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David F. Chang, MD is a summa cum laude graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. He completed his ophthalmology residency at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he is now a clinical professor. Having chaired the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) Cataract Clinical Committee, Dr. Chang has been on the ASCRS Board and Executive Committee since 2009 and served as the 2012-2013 president. He is past chair of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Cataract Preferred Practice Pattern Panel and in 2009 completed his 5-year term as chair of the AAO Annual Meeting Program Committee. Dr. Chang co-chairs the joint ASCRS-ASRS (American Society of Retina Specialists) task force on hemorrhagic occlusive retinal vasculitis and the joint ASCRS-AAO-OOSS (Ophthalmic Outpatient Surgery Society) task force on ophthalmic instrument cleaning and sterilization. He also co-chairs the ASCRS Foundation and serves on the medical advisory boards of the Himalayan Cataract Project and Project Vision.

Dr. Chang is one of only 3 ophthalmologists to ever receive the Charlotte Baer Award, which annually honors the most outstanding clinical faculty member at the UCSF Medical School. In addition to the Standard, Senior, and Lifetime AAO Achievement awards, Dr. Chang was the first 4-time AAO Secretariat Award recipient (2003, 2006, 2007, and 2009). He has been honored by the following international ophthalmology organizations: ASCRS (Binkhorst Medal), AAO (Kelman Lecture), Asia-Pacific Association of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons (Lim Medal), United Kingdom & Ireland Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons (Rayner Medal), Canadian Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (Award of Excellence/Stein Lecture), Canadian Ophthalmology Society (Sally Letson Lecture), All India Ophthalmology Society (Presidents Lecture), Indian Intraocular Implant & Refractive Society (Gold Medal), Italian Ophthalmological Society (Strampelli Medal), International Intraocular Implant Club (IIIC Medal), American-European Congress of Ophthalmic Surgery (Visionary Award), International Society of Refractive Surgery (Presidential Recognition Award), Chinese American Ophthalmology Society (Pioneer Award), DOC-German Ophthalmic Surgeons (DOC Innovator Lecture), Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (Gregg Medal), and the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (Jose Rizal International Medal). Including these, Dr. Chang has delivered a total of 40 named lectures. He has twice been voted the fifth most influential ophthalmologist in the world by the international readership of The Ophthalmologist.

Dr. Chang served as chief medical editor of EyeWorld and Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today. He is the author or coauthor of more than 120 peer-reviewed papers. Dr. Chang was the textbook editor of Cataract Surgery Today and SLACK Incorporateds Curbside Consultation in Cataract Surgery and Mastering Refractive IOLs: The Art and Science. Dr. Chang was also the series editor for the Curbside Consultation Ophthalmology textbook series and the principal author of two editions of Phaco Chop and Advanced Phaco Techniques: Strategies for Complicated Cataracts, all published by SLACK Incorporated.