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Prof. John D Bullock

Professor Emeritus
Ophthalmology, School of Medicine
Wright State University
United States of America
Tel: 937-760-7205

Dr. Bullock is an Clinical Professor of Community Health and a research epidemiologist in ocular diseases. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Medical School, class of 1968. Bullock was an intern in internal medicine at Washington University in St. Louis before serving as a medical officer in the U.S. Navy. After residency training in ophthalmology at Yale University, he completed fellowships at the University of California, San Francisco, and the Mayo Clinic. He received a Master of Science degree in Microbiology and Immunology from Wright State University and an MPH from Harvard in 2003. He completed additional training from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, the CDC in Atlanta, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and the Pasteur Institute in Paris. He held a clinical faculty position at Stanford University before coming to Wright State, where he served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology, Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, and was named the Brage Golding Distinguished Professor of Research. As a Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, he investigated and published numerous papers concerning a variety of ocular injuries. He also was a lecturer in Law and Medicine at the University of Dayton School of Law. Dr. Bullock is the author or co-author of more than 240 scientific publications. His research influenced the market withdrawal of two general anesthetics, a warning label for a pharmaceutical agent whose inappropriate use resulted in blindness, and a Consumer Products Safety Commission-mandated warning label. He attained Fellowship status from the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the American College of Epidemiology. In 2011 he received the Outstanding Scientific Project Award from the Vision Care Section of the American Public Health Association. He has numerous inventions and has received teaching awards, copyrights, and trademarks. He has given more than 500 lectures throughout the world, a number of which were distinguished named lectureships, and was President and Secretary-Treasurer of two international ophthalmological societies. He has served as a consultant to the National Institutes of Health, the Hospital Albert Schweitzer in Haiti, the U.S. Veteran’s Administration, the U.S. Air Force, the American Medical Association, and the Harvard-Hsiao Resource-Based Relative Value Study. He practiced ophthalmology in the Dayton, Ohio area for over 25 years, served on the editorial boards of 24 medical journals (including Nature [Scientific Reports / Public Health]), has been recognized as “One of Ohio’s Finest Citizens” by the Ohio House of Representatives, and was listed in a “Best Doctors in America” publication. For the last ten years, Dr. Bullock has been quoted in The New York Times and published in the New England Journal of Medicine.