Photograph of Frank B. Walsh and Marie Caltrider, 1974

Photograph of Frank B. Walsh and Marie Caltrider, Dr. Walsh's secretary of over twenty years, 1974. 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.