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The UAB Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences offers Alabama’s only ophthalmology residency program. Embedded in Birmingham’s robust academic and medical community, this program provides residents numerous training opportunities.

The department is housed within UAB Hospital-Callahan Eye, which offers residents a unique and clinically valuable training experience through a busy outpatient surgery center, ophthalmic laser center, and 17 operating suites

Through this unique clinical setting, residents are able to diagnose and treat numerous ophthalmologic conditions.


Residency Program Leadership

Tim Johnson, M.D.
Director of Residency Program

Rob Tauscher, M.D.
Assistant Director of Residency Program


Contact Us

For inquiries about residency training in the UAB Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences please contact:

Jordan Driscoll, M.Ed
Education Coordinator
jordanncook@uabmc.edu
(205) 325-8507

Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
700 South 18th Street
Birmingham, Alabama 35294-0009

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