BBI Faculty Conversations: Today we are joined by BBI Member Dr. Andrew Stacey, Associate Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Washington and Seattle Children’s.
BBI: Tell us how you got involved in medicine and your area of research?
Dr. Stacey: I have an undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University in Statistics. I was thinking a lot about doing a PhD in statistics, but I realized I liked coming up with the problems, not just solving someone else’s problems. During medical school, I fell in love with surgery. I had never known a surgeon, so I was not expecting to enjoy it! I eventually learned about ophthalmic surgery and cancers of the eye, and was quickly interested in the field. I completed my medical school at the Ohio State University, and followed that with residency at University of Michigan at the Kellogg Eye Center.
