Journal of Developing Drugs
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John D Bullock

Biography

Dr. Bullock is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Medical School. He completed an internship in internal medicine at Washington University in St. Louis before serving in the U.S. Navy. After residency training in ophthalmology at Yale University, he completed fellowships at the University of California, San Francisco, and the Mayo Clinic. He received a Master of Science in Microbiology and Immunology from Wright State University and a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. He completed additional training from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, the CDC in Atlanta, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and the Pasteur Institute in Paris. He held a clinical faculty position at Stanford University before coming to Wright State, where he served as professor and chair of the department of ophthalmology, professor of physiology and biophysics and associate professor of microbiology and immunology, and was named the Brage Golding Distinguished Professor of Research. Dr. Bullock is the author or coauthor of more than 235 scientific publications. He discovered three new causes of blindness and elucidated the etiology and/or description of six different retinopathies. His research influenced the market withdrawal of two general anesthetics, a warning label for a pharmaceutical agent whose inappropriate use resulted in blindness, and a Consumer Products Safety Commission-mandated warning label. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the American College of Epidemiology and the Royal Society of Medicine. He is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health, the American Ophthalmological Society, the American Osler Society, the Cornea Society (Member with Thesis) and the American Society for Microbiology, among others. Dr. Bullock received a Heed Fellowship from the Heed Ophthalmic Foundation; the Wendell Hughes, Merrill J. Reeh, and the Marvin H. Quickert Awards from the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; and the Senior Honor Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology. In 2011 he received the Outstanding Scientific Project Award from the Vision Care Section of the American Public Health Association. He has numerous other awards (including teaching awards), copyrights, trademarks and inventions. He has given more than 500 lectures throughout the world, a number of which were distinguished named lectureships, and he served as president and secretary/treasurer of two international medical societies. He has served as a consultant to the National Institutes of Health, the Hospital Albert Schweitzer in Haiti, the U.S. Veteran’s Administration, the U.S. Air Force, the American Medical Association, and the Harvard-Hsiao Resource-Based Relative Value Study.

Research Interest

Ophthalmology
Anti-microbial agents