AAPOS Partners

AAPOS-TJEH Visiting Faculty & Lectures

2018 Lectures

June

Marco Ramirez-Ortiz, MD, MPH:

  • Retinoblastoma (risk factors, macular tumors treatment, laser and transcleral cryo, intravitreal chemotherapy, differential diagnosis, enucleation))
  • Retinoblastoma (prognosis and treatment)
  • Coats Disease (diagnosis and treatment)
  • ROP Laser Treatment Experience in Mexico

Adrienne L. Ruth, MD:

  • Retinopathy of Prematurity and Long-Term Outcomes
  • Pseudo-Duane Syndrome
  • Pediatric Eye Trauma

Mauro Plut, MD:

  • Mobius Syndrome
  • Duane's Syndrome
  • Strabismus and Cerebral Palsy
  • Congenital Esotropia

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2017 LECTURES

June

Jitendra N. Jethani, MS, FNB:

  • Measurements in Strabismus: Errors and Corrections
  • Advance Strabismus Surgeries
  • Inferior Oblique Surgeries
  • Superior Oblique Surgeries
  • Dissociated Deviations
  • Muscle Transplantation/ Grafting|
  • Role of Axial Length in Under-correction of IOL Power in Children under 2 Years

Ronit Friling, MD:

  • Brown Syndrome
  • DVD
  • 4th Nerve Palsy
  • 3rd Nerve Palsy
  • Dacryostenosis
  • 6th Nerve Palsy
  • Duane Syndrome
  • Thyroid Opthalmopathy
  • Heavy Eye
  • Surgical Treatment of Third Nerve Palsy

September

Deborah K. VanderVeen, MD:

  • Duane Syndrome and Use of Superior Rectus Transposition
  • Adjustable Sutures
  • Botox for Strabismus
  • Leukocoria/Retinoblastoma
  • Management of Nystagmus

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2016 LECTURES

June

Maria V. Sors, MD:

  • Amblyopia Treatment Update Based on the Amblyopia Treatment Study of PEDIG
  • Pediatric Orbital Fracture
  • Ocular Anomaliesin Patients with Congenital ZIKA Virus

Erika Mota Pereira, MD:

  • Congenital Fibrosis of the Extraocular Muscles (CFEOM) - Case Reports
  • Refractive Error and Anisometropia After Unilateral Intraocular Lens Implantation in Infants Under 7 months of Age: 5 Year
  • Results from the Infant Aphakia Treatment Study (IATS)
  • Ocular Anomaliesin Patients with Congenital ZIKA Virus

September

Lea V M Hyvarinen, MD:

  • Transdisciplinary Assessment of Visual Functioning in Infants and Children (part-1 and 2)
  • Evaluation Patients with Cerebral Palsy

David R. Weakley Jr, MD:

  • Abnormal Head Positions in Strabismus
  • Childhood Intermittent Exotropia
  • Congenital Esotropia
  • Inferior Oblique Muscle Dysfunction

Kamel Itani, MD:

  • Lacrimal Disorders in Children
  • Childhood Intermittent Exotropia
  • Eyelid Trauma and Reconstruction
  • Thyroid Ophthalmopathy

October

Megan E. Collins, MD:

  • Impact of Uncorrected Refractive Error on Academic Practice-Baltimore Reading and Eye Disease Study
  • The Doctor-Patient Relationship: A Model for Teaching Ethics to Ophthalmology Residents
  • Vision for Baltimore-A New Model to Address Barriers in Access to Eye Care
  • Retinopathy of Prematurity- An Update

Xiaonong Liu, MSC, CO, COMT:

  • How to Systematically Approach the Strabismus Patient-Orthoptic Consideration
  • Overview of PEDIG Amblyopia Treatment Studies
  • Non-Surgical Strabismus Management for Adults (Concentrating on Dragged Fovea Diplopia Syndrome)
  • Intermittent Exotropia-Surgical VS Non-Surgical Treatment

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2015 LECTURES

April

Edward L. Raab, MD:

  • Strabismus Surgical Complications and Management
  • Planning for Re-Operations in Strabismus Surgery
  • Surgery on the Inferior Oblique Muscle
  • Retinopathy of Prematurity
  • Surgery on the Superior Oblique Muscle
  • Orbit Fractures
  • Infantile (Congenital) Esotropia
  • Accommodative Esotropia

Linda M. Lawrence, MD:

  • Vision Screening: What Pediatricians Should be Doing and How
  • Dealing with Dual Diagnoses Autism and Visual Impairment
  • Low Vision Programs for Children
  • CVI
  • The Spectrum of Optic Nerve Hypoplasia
  • Ocular Pathology in the Preterm Infant ROP

Naeem Nabi, FRCOphth:

  • Botulinum and Strabismus
  • Double Elevator Palsy

June

Monte A. Del Monte, MD:

  • Current Management of Third Nerve Palsy
  • Surgical Management of Primary Extra-ocular Muscle Trauma
  • Lessons Learned in the Treatment of Strabismus in Thyroid Eye Disease
  • Selected New Pearls in the Treatment of Strabismus Learned from 30 years of Practice

September

Carlos Eduardo Solarte, MD:

  • Sagging and Heavy Eye Syndrome
  • Understanding Abnormal Head Posture
  • Weaking Procedures for the Superior Oblique
  • Retinoblastoma: Where are we?
  • Pediatric Uveitis: What is Different?
  • Retinopathy of Prematurity: Where are we heading to?

