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Schallhorn offspring. This was not
something that was brought home,
Craig said. "When I was growing up,
he was my dad, and he was pretty
awesome because in my mind I
thought, 'This guy is a fighter pilot,
that is pretty cool,'" he said. It was
later that Steve became a physician,
and even then the kids had no in-
kling of his prominence.
Julie concurred, remember-
ing the time she attended her first
American Academy of Ophthalmol-
ogy meeting and heard what others
thought of her father. "People would
say, 'Your dad is so great.' I kept
thinking, 'Yeah, my dad is great,
duh.' I didn't understand the impact
that he had on people at that time,"
she said.
Erin recalled that as a child, she
watched rabbits undergo refractive
surgery, but also had no inkling that
others in the field knew her dad.
Still, his enthusiasm for his work
was clear. "I consider that a good
thing because it's the perspective
of seeing someone who really loves
what they're doing," she said. "That
was the infectious desire that led us
to want to join the industry."
While he never pushed his
children toward ophthalmology,
Steve acknowledged that when Craig
and Julie were in medical school
and became enamored with aspects
of brain or heart surgery, he did
talk to them about the unseen toll
that being in such fields could have
on a practitioner. "The other bit of
advice that I gave them was that in
ophthalmology you're dealing with
the most precious sense," he said.
"Helping patients maintain, restore,
and improve their vision is reward-
ing from every aspect."
Julie is glad to have taken the
advice to heart. "There's a lot less
emergency surgery and a lot less
after-hours demands (in ophthal-
mology), which is great because I
have a daughter now and it's nice to
be able to spend time with her," she
said. "It was nice for our dad when
we were growing up to be able to
spend time with us."
At home in ophthalmology
with the Schallhorns
T
he name Schallhorn is
fast becoming a power-
house in ophthalmology.
While the father, Steve C.
Schallhorn, MD, professor
of ophthalmology, University of
California, San Francisco, and global
medical director for Optical Express,
San Diego, is known as a leader in
the field, as well as a op Gun Navy
pilot, he is now far from alone. His
children Julie, Erin, and Craig are all
very much a part of the ophthalmol-
ogy world as well.
Julie M. Schallhorn, MD,
assistant professor of ophthalmolo-
gy, University of Southern Califor-
nia Eye Institute, is a practitioner
herself and her brother, Craig S.
Schallhorn, a lieutenant in the U.S.
Navy, has finished classes for his MD
and will be graduating on June 5.
Meanwhile, Erin A. Schallhorn, the
Fundingsland Group executive vice
president, Gilroy, Calif., is involved
from a business perspective.
Growing up Schallhorn
Despite their father's prominence in
helping to bring refractive surgery
to the military, entering the oph-
thalmology field was by no means a
foregone conclusion for any of the
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Steve Schallhorn, MD, with his daughters Julie (left) and Erin, in the 2012 ASCRS•ASOA
Symposium & Congress exhibit hall. This was early in Julie's residency and their first sh w
together.
