Melvin L. Rubin, born in 1932 in San Francisco, California, graduated from the University of California (Berkly, School of Optometry) in 1953. In 1957, he received his medical degree from the University of California School of Medicine (San Francisco) and in 1961 completed his residency training in ophthalmology and a Masters degree in physiology at the University of Iowa. He then served two years as the Executive Secretary of the Vision Research Training Committee at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and has been on the ophthalmology faculty at the University of Florida College of Medicine since 1963. In January 1995, after 17 years as chairman he stepped down, continuing to hold the Richardson Eminent Scholar Chair at UF. He became Emeritus Professor in 1997.
His clinical areas of interest are retinal diseases, optics and refraction. A clinician, investigator, and administrator, he has made a lifelong commitment to education, which includes the creation and establishment of the annual national Ophthalmic Knowledge Assessment Program. He has lectured extensively and has written over 100 scientific publications and six textbooks. He has served national ophthalmology on the board of directors and as president of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and later, president of the Foundation of the AAO. He has also been trustee and president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, and on the board of directors and chairman of the American Board of Ophthalmology. Currently, though retired, he continues in an educational role within the UF department of ophthalmology.
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