Dr. D. Jackson Coleman received his B.S in biochemistry from Union College, in Schenectady, NY and his MD degree from the University of Buffalo School of Medicine, in Buffalo, NY, graduating with thesis honors. Dr. Coleman performed his internship at Bellevue Hospital, 1st Columbia Medical Division. After serving in the US Pubic Health Service in Washington, DC and Bethesda, MD, he returned to the Harkness Eye Institute of Columbia University for a residency in ophthalmology as a National Institute of Health trainee. In 1979, he moved to The New York Hospital - Cornell Medical Center, as the Chairman of Ophthalmology and the John Milton McLean Professor of Ophthalmology. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a past president of the American Retina Society and currently president of the International Retina Society (Club Jules Gonin). Dr. Coleman is a retina specialist, and interested in ocular oncology and all aspects of retinal disease.