Eduardo C. Alfonso, M.D., the Edward W.D. Norton Professor of Ophthalmology known for his clinical expertise in diseases and surgery of the cornea and ocular microbiology, has been named interim chairman of Bascom Palmer Eye Institute which serves as the Department of Ophthalmology of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Dr. Alfonso will also serve as director of Bascom Palmer’s patient care facilities.

A 1984 graduate of Bascom Palmer Eye Institute’s ophthalmology residency program, Dr. Alfonso has been on the Bascom Palmer faculty since 1986. Dr. Alfonso has been medical director of Bascom Palmer’s Ocular Microbiology Laboratory and is recognized worldwide as an expert on ocular infectious diseases.