LAWRENCE W. GORDON, M.D.
Lawrence (Lance) Gordon is a West Tennessee native. He obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Tennessee. Afterward he spent four years in a hospital based microsurgical training lab sponsored by Louisiana State University Medical School in New Orleans, Louisiana teaching microvascular techniques to resident physicians and private practitioners. He returned to Tennessee for medical school obtaining his M.D. and ophthalmology residency training from the University of Tennessee. He did his retina fellowship in Baltimore, Maryland training under the late Bert Glaser, Robert Murphy, John Thompson, and Raymond Sjaarda.
Fellowship:
Vitreoretinal Surgery & Diseases
The Retina Institute of Maryland
Baltimore, Maryland
Preceptors: Bert Glaser, M.D.,
Robert Murphy, M.D., John Thompson, M.D.,
and Raymond Sjaarda, M.D.
July 1992—June 1993
Residency:
Department of Ophthalmology
University of Tennessee
Memphis, TN
July 1989—July 1992
Internship:
Transitional Medicine
Methodist Hospitals of Memphis
Memphis, TN
July 1988—July 1989
Medical School:
University of Tennessee, College of Medicine
August 1984—June 1988, M.D. 1988
Ad Hoc Training:
Microsurgical Laboratory Technical Director
Multidisciplinary Micro-surgical Laboratory
Louisiana State University, School of Medicine
Southern Baptist Hospital
New Orleans, Louisiana
January 1981—July 1984
College:
University of Tennessee
Martin, TN
September 1976—June 1980, BS 1980