Bernard Schwartz, MD, PhD, Founding Chair of Ophthalmology, Tufts University School of Medicine, and Founding Editor of Survey of Ophthalmology.

Bernard Schwartz, MD, PhD (1927-2007) was first and foremost a scholar. He was a teacher, serving as Professor of ophthalmology for many years at Tufts University; an administrator, chairing the department of ophthalmology for over 20 years; a clinician, practicing primarily in the field of glaucoma; a scientist with a broad interest in ophthalmic research; an historian, especially of medical history; and an editor, primarily of Survey of Ophthalmology. Throughout all of his activities, the central theme was always scholarship.