Ophthalmology

The American Academy of Ophthalmology has announced that Leonard Flom, MD, and the late Aran Safir, MD, both board certified in ophthalmology, have been inducted into the United States Patent and Trademark Office's National Inventors Hall of Fame for the…

Thomas Findlan, MD, is moving the Pittsburgh Eye Institute practice to a larger location in Jefferson Hills, Pa., according to a TribLIVE report.

At Massachusetts Eye and Ear in Boston, Robert Pineda, II, MD, recently performed the first cornea transplant with endothelial donor tissue pre-loaded at an eye bank.

Michael Manning, MD, board-certified ophthalmologist, has begun to offer patients of Gulf Coast Eye Care cosmetic and functional blepharoplasty.

Liquidia Technologies, Research Triangle Park, N.C.-based biotechnology company, has announced that it will be presenting two preclinical poster presentations at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology 2013 annual meeting.

The National Eye Institute, division of the National Institute of Health, has granted a research team at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis a $1.5 million grant, according to a Memphis Business Journal report.

The American Academy of Ophthalmology has announced that it is granting U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) its Visionary Award for her legislative work in the area of eye care improvement.

Amjad Hammad, MD, is moving his Saratoga Springs, N.Y., practice, Saratoga Vitreo-Retinal Ophthalmology, to a new, larger location in Malta, N.Y., according to a report by The Saratogian.

Here are 15 statistics on how ophthalmologists reacted to changing healthcare costs and regulations in 2012, according to Medscape's Physician Compensation Report 2013.

Regeneron, a Tarrytown, N.Y.-based biopharmaceuticals company, has announced it has acquired the rights for two ophthalmological antibody programs from its collaborator Sanofi, Chattanooga, Tenn.-based pharmaceutical company.