“Pentosan Polysulfate and Vision: Findings from an International Survey of Exposed Individuals” by Uner et al. July 2021 Elizabeth Rossin M.D., Ph.D.Instructor in Ophthalmology, Mass Eye and EarBoston, MA Avni…
Matthew Starr Vitreoretinal Fellow Wills Eye Hospital VBS The Force Awakens Episode 2 was moderated by Mrinali Gupta, Jorge Fortun, and Avni Finn. The meeting kicked off with an intense…
Sneha Padidam, MD Vitreoretinal surgical fellow Retina Group of Washington, Washington, D.C. Dr. David Eichenbaum of Retina Vitreous Associates of Florida presented the results of a Phase 1 study evaluating…
Sneha Padidam MD Vitreoretinal surgical fellow Retina Group of Washington, Washington, D.C. Dr. Helena Feenstra of the of Leiden University Medical Center presented the results of the SPECTRA trial. The…
Brittni Scruggs, MD, PhD Vitreoretinal Fellow, Casey Eye Portland, OR Vitreous hemorrhage (VH) occurs in approximately 45% of all patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) despite prior anti-vascular endothelial growth…
Sophie Cai, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Duke Eye Center, Durham, NC Another exciting presentation was given by Dr. Brandon Busbee of Tennessee Retina. Dr. Busbee reported the results of the…
Sophie Cai, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Duke Eye Center, Durham, NC One of the highlights of today’s session was Dr. Clement Chan’s presentation of the results of the multicenter DRCR…
Matthew R. Starr, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA Dr. Raj Maturi of the Midwest Eye Institute, presented for the first time, the results of the DRCR…
Avni P. Finn, MD, MBA Northern California Retina Vitreous Associates Mountain View, CA The Vit-Buckle Society 2021 Meeting: The Force Awakens, Episode 1 took place on April 14th. This was…
We’re back! After a hiatus to upgrade the backend of our website, we are delighted to announce the return of RETINA Roundup. We are back in full force to deliver…
Christopher Aderman, MD Associate Retina Specialist, EyeHealth Northwest, Portland, OR (former retina fellow at Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA) Jaya B. Kumar, MD Associate, Florida Retina Institute, Orlando, FL (former…
Kenneth Fan, MD Ophthalmology Resident Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Hasenin Al-Khersan, MD Ophthalmology Resident Bascom Palmer Eye Institute This was the final session of the 2019 Angiogenesis meeting. Thank you…
Kenneth Fan, MD Ophthalmology Resident Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Hasenin Al-Khersan, MD Ophthalmology Resident Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Session V of the Angiogenesis meeting focused on macular neovascularization, diabetes, and…
Jose J. Echegaray, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Nathan Scott, MD MPP Ophthalmology Resident Bascom Palmer Eye Institute The fourth session of the conference, Macular Neovascularization: Imaging…
Jose J. Echegaray, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Nathan Scott, MD MPP Ophthalmology Resident Bascom Palmer Eye Institute The High Risk Non-Exudative AMD session kickstarted with an…
Nimesh Patel, MD Vitreoretinal Fellow Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Nicole Topilow, MD Ophthalmology Resident Bascom Palmer Eye Institute The second session began with Dr. Emmett T. Cunningham, Jr discussing the…
Nimesh Patel, MD Vitreoretinal Fellow Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Nicole Topilow, MD Ophthalmology Resident Bascom Palmer Eye Institute The Mandarin Oriental hotel provided a grand setting for the annual meeting.…
Akihiro Ishibazawa, MD, PhD Research Fellow, Tufts New England Eye Center Assistant Professor, Asahikawa Medical University Nadia K. Waheed, MD Associate Professor, Tufts New England Eye Center Assistant Editor, RETINA…
Tomasz Stryjewski, Cindy Ung, Jay Wang First Year Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellows Massachusetts Eye and Ear Atlantic Coast Retina Club (ACRC) 2019 formally began on Friday January 11, 2019 at the…
As we head into the holiday season we are so thankful to all of the contributors to RETINA Roundup during the past year. You have made the blog a continued…
Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MD Eric Nudleman, MD, PhD Jonathan Prenner, MD RETINA Roundup Editors It’s early December. While most of the country is recovering from Thanksgiving travel and transitioning to holiday…
Eric Nudleman, MD, PhD UC San Diego, Shiley Eye Institute RETINA Roundup Co-Editor An annual ritual at the AAO subspeciality day includes a rapid tour of the newest instrument and…
