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Sheppard, MD, MMSc, FACS, is division medical director for EyeCare Partners and senior founding partner of Virginia Eye Consultants, as well as medical director of the Lions Eye Bank of Eastern Virginia, and professor of ophthalmology, microbiology, and molecular biology at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk
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