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Welcome to the UPMC Eye Center Grand Rounds Conference Series

Announcements

Course Schedule Announced

UPMC Eye Center Grand Rounds are held most Fridays at 7 am. Watch this space for future course announcements.

Course Events

Guest Speaker Grand Rounds - Dr Osamah Saeedi

Date: 02/10/2012 - 7:00am - 8:00am

Faculty: Dr Osamah Saeedi

Location: BST 120

Dr. Saaedi will be presenting "Neovascular Glaucoma" at a special Guest Speaker Grand Rounds on Friday, February 10 at 7 am in BST 120. Dr. Saeedi is on staff at the Wilmer Eye Institute and specializes in the treatment of patients with routine and complicated glaucoma.

Evolution's Witness: A Story of the Evolution of the Eye

Date: 08/28/2009 - 7:00am - 8:00am

Faculty: Ivan Schwab, MD

Location: BST 120

Dr. Ivan Schwab, Professor of Ophthalmology at University California Davis will be presenting "Evolution's Witness: A Story of the Evolution of the Eye"

With light and predation as catalysts, the first eye appeared during the Cambrian era, 550 million years ago, in a trilobite. The

New Insights to Age-Related Macular Degeneration: From Bench to Clinical Practice

Date: 09/04/2009 - 7:00am - 8:00am

Faculty: Dr. Tongalp Tezel

Location: BST 120

Dr. Tezel will be presenting a case related to the " New Insights to Age-Related Macular Degeneration: From Bench to Clinical Practice"

There will be no Grand Rounds this week

Date: 09/11/2009 - 7:00am - 8:00am

Faculty:

Location:

Grand Rounds

Date: 09/18/2009 - 7:00am - 8:00am

Faculty: Dr. Wingard and Dr. Anetakis

Location: BST 120

Dr. Wingard and Dr. Anetakis will be presenting an Ischemic Optic Neuropathy case this week. Please see below for the necessary reading material.

Dr. Hein and Dr. Samy will be presenting an Endophthalmitis case. Please see below for the necessary reading material.

Enophthalmos Article

Quality Review Grand Rounds

Date: 09/18/2009 - 7:30am - 8:30am

Faculty: Dr Alethea Hein & Dr Hazem Samy

Location: BST 120

Clinical Grand Rounds

Date: 10/02/2009 - 7:00am - 8:00am

Faculty: Dr Audrey Chan & Dr Tonya Stefko

Location: BST 120

Dr. Chan and Dr. Stefko will be presenting an Oculoplastics case. The reading material can be found below:

Graves Orbitopathy

Guest Speaker Grand Rounds-Glaucoma

Date: 10/09/2009 - 7:00am - 8:00am

Faculty: Dr. Richard Lewis

Location: BST 120

Clinical Grand Rounds-Glacoma

Date: 10/16/2009 - 7:00am - 8:00am

Faculty: Dr. Nancy Buchser & Dr. Albeiruti

Location: BST 120

Dr. Buchser and Dr. Albeiruti will be presenting a Glaucoma case. Please see below for the reading material.

Glaucoma -filtering Bleb Infections

Cataract Surgery

Date: 10/23/2009 - 7:00am - 8:00am

Faculty: International invited speaker from Thailand, Dr. Pannet

Location: BST 120

Speaker invited by Dr. Bigland and Dr. Puwat.

Guest Speaker Grand Rounds

Date: 10/30/2009 - 7:00am - 8:00am

Faculty: Myles Jaffe PhD

Location: BST 120

Protocol Development

Dr Myles Jaffe PhD
Ophthalmic Products Leader
Merck and Co

Dean's Lecture

Date: 11/06/2009 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Faculty: Dr Paul Sieving, MD PhD

Location: BST 120

“Ophthalmic Genetics and Translational Research”
Paul A. Sieving, Ph.D.

Grand Rounds

Date: 11/13/2009 - 7:00am - 8:00am

Faculty: Dr Emily Deschler & Dr Alexa Lu

Location: BST 120

Emily Deschler, MD and Alexa Lu, MD will be presenting a Scleritis case this week at Grand Rounds. Please find the article attached that will be discussed.

Scleritis and PUK

Quality Review Grand Rounds

Date: 11/20/2009 - 7:00am - 8:00am

Faculty: Dr Kristin Rarey & Dr Robert Noecker

Location: BST S 100 A

Dr. Rarey and Dr. Noceker will be presenting a Glaucoma Case this week. Please find the related reading material below.

