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David F.Chang, M.D.

David F. Chang, MD is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Harvard College and earned his M.D. at Harvard Medical School. He completed his ophthalmology residency at the University of California, San Francisco where he is now a clinical professor. Dr. Chang is chairman of the American Academy of Ophthalmology Annual Meeting Program Committee, having previously chaired the cataract program sub-committee. He organized, and was the program co-chair for the first three AAO "Spotlight on Cataracts" Symposia. He was the 2003 recipient of the AAO Annual Meeting Secretariat award. Dr. Chang is a member of the AAO Ophthalmic Knowledge Base Panel for Cataract and Anterior Segment, which is developing the American Board of Ophthalmology knowledge base for the MOC examination. He is also on the AAO Cataract Preferred Practice Pattern Panel. He is on the scientific advisory board for the UCSF Collaborative Vision Research Group, American Medical Optics, Calhoun Vision, Medennium, and Visiogen, and is the medical monitor for the Visiogen Synchrony accommodating IOL FDA monitored trial. He is co-chief medical editor for Cataract and Refractive Surgery Today, and serves on the editorial boards for Ocular Surgery News, EyeNet, Video Journal of Ophthalmology, Highlights of Ophthalmology, and Comprehensive Ophthalmology Update. He is the cataract editor for two online educational sites: the American Academy of Ophthalmology's "Specialty Clinical Updates", and the Ocular Surgery News "Ophthalmic Hyperguides".