Atlantic Coast Retina Club / Macula 2019
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…
Retina Prophecies for 2019
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…
The Retina Fellowship Match: How to Rank Programs
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…
2018 AAO Retina Sub-Day: New Surgical Instruments
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…
2018 AAO Retina Sub-Day: Surgical Complications Session
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…
2018 AAO Uveitis Sub-Day: Suprachoroidal Delivery of CLS-TA for Uveitic Macular Edema
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…
2018 AAO Retina Subday: Simultaneous Inhibition of VEGF and Ang-2 with Genentech’s Faricimab in Neovascular AMD: STAIRWAY Phase 2 Results
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…
2018 AAO Retina Subday: Pediatric Retina
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…
2018 AAO Retina Subday: Vitreoretinal Surgery
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…
2018 AAO Retina Subday: The Art and Science of YAG Vitreolysis
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…
2018 AAO Retina Subday: First-Time Phase II Results of Brimo-DDS for Geographic Atrophy
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…
2018 AAO Retina Subday: First-Time Phase III Results of Allergan’s Abicipar for Neovascular AMD
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…
2018 AAO Retina Subday: Special Lecture on Google’s Artificial Intelligence for Retina
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…
2018 AAO Retina Subday: “My Coolest Surgical Video” Session
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.…
Preview of the 2018 AAO Retina Subspecialty Day
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…
Featured RETINA Paper: Anti-VEGF Halts Progressive Retinal Nonperfusion in Diabetic Retinopathy. Conversation with Mrinali Gupta, MD.
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…
Retina Society 2018: Concluding Sessions & Location for Next Year’s Meeting
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…
Retina Society 2018: The Charles L. Schepens Lecture – Regenerative visual neuroscience: how it will transform eye care by Dr. Paul Sternberg
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…
Retina Society 2018: AMD Session Part II
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…
Retina Society 2018: Fellowship Research Award Recipient, Thomas J. Wubben
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…
Retina Society 2018: Artificial Intelligence
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…
Retina Society 2018: AMD Part I (Including First-Time Presentation of Genentech’s Bispecific Anti-VEGF/Ang2 Agent for Neovascular AMD)
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…
Retina Society 2018: Late Breaking Presentations
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…
Retina Society 2018: Surgical Videos
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…
Retina Society 2018: Imaging
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…
Retina Society 2018: Macular Diseases
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…
Retina Society 2018: Award Winners and Scientific Program
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…
RETINA Throwback + Interview: Harry Flynn’s Cannulated Extrusion Needle
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.…
Announcing the 2018 Michels Award Recipients
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…
Phase 2 LADDER Results Announced
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)
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…
ASRS 2018: Pediatric Retina
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…
ASRS 2018: Diabetic Retinopathy Session 1
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…
ASRS 2018: Imaging Session
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…
ASRS 2018: Instrumentation Symposium
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…
ASRS 2018: Retinal Vascular Session
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…
ASRS 2018: Neovascular AMD
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…
ASRS 2018: Oncology Session
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…
ASRS 2018: Surgical Symposium
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…
ASRS 2018 — Fixing Lenses
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…
ASRS 2018 — Awards
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…
ASRS 2018: AMD2 — Dry AMD
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…
ASRS 2018: Surgical Case Conference
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…
ASRS 2018: Social Media for the Retina Specialist – Dos and Don’ts
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…
Welcome to Vancouver: ASRS 2018
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…
How Glenn Jaffe Approaches Uveitis Surgery
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…
Top 10 Retinal Cases & Brief Reports
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…
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…
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…
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…