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| Christine C. Nelson, M.D. and Raymond Cho, M.D. |
Physician who served in Iraq comes to Kellogg to hone his ophthalmic plastic surgery skills
Lieutenant Colonel Raymond Cho, M.D. served in Iraq from November 2005 through April 2006. During that time, more than 90 percent of Dr. Cho’s patients were trauma victims — soldiers and civilians with ruptured eyes, facial fractures, and soft tissue trauma. After an intense time repairing eye damage caused by roadside bombs and improvised explosive devices, Dr. Cho came to Kellogg in 2007 to advance his clinical and surgical skills. He is now Kellogg’s fellow on the Eye Plastic, Orbital and Facial Cosmetic Surgery Service.
Kellogg’s fellowship programs, among the best in the nation, allow physicians to train in a clinical program known for depth and excellence in each subspecialty. During the two-year oculoplastics program, fellows gain extensive experience in diagnosis, surgical management, pre- and postoperative care and management of patients with eye plastic and orbital disorders and diseases.
“This fellowship at Kellogg has been a perfect fit for me,” says Dr. Cho. “I am particularly grateful for the time and effort which all of the faculty continually invest in my development as an oculoplastic surgeon. It has been an excellent program which will undoubtedly prepare me for the cases I will see in the future.” That training has included unusual and complex cases referred to Kellogg from far and wide.
Dr. Cho’s mentors and colleagues at Kellogg are quick to praise him. “He is a compassionate physician, superb surgeon and has a humanitarian outlook,” says Christine C. Nelson, M.D., associate professor. “He is an inspiration to us all. His calm demeanor is refreshing, he is a pleasure to work with, and he is a wonderful teacher and mentor to the residents.”
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West Point graduate, Dr. Raymond Cho, served in Iraq before joining Kellogg for his two-year ophthalmic plastics fellowship. |
Before coming to Kellogg, Dr. Cho chose to follow the path of his father and brother and enrolled in the United States Military Academy at West Point for his undergraduate degree. The Ohio native went on to the University of Cincinnati for medical school and completed his surgical internship at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. He then spent three years in the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
He returned to Brooke for his residency, after which he was assigned first to Fort Knox, Kentucky, and later to West Point. As the only ophthalmologist at these military bases, Dr. Cho handled a variety of cases. “Working as the lone ophthalmologist taught me valuable organizational skills and helped me build a strong base in ophthalmology before moving on to a subspecialty,” says Dr. Cho.
When the military introduced its Warfighter Refractive Eye Surgery Program in 2001, Dr. Cho’s ophthalmology repertoire expanded. He started a laser surgery program both at Fort Knox and at West Point.
Once Dr. Cho completes his fellowship at Kellogg in 2009, he will go to one of the Army’s academic medical centers to train residents and handle the oculoplastics needs of the Army, including reconstructive eye surgeries for soldiers returning from combat.
For more information, see the Eye Plastic, Orbital and Facial Cosmetic Surgery service at the Kellogg Eye Center.
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