David M Hinkle, MD
Tulane University School of Medicine
Chair
131 S Robertson St.
12th Floor, Mail code 8069
New Orleans, LA 70112
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Professional Affiliations
Academic Appointments- Professor
- Department of Ophthalmology
- Tulane University School of Medicine
- Children’s Hospital of New Orleans
- East Jefferson General Hospital
- Lakeside Hospital
- Lakeview Hospital
- Slidell Memorial Medical Center
- University Medical Center
Education and Training
- Retinal fellowship
- Albany Medical College, Lions Eye Institute, Albany, NY
- Additional fellowship
- Ocular Immunology and Uveitis, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Ophthalmology residency
- Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
- Medical School
- West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Biography
David M. Hinkle is the inaugural Oliver and Carroll Dabezies Endowed Chair, a Louisiana Board of Regents Eminent Scholar, Professor, and Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at Tulane University School of Medicine. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering with honors from Case Western Reserve University where he was a Provost Scholar and Case Alumni Association Scholar. He attended medical school and completed an internship in Internal Medicine at West Virginia University. He completed an Ophthalmology residency and served as Chief Resident at Tulane University. He completed an Ocular Immunology and Uveitis fellowship at Harvard Medical School with C Stephen Foster and a Vitreoretinal surgery fellowship at Albany Medical College under the mentorship of Paul Beer, Naomi Falk, and Pawan Bhatnagar. He completed the Physician Leadership Development Program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute while serving as Director of the Retina Service and Ambulatory Physician Leader at the UMass Memorial Eye Center.
He has authored or co-authored more than 75 peer-reviewed articles, abstracts, and book chapters and participated in over 30 clinical trials. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics. He is an invited speaker at regional, national and international ophthalmology meetings and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Cincinnati, the University of Arizona-Phoenix, LSU Shreveport, and Geisinger Medical School. He was the James H. Allen lecturer and Tulane Eye Alumni of the year in 2011, received the American Academy of Ophthalmology Achievement Award in 2016, the WVU Eye Institute Teacher of the Year Award in 2019, the Tulane Ophthalmology Award of Excellence in 2022, and the John W. Henderson Award in 2023. His clinical and research interests include complex vitreoretinal surgery, drug and vaccine induced ocular inflammatory disease, infectious uveitis, and big data analytics including NIH grant support for machine learning.