UT Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine

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Academic Faculty

Professors
Barrett G. Haik, MD, FACS (Chair)
Edward Chaum, MD, PhD
Richard D. Drewry, Jr., MD, FACS
*
James. C. Fleming, MD, FACS
Eldon E. Geisert, Jr., PhD
Ralph S. Hamilton, MD
Roger L. Hiatt, Sr., MD
*
Dianna A. Johnson, PhD
Natalie C. Kerr, MD, FACS
R. Christopher Walton, MD, MHA
Matthew W. Wilson, MD, FACS

Associate Professors
Alessandro Iannaccone, MD, MS
Monica M. Jablonski, PhD
William R. Morris, MD
Jena J. Steinle, PhD

Assistant Professors
Mary Ellen Hoehn, MD
Elliott M. Kanner, MD, PhD
Thomas O'Donnell, MD
Andreea E. Partal, MD
Kathryn L. Reed, MD
Tonia S. Rex, PhD
Sarwat Salim, MD, FACS

Instructors
John M. Freeman, MD
Brendan P. Girschek, MD
Heather Hancock, MD
Maria Kirzhner, MD

Scott D. Lawrence, MD
Alan E. Oester, MD

Yevgeniy (Eugene) Shildkrot, MD

* Professor Emeritus


Clinical Faculty

Professors
Steven Charles, MD
Jerre M. Freeman, MD
Thomas C. Gettelfinger, MD
Ivan Marais, MD
Spencer Thornton, MD
Audrey W. Tuberville, MD
Ralph Wesley, MD
Thomas O. Wood, MD

Associate Professors
Howard L. Beale, MD
Brian S. Biesman, MD
Ernesto Calvo, MD
Michael A. Dyer, PhD
Fletcher Goode, MD
Andrew Lawton, MD
Peter A.D. Rubin, MD, FACS
Richard E. Sievers, MD
Ming Wang, MD, PhD

Assistant Professors
Kathryn W. Byrd, MD
Jorge I. Calzada, MD
Thomas A. Currey, MD
Roger L. Deshaies, MD
James Freeman, MD
Lawrence W. Gordon, MD
Henry T. Grizzard, MD
Ralph F. Hamilton, MD
James C. Hart, MD, MPH
J. Charles Henry, MD
Faramarz (Fred) Hidaji, MD
Tawan (Sunny) Khamapirad, MD
Sidney Kriger, MD
Melvin Litch, MD
Gary Passons, MD
William Bradford Priester, MD
Alan R. Schaeffer, MD

Instructors
Jesse M. Wesberry, MD

 
Affiliated Faculty

Erno Lindner, PhD, DSc

 

Dr. Barrett Haik

Barrett G. Haik, MD, FACS
Department Chair and Hamilton Professor
Specialty:  Ophthalmic Oncology, Orbital Disease, and Oculoplastics

The Hamilton Eye Institute
930 Madison Avenue, Suite 100

Memphis, TN 38163 
(901) 448-5883
bhaik@uthsc.edu

Education

  • BS (Biology): Centenary College, Shreveport, LA, 1973
  • Visiting Research Fellow, Oak Ridge Nat'l Laboratories, Oak Ridge, TN, 1973
  • MD: Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans, LA, 1976
  • MS (Anatomy): Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans, LA, 1985

Postgraduate Education

  • Internship (Rotating), Charity Hospital of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA, 1977
  • Residency (Ophthalmology), Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, 1977-80

Honors

  • Senior Honor Award - American Academy of Ophthalmology, 1997
  • Service Award - American Academy of Ophthalmology, 1998
  • Honor Award - American Acadey of Ophthalmology, 1999
  • Outstanding Professor of Ophthalmology - Tulane University School of Medicine, 1986-87, 1989-90, 1991-92
  • Inaugural Edwards Lecture - University of South Florida, 1997
  • Coleman Lecture - Cornell University Medical College, 2000

Certification

  • Diplomate, American Board of Ophthalmology, 1981
    • Associate Examiner, 1990-present

Professional Affiliations

  • Fellow, American College of Surgeons, 1984
    • Surgical Forum Representative
    • Advisory Council for Ophthalmic Surgery
  • Member, American Ophthalmological Society, 1991
    • Representative to the Board of Governors, 2000-present
  • Fellow, American Academy of Ophthalmology, 1982
  • Fellow, New York Academy of Medicine

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