Despite her extensive list of professional credits and global recognition in the field of vision and ophthalmology, native New Yorker Penny Asbell, MD, FACS, MBA, FARVO, now calls herself a hometown Memphian, excited about progress toward the goals she’s pursuing as chair and professor of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) Department of Ophthalmology and director of the Hamilton Eye Institute.
As a tenured professor of ophthalmology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, and demonstrably a master multi-tasker, Dr. Asbell distinguished herself as a clinician, academician, surgeon, scholar, lecturer, researcher and prolific author — as well as a dynamic leader and organizer. Her delight in multiple involvements is “a life passion,” she admits. “I love doing many things!”