Paediatric and neuroophthalmology specialist Dr Jane C. Edmonds has taken over as the 128th President of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO). Dr Edmond is the inaugural Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology, the University of Texas at Austin, Dell Medical School. Dr Edmond said her priorities include addressing physician and staff shortages and the “ever-growing legislative battles which challenge our pre-eminence by granting non-physicians an increasing scope of practice”.
