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In honor of National Mental Health Awareness Month, UAB experts provide six ways to improve mental health.
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Matthew Leong will graduate in the spring undergraduate commencement ceremony April 30 in Bartow Arena.
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This award recognizes an individual who has made substantial contributions to the understanding and/or treatment of age-related macular degeneration.
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The UAB Center for Low Vision Rehabilitation offers a weekend getaway for children with low vision and their families annually—an event that is fastened together by handfuls of volunteers and donations. During National Volunteer Week, Dawn DeCarlo O.D., Ph.D., professor[…]
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Luxturna uses a non-disease-causing virus to deliver a normal copy of the RPE65 gene to retinal cells, enabling them to make proteins capable of improving and preserving visual function.
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Congratulations to Dawn DeCarlo, OD, PhD, director of the UAB Center for Low Vision Rehabilitation and professor in the UAB Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, for being named the recipient of the Sight Savers America (SSA) 2022 Hall W.[…]
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The new location offers a wide range of comprehensive and specialty eye services to patients in and around the city of Pelham.
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We would like to welcome Bertram Young, who has been named our new Director of Development. Bertram comes to UAB from the Boys & Girls Club of Central Alabama with more than 10 years’ experience in fundraising, public relations, and marketing.[…]
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In 2021, the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences welcomed five new providers – Elise Agostinelli, OD; Sarah Berry, OD; Jeff Chaiprakob, MD; John Morgan, MD; and Jeffrey Tapley, MD.
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Marissa Locy, OD, has been named assistant professor in the UAB Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. In 2017, Dr. Locy joined the department as a clinical instructor and has continued to work in UAB's Low Vision Rehabilitaion Clinic as[…]
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The Downs lab recently published an article describing a new method for representing the directional tissue stiffness imparted by aligned collagen fibrils in computational models of optic nerve head biomechanics. This is a challenging issue, especially in eye-specific models that[…]
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The UAB Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and the UAB Department of Optometry are pleased to announce the acquisition of a new Nikon AXR Confocal Microscope, making UAB one of the first academic centers in the United States and[…]
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Priscilla Fowler, MD, has been named associate professor in the UAB Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. Dr. Fowler is also the director of the Cornea Service and specializes in refractive cataract surgery, endothelial keratoplasty, infectious diseases of the cornea,[…]
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Brian Samuels, M.D., Ph.D., has been named interim chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences.
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Seth Fortmann, a MD/PhD student in the NIH Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at UAB, has been named the recipient of a F30 NIH Fellowship Award from the National Eye Institute. This grant, which underwent study section review and was[…]
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Record $95 million Heersink lead gift to advance strategic growth and biomedical innovation.
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Christine Curcio, Ph.D., says research findings are important in suggesting that treatments already investigated for cancer might be beneficial for AMD.
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The UA System Board of Trustees awarded the rank of Professor Emeritus to Craig Beard, Etty “Tika” Benveniste, Louis Dell’Italia, Robert F. Pass, John Hablitz and Clark Douglas Witherspoon and the rank of Endowed Professor to Jeff Holmes during its[…]
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The location offers adult and pediatric optometry and ophthalmology services, and delivers the same vision care that Callahan Eye Hospital has provided on the UAB campus for the past 50 years.
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Seven individuals and two registered student organizations were named Mental Health Champions by Student Counseling Services for their efforts during this past year.
