I am a medical doctor, a specialist in ophthalmology, and for my PhD research at the Medical University in Sofia I have been looking at the ultrastructural changes of the proliferative tissues in the eyes of diabetics.
"There are very poor treatment options for my dry-eye patients," said Mark Blumenkranz, MD, professor and chair of ophthalmology, who was a mentor for the fellows on this project.
My specialty (Ophthalmology) is more independent, and I just feel I cannot be helpful in this demonstration project.
(Ophthalmology, central Taiwan) Working time has filled up most of my time from eight in the morning to nine at night! (General practice, northern Taiwan) I have no time to deal with administrative work, especially computer work.
Having finished my medical studies a year earlier, I was pursuing my doctoral research in the department of ophthalmology of the Medical University Sofia, combining morphological investigations, electron microscopy, and clinical work in the ophthalmologic ward.
"Do I look like the overgrown fly in the movie?" my husband asked as he put on giant sunglasses, a parting gift from the ophthalmology surgeon.
"This is elective surgery, and sometimes people think, 'I'm too sick to have my cataracts out,' or 'I'm too old,' " said Dr. Anne L. Coleman, the study's lead author and a professor of ophthalmology at the Jules Stein Eye Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles.
"My research was originally driven by my drawings; from literally tracing the form that these immature, growing cells take as they stretch from the eye and extend deep into the brain," said Dr. Mason, who is also a professor of pathology and cell biology, neuroscience and ophthalmic science (in ophthalmology) at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
