Don Hood, a member of the Columbia faculty since 1969, holds a Ph.D. (1970) degree from Brown University and honorary degrees from Smith College (2000), Brown University (2017), and SUNY College of Optometry (2019). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and recipient of an Alcon Research Institute Award (2014). He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of IOVS. While some of his over 350 publications deal with issues of the basic visual neuroscience, most concern diseases of the retina and optic nerve. He has had continuous grant support from NIH/NEI for almost 50 years.
