Message from the Director

Our program in Cornea, External Disease, and Refractive Surgery has been in existence in its current form since 1995, and has come to be regarded among applicants as one of the premier experiences in corneal and refractive surgery subspecialty training in the country. This is in part mainly due to the outstanding faculty that devotes its time and energy to superior fellow training. We are fortunate to have Dr. Richard F. Dennis, the senior partner at Chicago Cornea Consultants, who completed his corneal fellowship at the Proctor Foundation in San Francisco, and Dr. Randy J. Epstein, who is an internationally renowned expert in corneal and refractive surgery. Dr. Epstein completed his fellowship in Cornea at Emory University under Drs. George Waring and Doyle Stulting. He also completed additional training in Ocular Immunology as well.

I was fortunate to have Drs. Dennis and Epstein as my mentors, as I completed my corneal and refractive surgery fellowship at Rush University Medical Center in 1998.

Our fellows derive a significant advantage from working with the esteemed faculty at Rush University Medical Center, but also are able to gain first hand experience in all levels of corneal and refractive surgical procedures. I believe it is this “hands-on” approach to the fellowship that makes it so unique and so valuable in the eyes of its graduates.

- Parag A. Majmudar, MD
Fellowship Program Director