Dr. Shameema Sikder Receives the 2010 Claes Dohlman M.D. Award
Shameema Sikder, M.D. of the John A. Moran Eye Center was awarded the prestigious 2010 Claes Dohlman M.D. Award for Fellows in Cornea, Refractive Surgery and External Diseases.
The 2010 Claes Dohlman M.D. Award recognizes outstanding fellows training in the areas of Cornea, Refractive Surgery and External Diseases. Applications from current and last year's cornea fellows across the country are reviewed by a selection committee comprised of leaders in these subspecialties and former recipients of the award.
Dr. Sikder was selected because of her extreme efficiency, confidence, honesty, humility, her unwavering ethical integrity, as well as her impeccable sense of academic leadership and her remarkable surgical skills.
Born in Sheffield, England, Dr. Sikder moved to the U.S. at the age of five and spent several years on the East coast before settling in Tucson, Arizona. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from the College of Engineering at the University of Arizona, where she studied Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry. Dr. Sikder graduated Alpha Omega Alpha from the University of Arizona, College of Medicine before completing her residency at the prestigious Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Currently a cornea and refractive surgery fellow at the John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah School of Medicine, she will soon return to the Wilmer Eye Institute as Assistant Chief of Service, Assistant Director of the Ocular Trauma Service and Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology. While remaining on faculty at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Dr. Sikder plans to focus clinically on keratoconus, pediatric corneal disease and ocular surface neoplasms as well as resident education.