Carol Lally Shields (born July 8, 1957)
biography at the University of Notre Dame Athletics Monogram Club (official website). Retrieved 22 October 2007. is the Director of the Ocular Oncology Service at Wills Eye Hospital. She is Professor of Ophthalmology at Thomas Jefferson University and consultant at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Early life and undergraduate education
Shields was born Carol Lally in
Sharon, Pennsylvania on July 8, 1957,
graduating from
Kennedy Christian High School in 1975.
In 1979, she earned her undergraduate degree at the
University of Notre Dame, also playing
NCAA women's basketball
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for the "
Fighting Irish." She was a member of the first basketball team at Notre Dame, and later became captain of the team. She was also the first woman to receive the Byron Kanaley Award, the highest honor given to Notre Dame student-athletes, awarded for excellence in academics and leadership.
She was inducted into the Capital All-American Hall of Fame in 2011 for excellence in athletics and academics. In 2023, she will receive the
Theodore Roosevelt Award from the NCAA.
Medical education and career
Dr. Shields completed
medical school
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at the
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Upon graduation from medical school, she moved to
Philadelphia to do a residency at Thomas Jefferson University at Wills Eye Hospital and joined the staff at Wills Eye Hospital where she specialized in
ophthalmology and eye cancers.
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Wills Eye Hospital. Accessed 2007-09-09.
Dr. Shields is the coauthor (with Jerry A. Shields, her husband) of a number of texts including: ''Atlas of
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Tumors'', ''Atlas of
Intraocular Tumors'', and ''Atlas of
Eyelid and
Conjunctival Tumors''. She is also co- editor of a comprehensive book entitled, "Retinoblastoma", published recently.
Currently, Dr. Shields and her husband Dr. Jerry Shields head up the
oncology department at the
Wills Eye Hospital.
[Retinoblastoma]
Wills Eye Health System, Accessed 2010-01-07 Located in
Philadelphia, the Wills Eye Hospital sees at least 50% of the 300 children diagnosed with
retinoblastoma each year and at least 1/3 of the adults diagnosed with ocular melanoma in the USA. She was voted by her peers to be in the 2014 and 2016 Ophthalmology Top 100 Power List, which comprises a list of the top 100 most influential people in ophthalmology in the world. There have been only two "Top 100" Power Lists – she was on both. She is also the recipient of the Donders Award (2003) given by the Netherlands Ophthalmological Society every 5 years to an ophthalmologist worldwide who has contributed extensively to the field of ophthalmology. She was the first woman ever to receive this award.
See also
*
Eye neoplasm
References
External links
The Ocular Oncology Service of Wills Eye Hospital, Thomas Jefferson University
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American ophthalmologists
Women ophthalmologists
Living people
1957 births
Physicians from Philadelphia
University of Notre Dame alumni
Notre Dame Fighting Irish women's basketball players