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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

Natalie C. Kerr, MD Hiatt Professor of Ophthalmology Director, Residency Program Specialty: Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus The Hamilton Eye Institute 930 Madison Avenue, Room 498 Memphis, TN 38163  (901) 448-7484 nkerr@utmem.edu

Education

• BS, Davidson College
• MD, University of Florida
• Transitional Residency, Lloyd Noland Hospital
• Residency (Ophthalmology), University of Florida
• Fellowship (Pediatric Ophthalmology), University of Tennessee, Memphis

• Advisory Council, Assistant Dean for Faculty Development (UT)
• UTMG Audit Committee
• Residency Program Director, UT Department of Ophthalmology
• Division Consultant, LeBonheur Children's Medical

Professional Society Offices

• American Academy of Ophthalmology
  • AAO Representative to American Orthoptic Council
    • Chair, Bylaws Committee, 2003-2004
    • Co-chair, Examination committee, 2004-present
    • Co-chair, "Sunday Night Symposium" for AAO Meeting 2005 (topic: vision screening)
• American College of Surgeons
  • Member, Committee for the Forum on Fundamental Surgical Problems
  • Member, Advisory Council for Ophthalmic Surgery
  • Pediatric ophthalmic surgery representative on the "Ophthalmic Community" for the ACS web portal
• American Academy of Pediatric Ophthalmology & Strabismus

• Achievement Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology
• Honor Award, American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (2005)
• Best Doctors in America^® (2006)

• Child abuse
• Vision/photorefractive screening
• Visual field testing in children
• Cataractogenesis following treatment for cancer in children
• Yag laser capsulotomy for management of posterior capsular opacity in children
• Thyroid ophthalmology

• Study of unilateral high myopia with OCT 
• Visual field and cataract studies

• Kerr NC. "Ophthalmic issues in children: vision loss and genetic disease." Invited lecture. Gumtree Family Practice Meeting, Tupelo, MS: May 6, 2005.
• Hoehn ME, Kerr NC. "Visual field testing as an indicator of brain tumor progression in children." Poster. American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus 31^st Annual Meeting, Orlando: March 12, 2005.
• Kerr NC, Chen Y, Somes G, Lewis JWL. "The effect of developmental delay and type of strabismus on the reliability of photorefractive screening in young children." Poster. American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus 31^st Annual Meeting, Orlando: March 10, 2005.
• Kerr NC. "Understanding strabismus: terminology to clinical evaluation." JCAHPO 32^nd Annual Continuing Education Program, New Orleans: October 26, 2004
• Kerr NC, Haik B, Fleming JC, Netland PA, Wilson MW. "Thyroid eye disease management from A to Z." Instructional Course at the American Academy of Ophthalmology Annual Meeting, New Orleans: October 25, 2004.

• Kerr NC. "Fat adherence syndrome: an animal model." Journal of the American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus 8(4): 349-56, 2004.
• Ashmore ED, Kerr NC, Greenwald MA, Chaum E. "Natural history of acquired retinal oxalosis in a child." Journal of Pediatic Ophthalmology and Strabismus 41(5): 1-4, Sep/Oct 2004.
• Kerr NC. "Management of strabismus following orbital fracture repair." American Orthoptic Journal 54: 24-31, 2004.
• Chaum E, Kerr NC, Kaste SC, Galindo CR, Haik BG. "A 5-year-old girl who failed her school vision screening." Digital Journal of Ophthalmology, 2004. Available online.
• Kerr NC, Arnold RW. "Vision screening for children: current trends, technology, and legislative issues." Current Opinion in Ophthalmology 15: 454-9, 2004.
• Hargrove RN, Fleming JC, Kerr NC. "Brown's syndrome in the absence of an intact superior oblique muscle." Journal of the American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus 8(5): 507-8, October 2004.
• Mahdaviani S, Higgins G, Kerr NC. "Orbital pseudotumor in a child with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis." Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus 42(3): 185-8, May/June 2005.
• Iannaccone A, Sarkisian SR, Kerr NC, Morris WR. "The genetic of glaucoma, cataracts, and corneal dystrophies." Comprehensive Ophthalmology Update 5: 307-26, 2004.
• Kerr NC, Arnold RW. "Vision screening for children: current trends, technology, and legislative issues." Contemporary Ophthalmology 3(22): 1-6, 2004.

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