Paul A. Chandler, MD, graduated from Hastings College, Harvard Medical School and did residency at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI), a teaching hospital of the Harvard Medical School. Following residency, Dr. Chandler went into practice in Nebraska with Eugene C. Foote, M.D., head of the Foote Clinic.

Dr. Chandler was invited back to MEEI by George Derby, M.D., and established the Glaucoma Service there in the 1940s. The Paul A. Chandler Visiting Professorship at MEEI was created by David Cogan, M.D., Chief of Ophthalmology.

Dr. Chandler retired from active practice in 1984 at the age of 82. In 1986, Harvard Medical School established the Paul A. Chandler Professorship of Ophthalmology.

Dr. Chandler's favorite quote:

"I hold everyman a debtor to his profession. From the which as men do, of course, seek to receive countenance and profit. So ought they of duty to endeavor themselves by way of amends to be a help and an ornament thereto."   - Sir Francis Bacon

• If the disc is normal at the beginning of treatment, damage can be prevented over a period of many years even with a tension in the mid twenties.
• A tension of 20 mm Hg will be too high for a considerably damaged eye. In moderately advanced glaucoma further loss can be prevented if the tension is maintained at a sufficiently low level
• An eye with a cupped disc withstands increased tension poorly.

Dr. Grant served as the first director of the Glaucoma Consultation Service at MEEI . His professional career was multifaceted.

Four noteworthy aspects of Grant's career:

• Tonography: Grant made the assessment of aqueous outflow a clinically relevant and useful test. He determined that the facility of aqueous outflow (hydraulic conductivity, also known as "C" value) was decreased in glaucoma, indicating the trabecular meshwork was plugged. Tonography is helpful in assessing the risk of developing glaucoma, and is still used in studying the mechanism of action of medications.

• Clinical treatment of glaucoma: Together with Chandler developed the definitive ideas on treating glaucoma, published in papers and a textbook. Their clinical observations that progressively lower intraocular pressures are required for eyes with increased glaucoma damage is summarized in table 8 from his article with Joseph Burke on "Why do some people go blind from glaucoma?" (Ophthalmology 1982)

Chandler and Grant's textbook was originally published in 1965, and was based on a series of lectures they had given. It has gone through four revisions and is still in print. The current publication is from April 2013

Grant's work with toxicology remains unparalleled in ophthalmology. It has gone through numerous editions. The Fourth edition was co-authored by Joel Schuman.

The most recent, the  Sixth Edition of Chandler and Grant’s Glaucoma, was edited by Drs. Malik Y. Kahook and Joel S. Schuman and features writings from the late Dr. David L. Epstein, along with more than 80 contributors. 

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Each chapter has been meticulously edited and updated from the previous edition, while maintaining the well-established historical teachings of Drs. Paul A. Chandler and W. Morton Grant. New chapters on medical therapy as well as thorough updates on novel and minimally invasive approaches for the surgical management of glaucoma have been added.

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