Dr. Monte A Del Monte, MD, received his undergraduate and medical degrees from John’s Hopkins University in 1974.  He completed a complete residency in Pediatrics at the Harvard Boston Children’s Hospital Medical Center and a residency in Ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute where he served as chief resident and assistant chief of service in 1982.  He also completed postdoctoral fellowship training in ocular biochemistry and genetics at the Wilmer Institute and in pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus at the National Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Washington D.C.  Dr. Del Monte is board certified in ophthalmology.  He is a past member of the Board of Directors of the American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, past president of the American Orthoptic Council, past president of the Costenbader Society and has served as committee chair of numerous committees on the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, The American Orthoptic Council, the Joint Commission for Allied Health Professionals in Ophthalmology (JCAHPO) and the American Board of Ophthalmology. He has lectured and performed Medical Mission teaching and clinical care widely throughout the world with ORBIS and other organizations and has presented 57 invited, guest, keynote and named lectures.  He has been founder and director of the Pediatric Ophthalmology Fellowship Program at the University of Michigan from 1988-2019, training clinical and research fellows from the United States and many countries throughout the world.  He has also been medical director of the AOC accredited Orthoptic Training Program at the University of Michigan with program directors Ida Iaccobucci and Bruce Furr.  He is an international expert on pediatric cataracts as well as pediatric and adult strabismus and strabismus surgery and has been involved in developing new treatment protocols and surgical techniques; especially for the treatment of cranial nerve palsies, complex strabismus, lost or damaged extraocular muscles and Thyroid Eye Disease.  He has also done extensive research in the cell biology and tissue culture of human retinal pigment epithelium, was among the first to report the successful culture of differentiated human Retinal Pigment Epithelium (hRPE) and was involved in the early research involving the biochemistry and culture of other human ocular tissues for the study of inborn errors of metabolism such as cystinosis, mucopolysaccharidosis and lipidoses.  Recently he has emphasized International Ophthalmology practice and teaching leading the Ophthalmology department's efforts in establishing a successful ophthalmology residency in Ethiopia and pediatric ophthalmology fellowship in Ghana as well as teaching and medical mission work around the world.  He is currently Active Emeritus Professor of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Professor of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, all at the University of Michigan, and past Director of Ophthalmology at the Mott Children’s Hospital.