Ophthalmology

Ophthalmologist Deborah Chong, MD, has joined Texas Retina Associates, according to a news release.

The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston has received a grant to research causes and treatment of blindness, according to a news release.

TLC Laser Eye Centers, headquartered in St. Louis, Mo., has announced its facility in Mississauga, Canada, will perform the first approved laser cataract surgeries in the country, according to a news release (pdf).

Wells Vision and Laser Eye Center in Destin, Fla., has announced it has opened a new location in Seacrest, Fla., according to a news release.

QLT has announced it has appointed Vince Anido Jr., PhD, to its board of directors, according to a news release.

U.S. News & World Report has ranked the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine's Bascom Palmer Eye Institute as the nation's No. 1 ophthalmology program in its annual Best Hospital rankings, according to a news release.

Ophthalmologist William De La Peña, MD, will serve as a member of the "Future of University of California, San Francisco" advisory board assembled to help ensure UCSF excels as a health sciences innovator and delivers on its mission, according to…

The results of a new study reveal the risk for retinal detachment after phacoemulsification has almost halved for each five-year period since the cataract surgery procedure was adopted in the mid-1980s.

The Baltimore Washington Eye Center, with offices in Glen Burnie and Clarksville, Md., has announced it has registered its 100,000th patient into its electronic medical records system, according to a news release.

Ophthalmologist Alexander M. Eaton, MD, has been reappointed as a consulting associate in the department of ophthalmology at Duke Eye Center in Durham, N.C., according to a Naples News report.