Monaco, William Arthur
[Present Status] [Education] [Employment] [Professional Societies] [Licenses] [Honors & Awards] [Expert Testimony] [Consulting] [Seminars & Presentations] [Publications]

Present Status
Private Practice: Aviation Optometry & General Optometry

Education
1) Los Angeles College of Optometry, Los Angeles, California, Doctor of Optometry, Graduated 1968
2) University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, Master of Science in Education, Graduated 1977
3) University of Houston, College of Optometry, Houston, Texas, Ph.D. in Physiological Optics, Graduated 1981

Employment
1) United States Navy - Optometrist, Sep 1968 - Aug 1971
2) Private Practice - Optometrist, Ridgecrest, California, Sep 1971 - Jul 1973
3) United States Navy - Officer in Charge of Optometry Clinic, Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro, California, Jul 1973 - Jul 1975
4) United States Navy - Administrative Officer and Officer in Charge of Optometry Clinic, Marine Corps Air Station, Futenma, Okinawa, Aug 1975 - Aug 1978
5) University of Houston - Full-Time Out-Service Postgraduate Studies Program, Houston, Texas, Sep 1978 - Jun 1981
6) United States Navy - Chief, Vision Sciences Research Division, Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory, Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, Jul 1981 - Feb 1986
7) United States Navy - Director, Clinical Investigation and Research Department Southeastern Atlantic Region, Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Virginia, Feb 1986 - Mar 1990
8) St. Vincent's Medical Center - Research Director, Heart and Lung Institute, Jacksonville, Florida, Apr 1990 - Aug 1991
9) Northeastern State University - Professor, College of Optometry, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, Sep 1991 - Jul 1992
10) Northeastern State University - Dean/Professor, College of Optometry, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, Jul 1992 - Jun 1997
11) Veterans Health Administration - Director, Optometry Service, Washington, D.C., Jul 1997 - Sep 1999
12) Private Practice - Aviation Optometry, Bailey's Cross Roads, VA Oct 1999 - Sept 2000
13) Private Practice - Aviation & General Practice Optometry, Wilmington, DE Oct 2000 - present

Professional Societies
1) Diplomate, American Academy of Optometry
2) American Optometric Association
3) Armed Forces Optometric Society
4) American Public Health Association
5) Navy Sponsor Representative, National Research Council, Committee on Vision, 1982-1986
6) The Retired Officer's Association
7) Faculty, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association - Air Safety Foundation, 1986-1992
8) Sigma Xi, Scientific Research Society, 1991-1997
9) Action Board Representative, American Public Health Association,1992-1996
10) Member, Board of Directors, Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry, 1992-1997
11) Diplomate Chair, Public Health and Environmental Optometry Section of the American Academy of Optometry, 1993-Present
12) Board of Directors, Oklahoma Rural Health Care Authority, 1993-1997
13) The Prentice Society, 1993-Present
14) Consultant, State Political Education and Statutory Scope Committee, American Optometric Association, 1994-1997
15) Member, Board of Directors, Chamber of Commerce, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, 1995-1996
16) Member, Congressional Advisory Committee on Medicare for U.S. Representative Tom Coburn, 1995
17) Chair, Residency Affairs Committee of Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry, 1995-1997
18) Chair, Rural Health Project Team, American Optometric Association, 1996-1997
19) Chair, Council on Research, American Optometric Association, 1996-1997
20) Member, VA Association of Military Surgeons of the United States Committee, 1997-Present
21) Chair, Prosthetic Benefits Management (PBM) Medical Advisory Group - Optometry/Ophthalmology, 1997-Present
22) Section Council, American Public Health Association, 1997
23) Member, Advisory Group, National Eye Health Education Partnership, National Institute of Health, 1997
24) Member, Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board, 1997-Present
25) Rural Health Policy Board Representative, National Rural Health Association, 1998
26) VA National Advisory Group on Managed Care; Chair, Provider Management Subgroup, September 1998
27) Member, Board of Directors, InFOCUS Program; 1997 - Present.
28) Adjunct Research Professor - Pennsylvania College of Optometry, Philadelphia, PA 1999- Present
29) Rehabilitation R&D Scientific Review and Evaluations Board, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, D.C., 1999-Present
30) Special Consultant to the Federal Air Surgeon for Vision Physiology & Optometry, Washington, D.C., January 2000-Present

