2018 Elections - Board of DirectionsThe WAEPS Board submits the following names for election to the Washington Academy of Eye Physicians & Surgeons Board of Directors. Voting-eligible members should be receiving ballots in the mail in mid-March. Please check the box next to each candidate to confirm their position on the Board. You may also “write in” candidates for President Elect and either trustee position, if you prefer. Please return your ballot no later than March 20, 2018 in the self-addressed, stamped envelope enclosed. Candidate bios are below.
President ElectThis is a one-year term, March 2018 - March 2019, at which time the President-Elect will become President Rebecca Dale, MD
Dr. Rebecca Dale was born in Minneapolis, MN and raised in Mukilteo, WA. She graduated from Mariner High School and then graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor of arts in biology from Concordia College in Moorhead, MN. She earned her M.D. at the University of Minnesota Medical School, where she was elected to the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society. Dr. Dale joined the US Navy in medical school and then did her internship at Naval Medical Center San Diego. She then served as General Medical Officer, first with the Marines in Okinawa, Japan. From Okinawa, she was deployed on a humanitarian mission in Southeast Asia. While assisting Navy ophthalmologists in Indonesia, she discovered her love for the specialty of ophthalmology. Before her specialty training to become an eye doctor, she completed her military service as a general practitioner at Branch Medical Clinic at the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Arizona. Dr. Dale left the Navy in 2004 and did her Ophthalmology training at Casey Eye Institute, a part of Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, OR. She then worked for two years in private practice in Mount Vernon, Washington before founding Snoqualmie Falls Ophthalmology in 2009. In 2014 she merged her practice with Brian Duvall, OD, and continues to practice comprehensive ophthalmology at Snoqualmie Valley Eyecare Associates. Dr. Dale has served on the WAEPS board as a trustee since 2016 and is currently representing WAEPS in the AAO’s prestigious Leadership Development Program. Dr. Dale and her husband Chris have three children and live in Snoqualmie. Trustee Position #1This is a three-year term, March 2018 - March 2021. Matthew C. Weed, MD of Spokane Eye Clinic
Dr. Weed joined the Spokane Eye Clinic on August 1, 2016. A native of Salt Lake City, Utah, he graduated summa cum laude and as college valedictorian with a B.S. in microbiology and a minor in Spanish from Brigham Young University, where he met his wife, who is from Spokane. He received his medical degree at the University of California San Diego and went on to do internship at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane. He completed his ophthalmology residency at the University of Iowa, followed by fellowships in ophthalmic genetics as well as pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus, also at the University of Iowa. He passed the ABO medical boards in July of 2016. Dr. Weed specializes in lazy eye (amblyopia), eye misalignment in children and adults (strabismus), inherited eye diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa and Stargardt disease, retinopathy of prematurity, and cataract surgery in infants and children. He is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) and is board certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology. He is actively involved with the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS).
Trustee Position #2This is a three-year term, March 2018 - March 2021. Kristi L. Bailey, MD of Northwest Eye Surgeons
Education and Training: University of Texas at San Antonio; BS Biology, Cum Laude Previous Experience: Dr. Bailey has training and experience with cataract, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and other retinal disorders, pterygium, non-complicated pediatrics, and oculoplastics patients. Professional Memberships: Oregon Academy of Ophthalmology, resident representative (2004-2006) Appointed trustee for 2018-19Note that it is the board’s intention to appoint Dr. Courtney Francis of the University of Washington Medical School’s Department of Ophthalmology to fill the trustee position of Dr. Rebecca Dale if she is elected President-Elect for the remaining one-year of Dr. Dale’s trustee term. Dr. Francis will be welcome to run for her own three-year term as a trustee in the spring of 2019. Courtney Francis, MD
Dr. Francis joined the University of Washington Department of Ophthalmology in 2010 and is currently an associate professor of Ophthalmology and Neurological Surgery. Dr. Francis is a clinician educator whose primary clinical interest is neuro-ophthalmology. She also cares for adult patients with strabismus. Dr. Francis has served as the director of medical student education in the UW Department of Ophthalmology since 2012. She has worked to improve exposure to ophthalmology across all four years of the undergraduate medical school curriculum. Dr. Francis is active in several organizations including AAO and NANOS, and serves on multiple committees within those organizations. She regularly presents lectures and instruction courses at the annual AAO meeting. She is currently completing the AAO Leadership Development Program as a NANOS representative. Dr. Francis lives in Seattle, Washington, with her husband and two sons. In her free time, Dr. Francis enjoys baking, running and biking in addition to exploring the northwest with her family and two dogs. |
Dr. Francis was born and raised in and around Sacramento, California. She earned her bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from Brown University followed by her medical degree at the University of Rochester. After completion of her internship in Internal Medicine at Baystate Medical Center, she completed her residency in ophthalmology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She also completed a fellowship in neuro-ophthalmology at the University of Southern California’s Doheny Eye Institute.