Samuel Cohen, MD and David Peprah, MD Moderated by Drs. Gerardo Garica-Aguirre and Jessica D. Randolph, this surgical case panel featured eight different cases with unique intraoperative complications. Dr. Sean…
Salma Fleifil and Anh Nguyen University of Michigan Dr. Emily Chew is the recipient of the 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award and was interviewed by Dr. Paul Chan and Dr. Audina…
The first neovascular AMD session focused on emerging therapies for wet AMD, with a strong emphasis on gene therapy aimed at reducing treatment burden while maintaining visual and anatomic outcomes.…
Isabela Martins Melo, MD Vitreoretinal Fellow University of Toronto Dr. Isabela Martins Melo from the University of Toronto was the 2026 Macula Society’s recipient of the Evangelous S. Gragoudas award.…
Erik Massenzio, MD Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA Dr. Raziyeh Mahmoudzadeh, MD from Virginia Commonwealth University presented a patient with bilateral optic nerve pallor, severely hypoattenuated vessels, featureless fundus, and…
Cindy S. Zhao, MD Stanford Byers Eye Institute, Palo Alto, CA Moderated by Dr. Tomas S. Aleman, Dr. Jose S. Pulido, and Dr. Drew H. Scoles, the pediatric retina and…
Justin Muste, MD Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA The second Macula 2026 session was moderated by Drs. Julia A. Haller, MD and Johanna M. Seddon, MD, ScM, FASRS. The session…
Trisha Ortiz Wills Eye Hospital Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals Drs. Jordan D. Deaner, James P. Dunn, Sara E. Lally, and Carol L. Shields moderated the 6th session of MACULA 2026…
Alex Shaer Wills Eye Hospital Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals The medical retinal potpourri session was moderated by Jay Chhablani, MD, and contained an assortment of diverse medical topics, conditions, and…
Collin Richards, MD Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA Neil M. Bressler, MD Anti-VEGF monotherapy for diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema is an underappreciated but highly effective approach, particularly in…
Darius D. Bordbar, MD Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA Moderators: Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MD Panelists: Maria H. Berrocal, MD; Dean Eliott, MD; Ajay E. Kuriyan, MD; Phoebe L. Mellen, MD…
Timothy T. Xu, MD Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA The dry age-related macular degeneration session of Atlantic Coast Retina Club 2026 was moderated by Alexander J. Brucker, MD and Jason…
Jimmy Chen, MD Mass Eye and Ear, Boston MA The Vitreoretinal Surgery session at the 50th Annual Atlantic Coast Retina Club and Macula 2026 in Philadelphia, PA brought together a…
Turner D. Wibbelsman, MD Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA 15th Annual J. Arch McNamara Memorial Lecture: Lessons Learned in a Long-Term Cohort of Patients with Susac Syndrome Dr. Sunil K.…
Elham Sadeghi MD University of Pittsburgh (UPMC), Pittsburgh, PA Retinoblastoma case David H. Abramson MD Dr. David Abramson presented the case of a 1.5-year-old girl with untreated bilateral retinoblastoma. The…
Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MD RETINA Roundup Editor in Chief 2025 was a successful year for RETINA and Retinal Cases and Brief Reports, with numerous high impact papers published by authors from…
Flavius Beca, MD Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA The following talks at AAO 2025 gave us need-to-know updates for other ophthalmic subspecialties including neuro-ophthalmology, glaucoma, cataract/refractive, and office visit coding.…
Luis Acaba-Berrocal MD Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA The Late-Breaking Abstract session at Retina Subspecialty Day highlighted several important clinical trials in diabetic macular edema and diabetic retinopathy. Among them…
Sidra Zafar, MD Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA This year’s Charles Schepens Lecture at the American Academy of Ophthalmology Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL, was delivered by Dr. Lee Jampol.…
Ashley Zhou, MD Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN At AAO 2025’s Retina Subspecialty Day, a pair of presentations delivered compelling new data on emerging strategies for diabetic retinopathy. Dr. Victor H.…
Lyna Azzouz, MD Byers Eye Institute, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA Late-breaking data presented at AAO 2025 highlighted emerging gene-independent treatment strategies for inherited retinal diseases. Allen C. Ho, MD…
Dr. Jonathan Lin was awarded the 29 th Retina Society Fellowship Research Award for his work at Stanford University integrating electronic health record data and proteomics data to discover novel…
Cindy S. Zhao, MD Stanford Byers Eye Institute, Palo Alto, CA The 2025 J. Donald M. Gass Award was awarded to Mark W. Johnson, MD, member of the RETINA journal’s…
Raziyeh Mahmoudzadeh, MD Virginia Commenwealth University The age-related macular degeneration (AMD) session on Thursday September 11th was moderated by Dr. Deeba Hussain and Dr. Thomas Wubben. Here we summarize the…
Maryam Zekavat, MD, PhD Mass Eye & Ear At the Retina Society 2025 meeting in Chicago, the two late-breaking sessions highlighted innovations in retinal stem cell and prosthetic technologies for…
Ashley Zhou, Edward Lu, Theodore Bowe, Luis Acaba Berrocal Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA Celebrating innovation, mentorship, and legacy in the retina community The 2025 American Society of Retina Specialists…
Marta Stevanovic, MD Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA The Retinal Detachment Symposium Session I at the American Society for Retina Specialists Annual Meeting in Long Beach, California explored both…
Warren Pan, MD, PhD Kellogg Eye Center, Ann Arbor, MI The Dry AMD Session 3 at ASRS 2025 showcased groundbreaking clinical trials for geographic atrophy (GA) secondary to AMD, featuring novel therapies targeting complement…
Henry W. Zhou, MD, MS Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA The Surgical Case-Based Panel Discussion at ASRS 2025 featured leading vitreoretinal surgeons as they addressed challenging surgical scenarios. Dr.…
Vishal B. Swaminathan, MD Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN Dr. Neil M. Bressler was invited to speak at this year’s ASRS 2025 meeting in Long Beach, CA. He discussed “Underappreciated or…
