Gregory L. Skuta, MD
A native of Illinois, he received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Phi Beta Kappa) and the University of Illinois College of Medicine (Alpha Omega Alpha) respectively. He completed an ophthalmology residency at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where he was chief resident, and a glaucoma fellowship at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami. Dr. Skuta also served on the faculty at the University of Michigan's W. K. Kellogg Eye Center from 1987 to 1992. Dr. Skuta has contributed to more than 100 publications, book chapters, and educational products and has a particular research and clinical interest in wound healing and its modulation in glaucoma filtering surgery. He currently serves as the Senior Secretary for Clinical Education for the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) and on the AAO's Board of Trustees, Executive Committee, Committee of Secretaries, Nominating Committee, and Awards Committee. In 2006, Dr. Skuta completed a six-year term as Secretary for Ophthalmic Knowledge for the AAO. He is a Past President of the American Glaucoma Society (2005-2006) and a past Director/Senior Examiner (2001-2008) for the American Board of Ophthalmology (ABO). Dr. Skuta served as chair of the Written Examinations Committee for the ABO and on its Executive Committee, Nominating Committee, Examiners Committee, and Maintenance of Certification Committee. He was an ABO representative to the American Board of Medical Specialties. Dr. Skuta is a past member of the Board of Governors of the World Glaucoma Association (formerly the Association of International Glaucoma Societies). He has been an editor for the AAO's ProVision print and CD-ROM educational products and also has served as a principal investigator for the National Eye Institute-sponsored Advanced Glaucoma Intervention Study (AGIS) and Collaborative Initial Glaucoma Treatment Study (CIGTS). In addition, he was a member of the Data and Safety Monitoring Committee for the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study (OHTS). He is a past chair of the American Glaucoma Society's Program Committee and the AAO's Self-Assessment Committee. Dr. Skuta has served on the AAO's Ophthalmic Knowledge Assessment Program (OKAP) Committee and is a current member of the editorial board for the Journal of Glaucoma and a past editorial board member of the AAO's EyeNet Magazine. He is a past president of the American Eye Study Club and a past director-at-large for the Oklahoma Academy of Ophthalmology. In 2003, Dr. Skuta was elected to active membership in the Glaucoma Research Society (formerly known as the Glaucoma Society of the International Congress of Ophthalmology). He has delivered lectures and presentations at more than 180 meetings throughout the United States and also in South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, and South Africa. Among Dr. Skuta's honors and awards are Phi Beta Kappa, president of the University of Illinois Varsity Men's Glee Club, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, the Resident Teaching Award from the University of Michigan Department of Ophthalmology, and the AAO's Honor Award and Senior Achievement Award. He is listed in Marquis' Who's Who in America, in Woodward/White's The Best Doctors in America, and among America's Top Ophthalmologists by the Consumers' Research Council of America. He and his wife Anne, who is a nurse and Director of Cardiovascular Education at Integris Heart Hospital, have three children (Jon, age 23, a student at the University of Oklahoma; Cate, age 21, a student at the University of Oklahoma; and Matt, age 18, a student at Edmond North High School) and reside in Edmond, Oklahoma. 
Gregory L. Skuta, MD, is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Dean McGee Eye Institute. He also is the Edward L. Gaylord Professor and Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology in the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine.