William Foster

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Education:

M.D., Duke University School of Medicine, 1999

Ph.D. in Physics, Harvard University, 1995

A.M. in Physics, Harvard University, 1990

B.S. with honors in Physics, the California Institute of Technology, 1988

Research Experience:

• Research Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Houston.
• Clinical Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Weill-Cornell Medical School at The Methodist Hospital.
• Clinical Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Weill-Cornell Medical School at The Methodist Hospital.
• Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Houston and the Texas Center for Superconductivity & Advanced Materials.
• Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology, Jules Stein Eye Institute and UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.
• Resident research in Ocular Oncology at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine
• Postdoctoral research in Biophysics in the Division of Experimental Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• Dissertation research in the X-ray and Liquid Crystals Group in Harvard's Physics Department
• Summer research at the Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, (West) Germany.
• Summer research and a senior thesis at Caltech's Kellogg Radiation Laboratory
• Summer research in the Optical Science Division, Laser Physics Branch of the Naval Research Laboratory
• Three summers of research in remote sensing at NASA/Goddard

Clinical Experience:

• Vitreoretinal Surgeon, William J Foster, MD, PhD, Houston, TX, 2006-
• Associate in Vitreoretinal Surgery, Charles A. Garcia and Associates, PA, Houston TX, 2005-2006
• Fellow in Vitreoretinal Surgery at the St Joseph Hospital Retinal Vascular Center and Charles A. Garcia and Associates, PA, Houston TX, 2005
• Participant in the European VitreoRetinal Society Training School at Augenklinik Universitätsallee, Bremen, Germany, 5/2005
• Fellow in Vitreoretinal Surgery and Diseases at the Jules Stein Eye Institute and Visiting Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, UCLA School of Medicine, 2004
• Resident in Ophthalmology at Barnes Hospital/Washington University in St. Louis, 2003
• Intern in General Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, 2000
• Visiting Sub-Intern in Internal Medicine, Bugando Medical Centre, Mwanza, Tanzania (Arranged through Maryknoll), 1999
• Medical Student with a year-long continuity clinic, Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, 1997-1998
• Visiting Medical Student in eastern San Diego with Dr. Bronwin Anders (Associate Professor of Community Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego), 1997

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