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Ms. Marguerite McDonald
MD
IMAB Member
Ms. McDonald is the Cornea/refractive/anterior segment specialist, Ophthalmic Consultants of Long Island, Lynbrook, NY. She is presently an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans and a Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at New York University (NYU) in Manhattan. Dr McDonald is a staff physician at Manhattan Eye Ear and Throat Hospital in New York City, as well as at the Island Eye Center in Carle Place, New York.
Ms. McDonald was a Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of the Corneal Service at the LSU Eye Center, LSU Medical Center School of Medicine, New Orleans, as well as the Chairman of the LSUMC Promotion and Tenure Committee until September 1994.
She is currently a senior consultant for VISX, and was previously the Medical Director for Alcon/Summit/Autonomous. Ms. McDonald was also a principal investigator for the Chiron Technologies (now Bausch and Lomb) and Nidek EC 5000 lasers.
Dr McDonald received her medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, followed by an internship at Lenox Hill Hospital and ophthalmology residency at Manhattan Eye Ear and Throat Hospital/Cornell, both in New York City, and a fellowship in corneal and external diseases with Dr. Herbert E. Kaufman at the LSU Eye Center in New Orleans. Ms. McDonald joined the faculty at the LSU Eye Center in 1981. Since then she has become well known in the field of refractive surgery, with 477 abstracts, 79 books and book chapters, 45 interviews/panel discussions/CD ROMs/videos, and 179 peer reviewed and 280 non-peer reviewed articles published on various refractive topics. Ms. McDonald has been the principal investigator of three National Eye Institute grants for the study of refractive surgery: radial keratotomy [at the LSU Clinical Center for the Prospective Evaluation of Radial Keratotomy (PERK) study], epikeratophakia, and excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy, as well as numerous industrial grants.
In New Orleans, Ms. McDonald headed the research team investigating the use of the excimer laser for the correction of optical error, and in 1987, performed the world’s first excimer laser treatment to eliminate or reduce the need for glasses and contact lenses. Ms. McDonald treated blind and fully sighted patients in 1988; both groups were treated for nearsightedness. In 1993, she performed the world’s first excimer laser surgeries for farsightedness as well.
On October 12, 1999, Ms. McDonald performed the world’s first Summit/Autonomous wavefront-based excimer laser surgeries; these cases were also the first wavefront-based laser surgeries in the U.S. This breakthrough is considered the first step on the road to “super-normal” vision, i.e., the routine attainment of better-than-20/20 uncorrected vision with minimal aberrations and much improved night vision.
Ms. McDonald was the second physician in the United States and the third physician in the world to perform CK (Conductive Keratoplasty) for farsightedness. Ms. McDonald was the medical monitor of the U.S. clinical trials which led to FDA approval for CK.
Ms. McDonald was the first North American surgeon to perform Epi-LASIK in September 2003.
James S. Adams Scholar Award from Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc.
Lans Distinguished Refractive Surgeon Lecture by the International Society of Refractive Keratoplasty (ISRK)
Appointment to the Board of Directors of the International Society of Refractive Surgery and the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS)
The Honor Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology
Election as a Fellow to the American College of Surgeons
Chosen to give the 1993 Barraquer Lecture at the American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting in Chicago in November
Gave the Akef El Maghraby Lecture in Marrakesh, Morocco, April 1995 entitled, "Refractive Surgery Becomes of Age"
Gave the Edward J. Curran, MD Memorial Lecture in Kansas City at the Eyecon Meeting in May 1995
Received the 1994 Steven L. Trokel Award presented by Alcon/VISX at the Annual Global User's Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal
Deborah Iverson Inaugural Lecture, 1997
Irving H. Leopold Lecture in Philadelphia, 1999
Phillip P. Ellis Lecture, Denver, 1999
Nominee for the Distinguished Women Physician award, Women in Medicine Committee of Metro New Orleans, 1999 by the American Medical Association
Summit Technologies Pioneer of Refractive Surgery award, 1999
Adrien Gladys Drouilhet Visiting Professor in Ophthalmology Lecture, 1999
62nd Annual George E. de Schweinitz Memorial Lecture, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Nov.1999
Whitney Sampson Lecture, American Academy of Ophthalmology, 2000
Binkhorst Lecture, American Academy of Ophthalmology, 2001
Lifetime Achievement Award, International Society of Refractive Surgery, 2001
Modern-Day Visionaries, Ocular Surgery News, Orlando, FL, 2002
Woman of the Year: A Tribute to 40 Outstanding Local Women, CityBusiness, November 2002
Suzanne Veronneau-Troutman Award, Women in Ophthalmology, November 2003
Rayner Medal, September 2004, United Kingdom
Australian Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (AUSCRS) Gold Medal Lecturer, August 2005.
One of 50 Top Opinion Leaders in Cataract and Refractive Surgery Today, April 2006.
Recipient of the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s Secretariat Award, June 2006
Best Doctors in America from 1992 to 2006
One of the Best Posters at AAO 2006 Meeting
Recipient of the American Academy of Ophthalmology’ Joint Meeting
Secretariat Award. November 2006
Glover-Lisman Lecturer
Best Doctors in America 1992-2008
Professional memberships encompass a broad spectrum of local, national, international clinical and scientific activities including:
Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor
American Academy of Ophthalmology
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American College of Surgeons
American Medical Association
American Medical Women’s Association
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
Castroviejo Corneal Society
Contact Lens Association of Ophthalmologists
Eye Bank Association of America (R. Townly Paton, MD, Society)
International Corneal Laser Society
International Society of Refractive Keratoplasty
American Society of Refractive and Cataract Surgery (Past President)
Louisiana Medical Women Association
Louisiana-Mississippi O&O Society
New Orleans Academy of Ophthalmology
New York Academy of Science
Orleans Parish Medical Society
Academy for Experimental Biology and Medicine
Board of Directors of the Lasik Institute
Advanced Medical Optics Global Scientific Advisory Board
VISX Domestic Advisory Board
VISX Global Advisory Board
Ophthalmic Women Leaders (OWL), founding member of Advisory Board
Editorial Board, Journal Ophthalmologia
Advisory Board, Italian Society of Refractive Surgery
Board Member, Institute of Presbyopia and Accomodation Research
Women in Ophthalmology
Scientific Advisory Board, Altos Pharmaceuticals
Society of Industry Leaders, sponsored by Vista Research, a division of Standard and Poor’s
Alacrity Scientific Advisory Board
Refractive Surgery Section Editorial Board of OSN
ISRS/AAO-Executive Committee as a Ex-Officer
AzaSite Advisory Board Member
Ophthalmic Surgery, Lasers and Imaging Board Member
New York Kerato Refractive Society
Men’s Fitness Magazine Board of Advisors
Aier Eye Hospital Journal Advisory Board
President Elect of the ISRS/AAO 2008-2010
ISRS/AAO-Executive Committee Chairperson 2007-2008
Ms. McDonald recently served as the chief medical editor for Channel 6 News, the NBC affiliate in New Orleans; she made frequent in-person appearances covering medical topics. Ms. McDonald has also been featured on a segment of “Good Morning America”.
