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Sight & Soundbites Webinar – Artificial Intelligence
With Jose Sahel, Kunal Dansingani, Jay Chhablani, and Kiran Vupparoboina […]
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Sight & Soundbites Webinar – Integrative Eye Care
With Deepinder Dhaliwal, MD, LAc and Marie Helene Errera, MD, PhD. They will discuss integrative eye care treatments and research. Dr. Dhaliwal is Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of […]
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Sight & Soundbites Webinar – Changing Cells: Using Optogenetics to Restore Vision
Presented by Jose-Alain Sahel, MD, Leah Byrne, PhD, and Joseph Martel, MD. They will cover the research the department is currently doing on using optogenetics to restore vision. […]
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Sight & Soundbites Webinar – Optic Nerve
With Jose Sahel, Stephen Badylak, and Takaaki Kuwajima […]
Sight & Soundbites Webinar – Retinal Dystrophies: Introduction, Therapies, and Ongoing Research
With Dr. Jose-Alain Sahel, MD, Michelle Alabek, MS, and Boris Rosin, MD, PhD. […]
Sight + Soundbites Webinar – Refractive Surgery
With Deepinder Dhaliwal and Gaurav Prakash […]
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How a Patient Navigator Helped With Transportation
Ryan Summers* has been vision impaired all his life. He has a detached retina in his left eye and has had three cornea transplants. Once he got the UPMC for […]
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The 2021 Wiegand Entrepreneurial Research Awards
Sight + Sound, Fall 2021 The Departments of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology is proud to announce that this year’s winners of the Wiegand Entrepreneurial Research Award are Christopher Cunningham, PhD, in […]
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Focusing on our Community
Sight + Sound, Fall 2021 This year, for the first time through the Hillman Vision Scholars program, four local high school students from low-income and underrepresented communities were exposed to […]
An Amazing Breakthrough and Big First Step
Sight + Sound, Fall 2021 After 40 years of total blindness, a 58-year-old French man saw stripes in a crosswalk. He was also able to reach out and touch a […]
Research and Solutions for Dry Eye Disease
The Eye & Ear Foundation’s October 1, 2021 webinar, “Dry Eye: The Problems, The Solutions, The Future,” was one of the most well attended. This is no surprise, considering that […]
$20 Million Gift Supports a New Vision for Pittsburgh and Beyond
Sight + Sound, Spring 2021 The Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh received, through the Eye & Ear Foundation of Pittsburgh, a $20 million philanthropic investment from the […]
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The Hour of Inspiration and Hope
Sight + Sound, Fall 2020 by Lawton Snyder Many of you have supported the Eye & Ear Foundation for several years with the hope that the research you are funding […]
The Eye & Ear Foundation Ambassador Program
Sight + Sound, Fall 2020 by Heather Chronis Danek and Craig Smith Ambassador “A person who acts as a representative or promoter of a specified activity.” The Eye & Ear […]