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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. Alessandro Iannaccone

Alessandro Iannaccone, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Visual  Electrophysiology and Hereditary
Specialty: Retinal Diseases

The Hamilton Eye Institute
930 Madison Avenue, Room 756
Memphis, TN 38163 
(901) 448-7831
iannacca@utmem.edu

Education

  • MD, University of Rome, Italy


Postgraduate Education
  • Residency, School of Ophthalmology, Institute of Ophthalmology, University of Rome, Italy
  • Postdoctural Research Fellowship, Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN
  • Masters of Science in Epidemiology, College of Graduate Health Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN


Professional Affiliations
  • Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
  • International Society for Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision
  • American Academy of Ophthalmology
  • International Society for Eye Research
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • International Society for Genetic Eye Disease
  • Italian Society of Ophthalmology
  • Italian Society of Pediatric Ophthalmology
  • Research to Prevent Blindness (Ophthalmological Associate Member)
  • Memphis Eye Society
  • Downtown Memphis Lions Club

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