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Drs. Matthew W. Wilson,
Constance L. Fry, Gary W. Abrams, and Barrett G. Haik at
the Thirteenth Annual Clinical Update Meeting
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HEI Presents Thirteenth Annual
Clinical Update Meeting for the Comprehensive
Ophthalmologist
December 5, 2009 -- The UT
Department of Ophthalmology proudly hosted the
annual Clinical Update in the Hamilton Eye
Institute's Freeman Auditorium. This year, we welcomed two
highly respected
ophthalmologists as our guest speakers.
The first, Gary W. Abrams, MD, is chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at Wayne
State University and director of the Kresge Eye
Institute in Detroit, Michigan. He served as the I. Lee Arnold, MD, Distinguished
Visiting Professor for this year's event, speaking
on topics
including proliferative vitreoretinopathy and
retinal angiomatous proliferation.
Our other guest, Constance L. Fry, MD,
is an associate professor of ophthalmology at the
University of Texas Health Science Center at San
Antonio. Dr. Fry discussed cranial nerve seven palsy and malignant
neoplasms of the eyelid. We were honored to have both Dr. Abrams and Dr. Fry as
our guests.
Over a dozen other physicians and
scientists representing the UT Department of Ophthalmology faculty also
spoke at the clinical update meeting, sharing the
latest discoveries, techniques, and scientific data
from their areas of specialty with a large audience of
local and regional ophthalmologists.
On December 5, 2006, Fox affiliate WHBQ-TV in Memphis featured
this "Health Matters" segment during their 9:00 P.M. news
broadcast. The feature focused on the great promise shown by new
targeted therapies in treating retinoblastoma to destroy cancer
cells without damaging healthy tissue.
On January 13, 2006, an international teleconference symposium
was held aboard the ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital, with live, two-way
video links to St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, the UT
Hamilton Eye Institute, and outreach treatment sites in Guatemala
and Honduras. Fox 13 News covered the story.
On Thanksgiving
Day, November 25, 2004, Marlo Thomas, National Outreach Director
for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, appeared on the Today
Show to spotlight Zachary Noblett and his family. Zachary has retinoblastoma, a form of cancer causing potentially
life-threatening and blinding tumors in the eyes. Without treatment,
Zachary and others like him could lose their sight and even their
lives. But doctors at UT and St. Jude are working to prevent that.
Watch this video to view the Today Show story
and learn more about this disease and its treatment.
On February 3, 2004, WREG News Channel 3 in Memphis ran this
story on the treatment of retinoblastoma at St. Jude and UT.
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