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Carter Appointed New UI Ophthalmology Department Head
see also the News Release from the University of Iowa News Service
Keith D. Carter, M.D., Professor of Ophthalmology and a member of the Oculoplastic Service was chosen to succeed Dr. Thomas A. Weingeist as Head of the University of Iowa Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences effective January 1, 2006.
Dr. Carter has been on the Ophthalmology Faculty since 1988 and has held a joint appointment to the Otolaryngology faculty since 2001. He received a B.S. in Pharmacy from Purdue University (1979) and received his medical degree from Indiana University (1983). After completing a residency at the W. K. Kellogg Eye Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, he did a fellowship in Oculoplastics and Orbital Surgery at the UI Department of Ophthalmology.
Dr. Carter is the member of numerous professional organizations and has served as treasurer for the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and as recording secretary and president of the American Eye Study Club. He serves on the Eye M.D. Residents’ Program Task Force of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) and is the AAO’s representative to the National Medical Association. He has served on the Task Force for Managing the ACGME Competency Mandate. In 1998, he received an AAO Honor Award.
At the University of Iowa he has served on countless panels and committees including the Graduate Medical Education Committee which he has chaired since 2003, the Ophthalmology Residents Selection Committee (chair since 1999), The College of Medicine Collegiate Review Strategic Planning Committee, the UIHC/College of Medicine Institutional Leadership Development Program, the UI Board in Control of Athletics, the Committee for the Medically Underserved-Mentor Program, and the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics Performance, Value and Service Management Committee.
Dr. Carter is the author of over 50 articles and chapters. His areas of research interest include orbital inflammatory disease, anophthalmic socket reconstruction, and cutaneous neoplasms.
