While the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected many aspects of our lives, there is one change that could be beneficial both to you and the charitable organizations that you love to support. Thanks to the CARES Act (Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act), several changes to charitable giving rules are in effect for 2020 […]
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Astellas Pharma Inc. and University of Pittsburgh have entered into a research collaboration agreement focused on the discovery and optimization of clinical candidates for the treatment of dry age-related macular degeneration (dry AMD), a back-of-the-eye disease, utilizing the AAV-based gene therapy approach. Among back-of-the-eye diseases, age-related macular degeneration is one of the leading causes of […]
The Eye & Ear Foundation, together with the Department of Ophthalmology, proudly presented a lunchtime educational webinar series highlighting the research and clinical innovations at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Our webinar, Understanding Diabetic Retinopathy: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Future Direction, featured José-Alain Sahel, MD, Andrew W. Eller, MD, and Colin Prensky, MD. Following […]
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Ophthalmology residents at the University of Pittsburgh have an exciting new hi-tech teaching tool! Thanks to contributions from the Joseph Horne Trust and generous donors to the residents’ education fund, the Department of Ophthalmology was recently able to purchase a VR Magic Eyesi® Surgical Simulator, a high-end virtual reality simulator for intraocular surgery training. This […]
The Eye & Ear Foundation, together with the Department of Otolaryngology, proudly presented a lunchtime educational webinar series highlighting the research and clinical innovations at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The September 18th, 2020 webinar, Simulations in Tracheostomy Care, featured Jonas Johnson, MD, Chairman of the Department of Otolarngology, and Allison Tobey, MD, […]
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The Eye & Ear Foundation, together with the Department of Ophthalmology, proudly presented a lunchtime educational webinar series highlighting the research and clinical innovations at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The webinar, featuring José-Alain Sahel, MD, Jeffrey Gross, PhD, Stephen Badylak, DVM, PhD, MD, Takaaki Kuwajima, PhD, Kun-Che Chang, PhD, and a special […]
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Eating and drinking is something we often take for granted and is the link to many social events, holidays, and celebrations. If swallowing is impaired, it can change quality of life. Swallowing difficulty is called dysphagia. In the United States, 1 in 25 adults experience dysphagia annually. Dysphagia is often associated with specific conditions (i.e. […]
The Eye & Ear Foundation, together with the Department of Otolaryngology, proudly presented a lunchtime educational webinar series highlighting the research and clinical innovations at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The webinar, featuring Jonas Johnson, MD, Carl Snyderman, MD, MBA, and Bharath Chandrasekaran, PhD, unraveled how sound encoding can be non-invasively assessed in […]
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A belief held by Dr. José-Alain Sahel, University of Pittsburgh Department of Ophthalmology Chairman, is that, to best help a patient as a whole being, and not just consider the condition which limits their sight, we need to radically reconceptualize the way we deliver care. How We Reconceptualize Care It starts, we believe, by listening. […]
The Eye & Ear Foundation, together with the Department of Ophthalmology, proudly presented a lunchtime educational webinar series highlighting the research and clinical innovations at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The webinar, featuring José-Alain Sahel, MD and Leah Byrne, PhD, covered basic information on retinal degeneration conditions, current treatment options, as well as […]
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It is an exciting time to be an otolaryngologist in the world of obstructive sleep apnea. Clinical care pathways are rapidly changing, multidisciplinary collaboration is on the rise, and new treatment options are in development. Consistently ranked as one of the best otolaryngology programs in the country, faculty in the Department of Otolaryngology at the […]
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The most common hereditary retinal dystrophy in the world is Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP). Over the past four years, the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, under the leadership of Dr. José -Alain Sahel, who has dedicated his career to the study and development of new treatments for hereditary retinal dystrophies, […]
The Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is consistently one of the most highly regarded departments in the country. A key component of this long-time success can be attributed to the pioneering efforts that have been made in the field of nose and paranasal sinus cancers. Sino-Nasal Cancers and the […]
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Living up to their motto of “travel light and save sight,” Dr. Evan Waxman, along with ophthalmology residents and medical school students, take their “mobile eye clinic” to underserved communities around Pittsburgh three times a month. Vision loss is a debilitating condition that affects millions of people around the world. Exasperating this problem is the […]
In 2016, Jonas Johnson, MD, Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Pittsburgh, and Marci Nilsen, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor in the Department of Acute and Tertiary Care in the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing established the UPMC Survivorship Clinic for Head and Neck Cancer. The clinic’s mission is to address […]
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