Images Magazine Spring 2013 - Bascom Palmer Eye Institute

announcementsfaculty continues expansionBascom Palmer Eye Institute at UHealth, part of the University ofMiami, is pleased to welcome these new faculty members. Thesenew physicians have increased the size of our full-time faculty to65 physicians and 21 investigators.GUILLERMO AMESCUA, M.D.,a corneal and externaldisease specialist, joined thefaculty as assistant professorof clinical ophthalmology.Amescua earned a medicaldegree from Ignacio A.Santos School of Medicine.He was a research scholar in ocular immunologyat the Cole Eye Institute of the Cleveland Clinicand he completed an ophthalmology residency atthe University of Pittsburgh. He also completedtwo fellowships, one in cornea and refractivesurgery and another in cornea, ocular surface anduveitis both at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at theUniversity of Miami Miller School of medicine.His clinical specialties are cataracts, uveitis,corneal and external diseases, corneal transplant,ocular surface diseases, and keratoprosthesis(artificial cornea). His research interests includeinflammatory conditions of the cornea and ocularsurface and the immunological mechanisminvolved in high-risk corneal transplantation.He treats patient at Bascom Palmer’s Miami andPlantation locations.KARA M. CAVUOTO, M.D.,a pediatric ophthalmologyspecialist joined the facultyas assistant professor ofclinical ophthalmology.She received her bachelorof science degree, cumlaude, from the University ofMiami and her medical degree from the Universityof Miami Miller School of Medicine.She completed her ophthalmology residencyand a fellowship in pediatric ophthalmology atBascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University ofMiami Miller School of Medicine. Her clinicalspecialties are pediatric ophthalmology and adultstrabismus. Her research interests include pediatriceye disorders, complex strabismus in adults andchildren, surgical techniques in strabismus, andadjustable sutures for adult strabismus correction.She is available for consultation at Bascom Palmerin Miami.TA CHEN PETER CHANG, M.D.,joined the Bascom Palmerfaculty as assistant clinicalprofessor of ophthalmology.Specializing in glaucoma,pediatric ophthalmology andcataracts, Chang received abachelor of science, magnacum laude, from Pomona College and a medicaldegree from Johns Hopkins University Schoolof Medicine. He completed his ophthalmologyresidency at Stanford University, and twofellowships, one in glaucoma at Bascom PalmerEye Institute and one in pediatric ophthalmologyand strabismus at Vanderbilt Eye Institute. Hisresearch interests focus on pediatric cataract andpediatric glaucoma surgical techniques, outcomesof ocular pharmacology in the pediatric population,trabecular meshwork outflow in Marfan’s syndromepatients, surgical techniques in complex pediatriccataract and glaucoma, visual development inpediatric glaucoma, and binocular visual functionsin patients with glaucomatous visual field loss. Hesees patients at Bascom Palmer’s Miami and Napleslocations and he staffs a Saturday morning clinicfor pediatric glaucoma patients.28