Rate My Professor David Zacks

David N. Zacks serves as the Edna H. Perkiss Research Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School. He earned a combined M.D. and Ph.D. from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Zacks completed his ophthalmology residency in 2000 and his vitreo-retinal fellowship in 2002, both at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. He joined the Retina Service of the University of Michigan’s Kellogg Eye Center in 2002, where his clinical activity focuses on diseases and surgery of the retina.

His main research interest centers on the molecular control of photoreceptor cell death during retinal disease. Dr. Zacks holds or has held research grants from the National Eye Institute, Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc., Foundation Fighting Blindness, Midwest Eye Bank and Transplantation Center, and other foundations. He is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, the Retina Society, the Macula Society, and the American Society of Retina Specialists.