Iowa Eye Association News Nov. 2003. Series 2, no. 38.

University of Iowa Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

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House Staff News

Resident Graduates

Michael Grassi, MD, has received a Heed Foundation Fellowship. He will remain at Iowa to complete a medical retina fellowship. He is also a graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Edwin Stone and is working on his PhD in translational biomedical research.
Michael Hunt, MD, is remaining at the University of Iowa to complete a fellowship in Pediatric Ophthalmology.
John Kitchens, MD, has begun a 2-year fellowship in retina at Bascom Palmer in Miami.
Susan Quick, MD, has joined the private practice of St. Paul Eye in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Russell Warner, MD, has joined a private practice of ophthalmologists and an optometrist in Salem, Oregon. The ophthalmologists all did residencies here at Iowa: Drs. Dave Rowell (resident, 1984), Rick Neahring (Neuro-op fellow, 1995; resident,1998), and Scott Stice (resident, 1998).

Fellowship Graduates

Rahul T. Pandit, MD, Cornea and External Disease Fellow, joined Medical Center Ophthalmology, in Houston, Texas, a small private practice group with ties to the Baylor Department of Ophthalmology. He is a cornea and refractive specialist in addition to practicing general ophthalmology.
Emily Greenlee, MD, Glaucoma Fellow, is staying at the University of Iowa as an Associate in Glaucoma and covering some hours in the General Clinic as well (see accompanying story).
Steven Lee Goldin, MD, Neuro-Ophthalmology Fellow, at last notice was still finalizing his plans, but plans to practice both in the private sector and in academic ophthalmology in Chicago.
Scott Larson, MD, Pediatric Ophthalmology Fellow, is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology in the Pediatric/Adult Strabismus Service of the University of Utah, John Moran Eye Center, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dave Petersen, MD, Pediatric Ophthalmology Fellow, has gone into private practice in Salt Lake City, Utah. He joined a glaucoma specialist and a cornea specialist at Rocky Mountain Eye Care Associates. He replaced the incumbent pediatric ophthalmologist in the group and has bought a third-interest in the practice.
Denise Kayser, MD, Vitreoretinal Fellow, joined the North Bay Vitreoretinal Consultants, a retina-only private practice in Santa Rosa, California. She joins three other physicians in the group all of whom have Iowa ties: two are 1987 Iowa Retina Fellowship Grads, Drs. Pat Caskey and Pat Coonan; the third grew up in Cedar Rapids (Dr. Steve Meffert whose father is a surgeon in Cedar Rapids).
Karin R. Sletten, MD, Vitreoretinal Fellow, moved to Madison, Wisconsin with her husband, former faculty member, Ayad Farjo, MD. Drs. Sletten and Farjo have both joined the Davis Duehr Dean Clinic in Madison, Wisconsin with former Iowa resident, Dr. Mitch Wolf (1990).

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