DOVS at ARVO 2025

The UW Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences is pleased to have many colleagues presenting at this year’s Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) annual meeting May 4 – 8 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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In all, DOVS faculty, staff, and learners are active in 42 mini symposia, poster sessions, and paper presentations at the event.

A few highlights include:

Sunday, May 4

8:00 AM: T. Michael Nork – Preexisting Fundus Findings in a Large Cohort of Young Nonhuman Primates (NHPs) Bred for Research

1:00 PM: Julie Kiland – Comparison of the TONOVET Pro®, TONOVET Plus®, and TONOVET® Tonometers in a Feline Glaucoma Model

3:15 PM: Jeremy Rogers – Retinal Imaging in Mice and Primates Using the Same Compact AOSLO with Scalable Pupil

Monday, May 5

8:30 AM: Amirhossein Roshanshad – Global Prevalence and Incidence of Pseudoexfoliation Syndrome and Pseudoexfoliation Glaucoma: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

10:00 AM: Melissa Trudung – Impact of Socioeconomic Disadvantage on Clinical Outcomes of Inflammatory Eye Disease Patients Requiring Systemic Immunosuppression

3:00 PM: Bikash Pattnaik – A Gene-agnostic Treatment for Diseases Caused by Nonsense Mutation.

Tuesday, May 6

8:30 AM: Kevin Schneider – Factors Associated with Photoreceptor Thickness in UK Biobank Participants with No or Mild Diabetic Retinopathy

9:40 AM: Amitha Domalpally – Reference Standards for AMD Screening Algorithms

1:15 PM: Jennifer Heathcote: Characterizing Intermediate AMD Biomarkers on OCT: Methods and Reproducibility

Wednesday, May 7

10:15 AM: Terri Young – ADAMTSL1 Gene Variants Identified in Patients with Childhood Glaucoma

2:00 PM: Kazuya Oikawa – Experimental Glaucoma Leads to Increases in Outer Retinal Layer Thickness Not Evident in Axotomy Damage

2:00 PM: Lillie Bauman – Mapping Interactions Between Microglia and Retinal Ganglion Cells Before and After Optic Nerve Crush

Thursday, May 8

8:00 AM: Celia Bisbach – Characterizing the USH1/MYO7A Interactome in Human Retinal Organoids

8:00 AM: Cinthya Maldonado – Factors Associated with Follow-up for In-person Eye Care Among Screen Positives in a Teleophthalmology Program at an Urban Federally Qualified Health Center

11:45 AM: Raunak Sinha – Functional Maturation of Photoreceptor and Circuits in the Primate Retina

Committee Activity

    • Amitha Domalpally, Annual Meeting Program Committee
    • Bikash Pattnaik, Members in Training Committee
    • Terri Young, Awards Committee
    • Terri Young, Board of Trustees, Representative of the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Section

That is just the beginning.

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