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On Wednesday, September 10, 2025, Dr. Alfredo A. Sadun, MD, PhD presented a lecture entitled "How Castro Got Us to Quantum Mechanics and the Formation of Reactive Oxygen Species" in the Engemann Family Auditorium at HMRI.

Dr. Alfredo A. Sadun holds the Flora L. Thornton Endowed Chair and serves as Chief at Doheny and Vice Chair of Ophthalmology at UCLA. He graduated from MIT in 1972 and went on to earn both his Ph.D. (1976) and M.D. (1978) from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Following his residency in Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and a fellowship in Neuro-Ophthalmology, he joined the full-time faculty at Harvard’s Department of Ophthalmology in 1983. In 2014, Dr. Sadun played a key role in guiding Doheny’s transition to UCLA.

Dr. Sadun has distinguished himself across all three pillars of academic medicine—research, education, and clinical care. His groundbreaking research in vision earned him Lighthouse International’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the 1999 Pisart Award. For his dedication to education, he received the 2002 Straatsma Prize, the highest honor for residency teaching from the AAO and AUPO. In 2012, he was awarded the Hoyt Award, the foremost prize in clinical neuro-ophthalmology presented jointly by the AAO and NANOS. Additional honors include the prestigious Heed Award for Academic Excellence (2014), the Albert Einstein College of Medicine’s Purpura Prize for outstanding contributions to science and medicine (2016), the AAO Life Achievement Award (2017), and the ARVO Gold Fellow Award (2020).

An internationally recognized authority in neuro-ophthalmology and diseases of the optic nerve, Dr. Sadun has published more than 410 peer-reviewed articles, 80 book chapters, and co-authored or edited five books. His work has been cited over 30,000 times, and he holds an H-index above 75. He also led national efforts in ophthalmology education, becoming the inaugural president of the AUPO Program Directors’ Council.

Dr. Sadun continues to direct an active laboratory focused on clinical, psychophysical, and laboratory investigations of optic nerve diseases. He was the first to identify an optic neuropathy associated with Alzheimer’s disease. In 1993, the United Nations appointed him to lead an investigative team studying an epidemic of optic neuropathy in Cuba. Across his career, his research has illuminated the critical role of mitochondria in the brain, optic nerve, and retina.