Richard A. Lewis, M.D., is a cataract surgeon and glaucoma specialist practicing in Sacramento, California. In addition to his busy private consulting practice, Dr. Lewis is actively involved in clinical research in national and international trials in glaucoma therapy. Richard A. Lewis is on the editorial board of the Journal of Glaucoma, Glaucoma Today, Focus on Glaucoma, and Ocular Surgery News and Video Journal of Ophthalmology. He also serves Glaucoma Today as the Chief Medical Editor.

Dr. Lewis attended the University of California, Berkeley as an undergraduate and received his doctorate in medicine from Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago. His ophthalmology training included a residency at the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of California, Davis, and a fellowship in glaucoma at the University of Iowa Department of Ophthalmology in Iowa City. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology and is a co-founder of the Capital City Surgery Center of Sacramento, which specializes in cataract, glaucoma, and laser surgeries.

Dr. Richard A. Lewis has published over 60 articles focusing on glaucoma, ophthalmic surgery, and ophthalmic pharmacology. In addition, he has authored many book chapters including Postoperative Care, Laser Suture Lysis and Releasable Sutures, and Transscleral Laser Cyclophotocoagulation in Glaucoma Surgical Techniques. His video and computer productions include Tonometry, a video and CD-ROM published by the American Academy of Ophthalmology, among other instructional pieces. Dr. Lewis teaches and lectures internationally on glaucoma and cataract surgery. Notably, Dr. Lewis has participated in 10 Project ORBIS missions, teaching physicians surgical and clinical techniques in third world countries. He has received the American Academy of Ophthalmology Honor and Senior Honor Awards for his contributions in teaching and leadership and for initiating the AAO Subspecialty Day meeting.

A native of California, glaucoma and cataract surgeon Dr. Lewis lives in Sacramento with his wife; the couple has two grown children.

Curriculum Vitae:

EDUCATION:

• U. California, Berkeley, BA, Political Science 1970 - 1973
• Northwestern U. Medical School, Chicago, IL 1974 - 1978
• PROFESSIONAL TRAINING and RESPONSIBILITIES
• Northwestern U.(Evanston Hospital) Internship 1978 - 1979
• U. California, Davis Ophthalmology Residency 1979 - 1982
• U. Iowa, Iowa City IA Fellow in Glaucoma 1982 - 1983
• U. California, Davis, Director Glaucoma 1983 - 1988
• Consultant in Glaucoma, Private Practice 1988 - Present
• Chief of Ophthalmology, Mercy Hospital 1992 - 1996
• Co-founder and Director, Focal Point Laser Vision 1995 - 2003
• Co-founder and Director, Capital City Surgery Center 2003 - Present

EDITORIAL POSITIONS:

• Editorial Board, Focus on Glaucoma 1990 - 2000
• Glaucoma Section Editor, Ocular Surgery News 1996 - Present
• Section Editor, EyeNet (AAO) 1997 - 2004
• Editorial Board, Journal of Glaucoma 2002 - Present
• Editorial Board, Glaucoma Today 2004 - Present
• Chief Medical Editor, Glaucoma Today 2006 - Present
• Editorial Board, Video Journal of Ophthalmology 2006 - Present

ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

• Surgical Review Committee - Mercy Hospital 1990 - 1992
• Instruction Advisory Committee – American Academy of Ophthalmology 1990 - 1994
• Assistant Secretary, Scientific Advisory Panel for Ophthalmology
• (California Medical Association) 1995 -1997
• Chair, Subspecialty Day Committee – American Academy of Ophthalmology 1999 - Present
• Executive Committee, American Glaucoma Society 1995 - 2006
• President, American Glaucoma Society 2000 - 2002
• Glaucoma Clinical Committee, ASCRS 2000 - 2008
• Steering Committee – Assoc Inter Glaucoma Societies 2002 – 2007
• Glaucoma Liaison – American Academy of Ophthalmology 2003 - 2005

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:

• Clinical Investigator: Allergan, Alcon, AMO, AVS, Insite, Merck, Novartis, Phamacia, iScience Interventional, GMP, Glaukos, ISTA, AVS, Pfizer, Santen, Forsight, QLT
• Formulary presentations – MediCal, State of California 1983 - Present
• Medical Monitor: Santen, Inc.; Napa, CA 1994 - Present
• Medical Monitor: AVS; Santa Barbara, CA 1999 - Present
• Medical Monitor: iScience Interventional, Menlo Park, CA 2006 - Present
• Medical Monitor: Aqumen 2007 - 2008

