When Kathryn Sedory, a nurse in the UPMC Eye Center’s Minor Procedure Room, was asked by co-worker Dr. Jenny Yu-Will to join her on a medical mission trip to Ghana […]
Project Theia
ophthalmology
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 […]
Refractive Surgery
The UPMC Eye Center has a long history of doing refractive surgery. In fact, it was part of a pivotal FDA trial that resulted in LASIK approval – back in […]
The Chang Lab Awarded $50,000 Shaffer Grant
The Chang Lab – which is part of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh and has been open just over a year — received a one-year $50,000 […]
Sight + Soundbites Webinar – Ophthalmology Year-End Roundup
With Jose Sahel […]
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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 […]