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Dr.
Witherspoon received his Doctor of Medicine degree from St.
Louis University School of Medicine in 1977. He served as
a medical intern at St. Mary's Medical Center in the St. Louis,
Missouri Department of Medicine in 1978, and completed a residency
in ophthalmology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham/Eye
Foundation Hospital in 1981. He completed a retina fellowship
at the Vitreoretinal Research Foundation in Memphis, Tennessee
in 1982, prior to returning to Birmingham.
Dr. Witherspoon
has been a member of the UAB Department of Ophthalmology since
1982. Dr. Witherspoon is certified by the American Board of
Ophthalmology, and is a member of the American Academy of
Ophthalmology, The Vitreous Society, American Medical Association,
Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind
and Visually Impaired (AER), Association for Research in Vision
and Ophthalmology (ARVO), Medical Association of the State
of Alabama (MASA), Jefferson County Medical Society, Research
to Prevent Blindness (RPB), and Southern Medical Association.
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