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Portrait
unveiled at Storm Eye Institute
A portrait of David Apple, M.D., was unveiled May 30 in ceremonies at the
Albert Florens Storm Eye Institute. Apple was honored for his service to
the institute and his contribution to the field of ophthalmology.
Apple is professor of ophthalmology and pathology and holds the Pawek-Vallotton
Chair of Biomedical Engineering. He is director of the Center for Research
on Ocular Therapeutics and Biodevices.
Apple was chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology and director
of the Storm Eye Institute from 1988 to 1996 and successfully led the effort
to raise $8.8 million to complete a four-floor expansion and general renovation
of the Eye Institute. During this period, he also raised several million
dollars to establish additional research areas in the institute, including
the N. Edgar Miles Center and the Magill Laser Center. Following successful
completion of the building campaign and wishing to return to full-time
research and academic pursuits, he resigned from the chairmanship.
A native of Illinois, Apple did his undergraduate studies at Northwestern
University in Evanston, Ill. He attended the University of Illinois College
of Medicine in Chicago, where he graduated in 1966. He served his internship
and subsequent residency in pathology at Louisiana State University and
Charity Hospital in New Orleans, and in 1970 completed a post-residency
NIH-sponsored fellowship in Ocular Pathology at the Armed Forces Institute
of Pathology at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C.
He was assistant and subsequently associate professor of ophthalmology
at the University of Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary and Abraham Lincoln
School of Medicine in Chicago from 1971 to 1975. He then completed his
residency in Clinical Ophthalmology at the University of Iowa in 1979.
Apple spent two years on research sabbaticals in Germany under the
auspices of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn-Bad Godesberg.
In 1975 he completed a one-year tenure at the University of Tuebingen.
In 1979 he was named Distinguished Senior American Professor, received
a Humboldt Prize and spent six months at the Institute for Experimental
Eye Research in Bonn and six months in research at the University Eye Clinic
in Munich. He co-authored, with Professor G.O. H. Naumann, the definitive
German language ocular pathology textbook of Pathology of the Eye. This
appeared in 1980. Apple translated this text to English in 1986. The second
German edition was published in 1997 and Apple's English translation is
scheduled to appear this year.
He was professor of ophthalmology at Tulane University, New Orleans
in 1980, completing one year of clinical practice. He was then appointed
professor of ophthalmology and pathology at the University of Utah School
of Medicine in Salt Lake City. He served there from 1981-1988, where he
co-founded and developed the Center for Intraocular Lens Research. The
center, which has received international acclaim for its studies related
to cataract surgery, was transferred from Salt Lake City to Charleston
in 1988.
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