>> Hi, my name is Dr. Shifera.
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I am an Assistant
Professor of Ophthalmology
at Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute.
My self specialty is in uveitis
and I deal with patients
with infectious and inflammatory
diseases of the eye.
I attended medical school at
Addis Ababa University
in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
where I earned my Doctor
of Medicine Degree in 1989.
After completing medical school,
I worked as a general medical practitioner
for about 10 years in Ethiopia.
After moving to the United States,
I attended graduate school and I earned
a Doctor of Philosophy Degree
in Microbiology and Immunology
from Albert Einstein
College of Medicine in 2007,
then I attended a residency
training in ophthalmology
at University Florida
in Gainesville, Florida,
and this was followed by a
fellowship training in uveitis
at KCI Institute at Oregon
held inside the university.
After completing my training,
I joined Johns Hopkins
Wilmer Eye Institute in September 2015,
and I have been working here since then.
As a clinician, my work
focuses on patients
with various infectious
and inflammatory diseases
of the eye and the tissues around the eye.
I'm engaged in the training of
medical students residents, and fellows.
I am also involved in laboratory research
and currently, my research
focuses on finding out
the causes of inflammatory
diseases of the eye.
The majority of the
patients I take care of
have conditions for which we don't exactly
know what the causes
are, so my research aims
to find out what exact cause
of the conditions they have.
If you or somebody whom
you know has uveitis
or any other kind of
inflammatory disease of the eye,
please contact the Wilmer Eye Institute
and I'll be happy to see you.
