Allen Dale Beck MD

Allen D. Beck, MD, was Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Director of the Emory Eye Center. Beck has been serving as interim chair and interim director since March 2016. During that time he has directed the expansion of the department with the addition of nine ophthalmologists and seven optometrists, a new clinic space at Emory Johns Creek Hospital, and the acquisition of several key research grants, including two new NIH grants in 2019 totaling $4.5 million for research related to Ebola virus disease survivors.

Beck graduated from Emory School of Medicine in 1989. Following a one-year transitional internship at Georgia Baptist Medical Center (now Atlanta Medical Center), he returned to Emory for his ophthalmology residency and fellowship in glaucoma. He joined the Emory School of Medicine and Emory Eye Center faculty in 1994 after completing his fellowship.