J. William Harbour, MD, an ocular oncologist and retinal surgeon, has joined the University of Miami Miller School faculty as vice chairman for translational research at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute and director of its ocular oncology service, according to a news release.
Dr. Harbour began seeing patients on September 5.
He previously founded the ocular oncology service at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, where he served as the Paul A. Cibis Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences. He is also a member of Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Dr. Harbour's work includes the development of the first and only validated prognostic test for ocular, or uveal, melanoma, which metastasizes in about 40 percent of cases, usually to the liver.
Dr. Harbour received his MD from Johns Hopkins Medical School. He then went on to complete a residency in ophthalmology at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, a clinical retina fellowship at Bascom Palmer and a clinical fellowship in ocular oncology at University of California, San Francisco.
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