Ophthalmology

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland have appointed Douglas Rhee, MD, as chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences.

The physicians at Laurel Laser & Surgery Center in Duncansville, Pa., removed their 10,000th cataract this month, just six years after the facility began offering cataract removal, according to a report in The Altoona Mirror.

Researchers from the University College of London successfully restored retinal cells in blind mice through a transplant therapy involving light-sensitive photoreceptor cells and embryonic stem cells, according to Nature World News.

Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pa., opened its $1.4 million ophthalmology clinic last week at the Geisinger-Shamokin Area Community Hospital, according to a News-Item report.

Menlo Park, Calif.-based Versant Ventures has hired James Mazzo, former chief executive of Advanced Medical Optics, as an operating partner.

Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Florida was ranked No. 1 for ophthalmology by US News & World Report.

Ambulatory Eye Surgery Center of Louisiana's Stephen Brint, MD, was honored as a New Orleans Health Care Hero by the New Orleans City Business, according to an AmSurg report.

The surgeons at Gordon-Weiss-Schanzlin Vision Institute in San Diego were among the first in the world to perform custom wavefront guided LASIK surgery.

Bausch + Lomb acquired the license to a potential treatment of dry eye syndrome.

  Research to Prevent Blindness awarded a $110,000 grant to the Dean McGee Eye Institute in the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center's Department of Ophthalmology.