Ophthalmology

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.

The Florida Society of Ophthalmology named William Mallon, MD, of Center for Advanced Eye Care, the recipient of the Dr. John R. Brayton, Jr., Leadership Award.

J. Ryan McManus, MD, has joined the medical staff of Munson Medical Center in Traverse City, Mich., according to a manisteenews.com report.  

The American Academy of Ophthalmology has announced that its Basic and Clinical Science Course series will be available through Apple iOS and Google Android apps.   

Kris Pugh, MD, board-certified ophthalmologist, has joined the Eye Care Group in Vevay, Ind., according to a Vevay Newspapers Online report.

The Journal of Refractive Surgery, the official publication of the International Society of Refractive Surgery, has appointed Dr. Dean Dornic, MD, board-certified ophthalmologist, as a medical reviewer.

The Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Russel J. and Betty Jane Shaw Fund has given the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee a $300,000 grant for the study of retinopathy in premature infants, according to a Wauwatosa NOW report.