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11 unusual facts about Ophthalmology


Argyrol

Agyrol is synonymous with its chemical mild silver protein, manufactured in the chemical industry to pharmaceutical grade only, using denatured pharmaceutical-grade protein for ophthalmic application and elemental silver to produce the silver protein molecule.

Book of the Ten Treatises of the Eye

This ophthalmic composition is heavily derived from Galen's De placitis Hippocratis at Platonis and De usu partium, both in terms of the anatomy and physiology being described.

Charles Conor O'Malley

In 1931 he was appointed Professor of Ophthalmology and Otology in U.C.G., where his elder brother, Michael, was Professor of Surgery from 1924 to 1956.

Cumberland Market

Beside the Ophthalmic Hospital was Christ Church (now St. George's Cathedral), built by Nash's assistant, Sir James Pennethorne in 1837 to serve the largely working class district.

Helen Palmer Geisel

Her father, George Howard Palmer, an ophthalmologist, died when she was 11, and her grandfather, who was also a doctor and lived next door, died about a year later.

International Society for Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision

The International Society for Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision (ISCEV) is an association that promotes research and applications of electrophysiological methods (e.g. electroretinogram, electrooculogram, and visual evoked potentials) in clinical diagnosis of ophthalmological diseases.

Neuro-ophthalmology

Walsh was born in Oxbow, Saskatchewan in 1895 and earned a degree for University of Manitoba in 1921.

St Ann's Hospital

The hospital has until recently been largely a mental health care facility; however, it now also provides outpatient services, which include MRI and ophthalmological services.

The Affiliated Eye Hospital

The Affiliated Eye Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College is a Chinese institution for study and treatment in the fields of Ophthalmology and Optometry.

Vandana Jain

Dr. Jain is also a reviewer for the Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, the flagship journal of the All India Ophthalmological Society (AIOS).

Yves Sahinguvu

A trained ophthalmologist, Sahinguvu was first appointed to the position of First Vice President on November 9, 2007 by act of parliament.


Alexander Pagenstecher

He obtained his doctorate in 1849, and in 1851 traveled to Paris to study ophthalmology.

American Academy of Ophthalmology

In 2010, the AAO sponsored the creation of EyeWiki, a wiki-model Internet encyclopedia of ophthalmology that is written and edited by ophthalmologists and "ophthalmologists-in-training".

American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

The society members are medical doctors who practice a specialized branch of Ophthalmology known as Oculofacial surgery or Oculoplastics.

Ashapatti Tamrakar

In 1935, he travelled to Kolkata and enrolled at United Optical Service at 54 Bowbazar Street to receive training in ophthalmology and orthoposcopy.

August Siegrist

He was habilitated in ophthalmology at Basel in 1900, and became professor of ophthalmology and director of the eye clinic of the University of Bern from 1903 to 1935.

Bassel al-Assad

Bassel Assad's death led to his lesser-known brother Bashar al-Assad, then undertaking postgraduate training in ophthalmology in London, assuming the mantle of President-in-waiting.

Bustamante Hospital for Children

The hospitals deals with General Medicine, Cardiology, Neurology, Asthma and Respiratory ailments, Nephrology, Dermatology, Rheumatology, General Surgery, Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Urology, Ears, Nose and Throat (ENT), Plastic and Burns, Ophthalmology and more.

Daniel Garibaldi

During his stay there, he wrote two chapters and many peer-reviewed articles related to ophthalmology including for American Journal of Ophthalmology, Cornea, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science and many others.

Divya Prabha Eye Hospital

Dr. Suseela Prabhakaran, the founder Director of the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology, Kerala State, India, founded the hospital.

Don Mills Collegiate Institute

Robert Devenyi, Vitreoretinal Surgeon, Ophthalmologist-in-Chief, University Health Network, Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Toronto, Team Ophthalmologist, The Toronto Maple Leafs

Douglas Argyll Robertson

Robertson made several contributions in the field of ophthalmology; in 1863 he researched the effects on the eye made by physostigmine, an extract from the Calabar bean (Physostigma venenosum), which is found in tropical Africa.

Eye movements in reading

In 1879, the French ophthalmologist Louis Émile Javal used a mirror on one side of a page to observe eye movement in silent reading, and found that it involves a succession of discontinuous individual movements for which he coined the term saccades.

Eye neoplasm

Evisceration - Removal of the eye contents, leaving the sclera or the white part of the eye.

