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C. Durham Barnes, MD
John C. Olson, MD
Preston P. Richmond, MD
Suzanne M. Demming, MD
Drew P. Bawcombe, MD

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C. Durham Barnes, MD

Dr. Barnes completed his MD at Tulane University in 1967. He continued with an internship in mixed surgery at Charity Hospital of Louisiana in New Orleans and two ophthalmology residencies - one at the Victor C. Smith Memorial Eye Clinic in New Orleans (1971-1972) and the other at the University of Virginia Hospital (1972-1974). He then completed a retina service fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston (1974-1975) and a second in neuro-ophthalmology at the University of Utah College of Medicine (1977). Dr. Barnes is a board-certified ophthalmologist (1976).

John C. Olson, MD

Dr. Olson completed his MD at Northwestern University in 1977. He served a rotating internship at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Dallas (1977-1978), followed by an ophthalmology residency from 1978-1981. Dr. Olson attended Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami as
a retinal fellow from 1981-1982 and was certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology (1982).

Preston P. Richmond, MD

Dr. Richmond earned his MD at Wright State University in 1982. He also received his OD, Doctor of Optometry from Ohio State University and his MS Physiological Optics at Ohio State University in 1973. Dr. Richmond's internship was in internal medicine at Kettering Medical Center in Kettering, Ohio (1983). He went on to an ophthalmology residency at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami (1986) and a vitreoretinal fellowship at Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago (1987), and a diplomat with the National Board of Medical Examiners (1982).

Suzanne M. Demming, MD

Dr. Demming completed her MD at the University of Miami in 1986. Dr. Demming's internship in internal medicine was at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach (1987). This was followed by a residency in ophthalmology at Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation Hospital in New Orleans (1990), and a fellowship in retina and vitreous also at Alton Ochsner (1991). Dr. Demming is a board-certified ophthalmologist (1991).

Drew P. Bawcombe, MD

As a native of New York Dr. Bawcombe completed his MD at State University of New York at Buffalo in 2005. He then attended Virginia Commonwealth University where he completed his preliminary year of medicine in 2006 and his ophthalmology residency in 2009. Dr. Bawcombe served as chief resident for a one year term during his residency program in 2008. This was followed by a vitreoretinal surgical fellowship from the University of Florida in 2011.