Reducing Retinal Blindness Worldwide

Leadership

2026 BOARD OF MANAGING DIRECTORS

Patricia K. Boyd
Petros E. Carvounis, MD
John C. Dawson, Jr.
Glen T. Eichelberger
Ronald G. Girotto
Lewis H. Gissel, III
Eric R. Holz, MD
W. Mac Jensen
James E. Key, MD
Bettie Harding Lee
Bruce B. Mack
Katharine W. Orton
H. Richard Walton
Lawrence P. Washington
Arthur W. Willis, Jr., MD

2026 BOARD OF ADVISORY DIRECTORS

Lynn A. Bernard, Jr.
John T. Cater
Rose Cullen
Shara Fryer
Bernard Hicks, MD
Nancy F. Japhet
Suzanne S. Miller
Ben Orman, MD
Michael Patrick
James N. Winfrey
R. Malcolm Wooley

2026 OFFICERS

Chair: Bettie Harding Lee
President:  Arthur W. Willis, Jr., MD
Vice President:  W. Mac Jensen
Vice President: Katharine W. Orton
Secretary:  Lawrence P. Washington
Treasurer:  H. Richard Walton
Chairman Emeritus:  John C. Dawson, Jr.
Board Member Emeritus: Ronald G. Girotto

Founder: Alice R. McPherson, MD

2026 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Bettie Harding Lee
W. Mac Jensen
Katharine W. Orton
H. Richard Walton
Lawrence P. Washington
Arthur W. Willis, Jr., MD
John C. Dawson, Jr.
Ronald G. Girotto

By Invitation: Petros E. Carvounis, MD, Chief Scientific Advisor to the Board

2026 BOARD OF ADVISORY TRUSTEES

Roger Beebe
Sue Bellamy
Charles N. Bracht
Allison W. Brooks
John K. Burk, PhD
Donald Burrell
Princess Cameron
James Chao
Kathryn Coleman
Susan Gregg Dilg
Jenny A. Elkins
Marilyn Elliott
Matthew Girotto
Slavka Glaser
Alan S. Gover
Rose Haché
Henry & Betsy Hope
John L. Hopwood
Deral Humble
Keith Humble
Susan Jensen
Frank & Debbie Jones
Shawn Kavoussi, MD
Barbara Monroe Kirsch
Radford P. Laney
Walter S. Lynn
Dean Malouta
Barry Margolis
Mr. & Mrs. Howard Marshall
Hunter L. Martin, Jr.
Joanne Mueller
Will Oliver
James A. Reichert
Gary Rosenthal
Carl Schulse
Patricia J. Silverman
Pat Singleton
Martha Ann Snyder
David B. Sprague
Dean J. Stuessy
Courtney Key Tardy
Betty Whitt
Sally R. Winfrey
Randy Wright

2026 BOARD OF SCIENTIFIC ADVISORS

Clinical Advisors

Touka Banaee, MD
Charles Campbell, MD
John R. Chancellor, MD
Amy Coburn, MD
Sami S. Dahr, MD
Thomas E. Duncan, MD
Jaafar El Annan, MD
Benjamin J. Frankfort, MD, PhD
Mary T. Green, MD
Eric R. Holz, MD
Alan Jarrett, MD
Shawn Kavoussi, MD
Alice Y. Matoba, MD
Robert T. McMahon, MD
Gerald M. Sheldon, MD
Lawrence A. Wright, MD
Samuel M. Wu, PhD


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Mission of RRF

The mission of the Retina Research Foundation is to reduce retinal blindness worldwide by funding programs in research and education. As a public charity, RRF raises funds from the private sector and the investment of its endowment funds.