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Dr. Daniel S. Durrie is the leader of the refractive surgery team for Hunkeler Eye Centers. With over 20 years experience in refractive and corneal surgery, he has been a pioneer in procedures to correct nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism. Dr. Durrie has participated in initial phases of numerous clinical studies in refractive surgery and has performed more than 20,000 refractive surgery procedures. He was the first ophthalmic doctor in the United States to use the holmium laser procedure to correct farsightedness. Dr. Durrie continues to be heavily involved in research. He has served as a medical monitor for several excimer laser studies and continues to review refractive surgical techniques and analyze clinical study data. Dr. Durrie has served as principal investigator since 1993 for KeraVision's Intacs implant study and has treated more patients with this device than any other doctor in the world. In addition to his research involvement, Dr. Durrie trains doctors from around the world on new surgical techniques. He is a member of the Refractive Surgery Interest Group Executive Board of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, is Secretary of the International Society of Refractive Surgery, has served on the Board of Directors of American Board of Eye Surgery, and is a member of the Medical Education Group Advisory Board. Many of Dr. Durrie's scientific articles and papers have appeared in professional medical publications. He serves on the editorial board for Ocular Surgery News, The Journal of Corneal and Refractive Surgery, Review of Ophthalmology, and Refractive Eyecare for Ophthalmologists. Dr. Durrie has also given hundreds of presentations for professional organizations around the world. In October of 1996, Dr. Durrie was honored by Ophthalmology Times as one of the top 10 refractive surgeons in the nation. He was also one of nine Kansas City physicians to be included on the list of Best Doctors of America. Dr. Durrie received his medical doctorate and completed his residency at the University of Nebraska. He also completed a fellowship at the Filkins Eye Clinic in Omaha. Active in the medical community, Dr. Durrie is a board-certified ophthalmologist and member of the American Board of Ophthalmology. He serves as an associate clinical professor and director of refractive surgery services at the University of Kansas Medical Center
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Jack
Melton, OD, FAAO Edmond Oklahoma
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Dr. Melton is the founder and CEO of the LExES (Laser Excimer Eye Surgery) Panel of Doctors and the senior partner of Omni Eye and Laser Center, Edmond, Oklahoma. He is the former director of Contact Lens Services at the Dean A. McGee Eye Institute and was the former CEO of Total Ophthalmic Professional Network (TOP Network).
Dr. Melton is licensed in both anterior and refractive laser surgery and was the first optometrist in the United States to purchase his own Excimer laser. Dr. Melton is past president of the Heart of America Contact Lens Society, the Oklahoma Optometric Association, Central Oklahoma Optometric Association. He is member of the American Academy of Optometry and former board member of Contact Lens and Anterior Segment Society and the Contact Lens Section of the American Optometric Association.
Dr. Melton is the co-author of the textbook Rx for Success and is the former editor of both Making Contact and the AOA Practice Enhancement Program. He is a co-founder of the AOA Contact Lens Section, the RGP Institute, and the Contact Lens and Anterior Segment Society.
Dr. Melton is the innovator the NEO-7 Hyperradii Design Oxygen Permeable Contact Lens.
Dr. Melton has lectured at over 100 meetings worldwide and was picked in 1989, 1990, and 1991 as 20/20 Magazine's "Best and Brightest." In 1996, he was chosen a the Heart of America Contact Lens Society's "Optometrist of the Year."
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Glenn
Hagele Sacramento, California
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Glenn Hagele is the founder and Executive Director of the Council for Refractive Surgery Quality Assurance (details). As an independent consultant since 1982 with Creative Marketing Design (CMD), Mr. Hagele has participated in several different facets of the healthcare industry. Mr. Hagele was responsible for the start-up of a managed services organization (MSO) in Detroit and a specialist independent practitioner association (IPA) in Sacramento. The Sacramento IPA required the recruitment of over 700 medical and allied healthcare professionals for a statewide vision services provider panel. As Chief Operating Officer of the IPA Mr. Hagele negotiated capitated reimbursement agreements with several of the nation's largest health maintenance organizations (HMO).
From 1993 through 1995 Mr. Hagele was the Director of Provider Contracting for Healthdent of California, Inc. In this position Mr. Hagele was responsible for all allied health provider agreements within a dental HMO. Mr. Hagele recruited the appropriate providers at specific geographic locations and accommodated all regulatory agency concerns. Mr. Hagele completed development an integrated relational database software program to track Healthdent's provider panel needs during his tenure at Healthdent. Mr. Hagele was Project Manager of the team that created an analysis of provider reimbursement and developed a new pricing structure for Healthdent's seven beneficiary plans based upon utilization trends.
With CMD's own Senior VisionCare program, Mr. Hagele created a profitable preferred provider organization (PPO) active in 19 states from 1986 through 1995. Senior VisionCare allowed the waiver of Medicare deductible and copayment. This product required creative and detailed analysis of federal Medicare regulations. Senior VisionCare withstood the scrutiny of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services without a single negative evaluation.
Mr. Hagele is active in several arts organizations in his community and is an adjunct instructor of computer sciences at MTI College of Business and Technology, an accredited vocational college. Mr. Hagele also teaches furniture design and construction, specializing in the Arts & Crafts period of design.
