2026 C. STEPHEN FOSTER, MD HONORARY LECTURER

Glenn Jay Jaffe, MD

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Glenn Jay Jaffe, MD, is the Robert Machemer, M.D. Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology and Professor of Ophthalmology, serving as Chief of the Division of Retinal Ophthalmology (Vitreoretinal Disease). Dr. Jaffe completed a Vitreoretinal Fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin, The Eye Institute. He completed his Ophthalmology Residency at the University of California, San Francisco–Fresno, School of Medicine, and earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. Dr. Jaffe maintains an active basic and clinical research program and has served as principal investigator on multiple funded clinical studies, including investigations of an oral ganciclovir prodrug for the treatment of CMV retinitis and the evaluation of a cyclosporine sustained-release drug delivery implant for uveitis. He is the principal investigator of an ongoing multicenter clinical trial evaluating a fluocinolone sustained-release implant for patients with severe uveitis, as well as a separate trial assessing the same implant for the treatment of diabetic macular edema. His more recent work has focused on the use of ultrasonography and optical coherence tomography for the diagnosis of macular edema across a range of ocular diseases. In parallel, he maintains an active basic science research program investigating the role of cytokines in the pathogenesis of proliferative vitreoretinopathy, a critical intraocular wound-healing disorder. Dr. Jaffe is deeply involved in medical education, providing lectures to residents and fellows on uveitis and vitreoretinal diseases, training vitreoretinal fellows in surgical techniques, and mentoring postdoctoral fellows and medical students in clinically relevant research. He also serves as a mentor for the Duke third-year medical student research program and has participated annually as course faculty at numerous national and international meetings.