Jane C. Edmond, M.D.
Wong Family Distinguished University Chair, Department of Ophthalmology
Director, Mitchel & Shannon Wong Eye Institute
Professor, Department of Ophthalmology
Professor, Department of Neurology
M.D.
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Residency, Ophthalmology
Cullen Eye Institute, Baylor College of Medicine
Fellowship, Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Fellowship, Neuro-Ophthalmology
Baylor College of Medicine
About
Jane C. Edmond is the director of the Mitchel and Shannon Wong Eye Institute and a professor and founding chair in the Department of Ophthalmology at Dell Medical School. She is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
Her practice focus is on pediatric and adult strabismus, medical and surgical management (50 percent of her surgery cases were adult strab) and pediatric neuro-ophthalmology (one of 25 in the country).
She earned her undergraduate degree at The University of Texas at Austin with honors (1981), Phi Beta Kappa. Med school was next at Baylor College of Medicine (1985), Alpha Omega Alpha.
Edmond was a member of the faculty from 1991-97 at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. From 1997 to 2003, she was a faculty member at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Scheie Eye Institute and Wills Eye Hospital, all in Philadelphia. From 2003-17, she resumed her faculty appointment at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston.
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American Academy of Ophthalmology
President-Elect, 2023 -
American Academy of Ophthalmology Board of Trustees
Trustee-at-Large, 2012-2017 -
American Academy of Ophthalmology Recertification Committee
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American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
President, 2019-2020; Vice-President Elect, 2018-2019 -
Lifetime Education for the Ophthalmologist Committee
Past Chair -
Austin Society of Ophthalmology
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Wong Family Distinguished University Chair
Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin, 2020 -
Senior Achievement Award
American Academy of Ophthalmology, 2013 -
Achievement Award
American Academy of Ophthalmology, 2005 -
Continuing Education Award
Life-Long Education for the Ophthalmologist, American Academy of Ophthalmology, 2004 -
Secretariat Award
American Academy of Ophthalmology, 2003