Richard K Parrish, II, MD, a member of the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis, is the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Ophthalmology (AJO) and has served as president of the American Ophthalmological Society. A widely published author and internationally recognized speaker who has delivered 35 named lectures, he served as a member of the editorial board of Archives of Ophthalmology. He edited the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute's Atlas of Ophthalmology, a comprehensive ophthalmic text that set a standard for ophthalmic education. His enviable academic career includes more than 100 peer-reviewed original scientific publications and many more chapters and abstracts.