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丽萨米。 nijm

医学博士，法学博士，学士学位，98年，健康科学

2019后起之秀

When she is not advocating for her patients in Washington, D.C., you will find Lisa Nijm. M.D., J.D. serving as a board-certified corneal, cataract and LASIK surgeon at the practice she founded, Warrenville EyeCare & LASIK. After graduating from Benedictine University summa cum laude with a B.S. in Health 科学, Nijm completed a post-graduate education that combined her interests in patient care and health care policy advocacy. She pursued a highly competitive six-year M.D., J.D. dual degree program at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine 和 School of Law, which only admits two students per year.

After completing ophthalmology residency at UIC and a top-ranked corneal & LASIK fellowship at UC Davis, Nijm worked in underserved regions of central Illinois. She established a much-needed cornea clinic in Lincoln, Ill. 和 became the first surgeon in central Illinois to perform all-laser LASIK surgery.

nijm是在伊利诺伊眼内外科医生和眼科（AAO）ophthpac委员会美国科学院最年轻的成员的第一驻地代表。她是目前（和最小）眼科（WIO）女总裁，致力于为女性眼科医生的教育和发展的国际组织。

她也是在UIC眼耳医院眼科的临床助理教授和眼科奥斯勒全国委员会评审过程的导演，已经教了2500名眼科医生至今。她是在先进技术的白内障手术，眼睛干涩和LASIK手术的知名专家和发表作品的作家，并在许多国家和国际会议已应邀发言。她担任三本眼科刊物的编委，是一个高度要求的眼科顾问。 nijm已经获得了无数的奖项和荣誉，她的工作，最近在海士WPS励志医师奖，AAO成就奖和医学西北医学-CDH 50周年英雄。她的目标是服务于她的病人和她周围的人作为一个富有同情心，宽容的医生，就像她的虔诚父母启发她这样做。