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Irene H. Maumenee, M.D.Irene Hussels Maumenee, M.D.

Dr. Maumenee was educated in Europe and the USA and came to Johns Hopkins in 1969. In 1972 she established the Johns Hopkins Center for Hereditary Eye Disease, a facility where patients with individually rare genetic eye diseases could obtain clinical evaluation, prognostic assessment and management. Sophisticated tests performed in Dr. Maumenee's laboratory include those for diseases such as oculocutaneous albinism, retinitis pigmentosa and other hereditary retinal dystrophies, retinoblastoma, colobomatous malformations, anterior segment malformations, storage diseases, familial retinal detachments (including Norrie disease), congenital cataracts, dislocated lenses and congenital glaucoma.

Dr. Maumenee has appointments in the Departments of Medicine (Division of Medical Genetics) and Pediatrics in addition to the Department of Ophthalmology. In 1991 she was appointed Ort Professor of Ophthalmology. She is board certified in Ophthalmology and in Medical Genetics. She has won several awards and has given numerous named and invited lectures. Dr. Maumenee is the Co- Founder and President of the International Society for Genetic Eye Diseases and is the President of the Ocular Genetics Study Club. She is the author of many scientific articles and has edited several books on the genetics of eye diseases. Her clinical and research interests are the nosology and management of hereditary ocular diseases, population genetics, computer application to genetic analysis and molecular genetics.


Current Address:

Business:
Irene H. Maumenee, M.D.
Professor of Ophthalmology
Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
Wilmer Eye Institute
Maumenee Building, Suite 517
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
600 North Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD 21287-9237

PHONE: (410) 955-5214
FAX: (410) 614-4363
e-mail: jhched@jhmi.edu

Awards

WHO Visiting Investigator Award, Population Genetics Laboratory, University of Hawaii, 1970
Research Career Development Award, 1972
American Academy of Ophthalmology Honor Award, 1981
Marion Spencer Fay National Award of the Medical College of Pennsylvania to a Distinguished
Woman Physician/Scientist, 1993
American Academy of Ophthalmology Senior Honor Award, 1993
German Marfan Association Deutscher Marfan-Preis, 1995

Education

Munchen, Germany, 1960
Freiburg i.Br, Germany, 1961
Geneva, Switzerland, Geneva Medical School, 1962-1963
Göttingen, Germany, 1964
Institut de Genetique Medicale in Clinique Ophtalmologique of the University of Geneva Medical
School, 1967
Doctoral Thesis in Medicine of the University of Geneva, summa cum laude, 1968
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Fellowship; division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine, 1968-1969
Ophthalmology preceptorship, The Wilmer Eye Institute, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1969-1973

Appointments

Fellow in Medicine, Department in Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
1969-1971
Active consultant to the John F. Kennedy Institute for the Visually and Mentally Handicapped
Children, 1974-present
Director, Low Vision Clinic, Wimer Eye Institute, 1977-1988
Director, The Johns Hopkins Center for Hereditary Eye Diseases, Wilmer Eye Institute,
1972-present
Professor of Ophthalmology, joint appointment in Medicine, The Wilmer Ophthalmological
Institute, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Genetics, The
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore MD, 1987-1991
Ort Professor of Ophthalmology, Professor of Pediatrics, joint appointment in Medicine, The
Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Department of Pediatrics, The
Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Genetics, The Johns
Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, 1991-present



 

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