Ralph C. Eagle, Jr MD

Ralph C. Eagle, Jr., MD is Chief of the Pathology Service at Wills Eye Hospital and Professor of Ophthalmology and Pathology at Sidney Kimmel Medical College. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1970, interned at Temple University Hospital and was an ophthalmology resident in Dr. Harold G. Scheie’s program at Penn. Ophthalmic Pathology training included fellowships with Dr. Myron Yanoff at Penn and a two year NEI fellowship at the AFIP with Lorenz Zimmerman and Ramon Font.

He was certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology in 1976. He was named the Noel T. and Sara L. Simmonds Professor of Ophthalmic Pathology at Wills in 1999. Dr. Eagle’s honors include the AOS, the Zimmerman Medal of the AAOOP, the Macula Society’s W. Richard Green Lecture, the ISOP’s inaugural Gordon K. Klintworth Lecture and the ISOO’s Henry B. Stallard Medal and Lecture. He has served as President of the AAOP and was a member of Executive Board of the American Registry of Pathology.

He is Director of CME and chairs the IRB at Wills. A dedicated teacher, he has taught eye pathology to hundreds of ophthalmology residents and has lectured on five continents. He directs the eye pathology section of the Lancaster Course and is sole author and illustrator of a popular atlas and textbook of Eye Pathology, now in its third edition. An avid photographer, he is noted for the quality of his gross photos and photomicrographs of eye disease. Avocations include travel, art, photography and fossils. He has served as Archivist-Photographer of the AOS since 1996.