A Century of Board Directors.

The selection of directors of the American Board of Ophthalmology (ABO) initially was carried out by the 3 founding organizations of the ABO: the American Medical Association, the American Ophthalmological Society, and the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology. Since 1982, the ABO has chosen its own directors and, in 2001, began adding public directors. It is only in recent years that women comprise an increasing proportion of ABO directors.