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Duke Faculty Make The Ophthalmologist's Power List 2020

We are pleased to announce that Preeya K. Gupta, MD and Terry Kim, MD have The Ophthalmologist's Power List 2020. This list celebrates the...

Duke Joins First National Effort to Test a Potential COVID-19 Therapy

Adults with severe symptoms of the novel illness will have the opportunity to participate Duke University Hospital has joined the first national...

New Neuro-Ophthalmology Division Chief Challenges Non-Surgical Perception of Profession

For life-altering cases of optic neuropathy and unexplained vision loss, having a skilled neuro-ophthalmologist to investigate and resolve the...

Duke Reading Center Instrumental in Grading OCT Images in Landmark Study

The Duke Reading Center, including a team of Duke expert graders led by Glenn J. Jaffe, MD and and Cynthia Toth, MD participated in the design of...

When to Operate on RVO and When to (Mostly) Not

The side-effect profile is significant, but a few approaches may help to extend medical treatment in selected cases. After diabetic retinopathy,...

Keeping up with COVID-19: Resources and latest updates from Duke University

Information about the COVID-19 pandemic is changing rapidly, and it is crucial that we all pay close attention to the latest updates. In a video...

Loss of Blood Vessels in Retina May Signal Alzheimer's Disease

Identical Twin Eye Images Lead to Promising Alzheimer’s Discovery A pair of 96-year old identical twins, one with advanced Alzheimer’s Disease (AD),...

OCT Key Tool in Determining Glaucoma Progression

Glaucoma worsens slowly in most patients who are affected with the disease, but a substantial number of patients with glaucoma show at least moderate...

Teaching a Machine to Learn

Leveraging artificial intelligence requires humans to teach computers how to recognize patterns in data. Duke faculty and staff feed in data from...

2020 AGS Annual Meeting

We are pleased to have had many faculty and trainees present during the American Glaucoma Society Annual Meeting held February 27 - March 1, 2020 in...

Medeiros Leads Research for New FDA Approved Glaucoma Treatment

Felipe Medeiros, MD, PhD was the lead investigator for the clinical trial of a recently FDA approved glaucoma treatment, Allergan's DURYSTA [™] (...

Wisely Receives Machemer Resident Research Award

Congratulations to third year resident C. Ellis Wisely, MD, MBA on receiving the 2019-2020 Machemer Resident Research Award based on his project...

Which treatment paradigm — local or systemic therapy — best treats bilateral noninfectious uveitis?

Point: Systemic therapy offers sustained control, avoids cataract formation There are distinct advantages of systemic therapy in terms of achieving...

Cai Receives Detroit 2020 Motor City Retina Travel Grant

Congratulations to Sophie Cai, MD on receiving the Detroit 2020 Motor City Retina Travel Grant, to be held at the Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance...

R. Rand Allingham, M.D. (1953–2018)

A recently published tribute to long time faculty member and Duke Ophthalmology leader, R. Rand Allingham, MD published in Experimental Eye Research...

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