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Catherine Bowes-Rickman, PhD, George and Geneva Boguslavsky Distinguished Professor of Eye Research, will be honored at the 2023 Future Vision Foundation Award Gala for her research efforts focused on molecular/cell biology and pathobiology of age-related macular degeneration. The foundation will showcase Bowes-Rickman's work with an inspirational film tribute that will debut during the Gala on November 11, 2023 at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

We're excited to announce that the Duke Journal of Case Reports in Ophthalmology (DJCRO) is open for interesting case report submissions - across all ophthalmic subspecialties - from all over the world!

Less than three years ago, Daniel Johnson was diagnosed with eye cancer that threatened not just his eyesight, but potentially his life. Thanks to the expertise of Jason Liss, MD, his oculofacial plastic surgeon at Duke Health, today Johnson enjoys spending peaceful afternoons on his back porch in La Grange, NC.

The annual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) will be held November 3-6, 2023 in San Francisco, CA. Duke Eye Center will have over 75 presentations, posters, and symposiums that our faculty, residents, and fellows will present throughout the course of the meeting with 10 subspecialty day presentations.

Cythnia Toth, MD, Joseph AC Wadsworth Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology, received the prestigious honor of presenting the Gisbert Richard Keynote Lecture at the EURETINA 2023 annual meeting on October 7, 2023 in Amsterdam.  

Duke University researchers created a computer program that determines, with 94% accuracy, if a person's age-related macular degeneration (AMD) will worsen within a year.  

Goldis Malek, PhD, Vice Chair of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and Associate Professor in Ophthalmology, Pathology, and Cell Biology is the 2022 recipient of the RSF Awards in Science for Journal of Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics. This award is presented by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. and the Rosalind Franklin Society to recognize outstanding published peer-reviewed research by women and underrepresented minorities in science. 

Duke Eye Center hosted the 35th Annual Glaucoma Symposium, along with the 6th Annual Glaucoma Fellows Course October 13-14, 2023. 

The 56th annual meeting of the Retina Society is being held October 11 – 14, 2023 in New York City. The mission of the Retina Society is to "reduce worldwide visual disability and blindness by encouraging education and professional interaction of vitreoretinal specialists, providing optimal care for patients with vitreoretinal diseases, and encouraging, through clinical and basic research, the discovery and development of new means to further patient care." Several Duke Retina Faculty and trainees are participating in the meeting by leading and moderating sessions and presenting posters.  

Four experts in global ophthalmology call for a higher priority on restoring sight in low-resource countries.