Intraocular Lens Complications Requiring Removal or Exchange

No Grand Rounds

Date: 11/27/2009 - 7:00am - 8:00am

Faculty:

Location: BST 120

Guest Speaker Grand Rounds

Date: 12/04/2009 - 7:00am - 8:00am

Faculty: Dr. Valerie Purvin

Location: BST S 100A

Neuro-Ophthalmology Topic

Guest Speaker Grand Rounds

Date: 12/18/2009 - 7:00am - 8:00am

Faculty: Dr. Mark Barsamian

Location: BST 120

Dr. Mark Barsamian of OSU Medical Center will present "The Management of Pediatric Retinal Diseases."

Clinical Grand Rounds

Date: 01/08/2010 - 7:00am - 8:00am

Faculty: Dr. Wendy Chen, Dr. Leela Raju

Location: BST 120

Dr Wendy Chen and Dr Leela Raju will be presenting a case related to Central Retinal Arterial Occlusion. Participants may wish to read the attached articles in advance of Grand Rounds.

Guest Speaker Grand Rounds - Dr Roheena Kamyar

Date: 01/15/2010 - 7:00am - 8:00am

Faculty: Roheena Kamyar, MD

Location: BST 120

Dr Roheena Kamyar will be presenting “Keratoprosthesis Surgery” at Grand Rounds on January 15, 2010 in BST 120 at 7 am. Dr Kamyar is currently a cornea fellow at Kellogg Eye Center at University of Michigan.

Guest Speaker Grand Rounds - Dr Nicholas Volpe

Date: 01/22/2010 - 7:00am - 8:00am

Faculty: Dr Nicholas Volpe

Location: BST 120

Dr. Nicholas Volpe, Professor of Ophthalmology at University of Pennsylvania, will present "Optic Neuritis: What we think we know"

Guest Speaker Grand Rounds - Dr Michael Alunni

Date: 01/29/2010 - 7:00am - 8:00am

Faculty: Dr Michael Alunni

Location: BST 100 A

Dr Michael Alunni will be presenting "Late Dislocation of IOLs" at Grand Rounds at 7am on January 29, 2010 in BST 100 A.

Dr Alunni is an alumnus of the residency program at UPMC Eye Center and is currently the Anterior Segment Fellow for the Department of Ophthalmology at Allegheny General Hospital.

Guest Speaker Grand Rounds - Dr. Andrew Schachat

Date: 02/05/2010 - 7:00am - 8:00am

Faculty: Dr. Andrew Schachat

Location: BST 120

Dr. Andrew Schachat will be presenting "Cataract surgery, age-related macular degeneration progression, and AREDS" at Grand Rounds at 7 am on 2/5/10 in BST 120.

Dr Schachat is Professor of Ophthalmology and Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs at Cleveland Clinic.

Guest Speaker Grand Rounds - Dr Albert Maguire

Date: 02/12/2010 - 7:00am - 8:00am

Faculty: Dr. Albert Maguire

Location: BST 120

Dr. Albert Maguire will be presenting "Developing a Gene Therapy Treatment for Leber Amaurosis: Practical Considerations" on February 12, 2010 at 7 am in BST 120. Dr Maguire is Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and an expert in the field of gene therapy for retinal degeneration and ocular neovascularization.

Clinical Grand Rounds - Oculoplastics

Date: 02/19/2010 - 7:00am - 8:00am

Faculty: Dr Rachel Davis & Dr Jenny Will

Location: BST 120

Dr Rachel Davis will be presenting an oculoplastics case at UPMC Eye Center Grand Rounds on Friday, February 19 at 7 am in BST 120. After the case presentation Dr Davis and Dr Jenny Will will lead a discussion of the case.

Vision Science Grand Rounds

Date: 02/26/2010 - 7:00am - 8:00am

Faculty: Regis Kowalski

Location: BST 120

Regis Kowalski will be presenting "PCR Testing: What we have done, What we are doing now, and What are the plans for the future." at UPMC Eye Center Grand Rounds at 7am on February 26, 2010 in BST 120.

Mr. Kowalski is Manager of the Charles T. Campbell Ophthalmic Microbiology Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Clinical Grand Rounds- Retina

Date: 03/05/2010 - 7:00am - 8:00am

Faculty: Dr Emily Deschler & Dr Andrew Eller

Location: BST 120

Dr Emily Deschler will be presenting a retina case at UPMC Eye Center Grand Rounds on March 5, 2010 at 7am in BST 120. Dr Deschler and Dr Andrew Eller will lead a discussion after the case presentation. Participants may wish to read "White Dot Syndromes" by Quillen et al in AJO in advance of attending.