Biographical Sketch

Dr. Calzada was born in the country of Panama in 1973. Both his mother and father were originally from northern Spain, and had moved to Central America around 1950. He finished high school at a Jesuit school in Panama City and attended Medical School at the University of Panama, where he received his medical degree at the age of 22 as valedictorian with the highest academic grade point average. During medical school Dr. Calzada also received a second degree black belt in traditional karate and studied piano composition. As a medical student, Dr. Calzada became editor-in-chief of the medical journal of the University of Panama and founded the Student Scientific Research Committee which to this day promotes research projects and international interaction from within the medical school of the University of Panama.

After receiving his medical doctorate, Dr. Calzada worked for two years for the Ministry of Health of Panama as a physician, the latter year in a rural hospital attending the underserved indigenous population of eastern Panama. Dr. Calzada was brought to Memphis by Dr. Barrett Haik, Chairman of Ophthalmology at the University of Tennessee Memphis and joined the University as research fellow at the Department of Ophthalmology and the Center for Neurosciences, under the direction of Dr. Dianna Johnson and Dr. Peter Netland, studying retinal cell death and retinal pigment epithelium transplantation.

Dr. Calzada finished ophthalmology residency at the University of Tennessee in 2003 and returned to Panama City as an ophthalmologist in the Clínica de Ojos Orillac-Calvo and the Fundación Pro-Visión 20/20. During this time, he lectured throughout Central America on advanced ophthalmic surgical techniques and coordinated efforts of the Central American Retinoblastoma Project supported by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Dr. Calzada returned to Memphis in 2005 to join Dr. Steve Charles first as fellow in vitreoretinal surgery and currently as associate vitreoretinal surgeon at the Charles Retina Institute. Dr. Calzada is clinical instructor of ophthalmology at the Hamilton Eye Institute of the University of Tennessee. His clinical interests are complex retinal detachment surgery, macular diseases and pediatric vitreoretinal disorders.

Dr. Calzada is married to Lynn Calzada, from New Albany, Mississsippi, and they live in Germantown, Tennessee with their daughter Adela Isabel.

View his curriculum vitae here.

His E-mail address is jordical@hotmail.com