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  Congratulations to our "Top Docs," listed in the July issue of Atlanta Magazine

  

  (ATLANTA) Emory Eye Center had a total of four physicians listed: Nancy Newman (in the category Neurology), Allen Beck, Scott Lambert, and R. Doyle Stulting. The magazine’s Top Doctors list was compiled by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., a New York-based healthcare research and information company that helps consumers identify America’s top doctors and top hospitals.

  Emory Eye Center Starts Study for Infants with Blocked Tear Ducts

  

  (ATLANTA) Emory Eye Center will participate in third phase of a National Eye Institute (NEI)-sponsored multicenter clinical trial, the Nasolacrimal Duct Obstruction (NLDO) Study in late winter. The trial will evaluate which of two approaches is optimal in treating young infants with blocked tear duct: probing the obstruction immediately or waiting to see if the condition goes away on its own after six months, as is often the case.

  Michael Iuvone Joins Emory Eye Center as Director of Research

  

  May 8, 2009 | (ATLANTA) P. Michael Iuvone, PhD, professor, Department of Pharmacology, Emory University School of Medicine, will serve as director of research at Emory Eye Center effective September 1, 2009. Iuvone will take the lead role in vision research at the Emory Eye Center and continue the national reputation of scientific excellence that Henry F. Edelhauser, PhD, has cultivated over the past two decades.

  American Academy Elects Eve Higginbotham, SM, MD

  

  May 8, 2009 | (ATLANTA) Eve Higginbotham, SM, MD, Emory Professor of Ophthalmology and Dean of the School of Medicine at Morehouse College, has been elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. The Academy, one of the nation's most prestigious honorary societies and a center for independent policy research, announced its selection April 20.

  Three Emory Eye Center Scientists named ARVO 2009 Fellows

  May 1, 2009 | (ATLANTA) The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) has announced this year’s inaugural class of distinguished Fellows. Three Eye Center scientists will be honored at this year’s annual meeting in early May: Henry F. Edelhauser, PhD, was awarded the highest distinction, Gold Fellow; Hans E. Grossniklaus, MD, MBA, and John M. Nickerson, PhD, were each awarded Silver Fellow distinctions.

  Emory's 11th Annual RB Picnic Celebrated Lives of Children
  Who Have Survived Eye Cancer

  

  (ATLANTA) The eleventh annual RB Picnic, coordinated by Emory Eye Center, delivered a day of fun and celebration on May 9, 2009, for both the young patients and their families who have faced this formerly fatal childhood cancer of the eye called retinoblastoma (RB).

   

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  Making Headlines

  June 3, 2009 | Eyeworld.org, "Keeping men with intracranial hypertension in your sights."  Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is a neurological disorder involving too much cerebrospinal fluid pressure, resulting in severe headaches, swelling of the optic nerves, vision loss, double vision, and a whooshing noise in the ears, according to Beau B. Bruce, M.D., assistant professor of ophthalmology and neurology, Emory University, Atlanta.

  April 21, 2009 | Emory Health Magazine, Spring 2009, "Seeing Far and Wide."  "If you drive through Western Kansas in late June before they cut the wheat, and the wind is blowing, it's almost like being in a ship on the ocean. You get a sense of wide open spaces, all around you."

  That's Timothy Olsen, F. Phinizy Calhoun Sr. Chair of Ophthalmology, who grew up in small-town Kansas and spent the summers farming with his grandfather. For just more than one year, Olsen has been tending the field (and steering the ship) of the Emory Eye Center as director.  Download a pdf copy of this article.

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