Macular Degeneration: News You Can Use

[[{"fid":"4323","view_mode":"wysiwyg","fields":{"format":"wysiwyg","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Dierdre Johnston, MD","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Dierdre Johnston, MD"},"type":"media","link_text":null,"attributes":{"alt":"Dierdre Johnston, MD","title":"Dierdre Johnston, MD","style":"float: right; margin-top: 8px;","class":"media-element file-wysiwyg"}}]]The guest speaker is Deirdre Johnston, MD, who is a geriatric psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University.

[[{"fid":"2833","view_mode":"wysiwyg","fields":{"format":"wysiwyg","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Gayatri S. Reilly, MD","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Gayatri S. Reilly, MD"},"type":"media","link_text":null,"attributes":{"alt":"Gayatri S. Reilly, MD","title":"Gayatri S. Reilly, MD","style":"float: right; margin-top: 8px;","class":"media-element file-wysiwyg"}}]]The telephone discussion features Dr. Gayatri S. Reilly of The Retina Group of Washington, who has excelled in research, patient care, and educating other eye care professionals about treating diseases such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

[[{"fid":"3915","view_mode":"wysiwyg","fields":{"format":"wysiwyg","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Joshua Dunaief, MD","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Joshua Dunaief, MD"},"type":"media","link_text":null,"attributes":{"alt":"Joshua Dunaief, MD","title":"Joshua Dunaief, MD","style":"float: right; margin-top: 8px;","class":"media-element file-wysiwyg"}}]]The telephone discussion features Dr. Joshua Dunaief, of the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School Medicine, who specializes in the study of age-related macular degeneration.

[[{"fid":"4219","view_mode":"wysiwyg","fields":{"format":"wysiwyg","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Ward Bond, PhD","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Ward Bond, PhD"},"type":"media","link_text":null,"attributes":{"alt":"Ward Bond, PhD","title":"Ward Bond, PhD","style":"float: right; margin-top: 8px;","class":"media-element file-wysiwyg"}}]]Dr. Ward Bond, who regularly appears in the media and before public audiences, discusses the vital role of nutrition in reducing the risk and progression of age-related diseases such as macular degeneration and glaucoma.

[[{"fid":"4148","view_mode":"wysiwyg","fields":{"format":"wysiwyg","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Sandra Block, OD and Christina Morettin, OD","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":""},"type":"media","link_text":null,"attributes":{"alt":"Sandra Block, OD and Christina Morettin, OD","style":"float: right; margin-top: 8px;","class":"media-element file-wysiwyg"}}]]The guest speakers are Sandra S. Block, OD and Christina Morettin, OD.Sandra Block, OD is a professor at the Illinois College of Optometry and was part of a National Academy of Sciences study, "Making Eye Health a Population Imperative: Vision for Tomorrow."Christina Morettin, OD is an assistant professor at the Illinois College of Optometry, and chief of Urgent Eye Care Services. Her interests include urgent eye care, primary eye care, ocular disease, including retinal disease.

[[{"fid":"3915","view_mode":"wysiwyg","fields":{"format":"wysiwyg","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Joshua Dunaief, MD","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Joshua Dunaief, MD"},"type":"media","link_text":null,"attributes":{"alt":"Joshua Dunaief, MD","title":"Joshua Dunaief, MD","style":"float: right; margin-top: 8px;","class":"media-element file-wysiwyg"}}]]The telephone discussion features Dr. Joshua Dunaief, of the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, who specializes in the study of age-related macular degeneration.

[[{"fid":"2833","view_mode":"wysiwyg","fields":{"format":"wysiwyg","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Gayatri S. Reilly, MD","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Gayatri S. Reilly, MD"},"type":"media","link_text":null,"attributes":{"alt":"Gayatri S. Reilly, MD","title":"Gayatri S. Reilly, MD","style":"float: right; margin-top: 8px;","class":"media-element file-wysiwyg"}}]]The guest speaker is Dr. Gayatri S. Reilly of The Retina Group of Washington, who has excelled in research, patient care, and educating other eye care professionals about treating diseases such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

