OUR MISSION & PASSION:
ELIMINATE GLAUCOMA BLINDNESS
OUR AREAS OF EMPHASIS
GLAUCOMA PATIENT CARE
The Glaucoma Clinic is staffed by 4 faculty fellowship trained glaucoma specialists who are renowned for their expertise in clinical and surgical glaucoma management.
OUR GLAUCOMA SERVICE FACULTY
Erin A. Boese MD
John H. Fingert MD PHD
Andrew E. Pouw MD
Nathan C. Sears MD
Clinic Profile
Wallace LM Alward MD
Young H. Kwon MD PHD
Christian Mays MD
Glaucoma Fellow Physician
Emeritus Glaucoma Faculty
Glaucoma Research Faculty
OUR RECENT NEWS
Dr. Pouw is awarded a position in the American Glaucoma Society's
Health Care Policy Leadership Development Program
Dr. Pouw will be one of two AGS members participating in the Healthcare Leadership Development Program. He will gain expertise and knowledge of the US healthcare system, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the roles of policymakers, politicians, and government in US healthcare. This program will prepare Dr. Pouw to be a strong leader and an advocate for ophthalmology, for ophthalmologists, and for ophthalmology patients.
OUR PUBLICATIONS
Click here to see all of our publications on PUBMED
Select publications described below:
Familial Glaucoma—A Pedigree Revisited With Genetic Testing After 70 Years
JAMA Ophthalmology, 2022; 140(5): 543-544.
In this manuscript, we report detection of a MYOC mutation in a juvenile glaucoma pedigree first described by Dr. Frey and Dr. Posner in 1952. Read more about this manuscript here.
OUR MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS
• Development of the world's most used audio/visual resources for teaching glaucoma
• Faculty are award-winning teachers
• Education of patients, trainees, and colleagues is a top-priority
Read more about our glaucoma education efforts
and access our glaucoma education resources here.