Dr. Read was born in Nashville, TN and raised in Montgomery, AL. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Pharmacy from Auburn University in 1988. Following two years of pharmacy practice, he returned to school at the University of Alabama School of Medicine, graduating magna cum laude in 1994. Dr. Read served an internship at Carraway Methodist Medical Center in Birmingham, and completed a residency in ophthalmology at the University of Washington, Seattle. He then spent two years at the Doheny Eye Institute/University of Southern California, completing dual fellowships in Uveitis/Ocular Inflammatory Diseases and Ophthalmic Pathology.

Dr. Read joined the full-time faculty of the UAB Department of Ophthalmology in August 2000. He is certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology and is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, the American Uveitis Society, the Hogan Eye Pathology Society, the American Medical Association, the Medical Association of the State of Alabama, and the Alabama Academy of Ophthalmology. He is actively involved in clinical and applied basic science research as well as diagnostic ophthalmic pathology.

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