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Dr. Puliafito named director of Bascom Palmer
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MIAMI — Carmen A. Puliafito, MD, MBA, has been appointed chairman of the department of ophthalmology at the University of Miami School of Medicine, effective July 1. Dr. Puliafito also will serve as director of Bascom Palmer Eye Institute and medical director of its patient care facility, Anne Bates Leach Eye Hospital.
Dr. Puliafito has served as director of the New England Eye Center in Boston and was professor and chair of the department of ophthalmology at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Puliafito was founding director of the New England Eye Center in 1991.
Dr. Puliafito is an ophthalmologist specializing in diseases and surgery of the retina and vitreous. He also is an authority on ophthalmic lasers and co-inventor of the technique of optical coherence tomography. As a researcher, his interests include retinal photocoagulation, vitreous surgery for complicated retinal detachment and trauma, macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and the application of new laser technologies to the eye.
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Dr. Puliafito, who holds two U.S. patents, is the author of more than 120 peer-reviewed scientific publications and six books. He is editor of the Retina/Vitreous Section of Ocular Surgery News and is chief medical editor of the SLACK, Incorporated publication Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers.
Born in Buffalo, N.Y., he earned a bachelor of arts degree cum laude from Harvard University and a medical degree magna cum laude from Harvard Medical School. He completed his residency in ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Harvard Medical School, and also completed fellowships there in both ophthalmic pathology and vitreoretinal diseases. He later received a master of business administration degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Dr. Puliafito served as president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology in 1999-2000.
Dr. Puliafito succeeds Richard K. Forster, MD, who has served as Bascom Palmer Eye Institute’s interim chairman for the past 2 years. Dr. Forster will continue his role as professor in the department of ophthalmology.