Being a Renaissance Man with Doctor and Inventor Arnie Prywes, MD - 014

My Dad Arnold Prywes is a true Renaissance Man. By trade, he is a
physician and an inventor, but he is also an entrepreneur, a
sculptor, a photographer, an architect, and a terrific
father. He has been Chief of the Glaucoma Service at the
Northwell Department of Ophthalmology since 1981. An Associate
Clinical Professor at the Northwell-Hofstra and NYU School of
Medicine, he is currently President of the New York State
Ophthalmological Society and has served as President of the Long
Island Ophthalmological Society, Nassau County Medical Society
and Nassau Academy of Medicine. My Dad is a Fellow of the
American College of Surgeons and Fellow and past Councilor of the
 American Academy of Ophthalmology. He has also been listed
in the Castle-Connolly Guide to Top Doctors for well over a
decade. He has been involved in clinical care, teaching and
research as founding partner of Glaucoma Consultants of Long
Island and Eye Care Associates. He also holds multiple patents,
one of which () is completing FDA clinical trials and is being
used in Europe and Canada.


My Dad has enjoyed art (photography, ceramics, sculpture,
architecture) as an avocation throughout his medical career. His
more recent work has been inspired by his mentor of more than 25
years, the museum sculptor Rhoda Sherbell. His work has been
exhibited at Allied Artists of America and Audubon Artists of
America at the Salmagundi Club in New York City. He was also an
All-City lineman for the Stuyvesant High School football team,
because why not?