Uveitis Fellowship

The uveitis and ocular immunology division at the John A. Moran Eye Center offers an intensive one-year clinical fellowship, which provides comprehensive training in both the medical and surgical management of a wide variety of ocular inflammatory diseases. In addition, the fellow will have an opportunity to participate in ongoing clinical trials, investigator-sponsored studies and epidemiologic projects, and formulate study in an area of particular interest. Ours is the only uveitis service in the Mountain West, drawing patients from six neighboring states and beyond, and is unique in being the consulting service for patients with ocular infectious and inflammatory disease for the divisions of infectious disease, adult and pediatric rheumatology, internal medicine and the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah.

Fellows can, therefore, expect to see the full spectrum pathology, from the routine and common to the unusual and complex, infectious and non-infectious anterior, intermediate, posterior and panuveitis, pediatric uveitis, ocular complications of HIV/AIDS, autoimmune retinopathy, and neoplastic disease. Fellows will be trained in both medical and surgical diagnostic and therapeutic modalities including the appropriate use of laboratory investigations and ancillary testing, the application and interpretation of multimodal imaging, the safe and effective implementation of immunomodulatory therapy, and proficiency with uveitic cataract surgery, anterior chamber, and vitreous biopsy techniques and the implantation of sustained-release intravitreal steroid devices.

Fellows will rotate with the following faculty members, and will be expected to assist the residents with in-hospital uveitis consultations:

• Albert Vitale, MD, Professor
• Akbar Shakoor, MD, Associate Professor
• Marissa Larochelle, MD, Assistant Professor
• Caroline M. Craven, MD, Assistant Professor