DR. PHILIP JAMES DEER, JR.Dr. Deer Jr., a native Arkansan, grew up in Mississippi County, and has lived and practiced in Little Rock for over 30 years. He attended Hendrix College and graduated from the University of Tennessee Medical School. He continued his residency in ophthalmology at the University of Tennessee Medical School with a six month course at Harvard University. He is married to an Arkansan, Florence Ross and they have three children, Jim, an ophthalmologist at the Deer Penick Eye Clinic, Ross, a lawyer in Kansas City, and Sloan, a librarian in Conway, Arkansas.
DR. PHILIP JAMES DEER, IIIDr. Deer III was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and has lived in Little Rock since he was five years old. He was an All State football player for Hall High School in 1976. He graduated from Hendrix College in 1980 with a B.A. in Chemistry and received his MD degree from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in 1984. He completed his ophthalmology training at the University of Mississippi in 1988. He is board certified in ophthalmology. He is married to the former Lynda Braswell of Grenada, Mississippi. They have four children, Philip, Emily, Paul and Elizabeth. Dr. Deer III enjoys seeing patients of all ages, from the "young to the young at heart!". He primarily performs cataract surgery, but also does other general ophthalmology surgeries and lasers.
DR. EDWARD PENICK IIIDr. Edward Moore Penick, III was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. He graduated from Central High School in 1994. He attended Davidson College in North Carolina where he received a B.S. in Biology. He graduated from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in 2002. He completed his transitional internship at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas in 2003. He received his ophthalmology residency training at the University of Missouri Kansas City. He is board certified in ophthalmology. He is married to another Little Rock native, Jill Irwin. They have three children, Edward, Worthen, and Catherine. Dr. Penick performs LASIK and refractive cataract surgery.
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