Dr. Najeeb Hanoudi, is a retired Iraqi ophthalmologist, a graduate of Baghdad University's college of medicine in 1957, this was followed in 1963 after two years of post-graduate work in Britain by a diploma in ophthalmology from the University of London. After returning to Iraq he worked in different parts of his country as an eye specialist, teaching clinical ophthalmology to undergraduates, and lecturing to postgraduates on retinal diseases and their treatments. Dr. Hanoudi has been concentrating for the twenty years before his retirement from government service in 1989 on retinal diseases...