LICENSURE:

• California Medical License 1979
• Diplomat, National Board of Medical Examiners 1979
• Iowa Medical License 1982
• Diplomat, American Board of Ophthalmology 1983
• Nevada License 1993

HONORS & AWARDS:

• Heed Fellowship 1982 - 1983
• Honor Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology 1990
• Listed in publication, Best Doctors in America 1994 - 1998, 2006, 2008
• Gold Medal (Tennis), Maccabiah Games, Israel 1997
• Senior Honor Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology 2001
• President, American Glaucoma Society 2000 - 2002

 HUMANTARIAN MISSIONS: 

• China
• Mexico
  
• Jamaica
• Kazakhstan
• Saipan
• Malaysia
• Thailand
• Libya (with ORBIS, 1986-2005)

 PUBLICATIONS:

• 1976 Lewis RA and Agrawal B:  Spinal cord compression with neurofibromatosis.  Illinois Medical Journal, April.
• 1982 Lewis RA, Keltner JL, and Cobb CA:  Corneal anesthesia after percutaneous radiofrequency trigeminal rhizotomy:  A retrospective study.  Archives of Ophthalmology; l00:30l.
• 1982 Lewis RA, Cobb CA, and Keltner JL:  Corneal sensitivity after percutaneous radio frequency trigeminal rhizotomy:  A quantitative study.  Annals of Ophthalmology; l4:766.
• 1983 Lewis RA, Hayreh SS, and Phelps CD:  Optic disc and visual field correlation in primary open-angle glaucoma and low-tension glaucoma.  American Journal of Ophthalmology; 96: l48-l52.
• 1984 Lewis RA:  Steroid-induced glaucoma.  Western Journal of Medicine; l40:268.
• 1984  Lewis RA and Phelps CD:  Trabeculectomy vs thermosclerostomy:  A five year followup.  Archives of Ophthalmology; l02:533.
• 1984 Lewis RA, Tse DT, Phelps CD, and Weingeist TA:  Neovascular glaucoma after photoradiation therapy with hematophorphyrin derivative.  Archives of Ophthalmology; l02:839.
• 1984 Lewis RA and Phelps CD:  Medical therapy of glaucoma.  In:  Duane T, (ed.):  Clinical Ophthalmology.  Philadelphia:  Harper & Row. Rev.1987
• 1984 Lewis RA and Phelps CD:  A comparison of visual field loss in primary open-angle glaucoma and the secondary glaucoma.  Ophthalmologica; l89:4l-48.
• 1984 Lewis RA, Schoenwald RS, Ellen MD, Barfknecht C, and Phelps CD:  Ethoxzolamide analog gel:  A topical carbonic anhydrase inhibitor.  Archives of Ophthalmology; l02:l82l-l824.
• 1985 Lewis RA:  Ocular Emergencies.  Modern Medicine (March) pg. l56-l64.
• 1985 Keltner JL, Johnson CA, and Lewis RA:  Quantitative office perimetry.  Ophthalmology; 92:862-7l.
• 1985 Lewis RA and Johnson CA:  Field loss and psychophysical abnormalities in early glaucoma.  Survey of Ophthalmology; 30:  ll0.
• 1985 Lewis RA, Johnson CA, and Keltner JL:  Preliminary clinical trials with the Humphrey Field Analyzer.  In:  Heijl A and Greve EL(ed.), Proceedings of the Sixth International Visual Field Symposium.  Dordrecht, The Netherlands:  W. Junk.
• 1985 Lewis RA, Johnson CA and Keltner JL:  A clinicians guide to automated perimetry.  Transactions of Pacific Coast OtoOphthalmologic Society.
• 1985 Lewis RA, Keltner JL and Johnson CA:  The variables of automated perimetry.  Transactions of Pacific Coast Oto-Ophthalmologic Society.
• 1986 Wandel T, Charop A, Lewis R et al: Glaucoma treatment with once daily levobunolol.  American Journal of Ophthalmology l0l:298-304.
• 1986 Lewis RA, Schoenwald RD, Barfknecht C and Phelps CD:  Aminozolamide gel:  A trial of a topical carbonic anhydrase inhibitor in ocular hypertension.  Archives of Ophthalmology;  l04:842-844.
• 1986 Lewis RA, Johnson CA, Keltner JL and Labermeier PK:  Variability of quantitative automated perimetry in normal observers.  Ophthalmology; 93:878-88l.
• 1986 Shaw B and Lewis R: Intraocular pressure elevation after pupillary dilation in patients with primary open angle glaucoma.  Archives of Ophthalmology; l04:ll85-ll88.
• 1986 Mannis MJ and Lewis RA:  Glaucoma in corneal disorders. In:  Weinstein G.(ed.):  Open angle glaucoma.  New York:  Churchill Livingstone.
• 1987 Lewis RA and Landers MB:  Retrobulbar anesthesia in angle closure glaucoma.  Ophthalmic Surgery; 18:523-524.
