While the Department of Ophthalmology has had a patient registry since 2019, it was paused during the transition from Eye & Ear to the Vision Institute. It was recently rebuilt […]
New and Improved Patient Registry
clinical trials
Optic Neuritis: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatments
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neuro-Ophthalmology at UPMC, George T. Park, DO, started the Eye & Ear Foundation’s May 15 webinar, “Optic Neuritis: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatments,” by describing the […]
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Investigating Potential Treatments for Rare IRDs
Dr. Joseph Martel’s work focuses on inherited retinal diseases (IRDs), a group of rare, often devastating conditions that cause progressive vision loss and for which there have historically been no […]
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Precision Survivorship: Using Data to Transform Care
How important is precision survivorship and why does it matter? These questions were posed by Marci Nilsen, PhD, RN, CHPN, FAAN, Co-Leader of the Cancer Risk, Outcomes and Preventions Program […]
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Waking Up to Change: The New Era of Sleep Apnea Treatments
“There’s been a number of developments just in the past year that are altering the field,” Dr. Thomas M. Kaffenberger, MD, said at the start of the Eye & Ear […]
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Seeing the Future of Gene Therapy
Many advancements have occurred in the field of gene therapy since the last webinar on this topic. The Eye & Ear Foundation’s June 25th webinar, “Seeing the Future of Gene […]
Cornea
S+S, Spring 2024, Back cover Thanks to support from Eye & Ear Foundation donors, under the leadership of the late Dr. Jim Funderburgh, scientists in the Department of Ophthalmology learned […]
Chronic Rhinosinusitis
In The Eye & Ear Foundation’s December 14th webinar, “Chronic Rhinosinusitis,” Dr. Eric Wang tackled what he said seems like a common thing yet has a lot of variation and […]
Breakthrough Research Getting Much Needed Support
S+S, Fall 2023 Gary Yam, PhD, received a U01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) based on work from the Hillman-funded Funderburgh Corneal Regeneration Project. Dr. Yam is […]
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Improving Drug Delivery for Eyecare
Yuanyuan Chen, PhD, has a lab that is developing drugs for retinal diseases. Morgan V. DiLeo, PhD, has a lab that is developing new delivery methods for these drugs. Both […]
Age-Related Macular Degeneration Treatment and Therapies
The Eye & Ear Foundation’s November third webinar had a special guest: John Ash, PhD, the incoming E. Ronald Salvitti Professor of Ophthalmology Research, Vice-Chair, and Director of Research. Alexander […]
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Survivorship
At the Eye & Ear Foundation’s July 27th webinar, the co-founders of the UPMC Head and Neck Cancer Survivorship Clinic spoke about the head and neck cancer survivorship program. They […]
Retinal Dystrophies: Introduction, Therapies and Ongoing Research
A lot of progress has been made in the past few years on retinal degeneration, Dr. José-Alain Sahel said at the beginning of the Eye & Ear Foundation’s May 18th […]
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Optic Neuropathies
Can Kocasarac, MD, has a unique role. As part of the Neuro-Ophthalmology Service at the UPMC Eye Center – which he joined this last year — the Clinical Assistant Professor […]