The curriculum, rotation and rotation sites consist of:

• 2 days a week in the inherited retinal disease clinics at UIHC of Ian Han, MD, Stephen Russell, MD, Elliott Sohn, MD, and Edwin Stone, MD, PhD
• 2 days a week in research that may involve any or all of the following according to the fellow’s specific interests and career goals:
  • Laboratory work in the Institute for Vision Research consisting of molecular genetics experimental research and writing the associated papers and grants
  • clinical trials for gene and stem-cell based therapies
  • pre-clinical rat and pig surgeries associated with gene therapy and stem cell transplantation
  • Retinal imaging
  • Phase I-III clinical trials of human retinal gene therapy
• 1 day per week in a relatively independently managed fellow clinic seeing patients needing just-in-time procedures including intravitreal injections
• Further clinical opportunities that may be available (with discretion of the fellowship director) include:
  • Maximum of 12 days for independent clinics that will be in place of fellow or faculty retina physicians.
  • Maximum of 12 days of retinal surgery that will be supervised by a faculty physician. If this option is exercised, we will mitigate impact on the 2 year vitreoretinal surgery fellowship by having the research fellow take a proportional number of days of vitreoretinal surgery fellow call.  Otherwise, there is no call associated with the Chung fellowship