Bernard Becker is professor emeritus

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 of ophthalmology

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 and visual sciences at the Washington University, St. Louis School of Medicine.

Becker is internationally honored as an expert on the diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma

Glaucoma

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and continues to be active in teaching and research. For more than 35 years, he led Washington University's department of ophthalmology.

In 1978, students, patients, and colleagues raised funds in his honor, which now endow two faculty positions: the Bernard and Janet Becker Professorship (presently held by Dr. David Beebe) and the Bernard Becker Professorship (presently unoccupied).