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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

 

Zeynel A. Karcioglu, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Specialty: ophthalmic oncology, pathology, and orbital disease

The Hamilton Eye Institute
930 Madison Avenue
Memphis, TN 38163 
(901)448-6192
zkarciog@utmem.edu

Certification

  • Diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology and the American Board of Pathology

Medical Degree

  • Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

Residency

  • (Pathology) Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
  • (Ophthalmology) Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana

Subspecialty Training

  • (Opthalmic Oncology and Orbital Disease) Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
  • (Neuropathology/Neurology) CMGH/ Case Western Reserve University,Cleveland, Ohio

Academic Title

  • Professor, Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis

Special Interest 

  • Ophthalmic Oncology
  • Orbital Diseases and Surgery 
  • Ophthalmic Pathology and Clinical Research

Professional Memberships

  • American Academy of Ophthalmology, Fellow 
  • International Academy of Pathology (U.S. - Canadian Division) 
  • The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 
  • International Society of Orbital Disorders (ISOD) 
  • American College of Pathologists, Fellow 

Awards & Honors

  • Outstanding Faculty Award, by Tulane Ophthalmology Residents by the Classes of 1993, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
  • American College of Eye Surgeons Mentor Award
  • Honor Award of American Academy of Ophthalmology 
  • Louisiana State Recognition for Exceptional and Laudatory Contributions to Louisiana Higher Education 

Recent Publications

  • Karcioglu ZA. Orbital tumors: clinical diagnosis and treatment. Springer-Verlag: New York, 2005
  • Karcioglu ZA. Mascott CR :Computer assisted image-guided surgery in the orbit. Eur J Ophthalmol 2006; 16: 446-52.
  • Karcioglu ZA. Sebaceous carcinoma of the eyelids. Ophthalmology. 2005; 112: 1641
  • Hinkle D, Karcioglu ZA. Conjunctival biopsy of anophthalmic socket in sarcoidosis. Ophthal Plast Reconst Surg 2005; 21: 163-4
  • Karcioglu ZA, Hadjistilianou D, Rozans M, DeFrancesco S. Diagnosis and management of orbital rhabdomyosarcoma. Cancer Control 2004; 11: 328-33
  • Karcioglu ZA. Clinicopathologic correlates in orbital disease. In: Tasman W, Jaeger EA (eds) Duane's Foundations of Clinical Ophthalmology Vol 3,Ch 17. Lippincott: Philadelphia, 2004, 1-56
  • Dang YN, Shin IC, Gordon R, Karcioglu ZA. Bilateral reactive lymphoid hyperplasia of the orbit in a child with Russell-Silver syndrome. JAAPOS 8: 588-91, 2004
  • Esmaeli B, Prieto VG, Gonnering R, Hawes MJ, Diba R, Saadati HG, Shepler N, Karcioglu ZA. Growth Factor Receptor Expression in Orbital Lymphangioma: PossibleTherapeutic Implications. Orbit 2004; 23: 263-69 
  • Karcioglu ZA, Sharara N, Boles T, Nasr A: Oribital xanthogranuloma: clinical and morphologic features in eight patients. Ophthalmol Plast Reconst Surg 2003; 19: 372-81


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