James David Bowsher, MD

M. Millicent W. Peterseim, M.D. is a Professor at the Storm Eye Institute at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina. She is the Bruce Pratt Endowed Chair for International Ophthalmology. Dr. Peterseim's major clinical interests and responsibilities include pediatric ophthalmology and adult strabismus and international ophthalmology. Prior to receiving her medical degree from Washington University Medical School, Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Peterseim graduated from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Her internship in family and community medicine took place at Duke University Medical Center. Following her internship, Dr. Peterseim completed her residency in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of North Carolina Hospital in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She then returned to Duke to complete her fellowship in pediatric ophthalmology and adult strabismus at the Duke University Eye Center.Prior to joining MUSC in 1999, Dr. Peterseim was assistant professor of ophthalmology at Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania and was in private practice at Park Ophthalmology in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. She has given numerous lectures and presentations nationally, published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and made contributions to several textbooks.Dr. Peterseim is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) and the American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS) and is actively involved in community outreach efforts to further increase awareness about and support for proper vision screening for all children, especially those in the preschool and early school-aged years. She has collaborated with the National Children's Hospital in Costa Rica to determine genetic determinates of hereditary retinal disease and worked to improve eye care in India, Ethiopia and Belize in collaboration with Orbis International and the Belize Council for the Visually Impaired.

Dr. Edward Wilson is currently the N. Edgar Miles professor of ophthalmology and pediatrics at the Storm Eye Institute, Medical University of South Carolina. He served as Storm Eye Institute residency program director from 1990 to 1998 and then as Storm Eye Institute director and Pierre G. Jenkins professor and Ophthalmology Department chair for 15 years, from 1996 to 2011. Dr. Wilson has received a Life Achievement Honor Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS). Dr. Wilson is a past member of the AAPOS Board of Directors and is also a past president of AAPOS. He is also a past chair of the governing council of the American Ophthalmological Society (AOS) and a past President of AOS. Dr. Wilson served a full 8 year term on the editorial board of the Journal of AAPOS and served for more than 10 years as executive editor of the American Journal of Ophthalmology. He has been elected to membership in the prestigious American Ophthalmological Society, and the Association for Research in Strabismus (&"The Squint Club&"). In 2017, he was elected to another exclusive group known as the International Intraocular Implant Club. He is a member of the AOA Medical Honor Society and actively supports the MUSC chapter of AOA. At MUSC and the Storm Eye Institute, Dr. Wilson serves as the pediatric ophthalmology fellowship program director. He is also on the Appointment, Promotion, Tenure, and Mentoring Committee. He is a career-in-medicine mentor for medical students and a promotion and tenure mentor for academic faculty members. On a national scale, he serves in a leadership role on several clinical trials including his role on the steering committee of the Infant Aphakia Treatment Study. Dr. Wilson received a BS degree from Clemson University and an M.D. degree from the Medical University of South Carolina. After an internship and residency in ophthalmology at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, Dr. Wilson completed a fellowship in pediatric ophthalmology at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington D.C. under the direction of Dr. Marshall Parks. Dr. Wilson is board certified in ophthalmology and is a life fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Dr. Wilson's research interests include surgical techniques for use in the treatment of pediatric cataracts, as well as the full range of strabismus in children and adults. Dr. Wilson has given more than 700 invited presentations at national and international conferences including 23 named lectures. He has written or contributed to 27 books and published over 250 scientific papers, chapters and invited editorials on a wide variety of subjects. Dr. Wilson has trained residents and fellows for more than 30 years and maintains a large referral practice, receiving patients for consultation and surgery from around the world. He has been selected by his peers as one of the Best Doctors in America and as a U.S. News & World Report (top 1% in the U.S.) America's Top Doctors.