Chairperson: | Noureddin, Baha' |
Professors: | Awwad, Shady; Bashshur, Ziad; Mansour,
Ahmad (Clinical); Noureddin, Baha’; Salti,
Haytham |
Associate Professors: | Haddad, Christiane; Hamam, Rola; Jabbur,
Nada (Adjunct); Ma’luf, Riad (Clinical) |
Assistant Professors: | Alameddine, Ramzi; Bou Ghannam, Alaa;
Farah, Nadim (Clinical); Haddad, Randa;
Jurdi Kheir, Wajiha; Saade, Joanna |
Clinical Associates: | Allam, Souha; Massoud, Vicky; Shahin,
Hasan; Younis, Mohammad
|
The Department of Ophthalmology offers clinical clerkships/selectives and specialty
electives to medical students. It also offers clinical postgraduate training to MD graduates,
including internship, residency and fellowship programs. The internship program is a one or
two month rotation offered to categorical interns in other disciplines or to family medicine
residents. The residency program is an ACGME-I accredited three-year specialty training
in ophthalmology, including rotations in cornea, glaucoma, oculoplastics, pediatrics,
neuro-ophthalmology, vitreo-retinal, intra-ocular / refractive surgery, and ocular oncology/
pathology. The residency training in ophthalmology is recognized by the International
Council of Ophthalmology (ICO). The primary part of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists
examination can be taken at the beginning of the second year of residency, while the final
part can be taken any time after that. The same recognition is also granted by the Arab
Board of Ophthalmology under similar terms. Two fellowships are offered: a one-year
medical retina fellowship, which is a 12-month training with clinical exposure to pathologies
of the posterior segment from diabetic retinopathy to age-related macular degeneration,
also comprising all posterior uveitic conditions. The second one is a cornea/refractive
fellowship with exposure to all the classic and most recent cornea and refractive lasers,
procedures, and pathologies.
Finally, the department offers a Pre-Residency Research Fellowship. Twelve months are
spent in actively contributing to and running the ongoing clinical research projects in the
department.