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2007 Aging Eye Symposium
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'Eye Health for Adults'
Saturday, June 9, 2007, was held at the Laurel Heights Conference Center in San Francisco, to increase awareness and educate the general public on potential age-related eye problems.
Dr. Shiu Y. Kwok, PBNC Board President, extended a warm welcome to over 140 attendees. The program consisted of educational presentations from seven distinguished ophthalmologists, followed by questions and answers. Our lead physician in developing the content for the symposium was J. Brooks Crawford, MD. His presentations included A Map of the Eye (Anatomy), Cataracts, and Floaters and Flashes. Anne E. Fung, MD, presented on Diabetes and the Eye. Jacque L. Duncan, MD, spoke on Macular Degeneration. Robert L. Stamper, MD, educated the audience on Glaucoma. Allan J. Flach, MD, PharmD, enlightened us on Nutrition and the Eye (Myths and Truths). Chandler R. Dawson, MD, presented on Pink Eye, and David W. Vastine, MD, talked about Dry and Watery Eyes. Attendees expressed their gratitude and gave us very positive evaluations.
We were delighted to collaborate with Allergan, Alcon, Bausch & Lomb Surgical, Inspire Pharmaceuticals, AMO, Bausch & Lomb Pharmaceuticals, Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc., MedPointe Pharmaceuticals, and ISTA Pharmaceuticals. There were eight educational exhibits from our sponsors open to attendees throughout the event. Teri Flach provided delicious treats for all, and Starbucks of Laurel Village donated coffee and tea.
Special thanks to all our volunteers, Katie Chilton, Teri Flach, Dee Gonzales, Susan Hung, Doris Hunker, Debbie Kuo, Joan Kwok, Jesse Le, Lewis and Jean McElroy, Christian Okoye, Katherine Talcott, and Jerome Williams, who all got up at 6am to help set up, and to our speakers, attendees, sponsors and donors, who helped make this educational event so successful!
Speakers
Anne E. Fung, MD, a graduate of Wellesley College and Cornell University Medical College, completed her Ophthalmology residency at Stanford University, where she did research investigating human pigment epithelial cell transplantation, and use of anterior lens capsule as a substrate for tissue culture and transplantation. She then completed a fellowship in Medical Retina at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, FL, where she researched medical therapies for Age-Related Macular Degeneration, Diabetic Retinopathy, and Inflammatory Disorders of the Retina and Vitreous. Dr. Fung is currently in private practice with Pacific Eye Associates in San Francisco, where she specializes in age-related macular degeneration and diabetic eye disease. She is a principal investigator on studies with Lucentis for AMD and diabetes, as well as a National Eye Institute study evaluating vitamin therapy in dry AMD. She has authored several book chapters and research papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Robert L. Stamper, MD, is an internationally recognized clinician with extensive contributions to advances in glaucoma diagnosis, medical management and surgery. He is former Chair of the Ophthalmology Department at California Pacific Medical Center. As Chair of the Screening Task Force for Prevent Blindness America, Dr. Stamper helped identify, test and implement new screening systems that allow lay volunteers to do initial glaucoma screening. Current investigations include the assessment of a rapid new examination technique, multifocal visual evoked potential, which could replace evaluations requiring up to 20 minutes an eye and new surgical approaches to glaucoma. He is the author of two textbooks on glaucoma. Dr. Stamper received his medical degree at State University of NY, Downstate Medical Center, and was a Peace Corps Physician in the West Indies. He has been an ophthalmology faculty member at Washington University, the UC Berkeley School of Optometry, and California Pacific Medical Center. He is currently Professor and Medical Director of Ophthalmology Clinics at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine.
J. Brooks Crawford, MD, is a Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of Eye Pathology at the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco. He was a former Chief of Ophthalmology at Childrens Hospital in San Francisco. He serves on the Board of Directors and was formerly President of Prevent Blindness Northern California. He was the Editor of the Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society and President of that organization. He also served on the Board of Directors and was President of the American Board of Ophthalmology. He has authored over 70 scientific publications in peer-reviewed medical journals and over 15 book chapters.
