UT Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine

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Academic Faculty

Professors
Barrett G. Haik, MD, FACS (Chair)
Edward Chaum, MD, PhD
Richard D. Drewry, Jr., MD, FACS*
Robert W. Enzenauer, MD, MPH
James. C. Fleming, MD, FACS
Eldon E. Geisert, Jr., PhD
Ralph S. Hamilton, MD
Roger L. Hiatt, Sr., MD*
Dianna A. Johnson, PhD
Natalie Kerr, MD, FACS
Zeynel A. Karcioglu, MD
Malak Kotb, PhD
Peter A. Netland, MD, PhD
R. Christopher Walton, MD, MHA

Associate Professors
Elizabeth A. Fitzgerald, PhD
Alessandro Iannaccone, MD, MS

Monica M. Jablonski, PhD
William R. Morris, MD
Eniko Pivnick, MD
Matthew W. Wilson, MD

Assistant Professors
Michael A. Dyer, PhD
Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, MD
James C. Hart, MD, MPH
Mary Ellen Hoehn, MD
Syed Mazher Husain, PhD
Elliott M. Kanner, MD, PhD
Rita Kansal, PhD
Thomas O'Donnell, MD
Andreea E. Partal, MD
Tonia S. Rex, PhD
Sarwat Salim, MD, FACS
Jena J. Steinle, PhD

Instructors
John W. Boyle, IV, MD
Lidia Gardner, PhD
Carrie L. Morris, MD
Mary E. Smith, MPH, RDMS

* Professor Emeritus


Clinical Faculty

Professors
Steven Charles, MD
Jerre M. Freeman, MD
Thomas C. Gettelfinger, MD
Ivan Marais, MD
Spencer Thornton, MD
Audrey W. Tuberville, MD
Ralph Wesley, MD
Thomas O. Wood, MD

Associate Professors
Andrew Lawton, MD
Howard L. Beale, MD
Brian S. Biesman, MD
Ernesto Calvo, MD
Fletcher Goode, MD
Richard E. Sievers, MD
Ming Wang, MD

Assistant Professors
Kathryn W. Byrd, MD
Thomas A. Currey, MD
Roger L. Deshaies, MD
James Freeman, MD
Lawrence W. Gordon, MD
Henry T. Grizzard, MD
Ralph F. Hamilton, MD
J. Charles Henry, MD
Faramarz (Fred) Hidaji, MD
Sunny Khamapirad, MD
Sidney Kriger, MD
Melvin Litch, MD
Gary Passons, MD
William Bradford Priester, MD
Alan R. Schaeffer, MD

Instructors
Darren J. Bell, MD
Jorge I. Calzada, MD
John Freeman, MD
Elliott Kanner, MD

 
Affiliated Faculty

Associate Professors
Erno Lindner, PhD


Dr. Chris Walton

R. Christopher Walton, MD, MHA
Professor of Ophthalmology
Specialty: Uveitis and Ocular Inflammatory Diseases

The Hamilton Eye Institute
930 Madison Avenue, Room 482
Memphis, TN 38163  
(901) 448-2169
cwalton@utmem.edu


Education
  • BS, (Physics), University of Alabama in Birmingham
  • MD, University of South Alabama, School of Medicine

 

Postgraduate Education
  • Internship (Internal Medicine), University of South Alabama
  • Residency (Ophthalmology), Oschner Clinic, New Orleans, LA
  • Fellowship, Uveitis and Ocular Immunology, National Institutes of Health

 

Research Interests

  • Intermediate Uveitis
  • Posterior Uveitis and Panuveitis
  • Ocular Complications of HIV/AIDS

 

Certification

  • American Board of Ophthalmology

 

Professional Affiliations

  • American Academy of Ophthalmology
  • Association for Reasearch in Vision and Ophthalmology
  • American Uveitis Society





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