The Making of a Retina Broadcast
Yoshihiro Yonekawa Mass Eye & Ear / Boston Children’s Hospital Eric Nudleman Shiley Eye Institute / UC San Diego Lejla Vajzovic Duke Eye Center / Duke University Yannek Liederman Illinois…
Artificial Intelligence for Automated Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy
Nitish Mehta, MD Ophthalmology Resident New York University Ehsan Rahimy, MD Surgical and Medical Vitreoretinal Specialist Palo Alto Medical Foundation In April 2018, the FDA granted marketing approval to IDx…
Interview with Evangelos Gragoudas: Keep Your Eyes Open and Enjoy Science as an Adventure
Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MD Mass Eye & Ear / Boston Children’s Hospital RETINA Roundup Co-Editor Evangelos Gragoudas is one of the giants in our field. Dr. Gragoudas and his colleagues pioneered…
James Fujimoto, 2018 ARVO Beckman-Argyros Prize Recipient
Zujaja Tauqeer, DPhil 4th Year Medical Student Harvard Medical School The penultimate award lecture of this year’s ARVO conference in Honolulu was given by James Fujimoto, PhD, the Elihu Thomson…
Jennifer Doudna, ARVO/Alcon Keynote Lecture: CRISPR-Cas Gene Editing
Edward Wood, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Associated Retinal Consultants / William Beaumont Hospital Jennifer Doudna, PhD gave a rousing talk to a standing-room only crowd for the ARVO/Alcon keynote lecture…
ARVO 2018 in Honolulu: M.E. Hartnett, Weisenfeld Award Recipient
Welcome to the RETINA Roundup coverage of ARVO 2018 in Honolulu, Hawaii. During this conference, we will feature award lectures by giants in the field who have revolutionized how we…
New York Retina Surgical Night
Neepa Shah, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Weill Cornell Medical College Dimos Mantopoulos, MD, PhD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson, NJ Retina The 5th Annual New York Retina Surgical Night…
Top 10 RETINA Articles
Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MD Mass Eye & Ear / Boston Children’s RETINA Roundup Editor This week we are counting down the top 10 electronically accessed papers in RETINA. The following is…
Global Ophthalmology: Making Impact as Retina Specialists
J. Peter Campbell, MD, MPH Casey Eye Institute Oregon Health and Sciences University (Website) Parag Shah, MD Aravind Eye Institute, Coimbatore Coimbatore, India (Website) Sanyam Bajimaya, MD Tilganga Institute of…
VBS VI: Historic Delivery of Gene Therapy for LCA
Brian Do, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow USC Roski Eye Institute One of the most exciting presentations during VBS VI was a somewhat impromptu, first-of-its-kind video from none other than Dr.…
RETINAWS at VBS VI
Rehan M. Hussain, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery fellow Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Session 6 of the VBS 6th annual meeting was a special Retinaws session. A panel of vitreoretinal surgeons shared…
VBS VI: Complications Session
Neepa Shah, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Weill Cornell Medical College The complications session at VBS was one of the highlights of the meeting. Moderated by Andrew Schimel from Miami, multiple…
VBS VI: Women of VBS Breakfast — Going Beyond Boundaries
Dr. Linda Alejandra Cernichiaro Espinosa Asociación para Evitar la Ceguera en México, I.A.P. What would the world be without diversity? Race, culture and gender are amongst the most relevant differences…
VBS VI: Retina Caliente
Natalia Fijalkowski Callaway, MD, MS Ophthalmology Resident Bascom Palmer Eye Institute High noon at VBS: the Retina Calienta fighters entered the ring to heat up the room. Round 1, Maria…
VBS VI: Lifetime Mentorship Lecture – Jay S. Duker, MD
Prethy Rao, MD, MPH Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Associated Retinal Consultants/William Beaumont Hospital Macular hole Classification: What’s in a Name? This year’s lifetime mentorship lecture was awarded to Jay Duker, MD…
VBS VI: Surgical Adventures, Bridging the Gap
Akshay Thomas, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Duke Eye Center The 7th session of the 6th annual VBS meeting was titled, “Surgical Adventures, Bridging the Gap.” The session was moderated by…
VBS VI: Retina Surgery in Living Color – Live Surgery Session
Nicolas Yannuzzi Ophthalmology Resident Bascom Palmer Eye Institute A panel of Tim Murray, MIchael Klufas, and Jorge Fortun moderated the live surgery session. Justin Townsend from Bascom Palmer tackled the…
VBS VI: Fellows’ Foray
Nemo Patel, MD Ophthalmology Resident Bascom Palmer Eye Institute The Fellows’ Foray has become one of the favorite traditions of the meeting, where fellows showcase their best surgical videos that…
VBS VI: Welcome to Miami
Yoshihiro Yonekawa Mass Eye & Ear / Boston Children’s RETINA Roundup Editor Welcome to the RETINA Roundup coverage of the 2018 annual Vit-Buckle Society (VBS) meeting. The VBS meetings have…
New Jersey Crystals: Triamcinolone Crystalline Maculopathy