Licenses
1) Optometric - California, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, Rhode Island, Oklahoma, Delaware
2) National Board of Optometry - Parts I, II and TMOD
3) Airman Certificate, Flight Instructor - Instruments


Honors and Awards
1) Navy Commendation Medal, Distinguished Service as Hospital Research Administrator (1988)
2) Publisher's Award, Professional Pilot Magazine, "Year's Most Popular Article" (1989)
3) Navy Achievement Medal, Distinguished Service as Regional Research Administrator Southeastern Region (1990)
4) Diplomate, Public Health and Environmental Optometry, American Academy of Optometry (1991)
5) Louis Gorin Award for Outstanding Achievement in Rural Health Care, National Rural Health Association (1997)
6) Presidential Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Profession, Oklahoma Optometric Association (1997)
7) Citation of Congratulations for Exceptional Service to Northeastern State University and the Citizens of the State of Oklahoma, Presented by State Congress (1998)
8) Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from U.S. Representative Tom Coburn for Service on the Congressional Medicare/Social Security Advisory Committee from 1995-1997 (Presented in 1998)
9) Certificate of Appreciation from the American Public Health Association for Outstanding Service to the Section (1998)

Expert Testimony
1) Department of Justice, Aviation Admiralty - Aviation Testimony on cases involving collision avoidance. Four cases; Salt Lake City Mid-Air involved courtroom testimony.
2) Department of Justice, EEOC - Testimony involving vision standards for employment for state employees such as fire fighters. One case involving deposition testimony.
3) Department of Labor, Office of the Solicitor - Testimony involving vision standards for employment - railroad and aviation employees other than pilots. 4 cases. One involving deposition and one courtroom testimony.
4) George Elsener & Associates (Illinois) Case preparation involving automobile collision.
5) Nichols, Nichols & Kennedy (Oklahoma). Automobile accident. Deposition testimony.

Consulting
1) Federal Aviation Agency - Vision Standards
2) Aircraft Owner's and Pilots Association Flight Instructor Clinic Lectures, Safety Lectures and Movie: "Collision Avoidance"
3) National Science Foundaton - Committee on Vision
4) Helicopter Association International - Lectures
5) National Board of Optometry - Examiner

