ASRS Day 4 – Phase 1 Data on Oral RZ402 for DME
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…
ASRS Day 4 – Phentolamine Ophthalmic Solution for Mydriasis Reversal, Results of the MIRA Trials
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…
ASRS 2022 – Case Presentations Part II
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…
ASRS Day 4 – Benefits and Value of Treatment for Diabetic Macular Edema
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…
ASRS Day 3: Brolucizumab vs Aflibercept Treat-and-extend in the Phase IIIb TALON Study
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…
ASRS Day 3: 12-Month Results of EYP-1901 Vorolanib in a Bioerodible Durasert Insert for nAMD, The DAVIO Trial
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…
ASRS 2022 – Case Presentations Part I
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…
ASRS 2022 – Phase 1 data from UBX1325
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…
ASRS 2022 – Elamipretide for Noncentral Geographic Atrophy
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…
ASRS 2022 – Welcome to NYC
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…
ARVO 2022 – Closing keynote address
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…
ARVO 2022 Day 2 – Retinal Prostheses and Transplantation Session
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…
ARVO 2022 Day 3 – Topline Data from DAZZLE (KSI-301 for Wet AMD) and Interview with Carl Regillo
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…
ARVO 2022 – History and Biology of Coronaviruses
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…
Pacific Retina Club 2022 – Imaging Session
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…
Pacific Retina Club 2022 – Surgical Session
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…
Pacific Retina Club 2022 – Alexander R. Irvine Lecture
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,…
VBS 2022 – Complications
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…
VBS 2022 – Uveitis
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…
VBS 2022 – Debates
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…
VBS 2022 – Dr. Julia Haller – Lifetime Mentorship Award
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…
VBS 2022 – VR Surgery
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…
VBS 2022 – Session 1: Surgical Pearls
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.…
VBS 2022 – Fellows Foray
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…
Angiogenesis 2022 – CANDELA trial: high dose aflibercept for neovascular AMD
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…
Angiogenesis 2022 – Intravitreal Hydrogel-Based Axitinib Implant (OTX-TKI) for the Treatment of Neovascular AMD: Phase I Trial Data
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…
Angiogenesis 2022 – Update on the 2 year data from RHINE and YOSEMITE involving Faricimab for the treatment of DME
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…
Top 10 RETINAL CASES & BRIEF REPORTS Articles from 2021
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…
Top 10 RETINA Articles of 2021
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…
MACULA Conference 2022 Part 5: Viral-like Particles for the Treatment of Uveal Melanoma
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…
MACULA Conference 2022 Part 4: 11th Arch McNamara Lecturer, R.V. Paul Chan. Innovations in ROP.
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…
MACULA Conference 2022 Part 3: Panel Discussion Gene Therapy and Diabetic Retinopathy Treatment
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…
MACULA Conference 2022 Part 2: Proliferative Vitreoretinopathy
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…
MACULA Conference 2022 Part 1: Vitrectomy versus vitrectomy with Scleral Buckling for Giant Retinal Tear Detachments
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…
Atlantic Coast Retina Club 2022 Part 4: Attending Cases and Resident/Fellow Winners
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…
Atlantic Coast Retina Club 2022 Part 3: Nematodes, SFU, Amyloid, Bietti’s, and Toxo
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…
Atlantic Coast Retina Club 2022 Part 2: Streaks, Fluid, Kids, Tumors, and Boom Boom
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…
Atlantic Coast Retina Club 2022 Part 1: Oncology, Medications, Syndromes
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…
Featured RETINA Paper: Comparison of Retrobulbar, Sub-tenon’s Anesthesia and Medial Canthus Episcleral Anesthesia for 25-gauge Posterior Vitrectomy
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…
AAO 2021 Retina Subspecialty Day: Artificial Intelligence
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…
AAO 2021 Laureate Award: Michael T. Trese, MD
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.…
AAO 2021 Retina Subspeciality Day: First Time Clinical Trial Results
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…
AAO 2021 Late Breaking Developments – GB-102, EYP-1901, ONS-5010 and Nascent GA
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…
AAO 2021 Retina Subday Day 1 – Hot Topic Debates
Cassie 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.…
AAO 2021 Retina Subday Day 1 – The Charles Schepens Lecture
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.…
ASRS 2021: Retinal Detachment Symposium
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…
ASRS Day 3: Subretinal gene therapy for neovascular AMD
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…
ASRS Awards for 2021
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.…
ASRS Awards for 2020
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…
ASRS 2021: In the Pipeline
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…
ASRS Day 1: Results from the INFINITY and ALTITUDE studies
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…
ASRS 2021: DRCR Protocol AE – Photobiomodulation for DME
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…
Welcome to San Antonio: ASRS 2021
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…
Retina Society 2021: COVID/Uveitis Session
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,…
Retina Society 2021: Suprachoroidal RGX314 – Initial Data from the AAVIATE Study
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…
Retina Society 2021: Raymond R. Margherio Award Recipient, Jason Miller
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…
Retina Society 2021 – J. Donald M. Gass Award Presentation, Dr. Bailey Freund
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…
Retina Society 2021 Day 2: Retina Surgery & DERBY and OAKS Trial Results
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…
Retina Society 2021: Fellowship Research Award Recipient, Rebecca Soares
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…
Retina Society 2021: Welcome Back
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…
EURETINA 2021 Days 3 & 4: OCTA consensus nomenclature & post-silicone oil vision loss
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…
EURETINA 2021 Day 2: Sub-macular hemorrhage during vitrectomy and foveal hypoplasia
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…
EURETINA 2021 Day 1: Apellis Phase 1b Safety Data & Phase 3 Topline Results
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…
2021 Ronald G. Michels Award Winners
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…
RETINA Article Feature: Pentosan Polysulfate and Vision – Findings from an International Survey of Exposed Individuals
“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…
Vit-Buckle Society 2021 Meeting: Episode 2
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…
2021 Annual ARVO Meeting – NGM621 Phase 1 Results
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…
2021 Annual ARVO Meeting – SPECTRA Trial
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…
2021 Annual ARVO Meeting – Protocol AB
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…
2021 Annual ARVO Meeting – OPTIC Study
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…
2021 Annual ARVO Meeting – Day 3
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…
2021 Annual ARVO Meeting Day 1
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…
Vit-Buckle Society 2021 Meeting: The Force Awakens, Episode 1
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…
RETINA Roundup is Back!
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…
Transitioning into practice: Tips and tricks for your first job after fellowship.
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…
Angiogenesis 2019 Session VI: The Latest on Retinal Vascular Diseases, MacTel, and Uveitis
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…
Angiogenesis 2019 Session V: Imaging & Diabetic Retinopathy
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…
Angiogenesis 2019 Session IV: Macular Neovascularization – Imaging and Emerging Therapies
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…
Angiogenesis 2019 Session III: High Risk Non-Exudative AMD
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…
Angiogenesis 2019 Session II: Neovascular AMD
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…
Angiogenesis 2019 Session I: Dry AMD
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.…
Which OCTA Machine Should You Get? Pros and Cons of Each System
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…
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…