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MISSISSIPPI VISION CORRECTION CENTER Mississippi Vision Correction Center PLLC was founded by Dr. Bill Aden as Aden Eye Clinic in 1974. Additionally Dr. Bill Aden trained with the late Dr. Charles Kelman in New York City, who invented the technology still used today for cataract surgery and brought that technology to Jackson. With his daughter Brannon, the current managing partner, the Doctors Aden in 2005 opened a sister facility, Eye Surgical Center of Mississippi, LLC. Both facilities are located in Flowood, and “combined with our continuing commitment to new technology enable us to provide the best eye care possible to patients in our community.” Dr. Brannon Aden was graduated from Jackson Prep in 1988, received a bachelor’s degree in English and a bachelor’s degree in biology from Washington and Lee University in 1992, a medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine in 1996 and completed an ophthalmology residency at Tulane in 2000. She says, “My father and his older brother, Barry Aden, as well as their father, Aubrey Aden, were all ‘Dr. Aden.’”
As a child what did you want to be when you grew up? The first recollection I have of wanting to be a doctor was as early as six years of age. Since the first grade I have envisioned myself as a doctor. All of my educational decisions were geared toward that end. It was not, however, until very late in medical school that I decided that I wanted to pursue a career in ophthalmology, as my father had done.
What in your life are you most proud of? I am most proud of the work that my father and I have done together over the last 13 years to bring the best technology available in eye care to serve our community. It has also been very gratifying for me to have become an industry speaker and teacher of the techniques and technologies that we are using in our practice.
What do you do for relaxation? I love to cook, especially desserts; in my next life I dream of becoming a pastry chef. I love to fish in the South Louisiana marsh, and I spend many weekends in pursuit of redfish and speckled trout. I also love to travel, and Italy is my favorite country.
What do friends say is your best trait? This is a quote from one of my closest friends and one of our longest serving employees, Gail Evans. “You have so much empathy and concern for everyone’s well being and never act superior. You have the ability to sit down with the most simple person and explain to him his condition, how to treat it, and why, all the while making him feel that he is the only patient you have all day.”
What is your all-time favorite book? Because my first undergraduate degree is in English literature, I have many favorites. By far the most influential I’ve ever read is “Paradise Lost” by John Milton.
Drs. Bill and Brannon Aden
What is the greatest piece of wisdom your parents ever shared with you? Both parents, from very early in my life, encouraged me to be a leader, to think independently, and to give my best effort to every task. I live by those principles and judge myself by them daily. When my father first said to me (probably sarcastically) “you don’t know what you don’t know,” it had a profound effect on the way I approached formal education and learning from that point forward.
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