MEET YOUR DOCTOR — DR. FINE

Dr. Fine grew up on the East Coast. He graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1961. He worked as a chemical engineer, conducted cancer research at Brandeis University, and received his medical and ophthalmology training at the Boston University Medical Center. He became certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology in 1972. Specializing in cataract/IOL, refractive, and anterior segment surgery, he has been in private practice in Eugene, Oregon since 1970.

During his years studying in Boston, Dr. Fine met his wife, Vicky, then a student at Wellesley College. They have three grown children.

Dr. Fine is a Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, and a co-founder of the Oregon Eye Surgery Center. He has held local, state, and national leadership positions within organized medicine and ophthalmology. He served as the president of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery in 2001 and is the secretary of the International Intraocular Implant Club.

Dr. Fine is among the cataract surgeons listed in all editions of The Best Doctors in American and the first edition of Marquis'  Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare. He received the American Academy of Ophthalmology's Senior Honor Award and the prestigious Innovator's Award, given annually by the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. He was honored with the Baylor/Welsh Cataract and Refractive Surgery Congress Maumenee award, the United Kingdom and Ireland Societies for Cataract and Refractive Surgery Rayner Medal, the Brazilian Phaco Club award, the Boston University School of Medicine Distinguished Alumnus award, the Oregon Health and Sciences University Meritorious Achievement Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award for Extraordinary Contributions in the Advancement of Ophthalmic Technology from Inside Eyecare Technology. In 1999 he was named one of the 25 most influential ophthalmologists of the 20th Century by a vote of 16,000 ophthalmologists worldwide, polled by the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. Dr. Fine has been a visiting professor at 29 medical schools in the United States and abroad, and has delivered 12 named lectureships.

He has designed instruments and implants and has innovated many surgical procedures including cortical cleaving hydrodissection, chip and flip, crack and flip, and choo-choo chop and flip phacoemulsification techniques, and the temporal self-sealing clear corneal incision. He has contributed many publications to refereed medical journals and the medical press, written chapters in textbooks and surgical atlases, and has lectured and taught extensively throughout the world.

Dr. Fine is an avid motorcyclist, and is thoroughly enjoying his two new granddaughters.

Related Information About Dr. Fine:

• Education
• Research Appointments and Activities
• Instruments Designed
• Surgical Techniques Developed
• Faculty Appointments
• Academic and Professional Affiliations
• Professional Honors and Awards
• Visiting Professorships
• Named Lectureships Delivered
• Scientific Publications
• Lectures Presented

Newsletter Articles by Dr. Fine:

• The Reality of Health Care Costs - Summer 2009
• To My Patients - Spring 2009
• From Pen to Screen - Winter 2008
• The Drug-Device-Doctor Dilemma - Summer 2008
• The Impending Physician Shortage - Winter 2007
• An Asian Spring - Fall 2006
• Dr. Fine Delivers Inaugural Kelman Lecture - Fall 2005
• The Use of Nutritional Supplements and Your Eye Health - Fall 2005
• Technology is Relentless — Summer 2005
• Teaching and Traveling to the End of the Earth — Winter/Spring 2005
• ASCRS Foundation Achieves a Major Goal
  By Dr. I. Howard Fine — Winter/Spring 2005
• Drs. Fine, Hoffman & Packer Again Lead the Way  — Summer 2004
• Refractive Surgery Reaches the Goal of Full Vision Correction — Spring 2004
• Patriotism, Devotion & Commitment On Board the USS Stennis — Winter 2003/2004
• Teaching Surgeons Here at Home — Fall 2003
• Beautiful Brazil — Winter 2002/ Spring 2003
• Leadership for Drs. Fine, Hoffman and
  Packer - Summer 2002
• Why Us? - Winter 2001
• Meeting with the President - Fall 2001
• Traveling and Teaching Around
  the World, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil - Summer 2000
• Traveling and Teaching Around the World,
  Naples, Italy - Spring 2000