Donald Minckler, MD

Professor

Specialty:  Glaucoma

Dr. Donald Minckler is a Professor of Ophthalmology and Pathology and the Director of Glaucoma and Ocular Pathology.  Dr. Minckler earned his medical degree at the University of Oregon Medical School in 1964.

Following medical school he completed a one-year internship at the Naval Hospital in San Diego, California after which he went on a train as a U.S. Navy Flight Surgeon at the School of Aviation Medicine in Pensacola, Florida.

Following completion of his military obligations, Dr. Minckler began a residency in anatomic pathology at the University of Washington then changed to ophthalmology at the same institution.  Thereafter he completed a two-year fellowship in ophthalmic pathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington DC.  He subsequently completed the requirement for board certification in anatomic pathology through in-service training at USC, after joining the faculty there in ophthalmology in 1976.  He additionally completed a Glaucoma fellowship at Shaffer Associates and the University of California, San Francisco in 1982.  He is board-certified in anatomic pathology (1978) and ophthalmology (1975).  He re-certified in ophthalmology in 2006.

Dr. Minckler joined the UCI Faculty from the University of Southern California Doheny Eye Institute where he has been on faculty since 1976.  He completed a Master of Science in Biomedical and Clinical Investigations at USC in 2006.

Dr. Minckler's clinical interests include clinical-pathologic correlations and the medical and surgical management of Glaucoma.  His principal research interests have been the pathophysiology of optic nerve injury in glaucoma and aqueous shunts.

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