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Keith
Croes Princeton NJ
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Currently president of Croes Communications, providing print and electronic editorial services to industry and medicine. Mr. Croes was the founding editor of EyeWorld, the monthly newsmagazine of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. In 1982 he launched Ocular Surgery News, and served as the publication's editor-in-chief through 1996. He was also editor-in-chief of Ocular Surgery News International Edition, distributed to ophthalmologists outside the United States, and Primary Care Optometry News, distributed to all U.S. optometrists. Prior to entering the eye care field in 1982, Mr. Croes worked in community and regional general-interest journalism. He studied communications and engineering at Penn State University, and was graduated from the Defense Information School at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind.
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Kenneth
Hagele Kamiah, Idaho
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Since 1996 Mr. Hagele has served on the Board of Directors of Idaho Legal Aid Services (ILAS). ILAS provides legal services to qualifying low-income individuals in the state of Idaho.
Mr. Hagele was previously Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Idaho Hunger Action Council (IHAC). The IHAC is a statewide non-profit, anti-hunger membership organization. Mr. Hagele also served on the Board of Directors of Idaho Citizen's Network (ICN) and was the Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Northern Idaho Community Action Agency (CAA). ICN is a non-profit organization advocating issues for low income and minority groups in the state of Idaho. CAA is a government funded non-profit organization serving low-income individuals with various social programs.
Kenneth Hagele and Glenn Hagele are brothers. This is the only family relationship of any members of the proposed CRSQA Board of Trustees.
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Jack
Holladay, MD Houston, Texas
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As one of the premier doctors specializing in refractive surgery, Dr. Holladay has more than 22 years experience in ophthalmology. In the past two years alone, Dr. Holladay has been honored for his contributions to his field with the Senior Honor Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Binkhorst Medal from the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, and the Ridley Medal of Honor from the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery.
Dr. Holladay earned his Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering, which has provided him the diverse background to invent several ophthalmic instruments and software that are used worldwide. His academic and research endeavors have also led him to become the McNeese Professor of Ophthalmology at the UT Medical School in Houston, as well as having authored more than 40 scientific articles and several books.
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Scott
MacRae, MD Rochester, New York
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Scott M. MacRae, MD has been a practicing clinician since 1983. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin Biocore Honors Curriculum in 1974, and his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin Medical School in 1977. He completed internship and residency programs at the Tucson Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona and the University of Wisconsin Hospitals in Madison, Wisconsin, followed by a Cornea/External Disease Fellowship, a National Eye Institute Corneal Physiology Research Training Fellowship, both at the Eye Institute of the Medical College of Wisconsin, and a Corneal Disease and a brief Contact Lens Fellowship at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He was certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology in 1983.
Dr. MacRae entered the faculty of Oregon Health Sciences University in 1983, where he was Director of the Oregon Eye Bank, 1986-2000. He has been a panel member or consultant for the Food and Drug Administration Ophthalmic Devices Panel from 1986 to the present. He was Chairman of the American Academy of Ophthalmology Public Health Committee from 1991-1994. He currently serves on the American Academy of Ophthalmology Research and Regulatory Committee.
Author of over 60 published articles and book chapters, Dr. MacRae turned his attention increasingly to refractive corneal surgery, and has performed over 3,000 refractive surgery procedures. He has a special interest in ablation design and interface keratitis. He has trained over 300 clinicians in the practice of refractive surgery and has participated and helped lead several FDA clinical trials in the United States.
An editor for three ophthalmic journals, he is currently North American Associate Editor for the Journal of Refractive Surgery, North America, has co-edited three special editions of the Journal of Refractive Surgery, and has chaired numerous international refractive symposiums.
In 2000, Dr. MacRae accepted an appointment as Director of Refractive Services at the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, where with the Center for Vision Science at the university, and with Bausch & Lomb, Inc., he promotes research and development of new refractive surgery techniques and technology.
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Randy
McDonald Tiburon, California
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Randy McDonald is a 23-year veteran of the ophthalmic industry with senior level corporate experience in sales, marketing, and operations including financing. His product knowledge base includes ophthalmic, contact and intraocular lenses, as well as capital equipment and refractive surgery.
McDonald is the founder and President of Magnum Marketing, an ophthalmic business development and consultative services company. Magnum Marketing specializes in working with 21st Century technologies developed for refractive surgery and with entrepreneurial ophthalmologists, optometrists and Ph.D.s who have developed innovative products or technology and are in need of a commercial platform for further product development, clinical research, financing and distribution.
Prior to Magnum Marketing, McDonald served as Executive Vice President of D.A.C. Vision (Dallas, TX) the largest U.S. manufacturer of consumable products and supplies for ophthalmic lens fabrication, and also the largest manufacturer of contact lens and intraocular lens manufacturing equipment.
Previous to D.A.C., McDonald was co-founder and the first Operations Officer of Innotech, Inc., now a Johnson & Johnson Company (Roanoke, VA) and the leading producer of In-Office-Lens-Fabrication equipment and supplies. In addition, be helped co-found and served as Vice President Sales and Marketing for Vision Sciences, Inc., (Monrovia, CA) which was the first commercial In-Office-Lens Fabrication Company. McDonald has also held a variety of sales and marketing positions with Bausch & Lomb, Dow Corning Ophthalmics and Hydrocurve Soft Lenses, Inc. (now a part of Wesley Jessen Vision Care). McDonald has published various articles and spoken at a variety of ophthalmic venues. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from Kansas State University.
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Last updated Saturday, April 08, 2006
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