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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

Eldon E. Geisert, Jr., PhD Professor of Ophthalmology Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology Director, Center for Vision Research  Specialty: CNS/Retina Injury The Hamilton Eye Institute 930 Madison Ave, Ste. 718-A Memphis, TN 38163  (901) 448-7741 egeisert@utmem.edu

Education

• Undergraduate.  University of California, Irvine, BS, Biology/Chemistry, 1973
• Graduate.  University of Wisconsin, Madison, PhD, Neuroscience, 1978
• Postgraduate.  University of Wisconsin, Madison, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Psychology, 1978-1981
  
  
  

• 1972:  Honors for Undergraduate Research in Biological Sciences, UCI
• 1978-1981:  Individual NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship
• 1989:  Paul Harris Fellow
  
  
  

• Society for Neuroscience
• American Society for Cell Biology
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Sigma Xi
  
  
  

• 1973-1978 Research Assistant, Department of Anatomy, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• 1978-1981 Postdoctoral Fellow (NIH), Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• 1981-1993 Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
• 1993-2001 Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis
• 1993-2002 Director of cell and molecular biology facilities Department of Anatomy, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis
• 1998-2001 Director of Graduate Studies in Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis
• 2000-2002 Member of Search Committee, Chairperson in the Department of Molecular Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis
• 2000-present Director of Vision Core Molecular Biology Module, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis
• 2001-2003 Representative to the Faculty Senate, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis
• 2001-present Member of the Progress and Promotions Committee, UT Medical School
• 2001-present Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis
• 2002-present Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis
• 2002-present Director of the Vision Research Center, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis
• 2003-present Executive Committee Member of Neuroscience Institute

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