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Sarah Eom, PhD student in the Pratt School of Engineering, will present her research on "Edge-based Augmented Reality (AR) Guidance System for Retinal Laser Therapy via Feature Matching" at the 22nd International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks held May 9-12, 2023 in San Antonio, TX. 

Eleonora Lad, MD, PhD was featured in a patient education video about the new treatment available for geographic atrophy (GA).

Six members of the Duke Eye Center photography team received top honors and images were displayed at the Ophthalmic Photographers’ Society (OPS) Exhibit at the 2023 ASCRS annual meeting.

The American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) held it's annual meeting May 5-8, 2023 in San Diego, California.

Lloyd Williams, MD, PhD, Duke Global Ophthalmology Program Director and cornea surgeon shares his passion for curing blindness around the world – he's made it his life's mission.

The annual meeting for the Association of Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) will be held April 23-27 in New Orleans, LA. There will be 100 presentations by Duke faculty and trainees.

Professor of Ophthalmology and Glaucoma Division Chief, Leon Herndon, MD was among the honorees named on the 2023 The Ophthalmologist "Power List".  

Duke Eye Center recently hosted the Annual Duke Fellows’ Advanced Vitreous Surgery Course (fAVS) and prestigious Duke Advanced Vitreous Surgery Course (AVS) led by course director Lejla Vajzovic MD, FASRS along with co-chairs, Dilraj S. Grewal, MD, FASRS, Xi Chen, MD, PhD, and Durga S. Borkar, MD, MMCi.

The American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS) held it's annual meeting March 29 – April 2, 2023 in New York City, New York.  

Congratulations to Sidney Gospe III, MD, PhD for receiving the Pilot Research Grant Award for his work on "Reducing neuro-inflammation in a mouse model of mitochondrial optic neuropathy". This award was announced at the annual North American Neuro-ophthalmology Society (NANOS) meeting that took place in Orlando, Florida March 2023.