Gordon Lynn Walls

1958 Walls wrote a chapter in The eye in evolution, the first volume (780 pages) of Stewart Duke-Elder's work System of Ophthalmology, a monumental multivolume contribution to medical literature.

Hanoi International American Hospital

The hospital will supposedly offer such services: General Medical Care, Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics, Dentistry, Chiropractic, Psychiatry, Neurology, Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Plastic Surgery, Nuclear Medicine, Nursing Services, Otorhinolaryngology, Acupuncture, Oncology, Cardiology, Pathology.

Hôpital Notre-Dame

In the late nineteenth century, Hôpital Notre-Dame became one of the largest hospitals in the country: it had six specialized departments: General practitioners, surgery, Psychiatry, Ear, Nose and Throat, ophthalmology and Electrotherapy.

Hôpital Saint-Luc

The hospital was specialized since its founding in the fields of Otolaryngology, Ophthalmology, dentistry and clinical venereal disease.

Ivan R. Schwab

Dr. Schwab then completed a residency in ophthalmology at California Pacific Medical Center and a fellowship in corneal surgery at University of California San Francisco in 1982.

James B. Aguayo-Martel

James B. Martel received a Bachelor of Science degree from Stanford University; a Doctor of Medicine from Harvard Medical School; a Masters in Public Health in the area of Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the Harvard School of Public Health and received his surgical sub-specialty training in ophthalmology from Johns Hopkins Medical School and Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute.

Joseph A. Bonanno

Currently he is a fellow at the American Academy of Optometry and a member at both the Association for Research in vision and ophthalmology and the American Physiological Society.

Jules Stein Eye Institute

The Jules Stein Eye Institute, founded by MCA founder Jules Stein, functions as the department of ophthalmology for the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.

Kingston General Hospital

Three years later, renovations made way for new facilities including laboratories, ophthalmology, prosthetics, endoscopy, renal unit and a pulmonary function lab; space for the KGH Auxiliary was also added.

Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital

The Hospital offers facilities for clinical teaching in all the specialties except Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tuberculosis and Ophthalmology for which there are separate hospitals.

Marcelo H. del Pilar National High School

Batch 1926 Dr. Geminiano T. De Ocampo - Class Valedictorian, Ophthalmologist, National Scientist (1982), a.k.a. "Father of Modern Philippine Ophthalmology"

Michael Lawless

Realising that the educational activities of the ISRS would have a natural fit with the American Academy of Ophthalmology AAO, he encouraged an alliance between the two organisations succeeding within twelve months in bringing a successful integration.

Paul McMenamin

In 2007, he was an Honorary Professor at the Lions Eye Institute’s Centre for Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, and in 2008 spent his sabbatical year at the Institute.

Penn Presbyterian Medical Center

The Scheie Eye Institute (ranked #17 in ophthalmology by U.S. News & World Report) has received national attention for expertise and service.

Peter Wiedemann

Peter Wiedemann (born 23 October 1953 in Erlangen, Germany) is a German ophthalmologist, specialist in medical and surgical retina and head at the Department of Ophthalmology at the Leipzig University, Germany, since 1993.

Photinos Panas

He was the first professor of ophthalmology at the University of Paris, and in 1879 established the ophthalmology clinic at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris.

Pupilometer

In ophthalmology, a pupillary response to light is differentiated from a pupillary response to focus (i.e. pupils may constrict on near focus, as with the Argyll Robertson pupil) in the diagnosis of tertiary syphilis.

Richard Liebreich

He subsequently practiced medicine in Paris (from 1862) and London (from 1870), where he was head of ophthalmology at St. Thomas Hospital.

Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital

The Eithne Walls Research Fund was established in memory of ophthalmology trainee Dr. Eithne Walls who was lost in the Air France Flight 447 crash.

Rubina Gillani

In February 2012, Gillani visited the Ophthalmology Department of the Khyber Teaching Hospital and handed over equipment worth Rs 5 million to the hospital.

Sultan Ahmed Cheema

During the latter part of his career, he established the Cheema Hospital in Daska which became very famous in the field of Ophthalmology.

University of California Riverside 1985 laboratory raid

Veterinarian ophthalmologist Ned Buyukmihci of the University of California, Davis, and founder of Veterinarians for Animal Rights, said after he examined Britches that the sutures used were too large, the monkey's eye pads were dirty, and that, in his view, there was no justification for what he called a sloppy, painful experiment.

Western Eye Hospital

Bashar al-Assad attended postgraduate studies at the Western Eye Hospital, specializing in ophthalmology.