LITTLE ROCK – Bhairavi Kharod, M.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Harvey and Bernice Jones Eye Institute as director of Cornea and External Disease Service.
Kharod also is a member of the Eye Institute’s Cataract and Refractive Surgery Service and is an assistant professor in the Department of Ophthalmology in the UAMS College of Medicine.
Kharod sees patients at the Eye Institute and the JohnL.McClellanMemorialVeteransHospital. Her special interests include cornea and external disease, corneal transplants, refractive surgery and cataract surgery. She also has a special interest in international ophthalmology, with a focus on the prevention of blindness.
Kharod is a graduate of Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Ga., and completed a preliminary year in internal medicine from EmoryUniversity in Atlanta. She completed her ophthalmology residency at WillsEyeHospital in Philadelphia and served a fellowship in cornea and refractive surgery at the DukeUniversityEyeCenter in Durham, N.C.
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