Our Doctors M. Alan Dickens, M.D., P.C. Timothy D. Jordan, M.D. Bobby Gupta, M.D. Edward J. McGrory, M.D. Van B. Noah, M.D., F.A.C.S. Charles H. Robinson, Jr., M.D. Paul S. Riske, M.D., P.C.

Van B. Noah, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Board Certified in Ophthalmology

EDUCATION
Graduate of Needham Broughton High school in Raleigh, N.C. 1958
North Carolina State University, 1962, B.S. in Nuclear Physics with high honors: Phi Kappa Phi National Honorary Fraternity; Sigma Pi Sigma National Physics Honorary Fraternity
Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, N.C. 1966; Z. Smith Reynolds Scholarship winner
Internship: Straight surgery N.C. Baptist Hospital, Winston-Salem, N.C. 1967
Residency in Ophthalmology: Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia, under DuPont Guerry, M.D. 1967-70; N.I.H. Reserch Fellowship concurrent with clinical residency.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING BACKGROUND
Research experience concurrent with ophthalmic residency namely, N.I.H. Research Fellowship for three years. This consisted of research in glaucoma and in laser technology. Teaching experience has comprised of an affiliation as a clinical associate professor with the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of North Carolina Medical School 1979, the responsibility of which has been assisting of residents in their surgery at Dorothea Dix Hospital. Other endeavors have included participation in the Retinitis Pigmentosa Clinic at the Duke Eye Center in 1974 as Clinical Associate. Clinical Associate, Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University 1976-79

MILITARY
U.S. Navy, Medical Corps, Lieutenant Commander, July 1970, Department of Ophthalmology, Naval Hospital, Great Lakes Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois. December 1970 thru November 1971, Chief of Ophthalmology, U.S.S. Sanctuary, Naval Hospital shop, Republic of South Vietnam. Awarded Vietnamese Armed Forces Service medal, First Class, for surgery performed on Vietnamese soldiers with ophthalmic injuries. 1972, Department of Ophthalmology, Naval Hospital, Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida.

CERTIFICATION
American Board of Ophthalmology, October 1972
American College of Surgeons 1991


HOSPITAL AFFILIATION
Rex Hospital
Raleigh Community Hospital
Wake County Medical Center
Blue Ridge Ambulatory Surgery Center
Western Wake Hospital


ORGANIZATIONS
Fellow, American college of Surgeons
Fellow, American Academy of Ophthalmology
Member, Wake County Medical Society
    past Treasurer, and past member Executive Council
Member, North Carolina Medical Society, twice past delegate
Member, American Medical Associates
Member, Contact Lens Association of Ophthalmologists
Member, American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
Member, North Carolina Society of Ophthalmology
Former Member, Board of Directors, capital Area PSRO
Former President, Vice-President and Member Board of Directors, Blue Ridge Ambulatory Surgical Center
Secretary of Staff and Member of Executive Committee of Rex Hospital, 1976-1977
Member, Physicians Liaison Committee, N.C. Industrial Commission for 15 years
Member, Legislative Committee, Wake County Medical Society 1997,1998
Member, Legislative Committee, N.C. Medical Society 1998
Head of Legislative committee, N.C. Society of Eye Physicians and surgeons, 1998
Chief of Ophthalmic Section of Surgery Department of Rex Hospital, 1998 to present
Member, Executive surgical Department Committee, Rex Hospital, 1998- present

PUBLICATIONS
"The Effect of the Flexner Report on North Carolina Medical Schools", North Carolina Medical Journal. 26:12, December 1965
"The Effect of 1-Norepinephrine on the Facility of Outflow in Normal Buphthalmic Rabbits", Acta Ophthalmologica. Vol. 49: 388-409, 1971.
"The Effect of Ascorbic Acid on the Facility of Outflow in Normal and Buphthalmic Rabbits", Acta Ophthalmologica. 49: 410-17, 1971.
"The Effect of Pulsed Ruby Laser on Retinal Pigment Epithelium in vitro", Acta Ophthalmologica. 49: 856-65, 1971.
"Genetic Counseling in Retinitis Pigmentosa", Medical College of Virginia Quarterly. Volume 8, 1972