ausra Selvadurai, MD |
Ricardo N Sepulveda MD |
Todd D Severin MD |
George Shafranov MD |
Pankajkumar G Shah MD |
Jonathan A Sheindlin MD |
Peter B Shelley MD |
Mark D Sherman MD |
Sunil M Shivaram MD |
Gayle Shulman MD |
Marc J Siegel MD |
Mark S Siegel MD |
David I Sierpina, MD |
Deborah Anne Silberman MD |
James E Silone Jr DO |
Luis Silva, MD |
Laura B Sims MD |
Thomas L Slamovits MD |
Stephen E Smith MD |
Marcus J Solomon MD Renée Solomon, MD |
John Alan Sorenson MD |
Gerald P Spindel MD |
Jason E Stahl MD |
Christopher T Stelly MD |
Benjamin Stephens, MD |
Rosalind A Stevens MD |
Jacquelyn Stevens, MD |
Michael V Stock, MD |
Marion Joseph Stoj MD |
Howard N Straub DO |
Mitchell B Strominger, MD |
Jerry Suelflow MD |
Shigemi Sugiki MD FACS |
Mukesh B Suthar MD |
Cecille Glynis Taylor MD |
Michael K Taylor MD |
Steven A Teich MD |
Shivan H Tekwani MD |
Gregory P Temas MD |
Alex B Theventhiran, MD |
Tanu O Thomas MD |
Donald H Tingley MD |
Neal Allen Tolchin MD |
Patrick Y Tong MD PhD |
Isaac Torem MD |
Loan T Tran MD |
Daniel S Tresley MD |
Thomas Jay Tsai MD |
Edward A Tsoy MD |
Joshua D Udoetuk, MD |
Gisela Velez MD |
Jim C Wang MD |
Michael D Waxman, MD |
Daniel Wee MD |
Bruce L Weinberger MD FACS |
Paul D Weishaar MD |
Torsten W Wiegand MD PhD |
Peter Win MD |
Raymond F Wong MD |
George C Wong MD |
Richard M Wong MD |
Bonnie B Woo MD |
Jeremy J Wood MD |
Misty L Wray MD |
Gloria Wu MD |
Phillip C Wu MD |
Louis J F Yang MD |
Steven Yaplee MD |
Season T Yeung, MBBS |
Brenda K Young, MD |
Rumei Yuan MD PhD |