Lance Kugler, MD, of Omaha, Neb.-based Kugler Vision, is slated to be the first surgeon in eastern Nebraska to use Acrysof IQ Vivity Lens from Geneva, Switzerland-based Alcon, according to an Oct. 27 press release.
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LASIK Vision Centers of Cleveland is reporting an uptick in LASIK procedures despite the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an Oct. 27 report from Cleveland.com.
Rupa Wong, MD, an opthalmologist who operates a private practice in Honolulu, has launched a community to empower women in medicine while raising three kids with her husband, according to a profile by People.
Researchers at New Haven, Conn.-based Yale University have sequenced the RNA of the human retina, according to an Oct. 22 report by the Yale Daily News.
Boston-based virtual reality company FundamentalVR announced new surgery simulation programs for ophthalmology, according to an Oct. 20 statement.
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David Hinkle, MD, was named the Oliver and Carroll Dabezies Endowed Chair in Ophthalmology, according to an Oct. 13 press release from Tulane University in New Orleans.
Pueblo, Colo.-based Rocky Mountain Eye Center is expected to hold a virtual ribbon-cutting for its new Walsenburg, Colo., office Oct. 13, The Pueblo Chieftain reports.
Middleburg Heights, Ohio-based North Coast Eye Surgery will occupy a renovated building near its current location, according to an Oct. 8 report from cleveland.com.
Salt Lake City-based John A. Moran Eye Center announced the death of Alan Crandall, MD, in a statement Oct. 2.
Surgeons at Venice, Fla.-based Center for Sight Foundation performed 120 free cataract surgeries, according to an Oct. 1 report from WINK News.