Harry W. Flynn Jr MD

Harry W. Flynn Jr., M.D is the J. Donald M. Gass Distinguished Chair in Ophthalmology at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine. He is Professor of Ophthalmology at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. Dr. Flynn has been author or co-author of more than 650 PubMed publications as well as 123 book chapters. He has edited or co-edited 7 books including 1) Vitreoretinal Disease: The Essentials (2018) 2) Endophthalmitis in Clinical Practice (2018).

Dr. Flynn had held numerous administrative positions: President: The Vitreous Society (now ASRS) (1992-1993), The Miami Ophthalmological Society (1999) and The Retina Society (2002-2003). Dr. Flynn served as Senior Editor for Section 12 (Retina) of the Basic and Clinical Science Course of American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) and Director/Co-Director of the Retina Subspecialty Day. He serves on the Editorial Board of numerous journals including the AJO, RETINA, and OSLI: RETINA. He serves on the DSMC for DRCR Network (2003-to Present), SCORE Study, Regeneron VIEW Studies and Neurotech MacTel Study.

He received the AAO “Life Achievement Honor Award” (2008). Dr. Flynn received other awards: the Shaler Richardson, M.D “Service to Medicine Award” from the FSO, the “Hermann Wacker Award” from the Club Jules Gonin (2012), the “J. Donald M. Gass Award Lecture” at the Retina Society (2012), and the “Honorary Alumnus” from AOA of UVA School of Medicine (2014). He received “the Charles L. Schepens, MD Award” (2016) at the AAO annual meeting. He delivered “the Relja Zivojnovic Award Lecture” (2017) at the EVS. Also, in 2017, he received the “Secretariat Award” from the AAO. In 2018, he was among “The Top 100 Most Influential People in the World of Ophthalmology.” He was the keynote speaker at the 2018 Ophthalmology Times “Research Scholar Symposium.” In 2019, he received the “Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award” recognized from the Faculty Senate of the University of Miami. He delivered The Jones/Smolin Lecture at the 2019 AAO.