Congratulations to Dr. Carla Siegfried on her induction into the American Ophthalmological society. The American Ophthalmological Society (AOS) is a medical society of ophthalmologists and the second oldest specialty medical society in the United States. It was founded in 1864 during the Civil War as the first specialty society in this country and just thirteen years after […]
Dr. Harris Sultan is being awarded the 23rd Fellowship Research award at the Retina Society 52nd annual meeting in London, UK.
Dr. Steven Bassnett will be honored with the 2019 Distinguished Research Award by The Marfan Foundation Heartworks St. Louis.
Dr. Vladimir Kefalov has been awarded the 2019 Bressler Prize for his outstanding advances in vision science research by the Lighthouse Guild.
Dr. Apte has been selected by the Chancellor to be the McDonnell International Scholar Ambassador to the University of Tokyo.
[calendarp-event event_id=”4945″] 31st Annual Ophthalmology Spring Update Invited guest speakers Elliot Sohn, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Director of Retina Fellowship at University of Iowa Jacque Duncan, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at University of California San Francisco. 13th Annual Michael A. Kass, MD Lecture presented by Pradeep Ramulu, MD, […]
Dr. Augustine Hong was recently profiled by the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s Patient Stories series which detailed the care he provided to a veteran requiring DMEK surgery. Dr. Hong has worked extremely hard to get the corneal transplant program up and running at our VA and this profile really shows the appreciation of our veteran […]
Congratulations to Wendell Jones, a graduate student in Dr. Steven Bassnett’s lab. His image of the interior of a mouse eye was place in the top 100 in the Nikon Small World Photomicrography competition – making it an ‘image of distinction’
To honor her father’s memory and his legacy of service to his profession and society, Ms. Poole has committed $10 million to the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at Washington University School of Medicine. In recognition, the department has been renamed the John F. Hardesty, MD, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences.
Congratulations to Dr. Raj Apte for presenting the first Keynote lecture of the 2018 meeting of the European Association for Vision and Eye Research (EVER) in Nice, France. Lecture was titled ‘An eye on aging and disease’
18 of our Doctors have been named Best Doctor by St. Louis Magazine. “Founded in 1989 by Harvard Medical School physicians, Best Doctors is a global benefits provider and medical information services company that connects individuals facing difficult medical treatment decisions with the best doctors, selected by impartial peer review in over 450 subspecialties of medicine, to […]
Drs. Van Stavern and Apte discuss their finding on the use of OCTA to detect Alzheimer Disease ahead of their paper published in JAMA Ophthalmology
Dr. Thomas Ferguson presented his lecture “Apoptosis and Tolerance as They Relate to Eye and Vision” at the NEI 50th Anniversary Symposium: Vision and Immunology Vision and Immunology: Partners in an Ambiguous Relationship View the full agenda
Studying mice and cells from patients, Dr. Apte’s team found that as immune cells called macrophages get older, they are more likely to contribute to inflammation and abnormal blood vessel growth in the back of the eye. This can damage vision in patients with age-related macular degeneration. Macular degeneration linked to aging immune […]
Here are our department’s recent publications (02/15/2018 – 03/36/2018) Members of our department are highlighted in bold – congratulations to them all!! Apte, R. S. “Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Therapy in Diabetic Macular Edema Does Flavor Matter?” JAMA Ophthalmology 136, no. 3 (2018): 269-70. Apte, Rajendra S. “Gene Therapy for Retinal Degeneration.” Cell 173, no. […]
12th Annual Michael A. Kass Lectureship “Neuroprotection for Glaucoma – Can We Get Beyond the Failure of Memantine?” Presented by Donald J. Zack, MD, PhD Professor of Ophthalmology and Co-Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Stem Cells and Ocular Regenerative Medicine (STORM) Professor of Ophthalmology Wednesday March 21, 2018 Meet the speaker reception 5:00-5:30PM Lecture 5:30-6:30PM […]
Third Annual David C. Beebe Lectureship “Future Realities in Corneal Endothelial Regenerative Medicine” Presented by Shigeru Kinoshita, MD, PhD Professor and Chairman of Ophthalmology at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto Wednesday March 7th, 2018 5:30 PM- 6:25 PM Connor Auditorium 1st Floor Farrell Learning and Teaching Center Meet the Speaker Reception Connor Auditorium Lobby […]