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The Commitment to Advocacy Award annually recognizes an ophthalmology training department and its leadership for outstanding support of the Academy’s Ambassador Program. The Advocacy Ambassador Program is a collaboration with state and subspecialty societies, along with training programs, to support attendance by members in training at the Mid-Year Forum.
For patients with eye cancer, University of Florida Health ophthalmology specialist Gibran S. Khurshid, M.D., is sowing seeds of hope. In Khurshid’s case, those seeds are tiny particles of radioactive iodine. Attached to a gold implant about the size of a contact lens, the “seeds” deliver tightly focused radiation…
Reviewed by Bryce Buchowicz, MD, Logan Vander Woude, DO, MPH, and Siva S. Iyer, MD The key to successful treatment of central retinal arterial occlusions (CRAOs) is timely recognition of both the symptoms and the systemic severity of the pathology by patients and emergency medical personnel, leading to appropriate treatment with tissue…
Each January, the National Eye Institute (NEI) sponsors National Glaucoma Awareness Month. Glaucoma is a leading cause of vision loss and blindness in the United States. Many people don’t know that glaucoma has no symptoms in its early stages. The only way to find out if you have glaucoma is to get a comprehensive dilated eye…
