Neuro-ophtalmology

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Neuro-ophthalmology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center began in 1978 with J. Larry Parker who served in that capacity until 1985 when he left UMMC to engage in private practice in Jackson. He was trained at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami under Drs. Robert Daroff and Joel Glaser. In January 2006 he returned to UMMC with a special interest in ocular motility and the effects of multiple sclerosis on eye movements and vision. His research interests include clinical and basic research in supranuclear and infranuclear ocular motility disorders, and quantitative infra red ocular motility recordings.

Between 1994 and 2001 Marie Acierno was Chief of Neuro-ophthalmology. She took her training in neuro-ophthalmology at the University of Michigan under Jonathan Trobe and Wayne T. Cornblath. She is now at LSU in Baton Rouge. Between the years 2000 and 2004 Ron Braswell, who took his neuro-ophthalmology training in Oklahoma with Bradley Farris, consulted in neuro-ophthalmology at UMMC before moving to UAB.

From 1991 to the present James J. Corbett has practiced neuro-ophthalmology at UMMC with a special interest in idiopathic intracranial hypertension, sarcoidosis, migraine and the eye and optic neuropathies. He trained with Dr. William F. Hoyt at the University of California, San Francisco and practiced neuro-ophthalmology at the Wills Eye Hospital and Jefferson Medical School in Philadelphia, PA from 1973 to 1977. He then became a neuro-ophthalmologist in the Neurology and Ophthalmology Departments at the University of Iowa in 1977 where he remained until his move to UMMC in 1991.