IN-PERSON: Letson Lecture: Ocular Genetics for the Comprehensive Ophthalmologist - Dr. Elias Traboulsi

6:00 Social Hour and Dinner

6:30 Letson Lectureship

PLEASE NOTE: Change in to Presentation scheduled time.

Elias Traboulsi, MD

Dr. Elias I. Traboulsi is the Head of the Department of Pediatric Ophthalmology and the Director of the Center for Genetic Eye Diseases at The Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute. He is Professor of Ophthalmology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case University and serves as Vice-Chairman for Education at the Cole Eye Institute. He is Past President of The International Society for Genetic Eye Diseases and Retinoblastoma. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Ophthalmic Genetics from 1992 to 2023.  He also served on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology Retina, the Journal of American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, the British Journal of Ophthalmology, and the Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology. He has authored more than 500 scientific articles and book chapters. His book Genetic Diseases of the Eye first published by Oxford University Press in 1998 is one of the major references on this topic and is in its second revision. He edited a major textbook in pediatric ophthalmology published by Springer in 2016. He has given more than 20 named lectures including the Costenbader Lecture at AAPOS and the Marshall M. Parks Lecture at the AAO. He has visited and taught at numerous academic institutions around the world. He is the recipient of the Master Educator Award at the Cleveland Clinic where he was Director of Graduate Medical Education and DIO for 16 years. He received the Parker Palmer Courage to Lead Award, and the Joseph Gienapp Award from the ACGME. He is an amateur watercolorist, and a proud husband (of Mayya Massoud), father of two (Alexander and Nadeem) and grand-father of three (Malek, Ayman and Elias G). He adores his dog Diabla.

ACCREDITATION STATEMENT This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Minnesota Medical Association and University of Minnesota, Department of Ophthalmology. The Minnesota Medical Association (MMA) is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.    

CME STATEMENT The Minnesota Medical Association designates this Regularly Scheduled Series for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ . Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This meeting is being co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota.