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Stanford's Ophthalmology department faculty, doctors, residents and fellows were recognized with many awards in 2022.

Modern Day Textbook

Dr. Natalie Homer makes the ophthalmology podcasts she wished she had in 2018 during her training, but she is far from the only one filling the gap. Many Byers Eye Institute faculty have jumped into the world of podcasting to connect with other clinicians, encourage continuing education, provide career insights, and help people improve health.

Giving Mission

IF BONNIE UYTENGSU could go back in time and pick any career she wanted, she would have made her way in medicine, as a doctor or as a researcher studying the intricacies of the brain and what makes it tick. Instead, she is helping doctors make those discoveries.

Training the Next Generation

WHEN ADEETI AGGARWAL, MD, PhD, surveyed her residency options after medical school, the Byers Eye Institute stood out because it offered something that other residency programs didn’t: a chance to SOAR.

The Paths to Clinical Care

IN MEDICINE, new treatments generally go through a long and rigorous process before reaching clinics or the operating room, where to improve patients’ lives. The faculty at the Byers Eye Institute are experts at this process. In fact, at Byers Eye Institute at Stanford, “from lab to clinic,” is practically a mantra among the innovative and award-winning researchers and doctors striving toward a shared goal of fighting blindness and preserving sight. .

Sight Restored

LARRY MOHR NEVER expected his eyesight to fail, until a tragic accident 20 years ago. The slow descent into blindness was, in his words, torture, made worse by the certainty that dark days were ahead.

Life, Uninterrupted

JANET THOMPSON KNOWS better than most the value of a healthy lifestyle and preventative care to fend off disease, but she also knows first-hand that sometimes illness sneaks up on you anyway.

Precisely Yours

PRECISION HEALTH is the latest buzzword in medicine, promising to help doctors better tailor care to the individual and allow people to proactively address potential health issues before they become a problem. But it’s not always clear what that looks like in practice.

Game On

If you sit down with Khizer Khaderi, MD, MPH, to talk about his work at Stanford University connecting vision and performance, there’s a good chance that by the end of the conversation, he’ll be drawing diagrams that crisscross the page or that fill up a whiteboard.

AI Revolution

People think of their eyes as windows onto the world, but the physicians and professionals at the Byers Eye Institute at Stanford know they offer a window into our health. It’s that quality that allows ophthalmology to be at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) advances.

Improving Vision

When babies are born, they don’t see well. In fact, it takes months for the average infant to see colors and begin recognizing faces. For the first 12 months of life, their vision, perception, and coordination change rapidly, passing important milestones that help them take in the world around them. But sometimes a child doesn’t follow that trajectory, and it’s often not obvious that something has gone awry until well into their critical learning years, leaving them at a significant disadvantage.

Meet Dr. M.E. Hartnett

WHEN MARY ELIZABETH (M.E.) HARTNETT, MD, arrived this year at the Byers Eye Institute, she brought with her a buzz of excitement that rippled through Stanford University and the international ophthalmology community.

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Drug Discovery

More than 150 researchers at the Byers Eye Institute more log hundreds of thousands of hours annually in our laboratories to advance the science that may ultimately lead to treatments for vision-stealing diseases.

Andrea Kossler, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, winner of the Women in Ophthalmology Mentorship Award

The Byers Eye Institute at Stanford gives its heartfelt congratulations and thanks to Andrea Kossler, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, winner of the Women in Ophthalmology Mentorship Award.

McCormick and Gabilan Faculty Awards

The annual McCormick and Gabilan Faculty Awards provide research/project funding to junior faculty women for career advancement, or to junior faculty men or women who support the advancement of women in medicine through research.

OIS Lifetime Innovator Award

Friends and colleagues salute the career and contributions of Mark S. Blumenkranz, MD, MMS, the HJ Smead Professor Emeritus and director of the Ophthalmic Innovation Program. Dr. Blumenkranz was the recipient of the OIS Lifetime Innovator Award at the OIS@ASRS meeting in Boston.

Myung Receives Research to Prevent Blindness Grant

SOAR resident receives grant from Knights Templar Eye Foundation to support retina research

Luciano Custo Greig, MD, PhD, a current trainee in the Stanford Ophthalmology Advanced Research (SOAR) Residency Program, is the recipient of a Career Starter Grant from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation for his research on regeneration of retinal ganglion cells from endogenous progenitors.

Hewlett Award Winner Mark S. Blumenkranz, MD, MMS: “I love what I do. It’s like a dream.”

The Albion Walter Hewlett Award is a Department of Medicine-sponsored award honoring an exceptional physician with ties to Stanford.