Kotaro Tsuboi, MD Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology Motohiro Kamei, MD, PhD Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology Aichi Medical University Nagoya, Japan The “Video Surgical Complications-What Would You Do?” session was…
Dilraj Grewal, MD Associate Professor of Ophthalmology Duke Eye Center The Uveitis Subspecialty day Avant-Garde Blues session included late breaking talks on uveitis trials. Suprachoroidal Delivery of CLS-TA for Uveitic…
Brian K. Do, MD The Retina Group of Washington Dr. Arshad Khanani, MD, of Sierra Eye Associates, in Reno, NV, presented these promising phase 2 data in one of the…
Lauren Wright, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Boston University The 2018 AAO Sub-Specialty day highlighted an exciting assortment of hot topics in the field of Pediatric Retina. On day one of…
Brian K. Do, MD The Retina Group of Washington The second session of 2018’s Retina Subspecialty Day, moderated by Maria H. Berrocal, MD, and John W. Kitchens, MD, introduced a…
Rithwick Rajagopal, MD, PhD Washington University School of Medicine Symptomatic floaters are a common source for frustration for both patients and vitreoretinal surgeons. As care providers, we are committed to…
Cynthia X. Qian, MD Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology University of Montreal The “First-Time Results of Clinical Trials” session had two presentations from Allergan trials. The first talk introduced the Phase…
Cynthia X. Qian, MD Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology University of Montreal The first day of retina subspecialty finished on an innovative note with the introduction of several first time results…
Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MD Mass Eye & Ear / Boston Children’s RETINA Roundup Co-Editor One of the highlights from Friday morning was a special lecture by Dale Webster, Ph.D., a software…
Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MD Eric Nudleman, MD, PhD RETINA Roundup Co-Editors The “My Coolest Surgical Video” session was moderated by Masahito (Matt) Ohji, Chair of Ophthalmology at Shiga University in Japan.…
Yoshihiro Yonekawa Mass Eye & Ear / Boston Children’s RETINA Roundup Co-Editor We hope everyone is gearing up for the 2018 American Academy of Ophthalmology annual meeting in Chicago. Lots…
Tomasz Stryjewski, MD Vitreoretinal Fellow Mass Eye and Ear In this week’s RETINA Roundup, we spoke with Dr. Mrinali Gupta regarding her recent photoessay in RETINA entitled “Reversal of Retinal…
Jonathan Prenner, MD NJ Retina RETINA Roundup Editor The Retina Society program committee reserved a number of superb presentations for the closing half-day of what has been an outstanding scientific…
Karen Jeng-Miller, MD, MPH Ophthalmology Resident Mass Eye & Ear This year, the 2018 Charles L. Schepens Lectureship was awarded to Dr. Paul Sternberg, G.W. Hale Professor and Chair of…
Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MD Mass Eye & Ear / Boston Children’s RETINA Roundup Co-Editor We continue coverage of the 2018 Retina Society annual meeting in San Francisco. Yesterday we presented summaries…
Thomas J. Wubben, MD, PhD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Kellogg Eye Center / University of Michigan Congratulations to Dr. Wubben from Kellogg Eye Center, who is the 2018 recipient of the…
Hossein Nazari Khanamiri, MD Ophthalmology Resident UTMB Ophthalmology Dr. Bernerd Doft, president of the Retina Society, opened the first Innovation in Retina lecture series dedicated to the application of artificial…
Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MD Mass Eye & Ear / Boston Children’s RETINA Roundup Co-Editor The age-related macular degeneration (AMD) session at Retina Society is always jam-packed. Patients with AMD comprise a…
Hossein Nazari Khanamiri, MD Ophthalmology Resident UTMB Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences The late breaking session is reserved for high-profile and potentially industry-moving clinical trial data that becomes available often after…
Rehan M. Hussain, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Bascom Palmer Eye Institute The 51st annual Retina Society meeting in San Francisco kicked off on September 12th. One of the exciting sessions…
Jay Wang, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Mass Eye & Ear The first day of Retina Society 2018 concluded with a session on imaging, with presentations on a wide range of…
Nimesh Patel, MD Vitreo-retinal fellow Bascom Palmer Eye Institute This session was full of interesting presentations. Dr. Neiraj Jain started by sharing a series of 6 patients with a novel…
Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MEEI/Boston Children’s Eric Nudleman, UCSD Jonathan Prenner, NJ Retina RETINA Roundup Editors Welcome to the 51st Annual Meeting of the Retina Society. We are in San Francisco at…
Eric Nudleman, UCSD Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MEEI/Boston Children’s Harry Flynn, Bascom Palmer 30 years ago in 1988, some things about the journal RETINA were the same, and some things were different.…
Yoshihiro Yonekawa, Mass Eye & Ear Eric Nudleman, UCSD Jonathan Prenner, NJ Retina RETINA Roundup editors The “Michels” is one of the highest honors that a vitreoretinal surgery fellow can…
The use of anti-VEGF therapy has revolutionized the treatment of wet AMD, such that most patients can now maintain functional vision for their lifetimes. However, the need for frequent injections…
ASRS 2018: Women in Retina (WinR): How to Succeed in Different Practice Environments, From Academia to Private Practice. July 23, 2018. Course Organizer: Audina Berrocal, MD Faculty: Lisa Olmos de…
Durga Borkar, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Wills Eye Hospital The session kicked off with Dr. Sengul Ozdek describing the long term anatomical and functional results of surgery for retinal detachment…
Marianeli Rodriguez, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Mass Eye & Ear, Harvard Medical School Dr. Geeta Lalwani first discussed the 2-year pooled outcomes from various randomized trials of anti-VEGF treatment for diabetic…
James Lin, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Dr. Shaileen Parikh started the discussion this morning describing the clinical and OCT findings in chronic solar retinopathy, which is…
Zachary Bodnar, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Byers Eye Institute, Stanford University The instrumentation symposium was moderated by Carl Awh, MD and Raymond Iezzi, MD. Kevin Blinder, MD presented initial experiences…
Amirfarbod Yazdanyar, MD, PhD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow UC Davis The retinal vascular disease session on Monday morning was interactive and informative. The symposium was moderated by Drs. Alay Banker and…
Edward Wood, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow ARC/Beaumont Following opening comments by Timothy Murray, MD, MBA, the neovascular AMD symposium kicked off an exciting series of symposiums. The section moderated by…
Nikisha Kothari, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow UCLA Jules Stein Eye Institute Dr. Timothy Murray, the Program Chair of ASRS, started the morning with a discussion on the results comparing trans-scleral…
Kareem Moussa, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Mass Eye & Ear / Harvard Medical School The surgical symposium wrapped up Sunday’s morning session. The symposium started with Murat Oncel, MD discussing the…
Peter H. Tang, M.D., Ph.D. Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Byers Eye Institute, Stanford This afternoon, we had a lively and informative discussion regarding techniques for surgical fixation of intraocular lenses. It…
Mingyi Huang, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA Wiley A. Chambers II, MD was awarded the 2018 American Society of Retina Specialists Founders Award. The award was presented…
Lekha Mukkamala, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow University of California, Davis The second half of the morning on non-neovascular AMD kicked off with discussion of the Chroma and Spectri studies. Although…
Sarwar Zahid, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow University of Illinois Chicago The Surgical Case Conference was a tour de force of complex surgical cases and surgical techniques presented by surgeons at…
Yoshihiro Yonekawa RETINA Roundup Co-Editor Instructional courses on Friday afternoon kicked off the 36th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Retina Specialists in Vancouver, BC. Course topics ranged from…
Yoshihiro Yonekawa Eric Nudleman Jonathan Prenner RETINA Roundup Editors Retina specialists from throughout the world are arriving this week in Vancouver, Canada, for the 36th Annual Meeting of the American…
Hanna Hui, Yoshihiro Yonekawa Mass Eye & Ear / Harvard Medical School Glenn Jaffe, M.D. is the Robert Machemer Professor of Ophthalmology and Chief of the Retina Division at Duke Eye…
Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MD Mass Eye & Ear / Boston Children’s RETINA Roundup Co-Editor Several weeks ago we counted down the top 10 accessed papers in RETINA. The number 1 spot…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…