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2017 Annual Report

Transforming Vision The University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences has experienced an era of unprecedented change in health care policy and regulation, advances in multidisciplinary research, and necessary pedagogical evolution to provide …

Everyone’s Right to Sight

Since 2007, Combat Blindness International has partnered with UW Health and the University of Wisconsin Madison Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences within the School of Medicine and Public Health to provide service to Dane County residents …

A Review: The Association Between Myopia and Glaucoma

CORE CONCEPTS The increasing global prevalence of myopia has significant consequences beyond mere optical correction, as it predisposes individuals to severe ocular pathologies including glaucoma. Biomechanical stresses induced by increased axial length of the globe and oxidative stress are implicated in the development of glaucoma …

Nickells Lab Explores the Molecular Complexities of Retinal Ganglion Cell Death in Glaucoma

  January is National Glaucoma Awareness Month Meet Robert Nickells, PhD, a researcher in the University of Wisconsin Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. Dr. Nickells leads an active research program studying the biology of …

Increasing Options for Glaucoma Treatment and Detection

Meet Yao Liu, MD, Glaucoma sub-specialist at the University of Wisconsin Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences “As a glaucoma specialist, I see far too many patients who suffer from severe vision loss that does not …