Denise Hileeto

Denise Hileeto
Adjunct Professor; Retired faculty

Biography

Denise 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 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024
  • OPTOM 134 - Immunology
    • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025
  • OPTOM 158 - Clinical Experience 2
    • Taught in 2025
  • OPTOM 215 - Systemic Disease
    • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024
  • OPTOM 258 - Clinical Experience 4
    • Taught in 2025

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

Graduate studies