Nancy J. Newman MD

Dr. Nancy J. Newman holds the LeoDelle Jolley Chair of Ophthalmology, and is Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurology and Instructor in Neurological Surgery at the Emory University School of Medicine, where she serves as the Director of Neuro-Ophthalmology.  She attended Princeton University, the University of London on a Marshall Scholarship at the Courtauld Institute where she received a MA in Art History, and Harvard Medical School.  She trained in Internal Medicine and Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital where she was Chief Resident in Neurology, and in Neuro-Ophthalmology at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.  She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Neurological Association, and the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society.  She was President of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society from 2014 to 2016, Chair of the Board of Directors from 2016 to 2018, and has since been Senior Vice President for Education. She has served on the Editorial Boards of the American Journal of Ophthalmology, Seminars in Neurology, Journal of the Neurological Sciences and the Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology.  She has over 600 publications, including scientific articles, book chapters and books, including the primary textbook in Neuro-Ophthalmology, Walsh & Hoyt’s Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology, 5^th and 6^th Editions, and the popular manual Neuro-Ophthalmology Illustrated, 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd Editions.  She has received many teaching and service awards nationally.  She has lectured widely throughout the world and is known for her innovative teaching style.  Her main research interests include disorders of the optic nerve, especially mitochondrial optic neuropathies and their therapy, including stewarding the use of gene therapy, and the implementation of nonmydriatic ocular fundus cameras in non-ophthalmic settings.  She is a Trustee Emerita of the Board of Trustees of Princeton University and also served as President of the Princeton University Alumni Association.

Fun facts: knows the words to every Broadway show tune (as long as it was written before 1980); cannot be contained on the dance floor.