176 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine HEALTH AND WELLNESS blinking and rapid blinking suppresses breathing. He was asked to present this paper and as a keynote speaker at a Japanese conference. While Dr. Leitman was serving as chairman of the East Brunswick Township Environmental Committee, the mayor and town council passed a resolution commending him for preventing housing on wetlands, monitoring toxic waste, and playing a role in preventing the building of a toxic waste incinerator in Edison, New Jersey, and the garbage incinerator in East Brunswick. He was rated the Number One Ophthalmologist in New Jersey by four independent organizations. He served as captain in the U.S. Army Mobile Surgical Hospital. Every year, credentialing authorities from hospitals and insurance companies ask if Dr. Leitman had any malpractice suits or negligence charges. After 50 years of surgical practice and seeing over 200,000 patients, he is fortunate to check off the “none” box. Dr. Mark W. Leitman is an ophthalmologist who has been practicing in East Brunswick, New Jersey, for over 46 years. He graduated from Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn with an NSF research grant, was captain of the varsity wrestling team for two years and received the highest service award. He attended New York Medical College, where he was elected to AOA. Dr. Leitman completed ophthalmic training at Albert Einstein Medical School, where he was chief resident and is now clinical assistant professor. He received a grant from the National Eye Institute, which resulted in the world’s first 24 hourly measurement of eye pressure, showing its lowest at 3:00 AM in all patients. He began the first edition of “Manual for Eye Examination and Diagnosis” while inmedical school. It has become the leading introductory book for ophthalmology and translated into nine languages. He donated the book to 117,000 medical students. The 11th edition will be published in 2023. In 2017, Campbell University Medical School awarded Dr. Leitman the Outstanding Ophthalmic Educator award. His research demonstrated five new eye reflexes and the discovery that there is feedback, whereby a deep breath-in suppresses MARK W. LEITMAN, MD, FACS PHYSICIAN, OPHTHALMOLOGIST East Brunswick, NJ
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