[[{"fid":"3973","view_mode":"wysiwyg","fields":{"format":"wysiwyg","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Stephen Azman, Director of Patient Care","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Stephen Azman, Director of Patient Care at Low Vision Specialists of Maryland & Virginia"},"type":"media","link_text":null,"attributes":{"alt":"Stephen Azman, Director of Patient Care","title":"Stephen Azman, Director of Patient Care at Low Vision Specialists of Maryland and Virginia","style":"float: right; margin-top: 8px;","class":"media-element file-wysiwyg"}}]]The guest speaker is Stephen Azman, who is Director of Patient Care at Low Vision Specialists of Maryland and Virginia (LVS), a group that specializes in maximizing patient vision and customizing optical systems for adults and geriatric patients suffering from vision loss.

[[{"fid":"3960","view_mode":"wysiwyg","fields":{"format":"wysiwyg","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Drs. Lutty and Bhutto","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":""},"type":"media","link_text":null,"attributes":{"alt":"Gerard \"Jerry\" Lutty, Ph.D. and Imran Bhutto, M.D., Ph.D. ","title":"Gerard \"Jerry\" Lutty, Ph.D. and Imran Bhutto, M.D., Ph.D. ","style":"float: right; margin-top: 8px;","class":"media-element file-wysiwyg"}}]]Gerard "Jerry" Lutty, PhD and Imran Bhutto, MD, PhD of the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute at Johns Hopkins University are the featured speakers.

[[{"fid":"3915","view_mode":"wysiwyg","fields":{"format":"wysiwyg","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Joshua Dunaief, MD","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Joshua Dunaief, MD"},"type":"media","link_text":null,"attributes":{"alt":"Joshua Dunaief, MD","title":"Joshua Dunaief, MD","style":"float: right; margin-top: 8px;","class":"media-element file-wysiwyg"}}]]The telephone discussion features Dr. Joshua Dunaief, of the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School Medicine, who specializes in the study of age-related macular degeneration.

[[{"fid":"3845","view_mode":"wysiwyg","fields":{"format":"wysiwyg","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Tim Corson, PhD","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Tim Corson, PhD"},"type":"media","link_text":null,"attributes":{"alt":"Tim Corson, PhD","title":"Tim Corson, PhD","style":"float: right; margin-top: 8px;","class":"media-element file-wysiwyg"}}]]The guest speaker is Tim Corson, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Ophthalmology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, at Indiana University School of Medicine. He is working on developing new therapies for diseases of abnormal blood vessel growth such as age-related macular degeneration.

[[{"fid":"3840","view_mode":"wysiwyg","fields":{"format":"wysiwyg","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Ranjoo K. Prasad, O.D","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Ranjoo K. Prasad, O.D"},"type":"media","link_text":null,"attributes":{"alt":"Ranjoo K. Prasad, O.D","title":"Ranjoo K. Prasad, O.D","style":"float: right; margin-top: 8px;","class":"media-element file-wysiwyg"}}]]Ranjoo K. Prasad, O.D., a specialist in low vision rehabilitation at Penn Medicine, is the guest speaker.

[[{"fid":"3668","view_mode":"wysiwyg","fields":{"format":"wysiwyg","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Dan Dunbar, AMD patient","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":""},"type":"media","link_text":null,"attributes":{"alt":"Dan Dunbar, AMD patient","title":"Dan Dunbar, AMD Patient","style":"float: right; margin-top: 8px;","class":"media-element file-wysiwyg"}}]]The featured speaker is Dan Dunbar, who was legally blind from macular degeneration and had some restoration of vision after having a tiny telescope implanted into his eye.

[[{"fid":"2833","view_mode":"wysiwyg","fields":{"format":"wysiwyg","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Gayatri S. Reilly, MD","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":""},"type":"media","link_text":null,"attributes":{"alt":"Gayatri S. Reilly, MD","style":"float: right; margin-top: 8px;","class":"media-element file-wysiwyg"}}]]The guest speaker is Dr. Gayatri S. Reilly of The Retina Group of Washington, who is an expert on research, patient care, and educating eye care professionals on treating eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration.

Milam A. Brantley, Jr., MD, PhD, of the Vanderbilt Eye Institute, discusses the type of doctor that is most appropriate for monitoring and treating the wet and dry forms of age-related macular degeneration.