Iowa Eye Association News Oct. 2004. Series 2, no. 39.

University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

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Resident Graduates

B. J. Dupps, MD, PhD	John Fingert, MD, PhD	Erin Holloman, MD	Jennifer Lee, MD	Judy Liu, MD

B.J. Dupps, M.D., Ph.D., is the inaugural fellow at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation/Cole Eye Institute Cornea and Refractive Surgery fellowship beginning July 1. It is a new 2-year academic fellowship consisting of 16 months of clinical rotations with 7 cornea and refractive surgery staff members and 8 months of full-time research. B.J., Gretchen, Alex (5), Christian (3) and baby #3 will be living in Bay Village, Ohio.

John Fingert, M.D., Ph.D., will remain at the University of Iowa to pursue a research fellowship in Heritable Eye Disease and Glaucoma under the mentorship of Drs. Ed Stone, Lee Alward and Young Kwon. A focus of his studies will be the molecular genetics of pigmentary glaucoma.

Erin Holloman, M.D., has moved back to her home town, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to do a private practice-based Oculoplastics Fellowship with Sterling S. Baker, M.D., with the opportunity of joining him in practice following completion of the fellowship.

Jennifer Lee, M.D., has not yet finalized her plans but will ultimately participate in a private practice on the west coast.

Judy Liu, M.D., will remain at the University of Iowa for a 2-year Vitreoretinal Fellowship.

Sara Downes graduated on July 30, 2004, from the Orthoptics Program. She has taken a position in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University Of Minnesota.