News Archive 2012

Archived Highlights

Research moving toward goal to restore vision in AMD patients

December 5, 2012 Chicago Tribune Researchers see the light in bid to restore lost vision Teams at UIC, UCLA create light-sensitive molecule that could combat degenerative eye diseases, reduce epileptic seizures By Jessica Tobacman, [...]

An energetic teen regains his sight

Tyler Burress, Retina Patient Tyler Burress is an active 18-year-old who loves sports and dreams of becoming a Marine. But an accident on Christmas Day in 2011 nearly had him sidelined. While playfully wrestling [...]

Rohit Varma, MD, MPH, new Ophthalmology Chair

ARCHIVED NEWS (Dr. Varma is currently at the University of Southern California) September 28, 2012 Rohit Varma MD, MPH has been appointed Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Associate Dean [...]

Pediatric Ophthalmology pitches in at UI Hospital Health Fair

08/27/2012 The Pediatric Ophthalmology & Adult Strabismus Service participated in the August 4, 2012 Back to School Health Fair offered by the Children’s Hospital University of Illinois. Dr. Genie Bang, who joined the Peds [...]

Meet the Fellows

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Meet the Residents

08/15/12 UIC welcomes six new team members Six of medicine’s brightest doctors have joined the ophthalmology residency program at the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary (IEEI). From a physician who hails from a family [...]

Two new doctors join Pediatric Ophthalmology & Adult Strabismus Service

08/15/12 Former residents return to the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary Javaneh Abbasian, MD, and Genie Bang, MD, have joined the Pediatric Ophthalmology & Adult Strabismus Service as Assistant Professors of Ophthalmology. Both doctors [...]

Dr. Iris Kassem receives Knights Templar Eye Foundation Grant

07/26/12 Funding will support study of fibrosis and inflammation following pediatric eye surgery Iris Kassem, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, has received a $60,000 career-starter research grant for her study of Fibrin Membrane [...]

Aaron Jackson: Return to Independence

07/26/12 A UIC employee regains his vision and freedom Aaron Jackson has been an employee of UIC since 2000, and currently serves as the Assistant Facilities Manager for the East Campus. So when he [...]

UI Health: 1st Academic Medical Center in Midwest with Laser-Assisted Cataract Surgery

07/19/12 A new laser system that makes it possible to perform cataract surgery with a bladeless incision that is precise to the micron is available to patients in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual [...]

UI Ophthalmology physicians named Super Doctors®

Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary physicians named Super Doctors® Super Doctors®, a physician rating service, released the names of 31 Chicago ophthalmologists in May, including 11 who see patients at the Illinois Eye and [...]

Dingcai Cao receives grant from ABMRF/The Foundation for Alcohol Research

05/21/2012 Funding supports study of alcohol and visual processing in young adults Dingcai Cao, PhD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of UIC’s Visual Perception Laboratory, has received a $100,000 award from ABMRF/The Foundation [...]