| Prior to his appointment at Yale, Dr. Liggett
was the director of the Ocular Oncology Service and Retina-Vitreous
Fellowship program at the University of Southern California.
Dr. Liggett has also taught at Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown
University and the Doheny Eye Institute at USC.
Dr. Liggett received his medical degree from Columbia University.
He completed his internal medicine and ophthalmology residencies
at Cornell University Medical Center in New York City. He completed his vitreoretinal surgery fellowship from the University of Southern California
Dr. Liggett and Dr. Chaudhry are the only two physicians in Connecticut to be invited
to be members of the Retina Society, the Macula Society and
the Jules Gonin Society ( the international society for retinal
diseases). He has received numerous grants and awards and
has written more than 50 articles and chapters in peer-reviewed
literature. He was on the invited faculty of Harvard University's
Lancaster Course in Ophthalmology, offered each summer to
ophthalmology residents worldwide. He was also an invited associate
examiner for the American Board of Ophthalmology.
Dr. Liggett was a principal investigator in the National
Eye Institute's National Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study
and the Silicone Oil Study for Complicated Retinal Detachments.
Dr. Liggett is listed in "Best Doctors in America,"
a peer-compiled book, and Los Angeles Magazine named him one
of the best doctors in Los Angeles in 1991.
In 1998, Dr. Liggett created the New England Retina Research
and Education Foundation, a not-for-profit organization to
encourage and support research for the development of new
treatments for retinal disease and to promote a multi-disciplinary
approach to eye care.
Board certified in internal medicine and ophthalmology.
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