Luis Acaba-Berrocal, MD Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA Dr. Connie Cepko received the ARVO 2025 Friedenwald Award in recognition of her groundbreaking research into the development and degeneration of the…
Timothy T. Xu, MD Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN Dr. Cynthia Owsley and Dr. Christine Curcio were honored with the ARVO 2025 Proctor Medal Award for their contributions to earlier detection…
Lauren Kiryakoza, MD Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, FL Hailey Robles-Holmes, MD Georgetown/Washington Hospital Center, Columbia, MD Prashant Tailor, MD Stein Eye Institute, Los Angeles, CA VBS Mentorship Award: Celebrating…
Rosalind Ni Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Philadelphia, PA Vishal Swaminathan Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN The morning of VBS 2025 continued with discussion regarding prominent surgical scientific papers and their impact…
Christopher Chung, MD, MD Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary, Chicago, IL Tina Felfeli, MD, PhD University of Tornto, Toronto, Canada The session moderated by Drs. Ferhina Ali and Donald D’Amico,…
Elham Sadeghi, MD1, Bita Momenaei, MD2, Justin Muste, MD3, Timothy Xu, MD4 1. Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine 2. The Retina Service of Wills Eye Hospital,…
Russel Dinh, MD Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Charlie Zhang, MD Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, FL Uveitic Macular Edema Treatment: Suprachoroidal Triamcinolone Acetonide versus Intravitreal Triamcinolone Acetonide versus Dexamethasone Intravitreal…
Tianyu Liu, MD Associated Retinal Consultants, Royal Oak, MI Jeffrey Yu, MD Kellogg Eye Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Dr. Glenn Jaffe moderated a lively discussion with panelists…
Sandra Hoyek, MD and Melissa Yuan, MD Mass Eye and Ear, Boston MA The Surgical Retina Debates session at VBS 2025, moderated by Drs. Virgilio Morales Canton and Adrienne Scott,…
Rachana Haliyur, MD, PhD, a first year vitreoretinal fellow at the University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center, was awarded the prestigious Evangelos S. Gragoudas Award at the 2025 Macula Society…
Spencer Barrett, MD Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, FL Novel Findings from High Res OCT Talk (Dr. Freund) Dr. K. Bailey Freund presented a talk on “Novel Findings from Innovative…
Michael Massengill, MD Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, FL Dr. Giovanni Staurenghi delivered an insightful presentation on the Differential Diagnosis of Macular Atrophy. He emphasized the importance of distinguishing age-related…
Joseph Pecha, MD, MPH Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, FL Efficacy and Safety of Complement Factor B Antisense, IONIS-FB-LRx, in Geographic Atrophy due to Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Results of the…
Mary (Molly) Munsell Mass Eye & Ear Special Topics in Retina for 2025 In the last session of MACULA 2025, Drs. Lee Jampol and Dr. Joseph Anaya moderated presentations on…
Stephanie Zhang Richmond Woodward Mass Eye & Ear The ocular oncology session began with a presentation on radiation retinopathy given by Dr. Arun Singh. Radiation retinopathy responds to anti-VEGF agents…
Stephanie Zhang Richmond Woodward Mass Eye & Ear The morning of Macula 2025 continued with the retinal vascular diseases other than diabetic retinopathy session starting with Dr. Peter Campochiaro’s talk…
Edward (Ned) Lu Mass Eye & Ear The Choroidal Neovascularization session was moderated by Lucia Sobrin, MD, MPH, Akrit Sodhi, MD, and Andre Witkin, MD. Dr. Akrit Sodhi from Wilmer…
Sameen Meshkin and Moosa Zaidi Mass Eye & Ear Diabetic Macular Edema Session The Macula 2025 session on diabetic macular edema (DME) was moderated by Drs. Mira Sachdeva, Allen C…
Elham Sadeghi, University of Pittsburgh Sameen Meshkin, Mass Eye & Ear Macula 2025 started with a fantastic keynote lecture by Dr. Daniel Martin to explore the global influence of NIH…
Johnathan Bailey Maximilian Kong Columbia University Imaging Saturday morning’s Contemporary Retinal Imaging session was moderated by Dr. Christina Weng and Dr. John Miller. This eye-opening session outlined many aspects of…
Luis Acaba-Berrocal, MD Martin Calotti, MD Sidra Zafar, MD Wills Eye Hospital SESSION 7 The afternoon continued with Session 7, moderated by Dr. Jay Chhablani and Dr. Demetrios Vavvas. The…
Theodore Bowe, MD and Flavius Beca, MD Wills Eye Hospital SESSION 5 Dr. J. Fernando Arevalo and Dr. Jose Pulido moderated the fifth session on Friday at the Atlantic Coast…
Roselind Ni and Bita Momenaei Wills Eye Hospital SESSION #3 The third morning session, moderated by Dean Eliott, MD and William Mieler, MD, featured four compelling case presentations, sparking insightful discussions among the…
We are back to welcome the new year as we love to do with the Atlantic Coast Retina Club (ACRC). This legendary regional meeting is now over 40 years in…
Olufemi Adams, MD and Michael Yu, MD Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA During this year’s Debates at Retina Subspecialty Day, experts sparred over medical and surgical retina topics ranging from…
Lindsay Kozek, MD, PhD and Melissa Yuan, MD Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston, MA The Charles L. Schepens lecture, given annually at the American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting in honor…
Chloe Y. Li, MD Columbia University/New York Presbyterian, New York City, NY Clinical trial results dominated this year’s Late-Breaking Abstracts session at Retina Subspecialty Day, featuring new results from trials…
Sonya Besagar, MD Vanderbilt Eye Institute, Nashville, TN Eric Jung was awarded the Fellowship Research Award for his work entitled Spontaneous Drusen Reduction Volume is Associated With Persistent Ellipsoid Zone…
Nikhil Bommakanti, MD Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA Victor Gonzalez, MD and David A. Eichenbaum, MD presented late breaking abstracts at The Retina Society 57th Annual Scientific Meeting in September…
Nikhil Bommakanti, MD Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA Ward Fickweiler, MD, PhD was awarded one of two Fellowship Research Awards at the Retina Society Annual Meeting on Thursday, September 12,…
Melissa Yuan, MD Mass Eye and Ear, Boston MA The fifth AMD session was moderated by Drs. Ferhina Ali and Deeba Husain. This action-packed session covered many aspects of AMD,…
Michael Yu, MD Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA Thursday morning’s Surgery 1 session was moderated by Drs. Jeffrey Heier and Cynthia Toth. Several notable talks are summarized below. Dr. Geoff…
Eric Jung, MD Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH RETINA Editorial Board Member Dr. Anat Loewenstein, MD, MHA received Retina Society’s Award of Merit in Retina Research this year.…
Lucie Guo, MD Byers Eye Institute, Stanford, CA The Saturday late breaking session at the 2024 Retina Society meeting featured an interesting discussion on new, exciting biologics. The session began…
Melissa Yuan, MD Ophthalmology Resident Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary The 2024 conference finished strong with the medical and surgical case conferences. The medical case conference session was moderated by…
Lindsay Kozek MD, PhD Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA This session, moderated by Robert A. Mittra, MD, provided both technical updates regarding the Port Delivery System as well…
Nikhil Bommakanti, MD Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA RETINA Editorial Board Member Dr. Anat Loewenstein, MD, MHA was awarded the Retina Research Foundation’s 29th Annual Gertrude D. Pyron Award on…
Gabriel Kaufmann, MD Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH For the past 11 years, the American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS) has given the ASRS Presidents’ Young Investigator Award…
Michael Yu, MD Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA Several awards were presented at the ASRS Award Ceremony to honor ASRS member contributions to teaching, research, and clinical care within the…
Vishal Swaminathan, MD Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN The Diabetic Retinopathy Symposium II at the 2024 ASRS meeting featured a great discussion on the use of various agents for the treatment…
Jovi CY Wong, MD, MSc, DPhil University of Toronto The American Society for Retina Specialists annual meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, kicked off with the Wet AMD Symposium I focusing mainly…
Shane Griffin, MD MCR California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA On the third day of the conference, Dr. David Sarraf welcomed the international audience to the 10th annual Pacific…
Blake Fortes, MD Stein Eye Institute, UCLA, Los Angles, CA Session 1 The 10th Annual Pacific Retina Club Retina Update kicked off with a session on artificial intelligence, basic science,…
Michael Yu, MD Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA Every year, the Champalimaud Foundation, in conjunction with the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), recognizes an organization which overcomes…
Seyedeh Maryam Zekavat, MD, PhD Mass Eye and Ear, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, Boston, MA The Proctor award honors outstanding research in the basic or clinical sciences. This…
Timothy T. Xu, MD Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN The 2024 Friedenwald award was awarded to Dr. Anand Swaroop, Ph.D., who is a Senior Investigator and Chief of Neurobiology, Neurodegeneration, and…
Asad Durrani, MD Prashanth Iyer, MD Linnet Rodriguez, MD Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA The 14th session, “What if it’s the Demogorgon?!” focused on complications and was moderated by Paula…
Harry Levine, MD, University of Michigan Melissa Yuan, MD, Mass Eye and Ear Dr. Tarek S. Hassan was introduced by Dr. Aristhomenis Thanos and Dr. Margaret Runner for the 2024…
Bita Momenaei, MD, Wills Eye Hospital Jovi C Y Wong, MD, University of Toronto The lively Friday afternoon Medical Retina Debates were aptly captioned “If we are both going crazy,…
Jia Xu, MD Lindsay Kozek, MD Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA The prestigious VBS Mentorship Award was conferred upon Dr. Lejla Vajzovic, MD, FASRS, by Drs. Avni Finn and…
Chloe Y. Li, MD, MA Columbia University/New York Presbyterian The second-ever “North vs South” debates at Vit Buckle Society featured four retina surgeons from Canada and four from Mexico. Topics…
Yasman Moshiri, MD Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, FL The first session of the 12th Annual Meeting of the Vit-Buckle Society was an exciting foray into the clinical and surgical…
Taku Wakabayashi, MD, PhD Wakabayashi Eye Clinic, Kanazawa, Japan Aichi Medical University, Aichi, Japan The pediatric session at FujiRetina 2024 moderated by Shunji Kusaka, MD and Aleksandra Rachitskaya, MD, covered…
Kanae Fukutsu, MD, PhD Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Japan Dr. Keiko Kataoka, professor Hideki Koizumi, and Dr. Adrienne Scott moderated the…
Naoto Sato, MD Suzuki Eye Group, Tokyo, Japan On Sunday afternoon, the Macular Surgery 2 session was moderated by Drs. Kazuaki Kadonosono and Thomas J. Wolfensberger. Dr. Eric Nudleman from…
Naoto Sato, MD Suzuki Eye Group, Tokyo, Japan The Macular Surgery session kicked off Saturday morning. The session was moderated by Drs. Hitoshi Takagi, Takayuki Baba, and Cheng-Kuo Cheng. First, Dr.…
Norimitsu Ban, MD, PhD Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan FujiRetina Day 1 had an exciting morning of scientific paper sessions focusing on AMD. Dr. Akio Oishi from Nagasaki…
Kotaro Tsuboi, MD Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, Japan The second day of Fuji Retina 2024 featured a captivating afternoon dedicated to scientific discussions on vitreoretinal imaging and vascular disease. Below…
Ryuya Hashimoto, MD, PhD Toho University Sakura Medical Center, Chiba, Japan The 2024 FujiRetina meeting featured standout presentations during the surgical session dedicated to diabetic retinopathy, engaging the audience in…
Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MD RETINA Roundup Editor in Chief FujiRetina is Japan’s preeminent international retina meeting. Fuji refers to Mount Fuji, a stunning mountain that is a sacred and inspirational symbol…
The 47th Macula Society meeting was held last month in sunny Palm Springs, California. Investigators present their latest works at this legendary scientific meeting, and one of the highlights of…
David Fell, MD Vitreoretinal fellow Tufts/OCB Dave Brown Interviews Food and Drug Administration Director of the Division of Ophthalmology, Wiley Chambers, MD. With the audience eagerly awaiting insider discussions on…
Wyatt Smith, MD Weill Cornell, New York, NY Dr. Carol Shields and Dr. Lawrence Yannuzzi presented the honorary Founders Award to three distinguished guests: Dr. Susan Bressler (Johns Hopkins Wilmer…
