Cornea & External Disease Fellowship
The Cornea Service at the W.K. Kellogg Eye Center is a consulting service in cornea, external disease, and refractive surgery and is comprised of nine clinically active faculty members. The U-M Medical School Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences offers two one-year fellowship positions per year.
Approximately 450+ keratoplasties (penetrating, lamellar, and endothelial), 20 keratoprostheses, 300 refractive surgeries, and >2200 cataract surgeries are performed annually with our service.
Each fellow is granted 20% protected research time to pursue the wealth of research opportunities at Kellogg. The Cornea Service funds travel to one national meeting for each fellow.
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Program Overview
We offer fellows a unique training experience with a wide array of learning opportunities and resources to expand their expertise.
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How to Apply
To apply for the Cornea and External Disease Fellowship, please submit your application to the Ophthalmology Fellowship Match.
We are not able to accept applications directly.
Please refer to SF Match website for information regarding application deadlines.
Training Experience
The Cornea Service offers experience with a wide variety of technology available to corneal and refractive surgeons including an excimer and Intralase laser (developed at our institution), confocal microscope, PROSE/scleral lenses, and crosslinking technology.
It is anticipated that each fellow will assist on numerous cases. As primary surgeon, each fellow will perform more than:
- 150 grafts (45 Penetrating, 5+ DALK, 30 DSAEK, and 85 DMEK)
- 250+ cataract surgeries
- 20+ Complex anterior segment and secondary lens procedures
- 35+ ocular surface, limbal stem cell or amniotic membrane procedures
- 1-4 keratoprostheses
- 2-8 DALK
- 25+ refractive surgeries
Extensive experience will also be gained in the medical management of a wide variety of anterior segment tumors, autoimmune disorders, severe ocular surface diseases and infections at Kellogg Eye center, the clinical training site.
Current Fellows
Meet our current Cornea & External Disease trainees. We emphasize teamwork, excellence, and leadership while preparing our fellows with resources to be successful in their careers.
Salary & Benefits
We offer highly competitive salaries and generous benefits to our residents, fellows, and advanced trainees. Trainee salary will be commensurate with that of a House Officer at an equivalent level of training based on the HOA contract.
Eversight-Michigan Research Fellowship
The service is pleased to offer the Eversight-Michigan Research fellowship as a supplement to one of the two clinical fellowship positions.
The funding will support one fellow with supplemental salary, $10,000 research funding, and protected research time (existing research time exists for both fellows). The Eversight-Michigan supplemental fellowship support requires an application.
Program Leadership
Christopher T Hood
Assistant Medical Director, Cornea
Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Medical School
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