Dr. Timothy Powers

Email: tpowers@labpath.com

Address: 315 Erin Drive Knoxville, Tennessee 37919

Birthplace: Clinton, Tennessee

Education

East Tennessee State University
Johnson City, Tennessee
B.S. Biology

East Tennessee State University
M.D. Quillen Dishner College of Medicine
Johnson City, Tennessee

Honors
Helma Award for Outstanding Paper presented at MUSC Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Update, 1993
First Place, Physicians in Training Research Competition, Pathology Section, Southern Medical Association, 1991
Lange Medical Publishers Award for Outstanding Achievement as a Medical Student, 1988
Phi Kappa Phi

Internship

Internal Medicine
Quillen Dishner College of Medicine
Johnson City, Tennessee

Residencies

Anatomic Pathology
University of Tennessee Medical Center
Knoxville, Tennessee
July, 1989 to June, 1991

Ocular Pathology
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
July, 1991 to June, 1992

Ophthalmology
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
July, 1991 to June, 1992

Chief Resident, Ophthalmology
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
1994-1995

Board Certification

The American Board of Ophthalmology

Medical Licensure

Tennessee
South Carolina

Society Memberships & Honors

Fellow, American Academy of Ophthalmology
American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
American Association of Ophthalmic Pathology

University Appointments

Assistant Professor of Pathology
Department of Pathology
University of Tennessee Medical Center at Knoxville
Knoxville, Tennessee
January 1997 to present

Instructor
Department of Pathology
University of Tennessee Medical Center at Knoxville
Knoxville, Tennessee
January 1995 to December 1996

Clinical Instructor in Ophthalmology
Medical University of South Carolina, Storm Eye Institute
Charleston, South Carolina
November, 1992 to June, 1995

Hospital Appointments

Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge
Oak Ridge, Tennessee

University of Tennessee Medical Center
Knoxville, Tennessee

The Eye Surgery Center of Oak Ridge
Knoxville, Tennessee

Publications (Books and Book Chapters)

1. Powers TP, Carlson AN, O”Day DM ” Deep Mycoses” in Diseases of the Eye and Skin. Philadelphia, Lipincott-Rave, 1996, pp583-592.
2. Apple DJ, Powers TP, Hennis HL, Miller K. “Histiocytosis X” in Current Ocular Therapy”, 4th Edition. Philadelphia, W.B. Sanders Co., 194, pp 415-418.

Publications (Journals)

1. Gross JG, King LP, DeJuan E Jr, Powers TP. Subfoveal neovascular membrane removal in patients with traumatic choroidal rupture. Ophthalmology 103:579-585, 1996.
2. Powers TP, Stewart WC, Stroman GA. Ultrastructural features of tiltration blebs with different clinical appearances. Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers 27:790-794, 1996.
3. Storman GA, Stewart WC, Wang XH, Hamzavi S, Powers TP. Use of indocyanine green with diode laser transscleraral cyclophotocoagulation in a cadaver eye model. Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers 26:582-583, 1995.
4. Blotnick CA, Powers TP, Newland T, Apple DJ. Pathology of silicone intraocular lenses in human eyes obtained post-mortem. Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery 21:447-452, 1995.
5. McMIllan TA, Stewart WC, Legler UFC, Powers TP, Nutaitis MJ, Apple DJ. Comparison of diode and argon laser trabeculopasty in cadaver eyes. Investigatvie Ophthalmology and Visual Science. 35: 706-710, 1994.
6. Assia EL, Apple DJ, Blotnick C, Powers TP, Legler UFC. Clinicopathologic study on ocular trauma in eyes with intraocular lenses. American Journal of Ophthalmology 117:30-36, 1994.
7. Glatt HJ, Googe PB, Powers TP, AppleDJ. Anophthalmic socket pain. American Journal of Ophthalmology 116:357-362. 1993.
8. McMillan TA, Stewart WC, Nutaitis MJ, Powers TP, Apple DJ. The effect of varying wave length on subconjunctival scleral laser suture lysis in rabbits. ActaOphthalmologica 70:758-761. 1992.
9. Googe PB, Powers TP, Bell JL, Meyers AL. Malignant melanoma arising in a congenital nevus. Journal of the Tennessee Medical Association 84:120-122. 1991.
10. Powers TP, Laucirica R, Brooks S, Leopold S, Whitson M, Farnum J. Remote metastases from uveal melanoma. Journal of the Tennessee Medical Assocation 83:11-14, 1990.

Abstracts Presented and Published

1. Powers TP, Stewart WC, Stroman GA. Ultrastructural characteristics of filtration blebs. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl) 35 (4):1421, 1994.
2. Powers TP, Legler UFC, McMillan TA, Blotrick C, Bluestein E, Apple DJ. Pathology of silicone intraocular lenses in human eyes obtained postmortem. Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (Suppl) 78, A;pril 1992.
3. Powers TP, Harris DJ. Pathology of the cornea for anatomic pathologists. Southern Medical Journal (Suppl) 84L69, 1991.
4. Powers TP, Glatt HJ, Harris DJ. Squamous cell carcinoma of the conjuctiva with intraocular extension. Southern Medical Journal (Suppl) 83:39, 1990.

Abstracts

1. Marotto ME, Hanzavi S, Stewart WC, Stroman GA, Wang XH, Powers TP, Rogers GM, Greene WB. Morphologic changes in the trabecular meshwork following phacoemulsification in a cadaver eye model. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl) 36(4):730, 1995.
2. Stroman GA, Hamzavi S., Stewart WC, Blessing WD, Powers TP. Comparison of contract transscleral semiconductor diode laser cyclocoagulation versus non-contract technique in cadaver eyes. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl) 35(4)L559, 1995.
3. Powers TP, Stroman GA, Stewart WC, WAng XH, Hamzavi S. Use of indocyanine green to enhance the effect of diode transcleral cyclophotocoagulation in a cadaver eye model. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl) 36(4):556, 1995.
4. Berland J, Powers TP, Stewart WC, Saunders RA. Enhancement of Perkins tonometry with the woods lamp. Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (Suppl), Poster presentation, June 1994.
5. Apple DJ, John T., Powers TP, Dado R. In vivo interaction of extruded intraocular lens (IOL) haptic with huma oculkar surface environment. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl) 35(4) 1604, 1994.
6. Reidy JJ, Kemp JR, Anthone KO, Aquavella JV, Powers TP, Apple DJ. Histopathology of an excimer laser phototherapeutic keratectomy for HSV stromal keratitis two years post laser. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl) 35(4): 1245, 1993.
7. Bluestein EC, Kostick AMP, Lim SJ, Legler UFC, McMillan TA, Wright M, Powers TP, Apple DJ. The relationship between peripheral cortical material and posterior capsular opacification. Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (Suppl) 85, April 1992.
8. Yaplee SM, Hess RJ, Powres TP, Feinfeld RE, Terry AP. The value of C reactive protein in the diagnosis of giant cell (temporal) arteritis. Southern Medical Journal (Suppl) 81:46, 1988.