Scott R Lambert received his bachelor degree from Stanford University and his medical degree from Yale University.  After completing medical school, he did a residency in ophthalmology at UC San Francisco and then a fellowship in pediatric ophthalmology in London with David Taylor and a fellowship in adult strabismus surgery with Art Jampolsky at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Institute in San Francisco.   

He then joined the faculty at Emory University as a clinician-scientist. His research at Emory focused on factors that influence the growth of an infant’s eye.  While at Emory, he received funding from the NEI for the Infant Aphakia Treatment Study and he subsequently served as the principle investigator of the study for 16 years.  In 2016, he returned to Stanford University where he is currently a Professor of Ophthalmology and Pediatrics and Chief of Ophthalmology at Stanford Children’s Health. 

Dr. Lambert has published over 230 peer-reviewed publications, 74 of them reporting on the results of the Infant Aphakia Treatment Study. He was a co-editor with Chris Lyons for the 5th and 6th editions of Taylor and Hoyt’s Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus.  He has trained 30 clinical fellows in pediatric ophthalmology and mentored 6 visiting scholars from South Korea and many medical students and residents.

He has also served as the chair of the Pediatric Ophthalmic Technology Assessment Committee for the AAO and has received the AAO and AAPOS Lifetime Achievement Awards. 

Financial disclosure: Dr. Lambert has/had no affiliation (financial or otherwise) with a commercial organization.