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Professors
Barrett G. Haik, MD, FACS
(Chair)
Edward Chaum, MD, PhD
Richard D. Drewry, Jr., MD, FACS*
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
Kenneth H. Fung, MD
Heather Hancock, MD
Maria Kirzhner, MD
Michele Scott, MD
Yevgeniy (Eugene) Shildkrot, MD
Mary E. Smith, MPH, RDMS
* Professor Emeritus
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
Howard L. Beale, MD
Brian S. Biesman, MD
Ernesto Calvo, MD
Fletcher Goode, MD
Andrew Lawton, MD
Peter A.D. Rubin, MD, FACS
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
Jorge I. Calzada, MD
John Freeman, MD
Erno Lindner, PhD
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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
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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
Committees
- 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
Awards and Honors
- Achievement Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology
- Honor Award, American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and
Strabismus (2005)
- Best Doctors in America® (2006)
Research Interests
- 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
Current Projects
- Study of unilateral high myopia with OCT
- Visual field and cataract studies
Recent Presentations
- 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 31st
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 31st
Annual Meeting, Orlando: March 10, 2005.
- Kerr NC. "Understanding strabismus: terminology to clinical
evaluation." JCAHPO 32nd 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.
Recent Publications
- 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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