Personalized Approach to Dry Eye Care

graphic of eyes displaying dry eye symptoms

Sabrina Mukhtar, MD, MPH, Director of the Dry Eye Center of Excellence at the UPMC Vision Institute, was excited to share the work they are doing in the Eye & […]

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Inherited Retinal Conditions: Current Treatments and Future Research

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At the start of the Eye & Ear Foundation’s August 6 webinar, “Inherited Retinal Conditions: Current Treatments and Future Research,” Dr. José-Alain Sahel, MD, Distinguished Professor and Chairman of the […]

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Current Updates in Optic Nerve Regeneration Research

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Several members of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Ophthalmology are working on optic nerve regeneration research. In the Eye & Ear Foundation’s June 13th webinar, “Current Updates in Optic […]

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Optic Nerve Research Update

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By Craig Smith, Eye & Ear Foundation Director of Development and Community Initiatives Many diseases ultimately lead to blindness due to optic nerve damage. These include glaucoma, which damages the […]

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Personalized Refractive Surgery: LASIK and ICL

Refractive Surgery & Ocular Surface Center at the VI

The UPMC Refractive Surgery Center opened in 1995, making it the longest running laser center in the entire Western Pennsylvania area. “We’ve been doing this for a long time,” said […]

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Vision and Down Syndrome

Screenshot from the webinar: snapshots of a boy with DS and AHP

Dr. Ken Nischal, MD, FAAP, FRCOphth, opened the Eye & Ear Foundation’s February 28, 2025, webinar, “Vision and Down Syndrome,” by pointing out how apt it is that World Down […]

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The Role of Advanced Imaging Technologies in the Future of Eye Care

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Why are we putting so much effort into figuring out how to image the retina down to the microscopic scale, asked Ethan Rossi, PhD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Assistant Professor […]

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