Denise Hileeto
Clinical Associate Professor, Admissions Officer
Email: denise.hileeto@uwaterloo.ca
Location: OPT 329
Phone: 519-888-4567 x41930
Biography
Dr. Hileeto is a Bulgarian-trained physician, who received her Master of Science degree in Pathology at the University of Western Ontario before completing a 3-year residency in anatomic pathology at Yale University and a 1-year research fellowship in pathology at McMaster University.
Research Interests
- Histopathologic evaluation and establishing of morphologic tissue characteristics in normal and pathological states of the eye and ocular adnexal tissue
- Identification of new diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers in ocular surface disease, myopia, and altered refractive states
- Histopathologic evaluation of limbal stem cell deficiency and investigating the possibilities for ocular surface reconstruction through tissue substitutes
- Evaluation of histological parameters and correlation of microscopically identified tissue characteristics with their imaging correlates using current diagnostic imaging techniques
- New methodologies for digital analysis in diagnostic and prognostic histopathology using digitalized histology slides
Education
- MD, MSc
Teaching*
- OPTOM 108 - Histology of Tissues and Organs
- Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024
- OPTOM 134 - Immunology
- Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
- OPTOM 215 - Systemic Disease
- Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024
* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.