Luke Oh, MD Columbia University, New York, NY The “Non-neovascular AMD” section of ACRC 2024 started with three excellent talks moderated by Drs. Alexander Brucker and Srinivas Sadda. These presentations…
Jonathan Noonan, MD Columbia University, New York, NY After a thought-provoking day of resident and fellow case presentations, Friday morning heralded the onset of the attending case presentations. Session 1:…
Arjun Watane, MD Yale Ophthalmology, New Haven, CT The Atlantic Coast Retina Club had an exciting afternoon of complex and mystery cases. A summary of selected cases are described below.…
Jennifer Hu, MD Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA Sessions 3 and 6 of the trainee cases were full of interesting presentations from our residents and fellows. Dr. Erin Flynn…
Melissa Yuan, MD Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA ACRC Trainee Session #2 The first afternoon of ACRC continued with more exciting trainee cases, moderated by Drs. Emily Chew, Itay…
Da Meng, MD PhD Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA ACRC Trainee Session 1 Session 1 of the trainee mystery cases started with Dr. Rolika Bansal, an oncology fellow from…
The annual Atlantic Coast Retina Club/Macula meeting is a perennial favorite among ophthalmology residents, fellows and retina specialists across the country. The meeting was founded in the 1970s as a…
Emanuele Crincoli, MD, FEBO Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli An advanced instructional course on the impact of digital innovations on retinal care was held in Floretina 2023 meeting in Rome. The…
Fiammetta Catania, MD, FEBO Hospital Foundation Adolphe de Rothschild The opening day of Floretina 2023 featured an intense and compelling X-Cases session moderated by Alexander J Brucker, Stanislao Rizzo, Bailey…
Clara Rizzo, MD Ophthalmic Unit, Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy Alexander J. Brucker, K. Bailey Freund, Anat Loewestein, Stanislao Rizzo and Sandrine Zweifel…
Raphael Kilian MD Department of Ophthalmology, Ospedali Privati Forlì “Villa Igea,” Forlì, Italy The 2023 BRUNO LUMBROSO, MD LECTURESHIP award went to Professor Giovanni Staurenghi, Chairman of the Department of…
Giulia Corradetti, MD Doheny Eye Institute, UCLA At the FLORetina-ICOOR meeting, on December 1, 2023, the OCT-Angiography Course was presented in the Ellisse Room and moderated by Drs. Daniela Bacherini,…
Alessandra Scampoli, MD Gemelli-Isola Hospital, Rome One of the highlights of the FLORetina meeting are the live surgery sessions. Each day of the meeting has live surgery on the program.…
Emanuele Crincoli Stanislao Rizzo Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS Catholic University, Rome, Italy The 11th FLORetina-ICOOR Congress took place from November 30th to December 3rd at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel…
Prashant Tailor, MD Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN For the debate on Current Complement Inhibition Therapy for Geographic Atrophy is Acceptable, we had Dr. Chakravarthy (Pro) and Dr. Spaide (Con). Dr.…
Prashant Tailor, MD Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN In his talk titled “What’s Next in Wet AMD,” Dr. Peter Kaiser delved into the latest advancements and future directions in the treatment…
Flavius Beca, MD Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, FL Retina Subday 2 offered fascinating talks on artificial intelligence (AI). The AI session concluded with Dr Raymond lezzi, MD, discussing the…
Lauren Kiryakoza, MD Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, FL The second day of retina sub day at AAO 2023 included talks on the increasingly popular glucagon-like peptide (GLP-1) agonists such…
David Xu, MD Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA The highly anticipated two-year results of the GATHER2 trial of avacincaptad pegol for geographic atrophy was presented by Dr. Arshad Khanani at…
Jovi C.Y. Wong, MD, MSc, DPhil University of Toronto The AAO 2023 Retina Subspecialty Friday afternoon session Late Breaking Developments (Part 1) continued with the exciting release of the ARCHER…
Jovi C.Y. Wong, MD, MSc, DPhil University of Toronto At AAO 2023 Retina Subspecialty Day 1, the most anticipated session of the afternoon was the Late Breaking Developments (Part 1),…
Linnet Rodriguez, MD Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA The Charles L Schepens lecture started with the introduction of the 16th recipient, Dr. Emily Y. Chew. The topic was Macular Telangiectasia…
Giulia Corradetti, MD Doheny Eye Institute Pasadena, CA On the second day of the Retina Society Meeting in New York City, Dr. Allen Ho from Philadelphia, PA, presented the late-breaking…
Prashanth G. Iyer, MD, MPH Tufts Medical Center/Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston Dr. Nathan Steinle started this presentation by stating that there have been approximately 24,000 injections of pegcetacoplan administered from…
Sandra Hoyek, MD Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Dr. Sabin Dang, MD, addressed the repercussions of insurance prior authorization (PA) for intravitreal anti-VEGF within the field of retina. He and…
Warren Pan, MD, MPhil, PhD University of Michigan The following sessions on Saturday morning were moderated by Dean Eliott, MD and Maria Berrocal, MD. First, Dr. Leo Kim, MD, PhD…
H. Russell Day, MD Vanderbilt Eye Institute, Nashville, TN Sunir Garg, MD from the Wills Eye Hospital presented his work on pooled safety data from the aflibercept 8 mg trials.…
Alejandra Maiz, MD Ophthalmology Resident, University of Michigan The 2023 Annual Retina Society Meeting kicked off its third day and second age-related macular degeneration session with several outstanding talks. Dr.…
Alejandra Maiz, MD University of Michigan Dr. David Brown of Retina Consultants of Texas in Houston presented safety and tolerability data of a single-dose of CLS-AX (axitinib injectable suspension). Touted…
Dr. Andrei Szigiato was honored with the Retina Society Fellowship Research award for his work at the Cole Eye Institute on comparing half-dose versus full-dose fluorescein for ultra-wide field fundus…
Dr. Jong Park was awarded the Raymond Margherio Fellowship Award for his work entitled Surgical Management of Full Thickness Macular Holes in Macular Telangiectasia Type 2, A Global Multicenter Study.…
Jonathan Lin, MD, PhD Mass Eye & Ear At the 56th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Retina Society, Dr. Sophie Bakri from the Mayo Clinic shared her work titled “Comparison…
