Photograph of William F. Hoyt and Frank B. Walsh, Baltimore, MD, July 1967

Photograph of William F. Hoyt and Frank B. Walsh, Baltimore, MD, July 1967. Frank B. Walsh, MD (1895-1978) was a Canadian-American neuro-ophthalmologist. He authored the first two editions of "Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology," and the third edition alongside William Hoyt, MD. Dr. Walsh is considered to be the father of neuro-ophthalmology. The first meeting of the Frank B. Walsh Neuro-ophthalmology Society was held in 1969, and in 1992 the Walsh Society became a subgroup of the North American Neuro-ophthalmology Society.