• 1987 Panel discussion on topical beta-blockers - edited by E. M. Van Buskirk, Ophthalmic Forum.
• 1987 Johnson CA, Keltner JL, and Lewis RA:  Automated kinetic perimetry:  An efficient method of evaluating peripheral visual field loss.  Applied Optics; 26:1409-1414.
• 1987 Johnson CA and Lewis RA:  Staircase scoring procedures for automated perimetry - In: Greve, E. (ed):  Proceedings of the Seventh International Visual Field Symposium.  Dordrecht, The Netherlands:  W. Junk.
• 1987 Johnson CA, Keltner JL, and Lewis RA:  JAWS (Joint Automated Weighting Statistic) A method of converting results between automated perimeters In: Greve, E. (ed):  Proceedings of the Seventh International Visual Field Symposium.  Dordrecht, The Netherlands:  W. Junk.
• 1988 Ruben J, Lewis RA, Johnson CA, and Adams C:  Effect of applanation tonometry on automated perimetry.  Ophthalmology; 95:267-270.
• 1988 Mannis MJ, Sweet E, Landers MB, and Lewis RA:  Uses of thrombin in ocular surgery:  Its effect on the corneal endothelium.  Archives of Ophthalmology; 106:251-253.
• 1988 Johnson CA, Adams C, Lewis RA, and Keltner JL:  Fatigue effects of automated perimetry.  Applied Optics; 27:1030-1037.
• 1988 Kalina PH, Shatler DJ, Lewis RA, Kullerstand CJ, Brubaker RC: 6-Amino-2-Benzothiazolasulfonamide:  The effect of a topical carbonic anhydrase inhibitor on aqueous humor formation in the normal human eye.  Ophthalmology; 95:772-777.
• 1988 Mannis MJ, Sweet E, and Lewis RA:  Effect of 5-Fluorouracil on the corneal endothelium.  Archives of Ophthalmology; 106:816-817.
• 1989   Rakofsky SI, Melamed S, Cohen JS, Slight JR, Spaeth G, Lewis RA,       Zbrowski-Gutman L, Eto C, Lue JC, Novack GD: A comparision of the     ocular hypotensive efficacy of once-daily and twice daily levobunolol      treatment. Ophthalmology; 96: 8-11, 1989.
• 1988 Lewis RA, Schoenwald RD, and Barfknecht L:  Aminozolamide:  The role of the vehicle in a topical carbonic anhydrase inhibitor.  Journal of Ocular Pharmacology; 4:215-219, 1988. 
• 1989 Lewis RA and Deutch D.:  Effect of coronary artery bypass surgery on intraocular pressure.   American Journal of Ophthalmology; 107:18-22, 1989.
• 1988   Johnson CA, Adams AJ, Lewis RA: Automated perimetry of short-wavelength mechanisms in glaucoma and ocular hypertension. In Proceedings of the VIII International Perimetric Society Meeting, edited by A. Heijl. Berkeley: Kugler and Ghedini. 
•  989 Lewis RA, Vijayan N, Watson C, Keltner JL, and Johnson CA: Visual field loss in migraine. Ophthalmology. 96:321-326, 1989.
• 1989 Johnson CA, Adams AJ, and Lewis RA:  Evidence for a neural basis of age-related visual field loss in normal observers.  Investigative Ophthalmology. 30:148-156, 1989.
• 1989 Serdahl C, Lewis RA, Galustian J: Effect of apraclonidine on conjunctival oxygen. Arch Ophthalmol. 107:1777-1779.
• 1991   Lewis RA: Postoperative Care; Full Thickness Filtration Surgery; and Laser    Iridotomy; chapters in Mills R and Weinreb R (eds.): Glaucoma Surgical     Techniques. San Francisco: American Academy of  Ophthalmology.
• 1991 Adams AJ, Johnson CA, Lewis RA: S cone pathway sensitivity loss in ocular hypertension and early glaucoma has nerve fiber bundle pattern; chapter 65 in Drum B, Moreland JD and Serra A (eds): Colour Vision Deficiencies X. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
• 1991 Wilkerson M, Lewis RA, Shields MB: Follicular conjunctivitis associated with Apraclonidine. Am J Ophthalmol 111:105-106.
• 1991 Stewart WC, Shields MB, Allen RC, Lewis RA, Cohen JS, et al: A 3 month comparison of 1% and 2% Carteolol and 0.5% Timolol in open-angle glaucoma. Graefe's Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 229:258-261.
• 1991 Kolker AC, Alward WLM, Berlin MS, Griffin MA, Heuer DK, Kass MA, Lewis RA, Strandberg LR: Impact of compliance on glaucoma therapy in the elderly: an update on methods and treatment. Roundtable discussion published by Allergan, June, 1991.
• 1992 Lewis RA: Discussion on paper, Malignant glaucoma after laser iridotomy by Cashwell LF and Martin TJ. Ophthalmol 99:651-659.