Dimos Mantopoulos, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow New Jersey Retina Howard F. Fine, MD, MHSc New Jersey Retina Rutgers – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School In a paper recently published ahead…
Will Your Paper Be Accepted? What Editors Look for in Manuscripts
Yoshihiro Yonekawa, Mass Eye & Ear Eric Nudleman, UCSD Jonathan Prenner, NJ Retina RETINA Roundup Editors Carol Shields, Wills Lloyd Paul Aiello, Joslin William Smiddy, Bascom Palmer RETINA Associate Editors You’ve worked countless nights dissecting data…
Santen’s DE-122 (Carotuximab) for Endoglin Suppression in Neovascular AMD: Phase I Results
Nitish Mehta, MD Ophthalmology Resident New York University Yasha Modi, MD Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology New York University Yesterday we reported on the favorable Phase II results from Genentech’s BOULEVARD…
Phase II Data from Genentech’s BOULEVARD Study: Dual VEGF-A + Ang-2 Suppression with RG7716 for Diabetic Macular Edema
Nitish Mehta, MD Ophthalmology Resident New York University Yasha Modi, MD Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology New York University Many companies are working to fill unmet needs in the treatment of…
What You Always Wanted to Know About the Retina Fellowship Match (PART III): MATCH DAY & BEYOND
Yoshihiro Yonekawa, Mass Eye & Ear Eric Nudleman, UCSD Jonathan Prenner, NJ Retina RETINA Roundup Editors We return to the fellowship match series where we interviewed 15 retina fellowship program…
Journal Impact Factors: What do the Numbers Mean?
Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MD Mass Eye & Ear / Boston Children’s RETINA Roundup Editor Journal impact factors (JIFs) are numbers calculated to represent “how good” academic journals are. In this article,…
What You Always Wanted to Know About the Retina Fellowship Match (PART II): INTERVIEW DAY & RANK LIST
Yoshihiro Yonekawa, Mass Eye & Ear Eric Nudleman, UCSD Jon Prenner, NJ Retina RETINA Roundup Editors Welcome back to the Fellowship Match series, where we interview 15 program directors to…
What You Always Wanted to Know About the Retina Fellowship Match (PART I): GETTING THE INTERVIEW
Yoshihiro Yonekawa, Mass Eye & Ear Eric Nudleman, UCSD Jon Prenner, NJ Retina RETINA Roundup Editors Congratulations to all of the 3rd year ophthalmology residents who recently matched into retina…
Atlantic Coast Retina Club Day 3: Macula 2018
Kathrine Talcott, Ferhina Ali, Christopher Aderman Second Year Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellows Wills Eye Hospital Saturday January 14th was the 2018 Macula meeting, the third and final day of the Atlantic Coast…
Atlantic Coast Retina Club Day 1 (Part II)
Nitish Mehta Ophthalmology Resident, New York University Xinxiao Gao Research Fellow, Wills Eye Hospital Anthony Obeid Research Fellow, Wills Eye Hospital We continue our coverage of ACRC Day 1. With…
Retina Meetings at Ski Resorts
Yoshihiro Yonekawa Mass Eye and Ear / Boston Children’s RETINA Roundup Editor Happy 2018 from the RETINA Roundup team! We hope everyone enjoyed the holiday season and bringing in the…
Top 10 Posts of 2017, and Thank You
Eric Nudleman Jonathan Prenner Yoshihiro Yonekawa RETINA Roundup Editors As we come to a close on the first calendar year of RETINA Roundup, we thank you for your contributions and…
When Things Go South: The 30-year OMIC Experience in Retinal Malpractice presented by George A. Williams, M.D.
Karen Jeng-Miller, MD, MPH Ophthalmology Resident Mass Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School Archana Seethala, MD Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology Vitreoretinal Surgery, Boston Medical Center The 767th New England Ophthalmological…
AAO 2017 Retina Subspecialty Day: Protocol U
Kevin Chen, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow University of California San Diego Dr. Raj Maturi reported on data from the highly anticipated DRCR.net Protocol U. This study is a multicenter randomized…
AAO 2017 Retina Subspecialty Day: Imaging Session
Cindy Ung, MD Ophthalmology Resident Mass Eye and Ear Dr. David Sarraf kicked off the imaging session discussing new biomarkers of angiogenesis in AMD using OCT angiography (OCTA). He discussed…
Pneumatic Vitreolysis: The Little Bubble that Could. Interview with Clement Chan, MD
Eric Nudleman, MD, PhD UCSD Shiley Eye Institute Editor, RETINA Roundup It has been more than 20 years since Clement Chan, MD first reported the use of C3F8 for the…
ASRS 2017 WinR Special: Interview with Zelia Correa, MD, PhD
Women in Retina: a profile of Zelia M. Correa, MD, PhD Interviewed by Nika Bagheri, MD What is your story? How did you become a retinal surgeon, ocular oncologist, and…
Why is Private Equity Eyeing Retina?
Eric Nudleman MD, PhD Jonathan Prenner, MD The last several years have been a feeding frenzy of private equity buyouts in ophthalmology. Although many people are now deeply involved in…