John Steven Jarstad
MD ’84, FAAO, FRSM-UK

About John Jarstad

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Job title: Professor Ophthalmology

Degrees: MD ’84 (Pullman WWAMI), MBA

Career stage: Late-career

State of practice: Tampa, Florida

Current practice settings: Academic medicine / teaching hospital

Lived career experiences/transitions:

  • Starting a family while maintaining a full-time practice
  • Leaving a practice
  • Starting a private practice
  • Work/life balance
  • Selling a successful practice

Graduation year from the UW School of Medicine: 1984

Residency: Mayo Clinic Rochester MN

Fellowship: N.I.H. Maryland

Specialty/subspecialty: Ophthalmology

Teaching roles: Residency Director, Professor – Cataract & Refractive Surgery

Research or other professional interests: Keratoconus, surgical inventions & patents, Hospital Executive MBA class of 2027

John’s Bio:

55 humanitarian eye missions teaching eye surgery as a visiting professor to 25 countries including North Korea, Director of all outpatient surgery (not just eye) for USF Tampa and Tampa General Hospital. Build the largest eye group from scratch in the Puget Sound area, sold to partners and returned to full time academic practice and now full professor at USF

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