UT Medical Group Welcomes Ophthalmologists
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – August 29, 2007

Dr. James Hart is a board-certified ophthalmologist with a special interest in dry eye disease, glaucoma, and hypertension. He earned a medical degree from the University of Louisville Medical School and completed his residency at Harkness Eye Institute at New York’s Columbia-Presbyterian College of Physicians and Surgeons. Hart also has a master’s in public health from Columbia University School of Public Health. He is assistant professor of ophthalmology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

Dr. Elliott Kanner is a graduate of Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York, where he also earned a doctor of philosophy from Rockefeller University. He holds a master of science in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University. A glaucoma specialist, he completed a transitional internship at St. Raphael Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut and completed his residency training at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York. Kanner recently finished his glaucoma fellowship at the UT Health Science Center and joined the faculty as assistant professor.

Dr. Andreea Partal is a board-certified ophthalmologist and assistant professor at the UT Health Science Center. She specializes in cornea and external disease with a special focus on dry eye, infectious keratitis, corneal transplantation, and newer vision restoration techniques. A graduate of Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, she completed her ophthalmology residency at Stanford University Eye Center and fellowship training at Emory University Eye Center, a world-renowned corneal and external disease center.

All three of the physicians care for patients at UTMG offices at the Hamilton Eye Institute, 930 Madison Avenue. Appointments can be made by calling 901-448-6650.