December

Jonnathan Chan, MD:

  • 6th Nerve Palsy
  • FEVR
  • Retinal Pigment Epithelium Hamartoma
  • Adie's Pupils
  • Orbital Lymphangioma

Fariba Nazemi, MD:

  • Amblyopia therapy
  • Pediatric Cataract
  • Common Strabismus Problems
  • Pediatric Glaucoma

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2014 LECTURES

June

Conference of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Group, Chinese Ophthalmology Society in Nanning

Andrea Molinari, MD:

  • Superior Rectus Overaction-Contracture Syndrome
  • Why do Extraocular muscles become fibrotic?
  • Etiological Factors in Juvenile Keratoconus
  • Extraocular Muscle Injuries in Orbital Trauma

Susana Gamio, MD:

  • Dissociated Strabismus
  • Anterior and nasal transposition of the Inferior Oblique muscle
  • Second surgery in DVD
  • Sensorial strabismus due to congenital toxoplasmosis: Eso or exotropia?
  • Intralesional bleomycin sclerotherapy as treatment of intraorbital lymphatic malformation in children

September

David Robbins Tien, MD:

  • New Vision Screening Technologies
  • Long-Term Follow up of Amblyopia Treatment

Serena Wang, MD:

  • Update on Pediatric Cataract Surgery
  • Congenital Ocular Abnormalities
  • Update on IATS. Five year Study outcome

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2013 LECTURES

April

Ankoor S. Shah, MD, PhD:

  • Nasal transposition of the split lateral rectus muscle for 3rd nerve palsy
  • Pediatric orbital cellulitis: Epidemiology, Clinical Presentation, and Management
  • Boston Open-Globe Injury Evaluation and Management System (BOGI-EMS)

Jason S. Mantagos, MD:

  • Adjustable sutures in children
  • Abusive head trauma
  • Stevens Johnson syndrome
  • Advances in the management of ROP

Arif O Khan, MD:

  • Congenital cranial dysinnervation disorders 2013
  • Assessing incomitant strabismus & postoperative EOM complications
  • Conditions that can mimic pediaric glaucoma
  • Selected topics in ocular genetics

June

Edward L. Raab, MD:

  • Accommodative esotropia
  • Causes and treatment of strabismus in adults
  • A and V pattern horizontal strabismus
  • Brown syndrome
  • Duane syndrome
  • Congenital esotropia
  • Rectus muscle flap tear
  • Harada-Ito procedure
  • Treatment of inferior oblique overaction
  • Ptosis in children
  • Levator resection
  • Strabismus surgical principles and techniques
  • Surgical approaches to the oblique muscles

Todd J. Murdock, MD:

  • Non-surgical management of diplopía
  • Pediatric Eye Lid lesions
  • Adjustable sutures.

September

Joel M. Weinstein, MD:

  • Medical and surgical diagnosis and management of cranial nerve palsied in children
  • Medical and surgical Diagnosis and management of Duane syndrome
  • Medical and surgical Diagnosis and management of Strabismus due to thyroid eye disease

Omondi Nyong'o, MD:

  • Vision screening: this was a broad overview of principles of screening tests and how they are integrated into pediatric vision screening. In addition, topics on new technology in objective vision screening (autorefractors and birefringence) plus old objective technologies (bruckner/CLR etc).
  • Orbital tumors: hemangioma, lymphangioma and rhabdomyosarcoma. Pathophysiology plus an update in the new standard of care for IH with oral beta-blockers as well as use of topical beta blockers.

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2012 LECTURES

March

Daniel Weaver, MD:

  • ROP Update 2012
  • Utility of Telemedicine for ROP in Montana
  • Intraoperative Patient Preparation for Strabismus Surgery in Children
  • Eye Trauma in Children
  • Red Eye in Children

Andrea Molinari, MD:

  • Orbis Telemedicine Program: Cybersight
  • Evaluation of a patient with Strabismus
  • Surgery on Oblique muscles
  • Herpes in Childhood
  • Post Traumatic Strabismus

June

David R. Weakley, Jr, MD:

  • Inferior Obligue Surgery
  • Congenital and acquired Esotropia
  • Abnormal head position - Diagnosis and Treatment.

Serena Xiaohong Wang, MD:

  • Two lectures on pediatric cataracts.

