D. Jackson Coleman
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D. Jackson Coleman is a professor of clinical ophthalmology at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital at The Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute of Columbia University. He is the former John Milton McLean Professor of Ophthalmology and chairman emeritus at Weill Cornell Medical Center where he served as chairman from 1979 to 2006. His specialties are retinal diseases and ultrasound, working with patients at Columbia University Medical Center. Coleman is also engaged in research involving ultrasound, which he has pursued throughout his career with colleague Ronald Silverman in the Department of Ophthalmology at the Columbia University Medical Center.
Coleman received his undergraduate degree from Union College and his medical degree from the University at Buffalo School of Medicine. Following his internship at the Columbia Medical Division at Bellevue Hospital, he served with the U.S. Public Health Service in Washington, D.C. He completed his residency in ophthalmology at the Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute of Columbia Presbyterian as a National Institutes of Health Special Fellow.
He remained on the staff at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center until 1979, when he was appointed chairman and chief of the Ophthalmology Department at The New York Hospital and John Milton McLean Professor of Ophthalmology at Cornell University Medical College. He served as president of the medical board from 1991 to 1992, and again from 1994 to 1997. He has also served as surgical director of Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital (MEETH), senior research physician at Riverside Research Institute in New York City and consultant at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He has since returned to his roots, and is currently professor of ophthalmology at the Harkness Eye Institute of Columbia University Medical Center.
Research
His interest in physics led him to develop new ultrasound technologies for examining and treating the eye.[1] Together with William Konig and Louis Katz, he created the first commercially available B-scan ultrasound equipment.[2][3] His numerous patents include those for an ultrasonically vibrated surgical knife, an ultrasonic diagnostic and therapeutic transducer assembly (with methodology), a system of therapeutic ultrasound and real-time ultrasonic scanning,[4] and an ultrasound system for corneal biometry.[5] His pioneering surgical techniques include the first vitreo-retinal surgery in New York and, using the ultrasound that he developed, demonstrating that operating at an earlier stage in ocular trauma could vastly improve the patient's prognosis for recovery.[6] He has specialized in vitreo-retinal surgery and has had a career-long interest in imaging research. With a generous gift from Charles and Margaret Dyson, He established the Margaret M. Dyson Vision Research Institute, one of the major retinal research programs in the world. The Dyson Institute continues research on the causes and possible therapies for age related macular degeneration and ultrasound imaging of the retina and choroid.