Pooja Bansal Guru Nanak Eye Centre Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi, India The Dissection Room session on retinal detachment surgery was moderated by Dr. Rajeev Jain and Dr. Shashank Rai…
Stuti Astir, Shroff Eye Centre Deependra V. Singh, Eye-Q Super-specialty Eye Hospitals The ROP workshop at Delhi Retina Meet 2023 was designed to apprise the delegates about the latest developments…
Prachi Dave and Ritesh Narula Centre for Sight Eye Hospital The endophthalmitis session at DRM 2023 aptly focused on how the endophthalmitis spectrum is changing in India and how one…
Aashraya Karpe, MS Shroff Eye Centre, New Delhi The Prove Your Point session at the Delhi Retina Meet showcased the latest innovations and techniques. Retina surgeons presented their new ideas…
RETINA Roundup is excited to announce that we will start coverage of international conferences, in addition to our usual US-based meetings. Our first in-depth international meeting coverage brings us to…
Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MD RETINA Roundup Editor The “Michels” is one of the highest honors that a vitreoretinal surgery fellow can achieve. Dr. Alexander Brucker, Chairman of the Ronald G. Michels Fellowship…
Sara Hojjatie, MD University of Washington Seattle, WA The Wet AMD Session 2 at the ASRS Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA highlighted several novel methods of VEGF inhibition for neovascular…
Melissa Yuan, MD Mass Eye and Ear Boston, MA The Saturday session kicked off with Dr. Andre Witkin presenting a talk on behalf of the ReST committee entitled, “Update on…
Jonathan D. Tijerina, MD, MA Resident Bascom Palmer Eye Institute The Early Career Section Luncheon of this years ASRS meeting was moderated by Dr. Basil Williams who kicked of things…
Emily Cole, MD, MPH Kellogg Eye Center, University of Michigan Ann Harbor, MI The Women in Retina luncheon was one of three events put on by Women in Retina as…
Sandra Hoyek, MD Massachusetts Eye and Ear Boston, MA On August 1st, 2023, the final session of ASRS 2023 was moderated by J. Michael Jumper, MD, FASRS and Robin Vora,…
Samuel Feldman, MD University of California Davis Eye Center Sacramento, CA Monday morning’s talks started off with the Retinal Detachment Symposium, which was moderated by Philip J. Ferrone, MD and…
Alyssa Bonnell, MD University of Washington Seattle, WA The Dry AMD Symposium II at the 2023 ASRS meeting featured several outstanding talks and a lively discussion on the use of…
Albert Liao, MD Stein Eye Institute, UCLA Los Angeles, CA The late breaking abstract session 1, moderated by Timothy Murray MD, MBA, FASRS and Christina Weng MD, MBA, FASRS, saw…
Karen Wai, MD Byers Eye Institute at Stanford University Palo Alto, CA Monday afternoon of ASRS was the Hereditary Retinal Disease & Genetics symposium, moderated by Dr. Diana Do and…
Haley S. D’Souza, M.D. Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN The Surgery Symposium 1 of the ASRS 2023 Annual Meeting was moderated by Drs. Kevin Blinder and Dharmesh Kar, and highlighted studies…
Viet Chau, MD Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Miami, FL Several awards were presented this year to recognize leaders in the field of retina who have made a remarkable impact. The…
Terry Hsieh, MD, PhD University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA Drs. Maria D. Berrocal and Carl D. Regillo moderated the surgical case conference consisting of fourteen cases on Day 1…
Terry Hsieh, MD, PhD University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA Drs. Amani Fawzi and Jose Pulido moderated the medical case conference and added a high yield pearl at the end…
Landon Rohowetz, MD Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Miami, FL Saturday of ASRS kicked off with the Wet AMD Symposium 1 moderated by Jeffrey Heier, MD, and Aleksandra Rachitskaya, MD. The…
Hana A. Mansour, MD Wills Eye Hospital Philadelphia, PA On the second day of the 2023 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting, Dr. Edward N. Pugh…
Kristine Wang Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University Philadelphia, PA Dr. Budd Tucker was awarded the 2023 Cogan Award and delivered the final award lecture at this year’s ARVO…
Dr Tien-En Tan, MBBS(Hons), FRCOphth Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore At the 2023 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting, Professor Tien Wong…
Jonathan Tijerina Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Miami, FL Session 8 of the Surgical Scientific Papers titled “I See This Spark in You. It’s Amazing. It’s Why I Push You. But…
Maria Paula Fernandez and Hasenin Al-khersan Retina Fellows Bascom Palmer Eye Institute The “Complications” session of the 11th Annual Vit-Buckle Society Meeting is a perennial favorite, offering insightful discussion and many…
Luis Martinez-Velazquez, MD, PhD Massachusetts Eye and Ear Boston, MA The Medical Retina Debates section “I’m Not Locked in Here with You. You’re Locked in Here with Me!” of the…
Luis Acaba-Berrocal MD Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary, UIC Chicago, IL Session 13: Wellness Family Feud Game Show “Now, I See the Funny Side. Now, I’m Always Smiling!” Moderator: Nicholas…
Jennifer Nadelmann, MD Weill Cornell Medicine At the 11th Annual Vit-Buckle Society meeting on April 14th Dr. Michael Singer presented “Results of the Phase 2 ENVISION Trial of UBX1325, a…
Tavish Nanda MD Tufts University / Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston Boston, MA Medicolegal Disaster Cases “Some Men Just Want to Watch the World Burn” As a part of the Vit-Buckle…
Jacob Light, MD Wills Eye Hospital Philadelphia, PA “It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s authenticity in retina!” At VBS 2023, we’re down to get real. That means tackling issues…
Lauren Kiryakoza, MD Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Miami, FL A Real-Life Retina Iron-Man: Dr. Allen C. Ho, Vit-Buckle Society Lifetime Achievement Award Saturday afternoon, Dr. Ehsan Rahimy introduced one of…
Malini Pasricha, MD West Coast Retina Medical Group San Francisco, CA The Surgical Debates section “I could do this all day” of the 11th Annual Vit-Buckle Society Meeting was an…
Ryan Zukerman, MD Columbia University Dr. Lisa C. Olmos de Koo, MD, MBA was awarded the prestigious Lifetime Mentorship Award at the 11th Annual Vit-Buckle Society Meeting in Las Vegas,…
