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Offices OCB Boston, Boston Eye Surgery & Laser Center Specialties Glaucoma, Cataract, Surgery of the Anterior Segment Medical School/Degree Boston University Medical School Residency Yale-New Haven Hospital, Yale University School of Medicine Biography Dr. Bellows was raised in Manchester, New Hampshire and graduated from Manchester Central High School. He graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, majoring in psychology and played football for four years while completing pre-med requirements. He attended Boston University School of Medicine and did a straight medical internship at the University Hospital and a year of residency in internal medicine at the Boston V.A. Hospital. He was a Captain in the United States Air Force, stationed in Libya, North Africa and practiced internal medicine while caring for all military personnel as well as delivering medical care to the king and queen of Libya and as acting as the attending physician for the American Ambassador during a trip to the deep Sahara Desert. Dr. Bellows returned to the United States to a residency in ophthalmologist at the Yale-New Haven Hospital for four years. He was Chief Resident at Yale in 1970. While a resident and following his residency, Dr. Bellows delivered ophthalmic care to patients at the Hopital Albert Schweitzer in Deschepelle, Haiti. His family, a wife and two children, accompanied him during a six month period in Haiti. He then returned to the United States as a fellow in glaucoma under the direction of Dr. W. Morton Grant at Harvard and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. Following the year of fellowship he developed a research laboratory at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and established a practice in ophthalmology and glaucoma at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. In 1974, Dr. Bellows joined Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston as its fourth member and during this time of establishing a clinical practice, he developed a surgical teaching lab and conducted Ophthalmology Grand Rounds at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. Dr. Bellows was president of the ophthalmology staff at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary as well as chairman of the Pharmacy Committee, a member of the OR committee and a member of the Board of Surgeons. Since establishing a clinical practice in ophthalmology, Dr. Bellows has participated in clinical research resulting in more than 50 publications in refereed ophthalmic journals. He has written more than 13 book chapters and holds academic positions at Harvard and Tufts Universities. He has continued to lecture on glaucoma and cataract nationally and internationally as well as participating as a visiting professor and presenting three named lectureships. He has continued to teach medical students and residents at Harvard, Tufts and Boston University as well as serving as the past director of the Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston-Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and now Tufts University Glaucoma Fellowship. He has been involved in teaching glaucoma fellows for more than 25 years. As a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, Dr. Bellows has been recognized for the Academyís Honor Award and Senior Honor Award. He also participated in a six-year membership of the POACE (Practicing Ophthalmology Advisory Committee on Education) and the Academyís annual program committee. On a national level, Dr. Bellows served on the board of directors of the American Glaucoma Society and the New England Ophthalmological Society. Bellows is married to Dr. Jean F. Bellows, a trauma psychologist and professor. They have two sons and a daughter as well as two (boy-girl) twin grandchildren. He spends his free time gardening and boating in Deer Isle, Maine and continues to actively grow orchids and avidly participate in fresh and salt water fly fishing. Bellows has developed a practice to care for the most advanced problems in glaucoma and continues to operate on complex surgical problems in cataract and glaucoma. His principal effort is to deliver the very best of care and advice to patients and referring physicians as well as to remain active in teaching and research. Back to All Doctors |
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