Biography
Dr. Mandi Conway attended medical school and did her internship in Chicago. She attended graduate school in immunology at Southern Illinois University prior to medical school. After a preretinal Fellowship in corneal diseases at Tulane, she did her residency at Tulane University. She did a 3 year NIH post – Doctoral funded research Fellowship (NRSA) in molecular biology of viral retinal diseases at the Tulane Primate Center .
She did a 2 year Fellowship in vitreoretinal surgery, and uveitis at Washington University in St. Louis. Following this, she was a faculty member at Louisiana State University Medical Center Department of Ophthalmology in New Orleans for 12 years and was Professor of Ophthalmology at Tulane for 6 years, prior to Hurricane Katrina.
She joined the University Of Arizona Tucson Department Of Ophthalmology in 2006 after Hurricane Katrina and moved to Phoenix in 2007 where she is currently in private practice at Arizona Retinal Specialists, specializing in vitreoretinal diseases, ocular oncology and uveitis. She is also a Professor of Basic Medical Science at the University of Arizona College Of Medicine Phoenix campus, and Chair of Dept of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences for this campus. She retains a Clinical Professorship at Tulane University Department of Ophthalmology. She is over 100 publications, over 75 abstracts, four book chapters, and has spoken internationally in Italy, Greece, Spain, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico, and Great Britain. She has trained in numerous residents, vitreoretinal follows, and medical students.
