ROBERT LATKANY, M.D., a board-certified ophthalmologist, is the founder and director of the Dry Eye Clinic at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary as well as the Dry Eye Center of New York, the first center in the area devoted to dry eye disorders. A graduate of Columbia University and the Boston University School of Medicine, he now lives and practices in the New York area, where he is actively involved in dry eye research. He is the author of Dry Eye Remedy.