ANNUAL REPORT 2021
The Stanford Ophthalmology 2021 Annual Report, "Vision Matters: The Eye-Brain Connection" highlights the department's recent news and accomplishments. Click here to read or download the PDF.
Want to view previous issues? Click the images below!
In this Issue
For image credits, view PDF
-
Mentorship leads to new gene therapy discoveries
Sui Wang, PhD, assistant professor of ophthalmology, attributes her career success to mentorship.
-
Big data to transform patient care
Faculty are spearheading efforts within the Byers Eye Institute at Stanford to organize electronic health records (EHR) and imaging data to facilitate a broader goal of precision health.
-
Inventing a new outlook: Restoring sight with electronic photoreceptors and augmented reality glasses
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is one of the leading causes of vision loss for older Americans, and for patients suffering from atrophic AMD, vision loss is permanent.
-
Eye care at the microscopic level
The retina has millions of light-sensitive cells known as rods and cones that initiate the process by which we visualize the world.
-
Awards and honors
Tawna Roberts, OD, PhD, was selected as a co-vice chair for the Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group, the longest running national collaborative research on eye disease in children.