September

Gregg T. Lueder, MD:

  • Vision Screening
  • Ethics and informed consent for pediatric eye surgery or adult strabismus surgery
  • Strabismus management in thyroid eye disease
  • Nasolacrimal Conditions
  • The Eye and Pediatric Diseases

December

Peggy M. Liao, MD:

  • Amblyopia
  • Congenital Optic Nerve Anomalies

Tin K. J. Chan, MD:

  • Allergic Conjunctivitis
  • Aberrant regeneration of Third Nerve palsy (Case discussion)
  • Sarcoidosis Uveitis and cataract surgery management (Case discussion)

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2011 LECTURES

May

Daniel Neely, MD:

  • Technical aspects of pediatric cataract surgery
  • Evaluation and management of superior oblique palsy
  • Recent advances in pediatric ophthalmology (infant IOLs, propranolol for hemangioma, 360 degree trabeculotomy, avastin for ROP, telemedicine for strabismus consultation)

Bruce Furr, CO:

  • Cyclic Esotropia
  • Recurrence of AHP after Kestenbaum
  • Examination of Patient with Strabismus
  • Amblyopia

Robert Sargent, MD:

  • Complications and Pitfalls in EOM Surgery
  • A and V pattern strabismus

December

Tin Chan, MD:

  • Pediatric Cataracts
  • Infantile Esotropia
  • 4th Nerve Palsy
  • ICG iris angiogram after strabismus surgery
  • Glasses prescription in children

Scott Lambert, MD:

  • IOL Implantation for Children: Biometry and intraocular lens power calculation
  • Refractive correction and amblyopia treatment after pediatric cataract surgery
  • Capsular management & vitrectomy during pediatric cataract surgery
  • Surgical complications for pediatric cataract surgery
  • Glaucoma following pediatric cataract surgery
  • Screening for congenital cataracts during infancy
  • Simultaneous vs sequential cataract surgery for infants with bilateral congenital cataracts

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2010 LECTURES

February

Lea Hyvarinen, MD:

  • Visual development and the testing evaluation and management of visually impaired children

July

Monte Del Monte, MD:

  • Current treatment of amblyopia from the multi-center PEDIG studies
  • Medical and surgical management of nystagmus

John Sloper, MD:

  • Intermittent Exotropia
  • Incomitant squints in children

Joel Weinstein, MD:

  • Optic disc anomalies
  • Cerebral visual impairment

Chris Timms, CO:

  • Orthoptics in Strabismus

September

Robbins Tien, MD:

  • Inferior Oblique Weakening Procedures
  • Outcomes of Interventions for Congenital Nasolacrimal Duct Obstructions

Marilyn Miller, MD:

  • Thalidomide and Congenital Ocular Anomalies

November

Judy Newman, MD:

  • Esotropia, with a discussion of Ciancia’s Syndrome and Nystagmus Blockage
  • Pediatric Cataract Surgery
  • Pediatric Glaucoma: With a discussion of Trabeculotomy vs. Trabeculectomy in Children

Cheryl McCarus, CO:

  • Demystifying Fresnel Prisms
  • Convergence Insufficiency: When and How to Treat
  • Is this a Gaze Palsy?

David Silbert, MD:

  • Vision Screening Technologies
  • Orbital Fractures Strabismus and Repair

Noelle Matta, CO:

  • Sinus Related Strabismus
  • A Method to Measure the Field of Binocular Single Vision

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2009 LECTURES

February

John Sloper, MD:

  • Amblyopia
  • Concomitant Squints
  • Blowout Fractures
  • New Surgical Procedures
  • Paralytic Squints

Chris Timms, CO:

  • Assessment of visual function in small children
  • Practical management of amblyopia
  • Orthoptic assessment of adults

May

Gary Lane, MD:

  • Retinopathy of Prematurity (I and II)
  • Fluorescein angiography
  • Retinal Detachment
  • Vitrectomy Techniques, Indirect ophthalmoscopy

July

Dan Gombos, MD:

  • Retinoblastoma and childhood ocular tumors

September

Joel Weinstein, MD:

  • Visual Evaluation in Infants and Preverbal Children
    Infantile Esotropia
  • Accommodative Esotropia
  • Optic Disk abnormalities and their relationship to systemic syndromes
  • Nystagmus in infants and children
  • Paretic and restrictive syndromes-Part 1 –acquired
  • Paretic and restrictive syndromes-Part 2—congenital
  • Cerebral visual impairment: vision in premature children and children with hydrocephalus
  • Craniofacial syndromes
  • Surgical skills video-surgery of the oblique muscle

Shuan Dai, MD:

  • Pediatric cataract surgery
  • Clinical approach to childhood nystagmus
  • Strabismus surgery in thyroid eye disease
  • Retinopathy of prematurity telemedicine and tips in laser treatment
  • Pitfalls in prism measurement of strabismus patients
  • Ocular tilt reaction and differential dx of head tilt

November

Robbins Tien, MD:

  • Options in the Treatment of Congenital NLD Obstructions

Monte Del Monte, MD:

  • Surgery on the Superior Oblique

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2008 LECTURES

October

Terry Young, MD:

  • Amblyopia
    Retinoblastoma and Ophthalmic Genetics
S.W. Leo, MD:
  • Strabismus Surgery
  • Prescribing Glasses in Children

November

Matthew Gearinger, MD:

  • Esotropia
  • Journal Club, Amblyopia Treatment Studies
  • Exotropia
  • Special Forms of Strabismus

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