Jonathan Lin, MD Massachusetts Eye and Ear Boston, MA The Basic Science session of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Macula Society moderated by Drs. Mary Elizabeth Hartnett and Paul…
Inês Laíns, MD, PhD Massachusetts Eye and Ear Boston, MA Dr. Inês Laíns was awarded the prestigious Evangelos S. Gragoudas Award at the 2023 Macula. Society Meeting in Miami, Florida…
Hana A. Mansour, MD Wills Eye Hospital Philadelphia, PA At Atlantic Coast Retina Club, a number a of excellent trainee cases from fellows across the country were presented. Here we…
Saghar Bagheri, MD, PhD Massachusetts Eye and Ear Boston, MA Session C of the second day of the Atlantic Coast Retinal Club Meeting on February 3, 2023, was moderated by…
Ahmad Al Moujahed, MD, PhD, MPH Massachusetts Eye and Ear Boston, MA The last session of ACRC 2023 was titled “Advances in VR Surgery”. First, Dr. Netan Choudhry from Vitreous…
Prashanth G. Iyer, MD, MPH Tufts Medical Center/Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston Boston, MA Macula 2023 started the day with the latest advancements in treating wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD). This…
Asad F. Durrani, MD Wills Eye Hospital Philadelphia, PA During Uveitis and Ocular Tumors session of Macula 2023, world experts in the fields of uveitis and ocular oncology shared the…
Will Carrera, MD Tufts Medical Center Boston, MA Following recent advances in the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the treatment of dry AMD has emerged as one of…
Saagar Pandit, MD Wills Eye Hospital Philadelphia, PA The Saturday Ocular Imaging Session was exciting as always on the Saturday Macula 2023 update. Dr. Llyod Clark discussed updates on the…
David Doobin, MD, PhD Massachusetts Eye and Ear Boston, MA The Atlantic Coast Retina Club 2023 meeting continued for a second day on February 2nd with a great day of…
Sandra Hoyek, MD Massachusetts Eye and Ear Boston, MA On Friday February 3rd 2023, the second session of the ACRC was moderated by Deeba Husain, MD and Elizabeth J Rossin,…
Jared T. Sokol, MD, MBA Massachusetts Eye and Ear Boston, MA Day 2 of the Atlantic Coast Retina Club was filled with fascinating mystery cases presented by leading retina faculty.…
Asad F. Durrani, MD Wills Eye Hospital Philadelphia, PA During this session of Atlantic Coast Retina Club 2023, faculty presented their most interesting and challenging cases of the past year.…
Linnet Rodriguez, MD Wills Eye Hospital Philadelphia, PA Herein we review a fantastic Session D on Saturday of the Atlantic Coast Retina Club, moderated by David M. Wu, MD and…
Linnet Rodriguez, MD Wills Eye Hospital Philadelphia, PA The Friday session was punctuated by the Trainee Award Presentations. Congratulations to all of the resident and fellow presenters who shared many…
Anand Gopal, MD Wills Eye Hospital Philadelphia, PA The afternoon continued with Session D, which offered a series of stimulating and challenging trainee cases. Asad Durrani, a first-year vitreoretinal fellow…
Saagar Pandit, MD Wills Eye Hospital Philadelphia, PA Dr. Miguel Vasquez Membrillo presented on an interesting case of a 72 year old white female referred to the ocular oncology service…
The arctic blast brought blistering temperatures to Boston this weekend, but that did not stop the Atlantic Coast Retina Club from delivering 3 days of the highest level of academic…
Ben Young, MD Vitreoretinal Fellow University of Michigan AREDS/AREDS2 Collaboration: Past, Present and Future Both Dr. Frederick Ferris and Dr. Emily Chew of the National Eye Institute were awarded the…
Ben Young, MD Vitreoretinal Fellow University of Michigan Longitudinal Choroidal Development in Preterm Infants Dr. Suzanne Michalak was awarded the prestigious Raymond R. Margherio Award for her project describing choroidal…
Talisa E. de Carlo Forest, MD Assistant Professor Medical Director of Imaging University of Colorado Dr. Jeremy Wolfe of ARC in Royal Oaks, Michigan presented LATE-BREAKING real-world data on faricimab…
Ankur Nahar Thomas Jefferson University David Brown, MD from Retina Consultants of Texas presented results from the Phase 2/3 PHOTON trial examining the efficacy and safety of 8 mg aflibercept…
Sam Minaker MD, MSc Vitreoretinal Fellow Illinois Retina Associates/Rush University Medical Center During the Age-Related Macular Degeneration II Session, moderated by Dr. Jennifer Lim and Dr. Charles Wykoff, Dr. David…
Ines Lains, MD Vitreoretinal Fellow Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary PULSAR Trial Dr. Jean-François Korobelnik, Professor of Ophthalmology and the Head of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University Hospital of Bordeaux in France,…
Rachel Israilevich, MS4 Wills Eye Hospital Thomas Jefferson University The Retina Society 2022 annual meeting kicked off this past Wednesday in Pasadena, CA. The opening day featured an engaging retinal…
Lucy Cobbs, MD Ophthalmology Resident Wills Eye Hospital Dr. Ursula M. Schmidt-Erfurth from the Medical University of Vienna presented on the burgeoning role of artificial-intelligence (AI) guided OCT imaging in…
Anthony Obeid, MD, MPH Ophthalmology Resident Wills Eye Hospital Michael N. Cohen, MD, presented the results of the phase 1 study evaluating the safety and tolerability of JNJ-1887. JNJ-1887 is…
Prashant Tailor, MD Ophthalmology Resident Mayo Clinic Dr. SriniVas R. Sadda, MD presented on Deep Learning for Biomarkers in Non-neovascular AMD. Dr. Sadda first discussed how OCT has largely replaced…
Lauren Kiryakoza, MD Ophthalmology Resident Bascom Palmer Eye Institute On day one of retina subspecialty day, Dr. Philip J. Rosenfeld delivered the distinguished Charles L. Schepens lecture. Dr. Stephen McLeod…
Taku Wakabayashi, MD Retina Research Fellow Wills Eye Hospital One of the highlights from the first day of Retina Subspecialty Day was the presentation on the Phase 3 GATHER2 trial…
Each August, the Ronald G. Michels Fellowship Foundation award winners are announced. Known informally as “The Michels,” this award is bestowed upon a select number of second year vitreoretinal fellows…
Tedi Begaj, MD Alexis Warren, MD The Advanced Vitreoretinal Techniques & Technology (AVTT) Symposium hosted by Dr. William Mieler in Chicago, Illinois returned for another weekend of learning and fun…
Matthew R. Starr Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology Mayo Clinic Retina Round Up – Assistant Editor Charles P. “Pat” Wilkinson is a Professor Emeritus from the Department of Ophthalmology at Johns…
