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Duke Eye Center is proud to announce that Eleonora Lad, MD, PhD has been named Vice Chair for Clinical Research. Lad is a clinician scientist and retinal ophthalmologist with an extensive background in research, both as an investigator and in her role as Director of Clinical Research Unit (CRU).

Duke Eye Center Retina Faculty Ramiro Maldonado, MD, and Vitreoretinal Fellow Nita Valikodath, MD, MS had their article, "Fundus Autofluorescence For IRDs", featured in the April 2023 issue of Retinal Today. In the article, they provide an overview of the use of FAF imaging in various IRDs and how it can be useful in diagnosis and monitoring, even in the early stages of these diseases. 

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.

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.

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.

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.