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Aaron N. Waite, MD, Third-Year Hamilton Eye Institute Resident, Receives Award From ASCRS

The UT Department of Ophthalmology is proud to congratulate Dr. Aaron N. Waite, third-year resident at the Hamilton Eye Institute (HEI), who has been awarded a $1,000 travel grant by the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. This goal of this grant is to fund the attendance of extraordinary residents at the ASCRS Annual Symposium and Congress, April 9-14, 2010, in Boston. Only ten ophthalmology residents nationwide receive this honor. Recipients are selected for exemplary performance in the areas of research, patient care, leadership and education. 

In addition to the travel grant, recipients of this award also receive complimentary symposium registration, housing, and invitations to its leadership and social events, providing excellent networking opportunities.

Dr. Waite, who was nominated for this award by HEI Residency Program Director Dr. Natalie C. Kerr, will complete his residency at HEI this summer. He then begins a fellowship at the Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Institute in Denver, Colorado, specializing in cornea and external disease.

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Local News Reports on Hamilton Eye Institute's Search for Answers in Bloody Tears Case

Local news affiliate WREG-TV Channel 3 presented a news story on Calvino Inman, a young man with bloody tears, or "haemolacria." Dr. Barrett G. Haik, Director of the Hamilton Eye Institute (HEI), and Dr. James C. Fleming, Director of the Orbit Center at HEI, who have been searching for answers to the cause of Inman's condition, were featured in the report. 
View the video on the WREG website.

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Hamilton Eye Institute Welcomes UT Medical Students for Annual "Student Day" Event

Each year at the Hamilton Eye Institute, the first Monday in February marks an event for which our clinics are opened to the entire second-year class of UT medical students. This “Student Day” is organized annually by William R. Morris, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, in cooperation with Dr. Gail Beeman, Associate Professor of Pediatrics. “Dr. Beeman is the Course Director for Doctoring: Recognizing Signs and Symptoms, and this event is just one part of that,” said Dr. Morris.

This year’s program began with a welcome address from Barrett G. Haik, MD, Hamilton Professor and Chair of the UT Department of Ophthalmology, followed by an introductory lecture on “The Eye Examination” by Dr. Morris. The event then moved to the Hamilton Eye Institute clinics. There, students separated into groups of four or five and joined ophthalmologists in examination rooms to receive instruction in ophthalmic evaluation technologies and techniques that every physician should know. 

More than thirty UT and regional private ophthalmologists and several ophthalmology residents participated in this year’s event, which was attended by 152 students. 

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