David G. Hunter MD

David G. Hunter, MD, Ph.D. is Ophthalmologist-in-Chief and the Richard M. Robb Chair of Ophthalmology at Children's Hospital Boston, President of the Children's Hospital Ophthalmology Foundation, Professor and Vice-Chair of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, and the 2010-11 Vice President of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology and head of its finance committee.

Dr. Hunter obtained a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Rice University and a Ph.D. (in Cell Biology) and an MD from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. After he completed an ophthalmology residency at Harvard's Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary, he was a fellow at the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, Johns Hopkins University, where he remained on faculty until 2002, when he was selected as Ophthalmologist-in-Chief at Children's. During his time at Children's, the Department of Ophthalmology at Children's Hospital Boston has grown to become the largest pediatric ophthalmology department in the nation and perhaps the world, with 30 full-time faculty, including 13 full-time and 3 affiliated MD ophthalmologists and 4 pediatric optometrists, with pediatric subspecialists in nearly every aspect of ophthalmology, as well as 7 full-time research faculty.