• 1993 Barneby HS, Robin AL, Zimmerman TJ, Morrison JC, Hersh SB, Lewis RA, Coleman AL, Cinotti DJ, Walt J, Chen KS, Kelley EP: The efficacy of brimonidine in decreasing elevations in intraocular pressure after laser trabeculoplasty.  Ophthalmol 100:1083-1088.
• 1992 Lewis RA: Discussion on paper, 2.5 vs 3.5 minute use of mitomycin in glaucoma filtering surgery Ophthalmol
• 1992 Lewis RA, Johnson CA, Adams AJ: Automated static visual field testing and perimetry of short-wavelength-sensitive (SWS) mechanisms in Patients with asymmetric intraocular pressures. Graefe's Archive Ophthalmol
• 1995 Brimonidine-ALT Study Group: Intraocular pressure spikes following argon laser trabeculoplasty. Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers 26:404-409.
• 1996 Stahlman E, Tipping R, Vogel R and the Dorzolamide Dose Response Study Group. Am J Ophthalmol 122:183-194.
• 1998 Stoilov I, Akarsu N, Ahozie I, et al: Sequence analysis and homology modeling suggest that primary congenital glaucoma on 2p21 results from mutations disrupting either the hinge region or the conserved core structures of cytochrome P4501B1. Am J Hum Genet 62: 573-584.
• 1998 Clineschmidt C, Williams RD, Snyder E, Adamsons I, and the Dorzolamide-Timolol Combination Study Group: A randomized trail comparing the dorzolamide combination to monotherapy with timolol or dorzolamide in patients inadequately controlled on timolol alone. Ophthalmol 105:1952-1959..
• 1998  Lewis RA: Postoperative Care; Laser Suture Lysis and Releasable Sutures;  Transscleral Laser Cyclophotocoagulation; chapters in Mills R and Weinreb R (eds.): Glaucoma Surgical Techniques. San Francisco: American Academy of Ophthalmology.
• 1998 Adamsons I, Clineschmidt C, Polis A, Taylor J, Shedden A, Laibovitz R, and the Additivity Study Group: The efficacy and safety of dorzolamide as adjunctive therapy to timolol maleate gellan solution in patients with elevated intraocular pressure. J Glaucoma 7:253-260.
• 1998 Strohmaier BS, Snyder E, DuBiner H, Adamsons I, and the Dorzolamide-Timolol Study Group: The Efficacy and safety of the dorzolamide-timolol combination versus the concomitant administration of its components. Ophthalmol 105:1936-1944.
• 1998 Boyle JE, Ghosh K, Gieser DK, Adamsons IA and the Dorzolamide-Timolol Stduy Group: A randomized trial comparing the dorzolamide-timolol combination given twice daily to monotherapy with timolol and dorzolamide. Ophthalmol 105:1945-1951.
• 1998 LeBlanc RP and the Brimonidine Study Group: Twelve month results of an ongoing randomized trial comparing brimonidine tartrate 0.2% and timolol 0.5% given twice daily in patients with glaucoma or ocular hypertension. Ophthalmol 105:1960-1967.
• 2000 Lewis, RA (Guest editorial): Refractive surgery and the glaucoma patient, customized corneas under pressure. Ophthalmol 107:1621-22.
• 2002   Higginbotham EJ and Bimatoprost Study Group: One-year, randomized study comparing bimatoprost and timolol in glaucoma and ocular hypertension. Arch Ophthalmol 120:1286-1293.
• 2003 Coleman AL, Lumigan/Cosopt Study Group: A 3 month randomized controlled trial of bimatoprost (Lumigan) versus combined timolol and dorzolamide (Cosopt) in patients with glaucoma or ocular hypertension. Ophthalmol 110:2362-2368. 
• 2004 Lewis, RA: Fixed combination glaucoma drops. Glaucoma Today.
• 2005 Schuman J, Katz GJ, Lewis RA, Henry JC, Mallick S, et al: Efficacy and Safety of a fixed combination of Travoprost 0.004%/Timolol 0.5% ophthalmic solution once daily for open angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension. Am J Ophthalmol 140:242-250.
• 2006 Lewis RA, Katz G, Weiss MJ: Travoprost 0.004% With and Without Benzalkonium Chloride: A Comparison of Safety and Efficacy. J Glaucoma 16:98-103.
• 2006-8 Editorials (as Chief Medical Editor) – Glaucoma Today
• 2007 Lewis, RA, van Wolff K, Tetz M, et al: Canaloplasty: Circumferential viscodilation and tensioning of Schlemm’s canal using a flexible microcather for the treatment of open angle glaucoma in adults: interim clinical study analysis. J Cataract Refract Surg 33:1217-1226. 

