Paul Sternberg, Jr., MD, George W. Hale Professor and Chairman of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, has served on the Board of Directors of the International Retinal Research Foundation since 2005 and is currently the Research Director. In addition to the above, Dr. Sternberg is also Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, Vanderbilt School of Medicine and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Adult Health Affairs.

Graduating magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1975, he completed his Doctor of Medicine degree at the University of Chicago

Pritzker School of Medicine in 1979, and was inducted into the prestigious medical honor society, Alpha Omega Alpha. After an internship in internal medicine at the University of Chicago Hospitals, Dr. Sternberg completed a residency at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins, followed by a fellowship in vitreoretinal surgery and diseases at Duke University. Dr. Sternberg joined the faulty at the Emory University Eye Center in Atlanta in 1985, and served as the President of the Georgia Society of Ophthalmology. While at Emory, Sternberg received the L.E. Brown Award for meritorious service to ophthalmology in Georgia, and in 1996, Emory established an endowed, named lecture in his honor, the Paul Sternberg, Jr. Retina Lecture.

A renowned retinal specialist, Sternberg has been named one of the Best Doctors in America, while maintaining an active academic and research program in addition to his clinical practice. He has a special interest in age-related macular degeneration and oversees a cell biology and biochemistry laboratory that carries out studies into the causes of this disease.

Paul Sternberg, Jr., M.D.

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