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Walter D. "Bo" Blessing, Jr. M.D.
HOME ADDRESS: 2308 Palm Blvd.
Isle of Palms, SC 29451
Phone (843) 866-5747
wdblessingjr@yahoo.com
OFFICE ADDRESS: Surgical Associates of Charleston, PA
510 Albermarle Road
Charleston, SC 29407
Phone: (843) 723-6424
Fax: (843) 722-293
BIRTH PLACE/DATE: Charleston, SC January 1, 1972
MARITAL STATUS: Wife: Anne Pinckney Hanahan
Children: Walter Dale Blessing III
(7/11/04)
LISCENSING EXAMINATION: USMLE Steps 1,2, and 3
LISCENSURES: 2001 - Louisiana # 025433
2005 - South Carolina # 27670
EDUCATION: 1990 Woodberry Forest School
(Cum Laude)
1994 B.A. (English with honors)
University of South Carolina Honors
College, Columbia, SC
1999 M.D. Medical University of South
Carolina, Charleston, SC
WORK EXPERIENCE: 1994-95 Research Assistant
Department of Ophthalmology,
Glaucoma Service, Medical University
of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
1999-2000 Intern General Surgery
Ochsner Clinic Foundation,
New Orleans, LA
2000-2002 Registrar General Surgery
Auckland Hospital, Auckland
New Zealand
2002-2005 Resident General Surgery
(cheif resident 2004-2005) Ochsner
Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, LA
2005- present General Surgeon, Surgical
Associates of Charleston, Charleston, SC
Roper St. Francis, Roper,and East Cooper
hospitals
SPECIALITY BOARD: American Board of Surgery - Board
Eligible
2005 Qualifiying Exam - passed
SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP American College of Surgeons
American Medical Association
Charleston Medical Society
Society of American Gastrointestinal
Endoscopic Surgeons
Louisiana State Medical Association
Southeastern Surgical Congress
HONORS AND AWARDS: 1998 History of Medicine Elective,
Honors
1998 Medicine Core Rotation, Honors
ARTICLES:
Stroman GA, Stewart WC, Hamzavi S, Powers TP, Blessing WD: Contact
vs. Non contact diode laser
transsceral cyclophotocoagulation in cadaver eyes. Ophthalmic Surgery
and Laser. 1996, 27 (1): 60-65
Blessing WD, Stolier AJ, Teng SC, Bolton JS, Fuhrman GM, A comparison
of methylene blue and
lymphazurin in breast cancer sentinel node mapping. American Journel
of Surgery. 2002, 184 (4): 341-5
Blessing WD, Ross J. Kennedy C, Richardson WS: Laparoscopic assisted
peritoneal dialysis catheter
placement, an improvement on the single trocar technique. American
Surgeon, 2005, 71 (12): 1042-46
ABSTRACTS:
Stroman GA, Stewart WC, Blessing WD, et al: Comparison of contact
transscleral semiconductor diode
laser cyclophotocoagulation ve non-contact technique in cadaver
eyes. Investigative Ophthalmology and
Visual Science-Abstract Book. 1995, 36 (4): SS559
Blessing WD, Detkova D, Stewart WC, Stroman GA: Evaluation of
short term fluctuation in pattern
discrimination perimetry. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual
Science- Abstract Book 1995, 36 (4):SS524
Hamzavi S, Stewart WC, Blessing WD: Accuracy model for glaucomascope
optic nerve head topographical
measurements. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science-Abstract
Book 1995, (4) SS970
Blessing WD, Ross J, Kennedy C, Richardson WS: Laparoscopic assisted
peritoneal dialysis catheter
placement, an improvement on the single trocar technique. Surgical
Endoscopy. 2005, 19 (Suppl): S287
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