May 8, 2018
Category: News
May 1, 2018
Dr. Kathy Whitfield Named UNC Kittner Eye Center Medical Director
UNC Ophthalmology is pleased to recognize Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology Dr. Kathy Whitfield as the new Medical Director of UNC Kittner Eye Center. A subspecialist in Pediatric Ophthalmology and Adult Strabismus, Dr. Whitfield takes on her new role as Medical Director effective May 1, 2018.
April 23, 2018
Drs. Donald Budenz (far left), Dr. Lauren Rushing (third from left), and Dr. Kathleen Gordon (sixth from left) of UNC Kittner Eye visit with U.S. Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) at the U.S. Capitol during the AAO Congressional Advocacy Day.
April 18, 2018
UNC Eye residents Kyle Huynh, M.D. and Lee Moore, M.D. traveled with Ken Cohen, M.D., to the Vietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology, Hanoi, to teach local ophthalmologists new surgical procedures.
April 11, 2018
Cassandra J. Barnhart, MPH, ACRP-CP®, Manager of Research Administration with the UNC Department of Ophthalmology, has been appointed Administrative Director of the Women’s Eye Health Initiative.
This international organization promotes eye health among women and their families.
March 14, 2018
More than 30 ophthalmology residents participated in the Advanced Anterior Segment Surgical Course at UNC in February. The course featured nine speakers and provided hands-on training.
The course featured nine speakers and provided hands-on training. Dr. Ken Cohen, the Sterling A. Barrett Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology at Kittner Eye Center, organized the annual course.
March 12, 2018
Dr. Donald Budenz, Kittner Family Distinguished Professor and Chair of UNC Ophthalmology, was selected to present the American Glaucoma Society’s Clinician-Scientist Lecture at their annual meeting held in New York in February.
Dr. Budenz’s lecture, delivered to an international audience of more than 1,500 AGS members, was entitled Glaucoma at the Center of the Earth. His lecture included results of his landmark study of the prevalence and incidence of glaucoma in West Africa.
December 11, 2017
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November 28, 2017
Welcome Alice Zhang, M.D., to the UNC Ophthalmology faculty. Dr. Zhang is currently seeing patients who need retina care and vitreoretinal surgery at Kittner Eye Center in Chapel Hill. For an appointment with Dr. Zhang, please call 984-974-2020.
October 19, 2017
Update: UNC Eye contract with EyeMed approved and effective 2/12/2018
EyeMed became the new Vision plan vendor for NCFlex effective 1/1/2018. UNC Eye has completed the contracting process with EyeMed and we look forward to again providing routine vision services to the employees of the state of North Carolina.
May 19, 2017
Telemedicine can increase access to diabetic retinopathy treatment
Seema Garg, MD, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Ophthalmology, is the lead author on two companion articles, as well as an author podcast published in JAMA Ophthalmology. Garg, a retina specialist with a particular interest in diabetic retinopathy, has been spearheading efforts since 2009 to implement and study telemedicine programs to improve early detection of diabetic retinopathy.
May 12, 2017
Rajendra Mitra (Zongchao Han lab) published in ACS Nano
Rajendra Mitra (Zongchao Han lab) published an article titled “Glycol Chitosan Engineered Auto-Regenerative Antioxidant Significantly Attenuates Pathological Damages in Models of Age-Related Macular Degeneration.” in ACS Nano (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28463509). This recently accepted manuscript shows for the first time that an engineered water soluble, biocompatible, trackable nanoceria with enriched antioxidant activity to scavenge intracellular reactive oxygen species …