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Sept. 2002, Series 2, No. 37


In this issue:

New Faculty Members

Richard J. Olson, MD
Pediatric Ophthalmology & Strabismus

Nasreen A. Syed, MD
Ocular Pathology

Dr. OlsonIn July, Richard J. Olson, MD, joined the faculty of the Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences as Associate Professor of Ophthalmology in the Pediatric Ophthalmology & Adult Strabismus Service. Prior to his appointment at the University of Iowa, he was Assistant Professor of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus at the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

Dr. Olson has a Bachelor of Arts degree in music with minors in chemistry and English from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, where he graduated Magna cum Laude. He received his MD degree from the University of Utah where he also interned in medicine and ophthalmology. From 1992 to 1997, he was an ophthalmology resident and then a fellow in Pediatric Ophthalmology & Strabismus at the University of Iowa Department of Ophthalmology. He is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and was the 1996 recipient of the Leinfelder Fellow Research Award.

He is an investigator in the Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group and the Amblyopia Treatment Study. He is also interested in the development and application of a Web-based Vision Screening Tool.

Dr. SyedIn September 2002, Nasreen A. Syed, MD, will be joining the faculty as Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of the F. C. Blodi Ocular Pathology Laboratory.

Dr. Syed comes to the University of Iowa from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine where she was Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Pathology, and Director of the Scheie Eye Institute Eye Pathology Laboratory.

Dr. Syed earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in biology and chemistry from the University of Missouri, Kansas City where she also graduated from medical school. She interned at Truman Medical Center/St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas. She was an ophthalmology resident at the Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She did a fellowship in Ophthalmic Pathology and Uveitis under Drs. Morton E. Smith and Daniel Albert at the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison.

Dr. Syed's research interests include ophthalmic pathology, uveitis, and retinal degenerations.

The Iowa Eye Reception will be held on Monday, October 21 at 6:30 p.m., at the Peabody Orlando Hotel.
Please plan to join us during the American Academy of Ophthalmology Annual Meeting 2002.

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