Administrative

Since 2000 Dr. Gehlbach has been an integral part of the administration of the Retina Division at the Wilmer Eye Institute, beginning as the Inaugural Director of the Wilmer GeneVector Core at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine until 2004-2008.

From 2005 to 2007 he was the Director of the Wilmer Gene Therapy Center. He directed founding operational activity including CRB2 space development, equipment ordering/installation/testing, negotiating access to vector technology, developing a vector inventory, training staff and establishing a core function for producing custom adenovirus, recombinant adeno associated virus and lentivirus, gene therapy vectors for the broader Johns Hopkins Research Community.

Dr Gehlbach continued from 2008 to 2013 as Director of the Retina Fellowship program. He brought the program into full AUPO compliance for the first time; reduced the number of trainees to provide competitive volume of surgery; implemented objective online fellow evaluations and also implemented program evaluations by fellows; introduced flexible fellow assignments such that movement from clinic to surgical assignments was enabled.

He is currently director of the Echnography Center at the Wilmer Eye Institute, starting in 2012, and a Clinician Expert/Opthalmology Liason betweent the Wilmer Eye Institute and the Whiting School of Engineering. He is jointly appointed and funded in both areas with continuous bridging research programs in ophthalmological microsurgical tool development.

At present Dr. Gehlbach serves in a leadership role on the peri-operative committee and the executive peri-operative counsel.