Journal of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
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Joan M. O'Brien

Biography

Dr. Joan M.O’Brien was appointed Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Director of the Scheie Eye Institute at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in January 2010. She received her BA from Middlebury College in 1979. Dr. Joan M.O’Brien received her MD from Dartmouth Medical School in 1986. She completed an internship in internal medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, followed by research fellowships in immunology at Harvard Medical School and in ophthalmic pathology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. Dr. O'Brien subsequently completed a residency in ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and a fellowship in ocular oncology at the University of California at San Francisco.

Research Interest

Central nervous system lymphoma, Conjuctival malignancies, ocular lymphoma, ocular melanoma, ocular metastases, retinoblastoma

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