Biography
Dr. Karcioglu is a Turkish-American who was born in Istanbul in 1946. In 1969, he received his medical degree at the Hacettepe University School of Medicine in Ankara, Turkey. He has board certifications in Ophthalmology and Pathology, following residency trainings at Tulane and Emory University Medical Schools in Ophthalmology and Pathology, respectively. His entire medical career has been served at the schools in the southern United States, including Emory and Tulane Universities and the Universities of Tennessee (UT) and Virginia (UVA).
Dr. Zeynel A. Karcioglu started his profession as surgical pathologist at Emory University and later made a career move to ophthalmology, completing his residency at Tulane University Medical School. After his residency, he joined the ranks of the Tulane faculty and served as a clinician and educator with distinction for approximately 25 years, until 2005. In 1995, Dr. Karcioglu was appointed to the endowed chair of George Haik/ St. Giles Foundation for Ocular Oncology in 1995 and held the position until he left Tulane as an Emeritus Professor, after Hurricane Katrina.
He is known as a prolific scientific writer in clinical ophthalmology and ophthalmic pathology. Dr. Karcioglu has produced numerous scientific papers, book chapters and books and has delivered many presentations and lectures in his areas of expertise at regional, national and international medical meetings. He has held numerous leadership offices in his field including the office of the president of The American Association of Ocular Oncologists and Pathologists (AAOOP), and has been acknowledged as an outstanding medical educator, committed to his students, residents and fellows. Dr. Karcioglu served as the ophthalmology residency program director for more than ten years at Tulane University. During his tenure in this post he was recognized by his residents on numerous occasions with best teacher/ophthalmologist awards. In 1998 he received the State Recognition for Exceptional and Laudatory Contributions to Louisiana Higher Education.
During a sabbatical leave, Dr. Karcioglu served as Director of Research and Chief of the Ophthalmic Oncology Division at King Khalid Eye Specialist Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In addition to his regional research and clinical work, during his tenure in Riyadh he was involved in many collaborative investigative projects with other medical institutions in Europe and the Middle and Far East. Dr. Karcioglu has also been active in the classification and staging work of ophthalmic tumors under the auspices of the American Joint Commission of Cancer. Currently he is employed by the UVA as a Professor of Ophthalmology and Pathology.
Dr. Karcioglu’s tangential interest has been the eye diseases of the artists and the effects of these problems on their work. To this end, he studied on particular instances of artists’ diseases, and has produced a variety of publications and presentations.
Zeynel A. Karcioglu has been married to Guler L. Karcioglu, also a medical doctor, for over 40 years, they have one son.
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