George B. Bartley is an American eye surgeon and former editor-in-chief of Ophthalmology, a journal[1] in ophthalmology and visual sciences.[2] He is the twelfth ophthalmologist in 108 years to serve as Chief Executive Officer of the American Board of Ophthalmology, the oldest medical specialty certification board in the United States.[3] Bartley is also the Louis and Evelyn Krueger Professor of Ophthalmology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. In 2020, the American Academy of Ophthalmology awarded Bartley the Laureate Recognition Award for exceptional scientific and leadership contributions to ophthalmology.[4]
Bartley joined the Department of Ophthalmology at Mayo Clinic in 1986 and was appointed Department Chair in 1992. He served in that role until 2001 when he was elected to the Mayo Clinic Board of Governors. The following year, Bartley was appointed chief executive officer of Mayo's operations in Florida. He resumed his surgical practice in Rochester in 2009 while serving as Chair of the Doctors Mayo Society and Medical Director for Alumni Philanthropy.[citation needed]
Bartley is a former President of the American Ophthalmological Society, Trustee of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, President of the Cogan Ophthalmic History Society, and Chair of the Doctors Mayo Society. He was previously on the board of directors of the Minnesota Academy of Ophthalmology.[6] He currently serves on the Foundation Advisory Board of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the Board of Directors of the American Board of Medical Specialties.[7]
