Current Address:
Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Medicine
Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute
Department of Ophthalmology
719 Maumenee, 600 N. Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD, 21287-9277

Phone: 410-955-5106
Fax: 410-614-7083
e-mail: pcampo@jhmi.edu

Dr. Campochiaro was trained at the University of Notre Dame, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the University of Virginia, and Wilmer, joining the Wilmer Faculty in 1991. He is currently the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Professor of Ophthalmology and Neuroscience at the Wilmer Institute. His major research interests are in gaining a greater understanding of the roles of peptide growth and trophic factors in the retina and retinal pigmented-epithelium with an ultimate goal of developing new treatments for proliferative retinopathies, choroidal neovascularization, and retinal degenerations.

Academic Honors

1978: Sandoz Research Award
1978: Henry Strong Denison Research Award
1978: AOA, Johns Hopkins University
1995  Rosenthal Award from the Macula Society
1995: Alcon Research Institute Recognition Award
1998: The George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Endowed Professorship
1999: Steinbach Award

Education

• University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IND, B.S., Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, 1970-1974
• Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, M.D., 1974-1978
• Johns Hopkins Hospital, Internship, 1978-1979
• University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, Resident in Ophthalmology, 1979-1982
• The Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Fellow in vitreoretinal surgery and retinal cell biology, 1982-1984

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