J Fielding Hejtmancik

Biography

Dr. James Fielding Hejtmancik received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees at Baylor College of Medicine in 1978 and 1976 respectively and his B.A. from Rice University in 1979. He was an intern and resident in internal medicine at Duke University Medical Center until 1981. He then became a medical research associate in the Laboratory of Molecular and Developmental Biology in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and then the National Eye Institute under the mentorship of Dr. Joram Piatigorsky until 1984. He returned to Baylor College of Medicine, initially as a genetics fellow in the Section of Medical Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, and the Institute for Molecular Genetics, becoming an assistant professor in 1985 and served as the founding laboratory director of the Kleberg DNA Diagnostic Laboratory. He moved to the NEI in 1990 and is chief of the Ophthalmic Molecular Genetics Section, Ophthalmic Genetics and Visual Function Branch. He is a fellow of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Medical Genetics and an editorial board member of Molecular Vision.

Research Interest

Ophthalmic Molecular Genetics, Ophthalmic Genetics and Visual Function