EDITORIAL: Ophthalmic Pathology: The history of a growing profession

Ophthalmic Pathology, also known as eye or ocular pathology, is a highly specialized branch of the medical laboratory specialty. Clinical Ophthalmic Pathology involves gross and microscopic examination and diagnosis of eyes and ocular adnexal tissues that are removed surgically. The history of the Ophthalmic Pathology goes back to the spring of 1945 in the United States. At the residents meeting of the Wilmer Institute at Johns Hopkins University, Drs. Theodore E. Sanders, John McLean and Benjamin Rones organized an Ophthalmic Pathology Club. These three visionaries drew up a list of about 20 potential members and invited them to an organizational meeting in October at the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology – later split into the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the American Academy of Otolaryngology.