Denise Hileeto

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.

• 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

• MD, MSc

• OPTOM 108 - Histology of Tissues and Organs
  • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
• OPTOM 134 - Immunology
  • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
• OPTOM 215 - Systemic Disease
  • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

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