Douglas Holsclaw, MD

SightLife Associate Medical Director

Douglas S. Holsclaw, MD, has been serving as Associate Medical Director at SightLife since 2009. His practice as Director of the Cornea and External Disease Service is at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Group in Redwood City, California.

Holsclaw holds ancillary positions, all since 1995, as Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of California’s San Francisco School of Medicine; Research Ophthalmologist at Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology, University of California; and Director of Ocular Cicatricial Pemphigoid Clinic, Francis I. Proctor Foundation, University of California.

His medical training includes:

• Fellow, Cornea, External Disease and Uveitis, at Francis I. Proctor Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, 1993-1994
• Resident in Ophthalmology at University of Texas' Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, 1990-1993
• Intern (transitional) at University of Texas' Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, 1989-1990
• Doctor in Medicine from Columbia University, New York, 1989.
• B.S. in Biology, Cum Laude, from the University of California, 1979-1984

He feels fortunate to continue to participate in many of his academic interests at the University of California San Francisco including subspecialty clinics and teaching and training the next generation of cornea surgeons. He lectures, leads workshops, and moderates regionally and nationally. He has co-presented numerous scientific papers, publishes textbook chapters, performs clinical research, and has co-authored articles and abstracts. In 2011, Dr. Holsclaw received the Sidney R. Garfield Exceptional Contribution Award for his work bringing SightLife to northern California.

Holsclaw is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Association of Proctor Fellows, Contact Lens Association of Ophthalmologists, Frederick C. Cordes Eye Society, Max Fine Corneal Society, Ocular Microbiology and Immunology Group, and Pacific Coast Oto-Ophthalmological Society.

Holsclaw has a long-standing interest in international ophthalmology. He actively participates in the training of international cornea fellows and is involved with research and clinical efforts to prevent and treat cornea blindness in the developing world.

Outside of medicine, his passion is adventure travel — the further and wilder the better. Closer to home he enjoys scuba diving, tennis and photography.