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Spring 2013 Cook County Ophthalmology Alumni Newsletter Mark Your Calendar Jun 15 ALUMNI DAY 2:30 at Cook County Hospital: Speakers: Paul Knepper, John Berdahl GRADUATION DINNER 6:30 at Scoozi 410 W. Huron Street Chicago, IL 60654 For more info, contact Dr. Lisa Thompson at [email protected] HAWAII OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING Registration free to alumni GET INVOLVED Resident Education: If you are a subspecialist in the Chicago area and would like to give residents the opportunity to see your private practice or are interested in giving a talk, please contact Dr. Lisa Thompson at [email protected] Tax-Deductible Donations: If you are interested in donating to the program, see our website at www.cookcountyophthalmology.org What’s new for the program? Hawaiian Getaway Through the generosity of alumnus Dr. Ming Chen, residents have been given the opportunity to spend a week in Honolulu to conduct a research project and have exposure to LenSx phacoemusification. Pathology Webinar The program has added a monthly webinar with Deepak Edward to supplement resident education on ophthalmic pathology County Case Files A 39 year-old white male with no significant past medical history except alcohol abuse presented with complaints of 2 months of painless vision loss OU. He had been given 20 mg of prednisone TID by an outside ophthalmologist but was lost to follow-up. He had significant bilateral epithelial defects on presentation and on day two presented with a corneal perforation OS as seen in the photo to the left. Welcome New Hires MOHAMMED ADENWALLA, who completed a vitreoretinal fellowship at the University of British Columbia, is now working part-time as a volunteer KENYA WILLIAMS , who completed an oculoplastics fellowship at Allegheny General Hospital, is now on staff two days a week What’s next for our graduates? Michael Giovingo Specialty: Glaucoma Program: Massachusetts Eye and Ear Institute Augustine Hong Specialty: Cornea Program: Washington University in St. Louis Jeff Wongskhaluang Specialty: Cornea Program: University of Missouri For the diagnosis, please visit our website: www.cookcountyophthalmology.org Aug 3

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Spring 2013

Cook County Ophthalmology Alumni Newsletter

Mark Your Calendar Jun 15 ALUMNI DAY

2:30 at Cook County Hospital: Speakers: Paul Knepper, John Berdahl

GRADUATION DINNER 6:30 at Scoozi 410 W. Huron Street Chicago, IL 60654

For more info, contact Dr. Lisa Thompson at [email protected]

HAWAII OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING Registration free to alumni

GET INVOLVED

Resident Education: If you are a subspecialist in the Chicago area and would like to give residents the opportunity to see your private practice or are interested in giving a talk, please contact Dr. Lisa Thompson at [email protected] Tax-Deductible Donations: If you are interested in donating to the program, see our website at www.cookcountyophthalmology.org

What’s new for the program? Hawaiian Getaway Through the generosity of alumnus Dr. Ming Chen, residents have been given the opportunity to spend a week in Honolulu to conduct a research project and have exposure to LenSx phacoemusification.

Pathology Webinar The program has added a monthly webinar with Deepak Edward to supplement resident education on ophthalmic pathology

County Case Files A 39 year-old white male with no significant past medical history except alcohol abuse presented with complaints of 2 months of painless vision loss OU. He had been given 20 mg of prednisone TID by an outside ophthalmologist but was lost to follow-up. He had significant bilateral epithelial defects on presentation and on day two presented with a corneal perforation OS as seen in the photo to the left.

Welcome New Hires

MOHAMMED ADENWALLA, who completed a vitreoretinal fellowship at the University of British Columbia, is now working part-time as a volunteer

KENYA WILLIAMS , who completed an oculoplastics fellowship at Allegheny General Hospital, is now on staff two days a week

What’s next for our graduates? Michael Giovingo Specialty: Glaucoma Program: Massachusetts Eye and Ear Institute

Augustine Hong Specialty: Cornea Program: Washington University in St. Louis

Jeff Wongskhaluang Specialty: Cornea Program: University of Missouri

For the diagnosis, please visit our website: www.cookcountyophthalmology.org

Aug 3