Seminars and Presentations:
1) The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. "A Clinical and Histological Evaluation of the Effects of Vitamin E on Retinopathy of Prematurity." (May 1980)
2) Naval Medical Research Laboratory - Pensacola. "How Methods of Evaluating Cytological Destruction in Newborns Can Be Related to Applied Problems in Adults." (June 1980)
3) Special Ross Laboratories Conference on Retinopathy of Prematurity. "Retrolental Fibroplasia: Efficacy of Vitamin E in a Double-Blind Clinical Study of Pre-Term Infants." (December 1981)
4) American Academy of Optometry. "The Efficacy of Vitamin E in Reducing the Severity of Retrolental Fibroplasia." (December 1981)
5) New York Academy of Sciences. "Vitamin E and RLF: Ultrastructural Support of Clinical Efficacy." (December 1981)
6) American Aging Association, Fourteenth Annual Meeting, New York. "The Effects of Aerobic Fitness on Visual Performance." (October 1984)
7) Tri-Service Aeromedical Research Panel Fall Technical Meeting. "Air-to-Air Target Detection." (November 1984)
8) Federal Aviation Agency. "Collision Avoidance Seminar Series." Presented Seminars Throughout Northeastern United States. (April 1987-1992)
9) Society for Research Administrators, Boston, Massachusetts. "U.S. Navy Clinical Investigation Program." (October 1988)
10) American Optometric Association Conference, Nashville, Tennessee. "Computer Generated Mid-Air Collision Avoidance Scenarios and Carrier Landings." (December 1990)
11) Laser Technology Course, Northeastern State University College of Optometry, Tahlequah, Oklahoma. "Laser Hazards." (March 1992)
12) Subcommittee on Common Education, Missouri Southern State College, Joplin, Missouri. "Cardiovascular Disease." (November 1992)
13) University Therapeutics Course, Northeastern State University College of Optometry, Tahlequah, Oklahoma. "Herpes Simplex: Diagnosis, Management, and Treatment." (1994)
14) University Therapeutics Course, Northeastern State University College of Optometry, Tahlequah, Oklahoma. "Punctal Plugs." (1994)
15) American Optometric Association, State Legislative Conference, St. Louis, Missouri. "About Optometric Education." (September 1994)
16) Armed Forces Optometric Society Conference, Pensacola, Florida. "Diabetes: Current Classification and Management." (October 1994)
17) American Academy of Optometry. "Cornea-Copia: Debridement, Anterior Stromal Puncture, and Morgan Lens." (December 1994-1997)
18) American Optometric Association Congress, Nashville, Tennessee. "Aviation Vision: How to Care for Aviation-Oriented Patients." (June 1995-1997)
19) Meeting of the VA Advisory Committee on Prosthetics and Special Disabilities Programs, Washington, D.C. "Eye Care." (September 1998)
20) Federal Aviation Administration, Flight Safety Seminar, Ocean City, Maryland. "How to Survive the Aviation Medical - New Technology for Pilots Vision." (September 1999)

