Eye care, like many areas of the health sector, is facing an ongoing personnel shortage. UW Health is addressing the challenge by recruiting, growing, and training its own. The new program is providing eight employees the life-changing opportunity to receive on-the-job training and classroom instruction, while still receiving their salaries and benefits.
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Coming Full Circle: Former Ophthalmology Patient Works in the Operating Room, Alongside the Doctor Who Treated Her
Fifteen years after her first strabismus surgery, Veronica Witt still finds herself in the UW Health eye clinic every week. But these days, it’s for a much different reason. The 40-year-old year old from Appleton, …
Cystic Focal Ectasia Due to Moraxella Keratitis Identified in Formalin-Fixed Tissue.
PubMed ID: 37715778 Author(s): Warner EJ, Bradfield YS, Shatten J. Cystic Focal Ectasia Due to Moraxella Keratitis Identified in Formalin-Fixed Tissue. Ophthalmology. 2024 May;131(5):633. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2023.08.018. Epub 2023 Sep 15. No abstract available. PMID 37715778 …
Comparison of Standard 7-Field, Clarus, and Optos Ultrawidefield Imaging Systems for Diabetic Retinopathy (COCO Study).
PubMed ID: 38284100 Author(s): Duncan N, Barrett N, Schildroth K, Chang JS, Channa R, Rickels K, Domalpally A, Blodi B. Comparison of Standard 7-Field, Clarus, and Optos Ultrawidefield Imaging Systems for Diabetic Retinopathy (COCO Study). …
A New Approach to Staging Diabetic Eye Disease: Staging of Diabetic Retinal Neurodegeneration and Diabetic Macular Edema.
PubMed ID: 38284099 Author(s): Channa R, Wolf RM, Simo R, Brigell M, Fort P, Curcio C, Lynch S, Verbraak F, Abramoff MD; Diabetic Retinal Neurodegeneration and Macular Edema working group of the Mary Tyler Moore …
Imaging Modalities for Assessing the Vascular Component of Diabetic Retinal Disease: Review and Consensus for an Updated Staging System.
PubMed ID: 38313399 Author(s): Tan TE, Jampol LM, Ferris FL, Tadayoni R, Sadda SR, Chong V, Domalpally A, Blodi BL, Duh EJ, Curcio CA, Antonetti DA, Dutta S, Levine SR, Sun JK, Gardner TW, Wong …
iGWAS: Image-based genome-wide association of self-supervised deep phenotyping of retina fundus images.
PubMed ID: 38728357 Author(s): Xie Z, Zhang T, Kim S, Lu J, Zhang W, Lin CH, Wu MR, Davis A, Channa R, Giancardo L, Chen H, Wang S, Chen R, Zhi D. iGWAS: Image-based genome-wide …
The retina’s neurovascular unit: Müller glial sheaths and neuronal contacts.
PubMed ID: 38903067 Author(s): Grimes WN, Berson DM, Sabnis A, Hoon M, Sinha R, Tian H, Diamond JS. The retina’s neurovascular unit: Muller glial sheaths and neuronal contacts. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 May 1:2024.04.30.591885. doi: 10.1101/2024.04.30.591885. …
An Eye for an Eye?: Problematic Risk-Benefit Trade-Offs in Whole Eye Transplantation.
PubMed ID: 38635428 Author(s): Weinlander E, Erb B, Thiessen C. An Eye for an Eye?: Problematic Risk-Benefit Trade-Offs in Whole Eye Transplantation. Am J Bioeth. 2024 May;24(5):75-79. doi: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2328285. Epub 2024 Apr 18. No abstract …