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Associate Scientist, Vision, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Associate Ophthalmologist and Pathologist, University of Ottawa Eye Institute, The Ottawa Hospital
Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Ottawa
Research
Research and Academic Interests
• Ocular Pathology
• Teaching of Ophthalmic Pathology
• Fellowship Program in Ophthalmic Pathology
Research: Our Ophthalmic Pathology unit is very active in both basic and clinical research with about 25 ongoing projects involving numerous collaborative studies. These projects include ocular neoplasia, inflammations and infections, degenerations and vascular disorders, infiltrations, congenital and hereditary anomalies, glaucoma and trauma. The basic research at present includes immunohistochemical studies on uveal melanoma and studies on corneal pockets with onlays. Furthermore, I am invited as a visiting professor and I am member of most of the major associations and societies in my field of ophthalmic pathology resulting in my visiting other university centers and meeting sites nationally and predominantly internationally very frequently.
Laboratory work: The University of Ottawa Registry of Ophthalmic Pathology, which was initiated in 1971, receives ocular specimens from the hospitals associated with the University of Ottawa, many of the Ottawa regional hospitals, and from medical institutions across Canada and the United States.
Teaching: This includes undergraduate Medical School and especially postgraduate residency education. Didactic lectures using PowerPoint to demonstrate the clinical and corresponding pathologic findings of most ocular conditions are delivered annually in the postgraduate ophthalmology teaching course which is augmented by Rounds, Journal Club, and the mock oral examinations. Elective medical students, usually from across Canada, and residents have "sign out" sessions utilizing the 10 headed microscope on a regular basis. Our funded fellowship program accepts pre- and post-residency fellows for a period of one-year, beginning in July.
Selected Honours and Awards
Selected by my peers to be the Founding Member and first Program Chairperson of the Combined Meeting of the American Ophthalmic Pathology Societies in conjunction with the Ophthalmic Division of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Bethesda, Maryland, 2000-2001.
In Oct. 2002, in Orlando, Florida, I received from the American Association of Ophthalmic Pathologists (AAOP), the major international society in ophthalmic pathology) the Award of Gratitude for being Senior Editor of their AAOP Case Report Journal during the preceding 5 years.”
Selected by my peers to be President of the Association of Ophthalmic Alumni of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and of the 2nd Combined Meeting of the American Ophthalmic Pathology Societies, Chicago, Illinois, 2001-2003.
Delivered the Lorand V. Johnson Named Lecture to the Combined Meeting of the Departments of Ophthalmology of Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinics and the Cleveland Ophthalmological Society, Cleveland, Ohio, April 2003.
Selected Affiliations
Member, Canadian Medical Association
Member, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
Member, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
Member, Canadian Ophthalmological Society
Member, Canadian Ophthalmic Pathology Society
Member, Association of Ophthalmic Alumni of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Member, American Academy of Ophthalmology
Member, Eastern Ophthalmic Pathology Society
Member, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
Member, American Association of Ophthalmic Pathologists
Publications
Publications in Press
Brownstein S, Faraji H, Jackson WB, Font RL: Malignant melanoma of the conjunctiva in children. A clinicopathologic study of two cases. Arch Ophthalmol 2006.
Jordan DR, Brownstein S, Faraji H. Eyelid involvement in Wegener’s granulomatosis. Ophthal Plast Reconstr Surg.
Jordan DR, Brownstein S, Robinson J. Clinicopathologic analysis of an infected bioceramic implant. Ophthal Plast Reconstr Surg.
Robinson J, Brownstein S, Jordan JR, Hodge WG. Conjunctival mucoepidermoid carcinoma in a patient with ocular cicatricial pemphigoid and review of the literature. Surv Ophthalmol 2006.
Robinson J, Brownstein S, Mintsioulis G. Corneal myxoma arising in a patient with repeated phototherapeutic keratectomies. Cornea.
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