Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

What are your future plans? I’m staying on as a comprehensive ophthalmologist here at WashU! Why did you choose Ophthalmology and your specialty? You can make a tremendous impact on one’s life by helping their vision. It’s a field full of great personalities and once I realized I loved being in the OR it was […]

What are your future plans? Phoenix Children’s Hospital Why did you choose Ophthalmology and your specialty? Technology, working with kids. variety of procedures, mission work. Why did you chose WashU? Excellent pediatric ophthalmology department with comprehensive training and additional training in pediatric refractive surgery. What is your favorite memory of your fellowship? Performing pediatric refractive […]

Congratulations to Drs. Mae Gordon and Michael Kass, who have been awarded this year’s Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research by the Helen Keller Foundation for Research and Education. This is a terrific accomplishment and one that is well deserved for this remarkable pair of investigators whose work on ocular hypertension and glaucoma has changed […]

What are your featured plans? I’ll be doing a 2-year surgical retina fellowship at the University of Kentucky/Retina Associates of Kentucky starting in July. After that, who knows? Why did you choose Ophthalmology/WashU? I actually did an away rotation here during my fourth year of medical school and absolutely fell in love with the people. […]

What are your future plans? Going to backpack and fly fish out west for 3.5 months before moving to Knoxville, TN to start private practice in cornea and external disease. Why did you choose Ophthalmology and your specialty? I chose ophthalmology because one can make an incredibly positive, meaningful, lasting difference in someone’s life with […]