New UT Hamilton Eye Institute Surgical Lab Opens and Correlation Between Warmer Temperatures and Visual Impairment

Dr. Matthew Wilson (University of Tennessee Health Science Center - Memphis, TN)

Dr. Esme Fuller-Thomson (University of Toronto - Toronto, ON)

Dr. Matthew Wilson, Barrett G. Haik Endowed Chair for the Department of Ophthalmology, Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and director of the Hamilton Eye Institute explains the renovations and upgrades at the newly renovated Jim and Virginia McGehee Skills Transfer Center.

Dr. Esme Fuller-Thomson, Director of the Institute for Life Course and Aging, at the University of Toronto discusses a study showing a correlation between warmer temperatures and an increase in visual impairment.

7/9 /2023 Podcast (Click Image Below)

Study About Different Treatments For Macular Edema And Smartphone Images Assisting In Referrals For Retinopathy Of Prematurity

Dr. Douglas Jabs (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School Of Public Health - Baltimore, MD)

Dr. Benjamin Young (Oregon Health and Science University - Portland, OR)

Dr. Douglas Jabs, professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, explains the results of a study comparing the effectiveness of intraocular steroids, the drug ranibizumab, and the drug methotrexate, in treating uveitis-related macular edema.

Dr. Ben Young, assistant professor of ophthalmology at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, discusses how smartphone-based fundus imaging is assisting with referral-warranted and treatment-requiring screening for retinopathy of prematurity.

7/2/2023 Podcast (Click Image Below)

AI Model Using Peptides To Advance A Drug Delivery System To Treat Glaucoma In Rabbits

Dr. Laura Ensign (Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute - Baltimore, MD)

Dr. Laura Ensign, Marcella E. Woll Professor of Ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute in Baltimore, explains how an artificial intelligence model has been used to advance a drug delivery system with peptides to treat glaucoma in rabbits. 

6/11/2023 Podcast (Click Image Below)

Comparison of First Age of Diagnosis and Severity of Glaucoma Between Black and White Patients and Discussion of eSight Electronic Vision Enhancing Eyewear

Kaela Acuff (University of California - San Diego)

eSight 4 (eSight Eyewear - Toronto, ON)

Kaela Acuff, M.D. candidate, at the University of California-San Diego, goes over a study comparing the ages of first diagnosis and severity of cases of glaucoma between African-American and white patients.

Then, Roland Mattern, Director of Sales and Marketing, at eSight Eyewear, in Toronto, explains how the electronic vision enhancing system can help some, who have lost a degree of central vision.  That's includes the eSight 4 and eSight Go models.

6/4/2023 Podcast (Click Image Below) 

Partnership Between EnChroma Color Blind Glasses and Mississippi State University

EnChroma - Berkeley, CA

Dr. Amelia Fox (Mississippi State University - Starkville, MS) 

Dr. Renee Clary (Mississippi State University - Starkville, MS)

Amy Moe-Hoffman (Mississippi State University - Starkville, MS)

Kent Streeb, VP of Communications and Partnerships at EnChroma in Berkeley, California, and Dr. Amelia Fox, an unmanned flight instructor at Mississippi State University in Starkville, discuss color vision deficiency, a partnership between EnChroma and the school, and the importance of color vision in the unmanned flight program.

Then, Dr. Renee Clary, professor of geology, director of the Dunn-Seiler Museum in the Department of Geosciences and Amy Moe-Hoffman, instructor of geology, museum curator of the Dunn-Seiler Museum, and Chair of Museums and Galleries Committees of Mississippi State University in Starkville talk about the importance of color vision for their students in geology with EnChroma glasses and getting the full experience of the museums and galleries on campus with enhanced color vision. 

5/21/2023 Podcast (Click Image Below)

Increase In Number Of Retinitis Of Prematurity Cases Reported and Extremely Rare Gene Variants As Potential Cause Of Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Dr. Darius Moshfeghi (Stanford University Byers Eye Institute - Palo Alto, CA)

Dr. Anand Swaroop (National Eye Institute - Bethesda, MD)

Dr. Darius Moshfeghi, Chief of the Retina Division at the Stanford University Byers Eye Institute, discusses retinopathy of prematurity and the increase in the number of its reported cases.

Dr. Anand Swaroop, Senior Investigator and Chief of the National Eye Institute Neurobiology Neurodegeneration and Repair Laboratory, explains how extremely rare gene variants of proteins, C8-alpha and C8-beta, could alter the stability of the membrane attack complex (MAC) and lead to age-related macular degeneration. 

4/30/2023 Podcast (Click Image Below) 

Mice Cones Retaining Function In Degenerating Retinas and Gene Therapy For A Form of Leber Congenital Amaurosis

Dr. A.P. Sampath (UCLA - Los Angeles, CA)

Dr. Paul Yang (Oregon Health and Science University - Portland, OR)

Dr. A.P. Sampath, Grace and Walter Lantz endowed chair in ophthalmology at the Jules Stein Eye Institute and professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles, discusses research showing how cones in degenerating retinas in mice retain function, showing sensitivity to light.

Then, Dr. Paul Yang, an associate professor of ophthalmic genetics and ocular immunology at Casey Eye Institute at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, explains how gene therapy can be used to deliver working copies of the gene, GUCY2D, to treat a form of Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA).

4/16/2023 Podcast (Click Image Below)