Jared L. Matthews, MD, has joined the staff of the Hamilton Eye Institute at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

Dr. Matthews specializes in laser vision correction, laser cataract surgery, cornea transplantation, complex cataract surgery and infectious and inflammatory corneal disease.

Dr. Matthews, who comes to Memphis from The Eye Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas, earned his medical degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. He completed a fellowship in ophthalmic pathology at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute and then transitional year internship at Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center in Denver.

After residency at the Yale University Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science he returned to Bascom Palmer for a fellowship in cornea and refractive surgery.