Publications
1) "Retrolental Fibroplasia: Efficacy of Vitamin E in a Double-Blind Clinical Study of Pre-Term Infants," Hittner, H.M., Godio, L.B., Rudolph, A.J., Adams, J.M., Garcia-Pratz, J.A., Friedman, Z, Kautz, J.A., and Monaco, W.A., New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 305, December 1981, Pages 1365-71.
2) "The Effect of Vitamin E on the Incidence and Severity of Retinopathy of Prematurity," Ph.D. Thesis, June 1981.
3) "Retrolental Fibroplasia: Efficacy of Vitamin E in a Double-Blind Clinical Study of Pre-Term Infants," Hittner, H.M., Godio, L.B., Rudolph, A.J., Adams, J.M., Garcia-Pratz, J.A., Friedman, Z., Kautz, J.A., and Monaco, W.A., Special Ross Laboratories (Booklet) 1982.
4) "Ultrastructural Evaluation of the Retina in Retinopathy of Prematurity and Correlations with Vitamin E Therapy," Monaco, W.A., Current Eye Research, Volume 2, October 1982, Pages 123-140.
5) "Dietary Manipulation as a Potential Means of Extending Visual Performance," Monaco, W.A., Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine, Abstract, 1982, Page 65.
6) "Distribution of Visual Characteristics of Naval Aviation Personnel," Baisden, A.G., Monaco, W.A., Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory Report, 1983.
7) "Dark Focus: Intersubject Variations, Intrasubject Stability, and Relationship to Near Retinoscopy," Monaco, W.A., Knowlton, C.G., Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory Report, 1984.
8) "Air-to-Air Target Detection," Monaco, W.A., Tri-Service Aeromedical Research Panel Proceedings, Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory Report, November 13-14, 1984.
9) "Instrument Speed Reading and Piloting Performance," Knowlton, C.G., Pulicicchio, L.U., Monaco, W.A., Martin, B.S., Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory Report, 1985.
10) "Improving Air-to-Air Target Detection," Hamilton, P.V., and Monaco, W.A., Wings of Gold, Winter 1986.
11) "FLOLS and Carrier Landing Performance," Temme, L., and Monaco, W.A., Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory Report, 1986.
12) "Night Vision: Current Research and Future Directions," Johnson, C.A., Leibowitz, H.W., Carr, R.E., Kinney, J., Markous, W., Monaco, W.A., and Pitts, D.G., National Academy Press, 1987.
13) "Aging Vision and Aircrew Performance," Monaco, W.A., Professional Pilot Magazine, March 1988.
14) "Is 20/20 Enough," Monaco, W.A., Professional Pilot Magazine, March 1988.
15) "Nutrition and Pilot Performance," Monaco, W.A., Professional Pilot Magazine, November 1989.
16) "The Rhesus Monkey as an Animal Model for Age-Related Maculopathy," Monaco, W.A., and Wormington, C.M., Optometry and Vision Science, Volume 67, July 1990, Pages 532-537.
17) "Spectacles, Contacts, and Surgery Effects on Pilot Performance," Monaco, W.A., Professional Pilot Magazine, Volume 24, No. 9, September 1990, Pages 74-75.
18) "What Pilots Should Ask The Eye Doctor," Monaco, W.A., Professional Pilot Magazine, Volume 25, No. 11, October 1991, Pages 74-76.
19) "Optometrists Have Responsibilities Under ADA," Monaco, W.A., The Multidisciplinary Practice Section Horizon, May 1993.
20) "Aviation Optometry Involves Providing Basic Eye Care to Pilots," Monaco, W.A., The Multidisciplinary Practice Section Horizon, May 1994.
21) "Laser Safety," Textbook Chapter "Optometry and Lasers," Editors Talley, D., and Carr, L., Plenum Press, 1995.
22) "Educators' Involvement Needed in Legislative Efforts," Monaco, W.A., Journal of American Schools and Colleges of Optometry, February 1995.
23) "Proceedings of the 1992 Northeastern State University Symposium on Theoretical and Clinical Optometry," Northeastern State University College of Optometry. Editor and Author 1996.
24) "Cost-Effectiveness in Optometric Health Care," Journal of the American Optometric Association, October 1997.
25) "Giving VA the JITRS: The New Millennium VICTORS, Providing Excellence in Healthcare Services and Value," Maino, J., and Monaco, W.A., Poster, VHA Conference, December 1997.
26) "Models for Interdisciplinary Low Vision Care," Stelmack, J., and Monaco, W.A., Poster, Center for Disease Control Annual Conference, April 1998.
27) "Credentialing and Privileging for Associated Health Professions in an Era of Managed Care," Monaco, W.A., Presentation, American Psychological Association's Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., March 1998.
28) "Post-Doctoral Training in the VA: Meeting Future Needs," Monaco, W.A., Robbins, J., and Frame, R., Presentation, American Public Health Association's 126th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 1998.
29) "When It Comes to Your Vision, Take Time to Make the Right Choice," Monaco, W.A., Professional Pilot Magazine, Volume 32, Number 10, October 1998, Pages 116-120.
30) "Glaucoma," Monaco, W.A., Professional Pilot Magazine, Volume 33, Number 6, June 1999, Pages 98-100.
31) "The Sustained Importance of Vision in Collision Avoidance" Monaco, William A., AOPA Pilot Magazine (In Review)
32) "Team Role of Optometry in a Managed Care System" Monaco, William A., Primary & Ambulatory Care Environment Consensus Conference Proceedings, Veterans Health Administration, Nov. 3, 1997
33) "Eye Care in the VA" Monaco, William A., Veteran's Health Systems Journal November 1999
34) "Eye Care Tips For Safe Flying" Monaco, Willaim A., Weekend Flyers, Fall 1999
35) "Contact Lenses Present Flight Crewmembers With Benefits, Unique Risks" Monaco, William A., Flight Safety Foundation - Human Factors & Aviation Medicine, Vol.47 No.2, March-April 2000
36) "LASIK eye surgery Cutting, shaving and bending for better vision. Is it for you?" Monaco, William A., Professional Pilot, April 2000, Pages 102-104