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BIO SKETCH DR CREIG HOYT MD MA

EMERITUS PROFESSOR AND FORMER CHAIR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Dr Creig Hoyt is a graduate of Amherst College and Cornell University Medical College. He was an intern in Medicine at Stanford University Medical Center and a resident in neurology and then ophthalmology at the University of California San Francisco. He served in the United States Navy as a flight surgeon. He completed a pediatric ophthalmology fellowship at the Children’s Hospital in Melbourne Australia and was then named senior lecturer in ophthalmology at the University of Sydney. He returned to the University of California San Francisco in 1977 where he became director of pediatric ophthalmology. In 2000 he was named chair of the department of ophthalmology.
He was the first editor of the British Journal of Ophthalmology not to be a citizen of the United Kingdom. He and David Taylor are the original editors of Taylor and Hoyt’s Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, the standard text book in the field. Dr. Hoyt is the author of more than 150 scientific papers and has lectured in more than 30 countries. He has delivered 27 named lectures.
In 2009 he took a leave of absence to study at St John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 2010 he was awarded a MA degree in ancient eastern thought and Sanskrit. He was the first American to complete Paris-Brest-Paris, the 750-mile non-stop bicycle event, in 1975. He crossed the Sea of Cortez (Mexico) in a kayak in 1985. He currently continues to race kayaks.