Combat Blindness International Virtual World Sight Day
Sep 24 2020
Our partners at Combat Blindness International’s (CBI) are hosting a virtual World Sight Day celebration on Oct. 8, 2020 from 7-8:30 p.m., and all UW-DOVS faculty and staff are invited! Sign up today! This online…
Read MoreMeasure for Measure
Jun 08 2020
“Dishonor not your eye By throwing it on any other object, Till you have heard me in my true complaint, And given me justice, justice, justice, justice!” – Isabella, Measure for Measure William Shakespeare Over…
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Patient Sight Series: Hope for Corneal Health
May 21 2020
Imagine that the nerves leading to the cornea (clear windshield) of your eye have been damaged. Perhaps the damage was due to a viral infection, contact lens use, diabetes or even head trauma. Without the…
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Patient Sight Series: When Art Meets Science
Jan 27 2020
In the operating room, Ruth Manning was a little nervous. Two years of eye trouble had led her here. Yasmin Bradfield, MD, pediatric ophthalmology and adult strabismus specialist, completed the last tasks before beginning surgery.…
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Patient Sight Series: Seeking a Vision Field of Dreams
Jan 04 2020
“How could I miss that?” was John Lenart’s first reaction when he struck out during a baseball game in August 2018. Lenart plays second base with the Racine Blues, an age-60+ team that is part…
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A Team of Miracle Workers: Patient Sight Story Series
Aug 16 2019
If you asked Elaine Archiquette to summarize her recent experiences with the University of Wisconsin’s Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences (DOVS), she’d likely say it was a miracle. The doctors, staff and researchers of…
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Former First Lady Reflects on Firsthand Experiences in Eye Care
Jul 18 2019
Laurie McCallum has been a patient with the UW Health Eye Clinics since pictures of retinas were hand-drawn. That is to say, quite a while. One of her first visits to Suresh Chandra, MD, retina…
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60 Years of Excellent Eye Care
Feb 26 2019
Don Dehlinger of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, has been a University of Wisconsin-Madison Eye Clinic patient since 1961. At the young age of eight years old, Dr. Matthew D. Davis (Dinny) performed Don’s first eye surgery…
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Amy Walker, OD, and Her Most Famous Patient
Feb 01 2019
When I was a young Air Force optometrist, I attended a seven-week leadership course at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama where I first learned of the World War II Tuskegee Airmen. The large auditorium…
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