Gary Wortz, MD

	Gary Wortz, MD

Specialties: Refractive Surgery, Cataract Surgery with Multi-Focal
Lenses, Glaucoma and other diseases of the eye

Locations:

• Nature Coast EyeCare Institute 

 Education:

• 7-96-5-00
  Asbury College ,Wilmore, KY         

B.A. Chemistry
Graduated Magna Cum Laude

• 7-00-6-04
  University of Louisville, School of Medicine

Honors Achieved: Clinical Practice Sciences, Physiology,
Special Project in Surgery, Genetics, Pathology, Microbiology,
Pharmacology, Junior Psychiatry Clerkship, Senior
ophthalmology   Visiting Clerkship, Senior Surgery clerkship,
Senior Internal Medicine Acting Internship.

• 7-04-6-05 Transitional Year Internship, UK Medical Center
• 7-05-6-08 Resident in Ophthalmology, UK Medical Center
• 7-07-6-08 Chief Resident in Ophthalmology, UK Medical Center
• Bluegrass Eye Surgery Lebanon, KY: CEO& Lead Surgeon -July 2008- Present 

 Societies/Awards:

• Mensa Member 2007 – Present
• First Place Recipient of the American College of Eye Surgeons
• 2008 Bloomberg Memorial Resident Competition for cataract and
• Implant surgery.
• Recipient of the Alpha Omega Alpha Special Senior Award,
• University of Louisville Scholl of Medicine.
• Member of Whose Who Among American Medical Students.
• Sole Recipient of “The outstanding Senior Award in Chemistry
• 1996 Asbury College
• Recipient of the Hammell Shipps Medical Scholarship
• Member of Sigma Zeta, National Science and Mathematics Honor                                    Society
• Participant in Summer Research Scholar’s Program, University of                                     Louisville, School of Medicine

Leadership Positions:

• Founder of Bluegrass Eye Surgery PSC, 2008
• Selected as Chief Resident by Ophthalmology faculty, 2007-2008
• Resident Member of the Graduate Medical Education Core Curriculum Subcommittee at the University of Kentucky, College of Medicine 2006
• Elected University of Louisville School of Medicine Honor Code Representative, 2000-2004 Student Emergency Medicine Club Coordinator, 2001-2002

Patents, Presentations & Publications:

• Booth Speaker for Carl Zeiss Meditec OPMI Lumera: “Leveling the Surgical Playingfield” American Academy of Ophthalmology Joint Meeting, Atlanta, Ga 11/11/08
• Wortz GN, Katz DG, Conklin JC, “Refractive Surgery 101” University of Kentucky Department of Ophthalmology Grand Rounds 8/17/07
• Wortz GN, VanMeter WS, “Central Corneal Opacification Resulting From Recent Chemotherapy in Corneal Donors” Eye Bank Association of America 2007 Fall symposium
• VanMeter Wortz GM. Latz DG “ Foreign Body of Anterior Chamber” Masters of Ophthalmic Surgery 2nd edition.
• In Press Wortz GN, Steinle N, Sanders S. Crandall J. “Tube Shunt for the 21st Century” University of Kentucky Department of Ophthalmology Grand Rounds 1/12/07
• Wortz GN, VanMeter WS, “ Foreign Body of Anterior Chamber”University of Kentucky Department of Ophthalmology Grand Rounds10/6/06
• Wortz GN, Richardson WW, “The Changing Landscape: Advances in refraction , fitting and dispensing eyeglasses” University of Kentucky Department of Ophthalmology Resident’s Day presentation 6/23/06
• Wortz GN, Richardson WW, Method for determining refractive state and providing  corrective eyewear. Patent Submitted to USPTO 2006 Application # 11.734,569
• Wortz GN, “Idiopathic Uveitis” University of Kentucky Department of Ophthalmology Grand Rounds 11/4/06
• Burch PT, Scott MJ, Wortz GN, Peyton JC, Cheadle WG.: Mortality in murine peritonitis correlates with increased Escherichia coli Adherence to the intestinal mucosa. AM Surg. 2004 Apr; 70(4):333-41
• Burch PT, Scott MJ, Wortz GN, Peyton JC and Cheadle WG: Mortality after Cecal Ligation and Puncture Correlates with Increased Adherence of E. coli to Intestinal Mucosa. (Shock 17 (Suppl): 29,2002)
• Adherent Bacteria in Murine Cecal Ligation and Puncture. (Wortz GN Presented at the Research Louisville conference, Louisville, Kentucky 2001)