Patient Care Goodwill Vision Enterprises, UR Medicine Team Up to Expand Eye Care By Leslie White Feb. 1, 2023 Goodwill of the Finger Lakes and UR Medicine Flaum Eye Institute – two leaders in vision care for the Finger Lakes region – are collaborating to improve access to best-in-class vision care in the ...
Research First-Ever Lab Model of Human Eye Offers Hope for Macular Degeneration Patients By Susanne Pallo Apr. 1, 2021 Researchers at the University of Rochester have developed the first 3D research model of the human retina to study age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a disease that causes loss of central vision.
People Mina Chung, Retinal Surgeon and Researcher, Dies at 51 By Chip Partner Feb. 17, 2020 Mina Millicent Chung, M.D., an ophthalmologist and retina specialist who helped blind children to see and furthered the study of retinal disease, including macular degeneration, died Feb. 13 after a ...
Patient Care DiLoreto to Chair University of Rochester Medical Center Department of opthalmology, Lead Flaum Eye Institute By Leslie White Nov. 5, 2019 David A. DiLoreto, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., was named chair of the University of Rochester Medical Center’s Department of opthalmology and director of the Flaum Eye Institute, pending approval by the Office ...
Research New Study Reshapes Understanding of How the Brain Recovers from Injury By Mark Michaud Mar. 20, 2019 New research sheds light on how the damage in the brain caused by a stroke can lead to permanent vision impairment.
Patient Care UR Medicine Flaum Eye Institute Welcomes Family Eyecare Associates By Leslie White Oct. 18, 2018 Webster optometry practice Family Eyecare Associates has joined the Flaum Eye Institute, continuing growth of the Ophthalmology department. Therese Farugia, O.D, will continue to provide patients ...
Patient Care ‘Bionic Eye’ Helps Wyoming County Man See His Bride Again By Leslie White Jun. 11, 2018 “Oh my goodness – do you see that?” It was the wave of a hand, but William Heidt was in tears. For the first time in more than 15 years, the Wyoming County man saw something, thanks to a “bionic eye” ...
Patient Care UR Medicine Uses ‘Bionic Eye’ to Restore Some Vision to Blind Syracuse Woman By Leslie White Oct. 23, 2017 A 71-year-old woman blinded by an inherited disease recently thrilled University of Rochester doctors by reaching out and grabbing her ophthalmologist’s hand after receiving a “bionic eye.” The ...
Research New Model for Hard-to-Study Form of Blindness Paves Way for Future Research By URMC Communications Sep. 6, 2017 URMC researchers have created the first patient-derived laboratory model of macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss in older adults. With the new model, the team has identified ...
Patient Care UR Medicine’s Flaum Eye Institute First in Region to Offer Procedure for Near Vision Loss By Leslie White May. 24, 2017 Flaum Eye Institute’s Scott MacRae, M.D., an international leader in LASIK vision correction, is the first in the Finger Lakes region to provide the Raindrop Near Vision Inlay, which treats ...
