Paul Sternberg Jr. Biographical File
Abstract
Includes newspaper articles.
Dates
- Creation: 1953 -
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Biographical / Historical
A renowned retinal specialist, Dr. Paul Sternberg Jr. served as chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and director of the Vanderbilt Eye Institute until his retirement in 2023. He was also Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for the Vanderbilt Medical Group, Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs in the School of Medicine, and Chief Patient Experience Officer for VUMC (CXO) before stepping away from those roles in 2023.
A graduate of Harvard College and the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, he completed a vitreoretinal fellowship at Duke University Medical Center after a residency in Ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins. In 1985, he joined the faculty at Emory University in Atlanta.
Sternberg came to Vanderbilt in 2003 as G.W. Hale Professor of Ophthalmology, and chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. In 2009, he was named VUMC’s CMO and was appointed CXO in 2014.
Biography excerpted from Nashville Medical News published August 22, 2022. https://www.nashvillemedicalnews.com/article/5174/sternberg-to-step-down-after-two-decades-at-vanderbilt
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Language of Materials
English
Topical
- Title
- Paul Sternberg Jr. Biographical File
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- History of Medicine Collections Staff
- Date
- 2024-04-30
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the VUMC Historical Images and Biographies Repository
Eskind Biomedical Library
2209 Garland Ave.
Nashville TN 37232
historyofmedicine@vanderbilt.edu
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