Dr. David Chang, MD is past president of ASCRS and past chair of the AAO Cataract Preferred Practice Pattern Panel and the AAO Annual Meeting Program Committee. He previously served as chief medical editor of EyeWorld, and Cataract and Refractive Surgery Today. Dr. Chang is past chair of the ASCRS Foundation and received the 2019 AAO Humanitarian Service Award. He is co-founder and the advisory board chair of EyeSustain.   

Dr. Chang received the Binkhorst Medal, Kelman Innovator Award, and Lindstrom Medal (ASCRS), Ridley Medal (ESCRS), Lim Medal (APACRS), and delivered the AAO Kelman Award Lecture. He holds chair XI in Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis (100 leading international academic ophthalmologists). In a poll of American ophthalmologists, Dr Chang was voted #1 in Newsweek’s 2025 list of the top cataract surgeons in the United States. He was ranked #2 in the 2024 “Power List” of the 100 most influential ophthalmologists as selected by The Ophthalmologist.