Irving H. Leopold; Ophthalmologist to Presidents

Irving H. Leopold, 78, an ophthalmologist whose patients included Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon and an expert on treatments for the eye, especially those involving antibiotics and chemotherapy. Leopold, a past chairman of the American Board of Ophthalmology, also was a professor and chairman of the ophthalmology department at UC Irvine, the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and the University of Pennsylvania. He also had directed the medical affairs division of Allergan, an Irvine-based company that manufactures drugs for eye diseases. In Newport Beach on Monday of heart failure.