VIDEO PRODUCTIONS:

• 1988 Tonometry - Sponsored, produced and distributed by American Academy of Ophthalmology
• 2006 Canaloplasty – Video Journal of Ophthalmology
• 2008 Punctal Plug Drug Delivery for Glaucoma – Video Journal of Ophthalmology

 BOOK CHAPTERS:

• 1984 Lewis RA and Phelps CD:  Medical therapy of glaucoma.  In:  Duane T, (ed.):  Clinical Ophthalmology.  Philadelphia:  Harper & Row. Rev.1987
• 1991   Lewis RA: Postoperative Care; Full Thickness Filtration Surgery; and Laser    Iridotomy; chapters in Mills R and Weinreb R (eds.): Glaucoma Surgical     Techniques. San Francisco: American Academy of  Ophthalmology.
• 1998  Lewis RA: Postoperative Care; Laser Suture Lysis and Releasable Sutures;  Transscleral Laser Cyclophotocoagulation; chapters in Mills R and Weinreb R (eds.): Glaucoma Surgical Techniques. San Francisco: American Academy of Ophthalmology.
• 2006 Lewis RA (editor – David Chang): How to manage IOP after cataract surgery (book chapter), Curbside Consultation in Cataract: 49 Questions; Slack.
• 2008 Lewsi RA, Nichamin S, Holland E, Solomon K (editor – David Chang): When do I use LRI’s v Toric IOL’s? (book chapter), Mastering Refractive IOLs: The Art and the Science, Slack
• 2008 Lewis RA (editors – Heuer D, Gedde S, Lewis R); Is there a role for nonpenetrating surgery? Chapter 47, Curbside Consultation in Glaucoma, Slack
• 2008 Lewis RA (editor – Sharaway T, Sherwood M, Hitchings R, Crowston J: Cameo on Canaloplasty. Glaucaoma – to be published. 
• 2008 Lewis RA (editor Caprioli J, Coleman A, Giaconi J, Law S):  Managing complications: hypotony (ch 59) Frequently asked questions in glaucoma, Springer Verlag
• 2008 Lewis RA (editor – Sharaway T, Sherwood M, Hitchings R, Crowston J: Cameo on Canaloplasty. Glaucoma – to be published. 

BOOKS:

• 2008  Heuer DK, Gedde SJ, Lewis RA: Curbside Consultation in Glaucoma, SLACK