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ForwardJavier Perez, MD
ACADEMIC PREPARATION:
Glaucoma Fellowship, Emory University, July 2011 to July 2012.
Ophthalmology Residency, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, July 2008 to June 2011.
Undersea/Diving Medical Officer, Naval Undersea Medicine Institute, Groton, CT and Naval Diving and Salvage Training Command, Panama City, FL, July 2005 to December 2005.
Transitional Internship, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, July 04 to June 2005.
M.D., University of Puerto Rico, School of Medicine, San Juan, PR, August 2000 to June 4, 2004 (Magna Cum Laude).
B.S. in Biology, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, August 1995 to Dec 1999 (Cum Laude).
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS:
-Medical Director, Orlando Ophthalmology Surgery Center, 2024-present
-President, Florida Society of Ophthalmology, July 2021-July 2022
- Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Central Florida College of Medicine. December 2013-Present
-Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Texas Medical Branch, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. November 2013 – February 2016
LICENSES:
- Medicine and Surgery, Commonwealth of Virginia, July 2005 (Expired)
- Physician, State of Georgia, Feb 2011 (Expired)
- Medicine, Florida, Nov 2011 (Active)
MEMBERSHIPS:
-Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
-Fellow of the American Board of Ophthalmology
-Florida Society of Ophthalmology
-American Academy of Ophthalmology
-Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.
-Golden Key National Honor Society.
RESEARCH:
-Zavaleta EM, Knape RM, Pérez JA, Clark CL, Peden MC, Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography in Bilateral Lightning Maculopathy Before and After Internal Limiting Membrane Peel, (in submission to Retinal Cases and Brief Reports).
-Optic Neuropathy from Cobalt Toxicity in a Patient who Ingested Cattle Magnets. Neuro-Ophthalmology, 35 (1), 24-26, Feb 2011.
-Pneumatic Retinopexy: A ten year review. Presented at the University of Florida Annual Alumni and Resident’s Day Scientific Program in June 18, 2010.
-Β-gal expression analysis of transformants bearing UNZt constructs with deletions in the neuroglian intron. Javier Pérez, Juan Qiu and Kalpana White. Presented at the Howard Hughes Fellowship Program for undergraduate students. Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, August 1, 1997.
GRANTS RECEIVED:
-AMP research grant while doing research at UPR, Rio Piedras Campus
-The Clara Abbott Foundation Scholarship (College).
-Howard Hughes Summer Research Grant (College).
-US Navy Health Profession Scholarship Program (Medical School)
LANGUAGES:
- Fluent in English and Spanish both written and spoken.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Ophthalmologist, Solo Practice, May, 1 2014-Present.
Orlando Eye Specialists, PA
Orlando, FL
Ophthalmologist, Aug 2012-Feb. 2016.
Orlando VA Medical Center
Orlando, Florida.