Matthew Henderson, BA Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Dr. Robert Bhisitkul MD, PhD from UCSF presented the phase 1 trial results of RZ402, an orally administered plasma kallikrein inhibitor…
Archana Nair, MD MS Vitreoretinal Fellow Vanderbilt Eye Institute In the surgery symposium 7, moderated by Dr. Timothy Murray and Dr. Audina Berrocal, Dr. David Boyer presented his exciting phase…
Jacob Light, MD Abtin Shahlaee, MD Meera Sivalingam, MD Wills Eye Hospital We hope that you are enjoying our ASRS 2022 coverage. The case presentation session is always a popular…
Archana Nair, MD MS Vitreoretinal Fellow Vanderbilt Eye Institute The final day of presentations from ASRS featured a new set of exciting lectures. In the Diabetic Retinopathy session, moderated by…
Lucy Cobbs, MD Wills Eye Hospital Dr. Carl Regillo from Wills Eye Hospital / Mid-Atlantic Retina presented the 32-week primary outcomes of the Phase IIIb TALON study for the…
Lucy Cobbs, MD Wills Eye Hospital Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Dr. Rishi Singh from Cleveland Clinic presented the 12-month results for the DAVIO Trial, which investigated the safety and efficacy…
Jacob Light, MD Abtin Shahlaee, MD Meera Sivalingam, MD Wills Eye Hospital The 2022 ASRS meeting kicked off on Wednesday with the popular case presentations session. There were 24 fascinating…
Prashant Tailor, MD Mayo Clinic Dr. Raj Maturi, MD presented on UBX1325, A Novel Senolytic Therapy for Treatment Experienced Patients With Chronic DME or Wet AMD: 24-Week Results of a…
Theo Bowe, MD Wills Eye Hospital Dr. Jeffrey Heier from Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston presented the ReCLAIM-2 trial, a phase 2 trial of elamipretide in patients with non-central geographic atrophy…
Welcome to New York City! The American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS) 2022 annual meeting kicks off today in New York City. Wednesday afternoon features exciting case presentations, and the…
Frank Ma, MD, PhD PGY-3, University of California San Francisco ARVO closing keynote: Accelerating ophthalmic discovery and technology translation through team science To conclude a successful meeting in beautiful sunny…
Retinal Prostheses and Transplantation Session May 2nd, 2022; ARVO; Denver CO Drs. Jacob Light, Abtin Shahlaee, Meera Sivalingam Vitreoretinal Fellows Wills Eye Hospital One of the biggest challenges facing ophthalmic…
Retina Roundup DAZZLE KSI-301 Phase 3 Trial Summary Blake Fortes, MD PGY-3, Mayo Clinic Dr. Carl Regillo from Wills Eye Hospital presented the one-year results of the DAZZLE trial, a…
Archana A Nair, MD MS Vitreoretinal Fellow Vanderbilt Eye Institute The 2022 ARVO meeting featured a wide array of groundbreaking ophthalmic research and innovation. This meeting was extra special as…
Talisa E. de Carlo, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow University of Colorado Drs. Anita Agarwal (West Coast Retina) and Jay Duker (Tufts University) moderated the session on retinal imaging at this…
Samuel D. Hobbs, MD, CAPT, USAF, MC Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow UCLA/Stein Eye Institute Dr. Richard McDonald started this surgical session by sharing several pre-operative fundus photos and OCT images and…
Talisa E. de Carlo, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow University of Colorado The highlight of yet another terrific Pacific Retina Club meeting was the Alexander R. Irvine Lecture: “OCT – Past,…
Danny A. Mammo MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic For the final session to wrap up a wonderful VBS 2022 meeting, the much-anticipated surgical complications session “It…
Joshua Uhr, MD Vitreoretinal Fellow Bascom Palmer Eye Institute This session, “There Are All Kinds of Love in the World but Never the Same Love Twice,” included presentations of interesting…
Nita Valikodath MD, MS Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Duke University Eye Center “The time you enjoy wasting is not time wasted” was the title of Session 3: the Debates section of…
Sruthi Arepalli, MD Tennessee Retina The 10th annual Vit-Buckle Society meeting in Las Vegas featured a dazzling array of both medical and surgical retina cases with a sprinkling of valuable…
Sushant Wagley, MD VitreoRetinal Surgery, PLLC Minneapolis, Minnesota Drs. Dean Elliott and Ella Leung moderated Session 9: “Speak-Easy and Carry a Big Stick” which featured interesting talks highlighted below, which…
Grant Justin, MD Vitreoretinal Fellow Duke University Eye Center Session 1: “Oh, Hello Old Sport” Moderated by Lisa C Olmos de Koo, MD, MBA and Dante J. Pieramici, MD Dr.…
Matthew Starr, MD Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology Mayo Clinic As with all recent meetings, it feels good to be back in person. It has been 3 years since the last…
David Xu, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Wills Eye Hospital Dr. David Brown presented the one-year results of the phase 2, randomized, single-masked study of high dose aflibercept for neovascular age-related macular…
Avni P. Finn MD, MBA Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology Vanderbilt Eye Institute, Nashville, TN Dr. Andrew Moshfeghi from the University of Southern California Roski Eye Institute presented an update on…
Matthew Starr, MD Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology Mayo Clinic Dr. John Wells from the Palmetto Retina Center provided the two year results of the YOSEMITE and RHINE trials at this…
Matthew Starr, MD Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology Mayo Clinic Following the recent release of the top 10 accessed papers from RETINA in 2021, we now are presenting the top 10…
David Xu, MD Wills Eye Hospital In this article, we are ranking the top 10 accessed papers published in RETINA in 2021. All of these were high-impact papers from authors…
Linnet Rodriguez, MD Virginia Commonwealth University Day 2 of the Atlantic Coast Retina Club/Macula 2022 concluded with a session moderated by Dr. Jose S. Pulido. A very interesting and promising…
Samir Patel, MD Wills Eye Hospital The 11th annual J. Arch McMamara MD Memorial Lecture at Macula 2022 was given by Dr. R.V. Paul Chan. Dr. Arch McNamara was an…
Taku Wakabayashi, MD, PhD Wills Eye Hospital The panel discussion on gene therapy and diabetic retinopathy at Macula 2022 was moderated by Michael A. Klufas, MD, and covered important topics…
Saagar Pandit, MD New York University Ophthalmology Dr. Leo A. Kim joined us virtually from Massachusetts Eye & Ear to share an update about his research studying pharmacologic approaches in…
