Cornea Fellowship

The Cornea Service of the University of Illinois offers a one-year fellowship in cornea and external ocular disease and refractive surgery.

2007 CLAES DOHLMAN AWARD
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Requirements and Responsibilities

The fellow serves as a junior faculty member and is responsible for running the Cornea Clinic in the General Eye Clinic. The fellow is also responsible for seeing and examining patients in the Cornea Suite under the supervision of the Cornea Faculty. The fellow also runs a cornea clinic at the West Side Veterans Administration Hospital one morning every other week and takes trauma call as a faculty member in rotation with the fellows from the other clinical services.

Clinical investigations are carried out by the Cornea Faculty as well as full time doctoral level research faculty. The fellow has an opportunity to participate in these investigative pursuits and is expected to give at least one presentation at the end of the year.

The facilities at the University of Illinois at Chicago including the Eye and Ear Infirmary, the Lions of Illinois Eye Research Institute, and University of Illinois Hospital as well as the West Side Veterans Hospital are available for the fellowship program.

Surgical opportunities are derived from the patients seen in the clinic as well as the West Side Veterans Hospital. Typically the fellows do 30 - 50 penetrating keratoplasties, 20 - 30 cataract extractions and 6-8 LASIK procedures during the fellowship year. Additional surgical experiences are gained with ocular surface surgeries and trauma surgeries.

Educational opportunities in addition to those gained directly on the Cornea Service include participation in Grand Rounds weekly, and lectures which are available for the residents on weekday mornings as well as Saturday mornings.

Faculty

Joel Sugar, MD Director of the Cornea Service
Elmer Tu, MD Director of the Refractive Surgery Service