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Medical Author:

Jay Robert Woody, MD

Jay Robert Woody, MD

Dr. Jay Woody is a diplomat of the American Board of Emergency Medicine, a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Medicine and is an Attending Physician at Parkland Health and Hospital System, Children's Medical Center of Dallas as well as several other north Texas facilities. He is a well-known and widely published authority in the field of emergency medicine and the former regional medical director of a freestanding emergency medicine practice.

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Medical Editor:

Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD, Chief Medical Editor

Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD, Chief Medical Editor

Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD, is a U.S. board-certified Anatomic Pathologist with subspecialty training in the fields of Experimental and Molecular Pathology. Dr. Stöppler's educational background includes a BA with Highest Distinction from the University of Virginia and an MD from the University of North Carolina. She completed residency training in Anatomic Pathology at Georgetown University followed by subspecialty fellowship training in molecular diagnostics and experimental pathology.

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Authors and Editors

Author: Jay Robert Woody, MD

Editor: Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD

Previous contributing authors and editors:

Author: Brian S Skow, MD, Staff Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, St Vincent Mercy Medical Center.

Coauthor(s): Robert E Okasinski, MD, Consulting Staff, Department of Emergency Medicine, St Vincent Medical Center of Toledo; Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Surgery, Medical College of Ohio.

Editors: Richard W Allinson, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Ophthalmology, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Scott and White Clinic; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; Robert H Graham, MD, Ophthalmologist, Robert H Graham, MD, PC; Affiliated With Department of Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona and Carl T Hayden VA Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona.

REFERENCE:

Kunimoto, Derek Y., Kunal D. Kanitkar, Mary S. Makar, Mark A. Friedberg, Christopher J. Rapuano, eds. The Wills Eye Manual: Office and Emergency Room Diagnosis and Treatment of Eye Disease. 4th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004.