Oklahoma tech briefs, Feb. 3, 2015

Eye Institute names 5 teachers

The Dean McGee Eye Institute has awarded four endowed chairs and one endowed professorship to faculty members at the Institute and in the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine’s Department of Ophthalmology. The David W. Parke II, MD Endowed Chair in Ophthalmology has been awarded to R. Michael Siatkowski, MD; the Stanton L. Young Endowed Chair to Daniel J.J. Carr, PhD; the James P. Luton Endowed Chair to Michelle C. Callegan, PhD; the M.G. McCool Endowed Chair to Raju V.S. Rajala, PhD; and the W. Stanley Muenzler, MD Endowed Professorship in Corneal Disease to Alex W. Cohen, MD, PhD. The Dean McGee Eye Institute is one of the largest and most respected eye institutes in the United States and houses the Department of Ophthalmology for the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine.