Lawrence Yannuzzi

Lawrence Yannuzzi is an American physician, ophthalmologist and vitreo-retinal surgeon recognized internationally as a retinal specialist. He graduated from Harvard College and received his M.D. from the Boston University School of Medicine in 1964, trained in ophthalmology at the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital from 1965 to 1968, and was board certified in ophthalmology in 1971. He is professor of clinical ophthalmology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, vice-chairman and director of the Retinal Research Center of the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, and founder and president of the Macula Foundation. He has published more than 550 scientific papers and 12 textbooks, concentrating on diseases of the macula such as diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration, and he and his colleagues are credited with describing and naming idiopathic polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy.