Educational Events

Grand Rounds & Visiting Professors

The UNC Department of Ophthalmology holds its Grand Rounds from 8:00am until 10:00am in the large auditorium in the main lobby of the Bioinformatics Building.  Typically, residents present unusual or interesting cases and a faculty member from the selected subspecialty moderates the event and leads discussion of the presented cases.

We also have a series of Visiting Professorships in which one of our faculty members from each subspecialty invites a nationally recognized physician to spend a Friday afternoon and evening with our residents.  On Saturday morning, we will have a Grand Rounds style event in which the Visiting Professor will lecture and present interesting cases for discussion.

We welcome all regional health care providers and scientists.  Attendees receive CME credit hours commensurate with the hours spent in the educational activity.  For information regarding times, dates, or subjects, please contact the CME Coordinator at (919) 843-0264.

2009 - 2010 Grand Rounds Schedule

• July 17, 2009:  Retina
• August 21, 2009:  Oculoplastics
• October 17, 2009:  Cornea

• March 5, 2010:  Pediatric Ophthalmology
• June 19, 2010:  General Ophthalmology / Residents' Day

2009-2010 Visiting Professors

• November 14, 2009: Richard M. Robb, MD 
  Pediatric Ophthalmology Visiting Professor
  Chair of Pediatric Ophthalmology (Retired)
  The Children's Hospital
  Boston, Massachusetts
• January 23, 2010: Gerald A. Fishman, MD
  Retina Visiting Professor
  Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of the Electrophysiology Laboratory
  UIC Eye Center
  Chicago, Illinois
• February 6, 2010: C. Stephen Foster, MD
  Cornea Visiting Professor
  Founder & President, Massachusetts Eye Research and Surgery Institution
  Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School 
• April 10, 2010: James A. Garrity, MD
  Neuro-Ophthalmology Visiting Professor
  Professor of Ophthalmology
  The Mayo Clinic
  Rochester, MN
• May 8, 2010:  David E. Holck, MD, Col. USAF
  Oculoplastics Visiting Professor
  Chair, Department of Ophthalmology
  Wilford Hall Medical Center
  San Antonio, TX

Save - The - Date

2010 UNC Eye Symposium and Ophthalmic Technician Course
March 27, 2010
The Sunflower Room
The William & Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education
Chapel Hill, NC 

Featured Speakers:

• Jay S. Pepose, MD, PhD
  Director, Pepose Vision Institute
  Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
  Washington University School of Medicine