Resident Alumni Meetings

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A dream team came this year with two alumni: Dr. Johnny Gayton (Class of 1983) and Dr. Neill Shmunes (Class of 1985). Dr. Shmunes' daughter (Kathryn Shmunes-Class of 2019) was wrapping up her second year of residency during this meeting. The meeting was held in the Ballroom of the associated liberal arts university. The recently renovated Partridge Inn was where the graduation banquet was held.

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Just across the Savannah River in North Augusta, SC is the beautiful Municipal Building and their conference center was used for this meeting. High enough to see the surrounding area including Augusta, Georgia we settled in there for our meeting. The guests came from as far away as Texas and California highlighting research related topics and subjects germane to the practice of Ophthalmology.

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This year's meeting will have a focus on neuro-ophthalmology and oculoplastics. Each of the speakers has a special connection to the department. Dr. Joeseph Chacko is our alumni speaker from the class of 1995. He is also one of our graduates in an academic post. Dr. Jeff Odel hosts 1-3 of our second year residents at Columbia University each year. Dr. Zane Pollard's group has recently been joined by Dr. Shivani Sethi who is an alumnus of the 2014 class.

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In 2014 we had our first all-alumni meeting and in 2015 we will again invite alumni as speakers. This worked out very well last year and is wonderful to see the expertise of our alumni as they are in practice.

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This year the meeting will take on a different look as all of the speakers will be alumni. In the looking out to our alumni for where their careers have taken them we hope to interconnect some of our recent graduates with our residents.

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The 50th graduating class finishes this year. That is a big milestone. A key player in the education of the residents in our department has been Dr. Fleetwood Maddox. For many years our residents would travel to Macon to work with Dr. Maddox. Those days have slipped by now, but many fond memories surrounded those interactions. Dr. Maddox was instrumental in the American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus. The First Fleetwood Maddox Lecture will be this year.

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Our two speakers this year will be presenting a package of lectures which should give great insights into the cornea. Giving the 10th Annual David S. Hull Lecture is Dr. Alan Sugar whose career long research aims have had a tremendous impact on corneal transplantation. Dr. Yousuf Khalifa is one of our first alumni invited back as a speaker at our meeting. His career path is also in cornea but he has supplemented that with uveitis.

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Drs. Costarides and Levine brought to this meeting a set of talks providing a diversity of information. Dyslexia is an area of particular trouble to children and families and yet remains poorly understood among eye care providers. Alongside insights into that problem Dr. Levine gave insight on vertical deviations, pediatric IOL calculation and correction of hypoglobus. Dr. Costarides, who did his Ph.D. at the Medical College of Georgia with the late Dr. Keith Green, gave lectures on the OHTS, glaucoma surgical options and alternative therapies in glaucoma.

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