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Dr. Ivan R. Schwab Professor of Ophthalmology, University of California, Davis	Presentation Title Evolution's Witness Biography Ivan R. Schwab, M.D., F.A.C.S. is a Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of California, Davis (UCD) in Sacramento CA. Dr. Schwab has been on the faculty of UCD since 1989. Before that appointment, he was on the faculty of West Virginia University School of Medicine from 1982-1989. At both universities he has had an active clinical practice treating patients with corneal and external disease as well as those with uveitis. His surgical practice focuses on corneal transplants, anterior segment reconstruction, and cataracts. His clinical practice also included his principal translational research interest, ocular surface disease. He has over 200 publications in clinical and basic science research related to the ocular surface and comparative ophthalmology. Dr. Schwab is also interested in comparative ophthalmology, and had a monthly essay series on that topic for the British Journal of Ophthalmology between 2000-2007. At UCD, he is the medical advisor of the eye bank, director of the corneal service, a member of the American Board of Ophthalmology, and serves on several editorial boards for various ophthalmology journals. He has been active in the American Academy of Ophthalmology, chairing committees on education and alternative medications. Among other books he has written, he has recently co-authored a book on diseases of the eye and skin. Dr. Schwab’s primary interest, however, is ocular surface disease. These diseases include those patients who are unable to repair the superficial layers of their eyes. These patients may have inherited problems, medication toxicity, immunologic problems, or injuries that have kept the front of their eyes from repairing themselves properly. Professor Schwab was one of the first to prepare bioengineered tissue for the ocular surface in the laboratory and use that tissue to repair damaged eyes. He is currently working on the use of silk as a bioengineered platform for the growth of corneal cells to reconstruct the ocular surface and eventually the entire cornea.