Anand Gopal, MD Wills Eye Hospital Despite advances in surgical technique, rhegmatogenous retinal detachments (RRD) associated with giant retinal tears (GRT) pose a significant challenge to surgeons due to the…
Ali Salman, MD Mayo Clinic The final session of Atlantic Coast 2022 consisted of the toughest cases the faculty in attendance had seen over the past year. Dr. Carol Shields…
Blake Fortes Mayo Clinic We continue coverage of the 2020 Atlantic Coast Retina Club, hosted this year in Philadelphia. Dr. Karen Wai presented a fascinating case of a 29-year-old male…
Ollya Fromal, MD Wills Eye Hospital The morning session of the ACRC continued with stellar presentations from current Wills Eye Hospital/Mid Atlantic Retina fellows. Dr. Abtin Shahlaee, a first year…
Saumya Shah, MD Mayo Clinic The Atlantic Coast Retina Club 2022 was held at the Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. Residents, fellows, and faculty members from various institutions presented…
Summarized by: Avni P. Finn MD, MBA Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt Eye Institute Nashville, TN Original article by: Derri Roman-Pognuz, Giuseppe Scarpa, Gianni Virgili, Erik Roman-Pognuz, Giacomo Paluzzano, and Fabiano Cavarzeran…
Louis Cai, MD Ophthalmology Resident Wills Eye Hospital There has been an explosion of interest in artificial intelligence (AI) as clinicians become more familiar with the technology and its…
Avni P. Finn MD, MBA Eric Nudleman, MD, PhD Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MD (Photo Credits: Julia Haller, MD) The American Academy of Ophthalmology presented the 2021 Laureate Award to Dr. Michael T.…
Samir Patel, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Wills Eye Hospital/Mid Atlantic Retina Drs. Deeba Husain and Vaidehi Dedania moderated this information packed session. Dr. David Boyer reported outcomes of the Phase…
David Xu, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Wills Eye Hospital/Mid Atlantic Retina The second Late Breaking Developments section was an exciting and action-packed presentation from several leaders in the field that discussed…
Chase A. Ludwig, MD, MS Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Massachusetts Eye and Ear Photos Courtesy of Karen Wai, MD The 2021 Debates at the American Academy of Ophthalmology moderated by Drs.…
Kurt Scavelli, MD Vitreoretinal Fellow Vanderbilt Eye Institute Dr. David W Parke II started off the 2021 Charles L Schepens MD Lecture by introducing speaker Dr. Mark S Humayun. Dr.…
Taku Wakabayashi, MD, PhD Retina Research Fellow The Retina Service of Wills Eye Hospital The final day of ASRS 2021 started off with an exciting Retinal Detachment Symposium moderated by…
Raziyeh Mahmoudzadeh, MD Retina Research Fellow The Retina Service of Wills Eye Hospital On the third day of ASRS 2021 meeting, Dr. Lejla Vajzovic, presented the end of phase I/IIa…
Danny A. Mammo MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic 2021 Pyron Award – Cynthia Toth Dr. Carl Awh presented the 2021 Gertrude D. Pyron award to Dr.…
Hadi Kaakour Vitreoretinal Surgical Fellow Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic At the 2021 ASRS meeting in San Antonio, Texas, the first day of sessions has been off to a wonderful…
Eddie Korot, MD Vitreoretinal Fellow Byers Eye Institute, Stanford, CA Henry Feng, MD Vitreoretinal Fellow Duke University Eye Center, Durham, NC Optogenetics in the Clinic: Safety and Efficacy Updates on…
Rachel Israilevich, BSSidney Kimmel Medical CollegeThomas Jefferson University School of Medicine One of the highlights of Saturday’s Diabetic Retinopathy Symposium at ASRS was the presentation of first-time data from the…
Matthew Starr, MD Vitreoretinal Surgeon Mayo Clinic Dr. Judy Kim presented for the first time, the DRCR network’s Protocol AE, examining the effect of photobiomodulation (PBM) for DME in eyes…
Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MDWills Eye Hospital Welcome to San Antonio! Our team at RETINA Roundup was busy last weekend in Chicago at Retina Society. In unusual fashion, the Retina Society and…
Jordan D Deaner, MDVitreoretinal Surgery FellowDuke University Eye Center The final day of Retina Society 2021 started off with Thomas Albini and Steven Yeh moderating a dozen presentations covering inflammation,…
Avni P. Finn MD, MBA Assistant Professor Vanderbilt Eye Institute, Nashville, TN One of the highlights of Friday’s Retina Society Meeting was the presentation of the first-time results of the…
Jason Miller, MD, PhD Assistant Professor University of Michigan Health Kellogg Eye Center Congratulations to Dr. Miller from the University of Michigan Health Kellogg Eye Center, who is the 2021…
Theodore Bowe, MD Ophthalmology Resident Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia PA Dr. K. Bailey Freund, Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, was awarded the J. Donald…
Taku Wakabayashi, MD, PhD Retina Research Fellow Wills Eye Hospital Day 2 of Retina Society 2021 started off with an exciting surgical retina session moderated by Drs. David Zacks and…
Rebecca Russ Soares, MD, MPH Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Mid Atlantic Retina at Wills Eye Hospital Congratulations to Dr. Soares from Wills Eye Hospital, who is the 2021 recipient of the Retina…
Matthew Starr, MDVitreoretinal surgeonMayo Clinic Welcome back, in-person retina meetings are here again. With the 54th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Retina Society in downtown Chicago, IL, returns in-person meetings…
Mirataollah Salabati, MDRetina Research FellowWills Eye Hospital The unicorn: expert consensus on OCT-A nomenclature in exudative AMD Usha Chakravarthy, Belfast, United Kingdom In this session, Dr. Usha Chakravarthy, professor of…
Raziyeh Mahmoudzadeh, MDRetina Research FellowWills Eye Hospital Sub-macular hemorrhage during vitrectomy for retinal detachment: how to proceed Lars Hattenbach, Ludwigshafen, Germany Dr. Lars-Olof Hattenbach, MD, professor of ophthalmology and chairman of the…
Kevin Ferenchak, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Mayo Clinic Dr. Eleonora Lad, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Duke Eye Center, presented at Euretina 2021 and shared updated results of…
Matthew Starr, MD Mayo Clinic The Ronald G. Michels Foundation Fellowship Award, better known as “The Michels” is one of highest honors that can be bestowed upon a surgical retina…
“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…