Allan J. Flach, MD, PharmD, is a Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) where he has been a full time faculty member for over 30 years. He has published over 100 articles including both laboratory and clinical studies within peer reviewed literature. Throughout these years, Dr. Flach has helped to staff three hospitals within San Francisco including UCSF, San Francisco General Hospital, and the Veterans Hospital where he is the Director of Ophthalmic Clinical Pharmacology. During many of these years, he consulted in all aspects of the pharmaceutical industry. In addition to teaching ocular pharmacology and cataract surgery at UCSF and VASF, he has provided ocular pharmacology and toxicology courses each year at the annual meetings of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. In addition, he has been Chairman of the Ocular Pharmacology section of the Basic Science Course given at Stanford for over 25 years. He is past president of Prevent Blindness Northern California and the Pacific Coast Oto-Ophthalmological Society and is immediate past president of the Fredrick C. Cordes Eye Society. Dr. Flach attended the University of California in Berkeley and UCSF where he completed his undergraduate education and earned Doctor Degrees from both the School of Medicine and the School of Pharmacy as a Regent Scholar in each. Following a Medical Internship at the University of California in San Diego, he returned to UCSF where he completed a residency in Ophthalmology and, subsequently, devoted an additional year to the study of Ophthalmic Clinical Pharmacology.
Jacque Duncan, MD, received a bachelors degree at Stanford University, then attended medical school at UCSF. She completed her internal medicine internship and residency in Ophthalmology at UCSF. She then attended Scheie Eye Institute at the University of Pennsylvania for medical retina fellowship education. During that time, she worked with Drs. Stuart Fine and Samuel G. Jacobson to gain expertise in the diagnosis and management of patients with retinal degenerations including age-related macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, cone-rod dystrophy and Stargardt’s disease. She was granted a research award from The National Eye Institute to work with Matthew LaVail characterizing preclinical models of retinal degenerations. She joined the Ophthalmology faculty at UCSF in September of 2000. Dr. Duncan’s clinical emphasis is diagnosis, electrophysiologic evaluation, and management of patients with retinal degenerative disease, including age-related macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, cone rod dystrophy, and Stargardt macular dystrophy. Her research includes characterization of retinal degenerations using novel imaging techniques in patients, as well as preclinical evaluation of therapies for inherited retinal degenerations.
Chandler R. Dawson, MD. Dr. Dawson completed his bachelors degree at Princeton University, then attended medical school at Yale University. He completed his internship at the North Carolina Memorial Hospital (University of North Carolina), and his ophthalmology residency at UCSF Medical Center. Dr. Dawson’s current position is Research Ophthalmologist at the F.I. Proctor Foundation at UCSF Medical Center, where he served as Assistant Director from 1970-1984 and Director from 1984-1995. The. F.I. Proctor Foundation is dedicated to research and training in infectious and inflammatory ocular diseases, and the application of this research to the prevention of blindness worldwide and is recognized as the pre-eminent center in the world for this discipline. Dr. Dawson has spent much of his career working to eradicate infectious blinding eye diseases, especially Trachoma, a preventable bacterial infection that threatens to blind nearly 10 percent of the world’s population. He has worked with numerous public health agencies, including the World Health Organization; Pan American Health Organization; Committee on Public Health, San Francisco Medical Society; Division of Indian Health, and the Center for Disease Control, US. Public Health Services.
David W. Vastine, MD, received his medical degree from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, and served as Chief Resident in Ophthalmology at the Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine, University of Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary. He is currently the Consultant in Diseases and Surgery of the External Eye and Cornea at the California Pacific Medical Center Department of Ophthalmology. He is also Chief of Ophthalmology at Highland General Hospital in Oakland, CA. In addition to these positions, he works as Director of the Lions Eye Bank of Northern California Transplant Bank, and Senior Scientist at California Pacific Medical Center Medical Research Institute. From 1967 to 1979, Dr. Vastine actively participated in numerous international public health assignments overseas. He has been principle investigator on many important research projects related to ocular health, and has been published in numerous peer reviewed journals and medical textbooks.
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