Photograph of Frank B. Walsh, 1968

Photograph of Frank B. Walsh on his birthday, 1968. Also pictured is Marie Caltrider, Dr. Walsh's secretary of over twenty years. 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.