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Photo of Dr. Howard Tessler Howard H. Tessler, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Co-director of the Uveitis Service


Email howatess@uic.edu
Phone 312-996-0615
Address University of Illinois at Chicago
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
1855 W. Taylor Street M/C 648
Chicago, IL 60612

Clinical Interests
Cosmetic oculofacial plastic curgery, thyroid eye problems, eyelid ptsosis (droop).

Education

  • University of Michigan, AB
  • University of Chicago, MD
  • Residency University of Illinois Eye & Ear Infirmary
  • Fellowship in Ocular Inflammatory Disease-Proctor Foundation, University of California at San Francisco

Recent Publications
Lin P, Tessler HH, Goldstein DA. Family history of inflammatory bowel disease in patients with idiopathic ocular inflammation. Am J Ophthalmol.2006;141:1097-104.

Birnbaum AD, Tessler HH, Shultz KL et al. Epidemiologic relationship between Fuchs heterochromic iridocyclitis and the United States rubella vaccination program. Am J Ophthalmol.2007; 144:424-428.

Freidlin J, Pak J, Tessler HH, et al. Sympathetic Ophthalmia after injury in the Iraq war. Ophthal Plast Reconstr Surg. 2006;22:133-4.

Additional Links
www.medeye.net