In August of 2018, the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences (DOVS) launched a Teleophthalmology program in an effort to make diabetic eye examinations highly accessible to rural Wisconsin communities. Residents from these areas often …
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60 Years of Excellent Eye Care
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 …
Early Detection Critical to Treating Glaucoma
[KGVID]https://www.ophth.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Glaucoma-Jan-2019-.mp4[/KGVID] Glaucoma is a major cause of vision loss worldwide. It affects more than 3 million people in the United States—nearly half of whom are unaware they have the disease. During Glaucoma Awareness Month …
Vision Driven. The Chad Mayfield Story.
If you’d had the good fortune to know Chad Mayfield as a kid, you’d have thought it quite reasonable, even probable, that he would grow up to play third base in the big leagues …
Battling blindness with stem-cell research
Two decades after University of Wisconsin-Madison’s biologist James Thomson’s unprecedented achievement in lab-grown human embryonic cells, pediatric ophthalmologist David Gamm is fighting blindness through generating ‘spare parts’ of human eyes, on the foundation of Thomson’s …
Can You See It? Patient Sight Story Series
As Russ recalls it… I’d made the appointment capriciously, feeling that I could get this over with by seeing some of the top eye doctors in the country right here, as part of the University …
Protect Your Eyes While Playing Sports // April is Sports Eye Safety Month
Basketball, Baseball and Air/Paintball Guns Top the List of Leading Causes of Eye Injuries More than 40 percent of eye injuries that occur every year are related to sports or recreational activities. A recent …
Don’t Look Now! 2017 Solar Eclipse Eye Safety
As the solar eclipse quickly approaches on Monday, August 21, 2017, our ophthalmologists want to ensure that everyone views this exciting event safely. Whether you are viewing it in Madison, Wisconsin or along the path of …
Department Chair Terri Young, MD, MBA, to be Inducted into AΩA Medical Society
Terri Young, MD, MBA will be inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha (AΩA) Medical Society —a historic honors membership program that recognizes high educational achievement, gifted teaching abilities, a career of encouraging the development of leaders in academia and …