Arlene Drack, MD, associate professor of pediatric ophthalmology and ophthalmic genetics in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine in Iowa City, has received an award by Research to Prevent Blindness, according to a news release.
Dr. Drack has been granted a $100,000 RPB Physician-Scientist Award. The award allows physicians to devote more time to clinical eye research activities.
Only a few of the awards are given annually, and only 53 physician-scientists have received the award since it was established in 2000, according to the release.
Dr. Drack received her MD from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine in Hershey, completed a residency in ophthalmology at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C., an ophthalmic genetics fellowship at Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, a pediatric Ophthalmology and strabismus fellowship at The University of Iowa and a molecular ophthalmic genetics fellowship at The University of Iowa, according to her bio.
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