Dr. Lane has earned six degrees from major universities Princeton, Pennsylvania College of Optometry, SUNY, NYU, and two from Columbia degrees in philosophy of science, optometry, vision science and vision development, experimental psychology, human nutrition, and public health (with concentration in eye-disease epidemiology, nutritional epidemiology, and nutritional ophthalmology and a certificate for completion of the didactic program in Ophthalmology at Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons). Dr. Lane is a Certified Nutrition Specialist. He has been awarded fellowships in the American Assn for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Academy of Optometry, the American College of Nutrition, and the COVD. He has been a Diplomat of the Binocular Vision and Perception Section of the AAO since 1976. In 1991 he reported to the Retinal Vascular Disease session of the Assn. for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology the stunning differences in dietary and environmental risk factors between the three most common forms of macular degeneration of the eye. Similarly, he has shown that different dietary and environmental risk factors are perversely associated with promotion, respectively, of the various glaucoma pathologies and vitreous degeneration. His study on the effect of dietary indiscretions on the tear film and extended-wear contact lenses was featured on the cover of the journal Ophthalmology. His article on nutrition and macular degeneration was featured on the cover of Optometrist Management.