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Dr. Richard Spaide was recently picked as one of the best doctors in New York by New York Magazine, one of the best physicians in the United States by “The Best Doctors in America”, and he received the Gass Award, a prestigious international accolade at the Macula Society meeting in Singapore in June 2017. In July he won first prize in the Maculart meeting in Paris, which is a competition for medically themed artistic images and is awarded every two years. Dr. Spaide also won first prize in that competition in 2015.  

Dr. K. Bailey Freund is moderating and speaking at the Midwest Ocular Angiography Conference in Kona, Hawaii this week. He will be speaking on optical coherence tomography revealing tangled vascular networks in eyes with neovascular age-related macular degeneration showing resistance to geographic atrophy and multimodal imaging of the pachychoroid spectrum.

Dr. Yale Fisher is speaking this week at the 30th meeting of the Club Jules Gonin in Bordeaux, France.  Dr. Fisher is speaking on ophthalmic ultrasonography, including different ways of imaging asteroid hyalosis, vitreous hemorrhage, retinal detachment, complications due to diabetic retinopathy, and visualization of the retina through dense cataracts.

Dr. Richard Spaide lectured at the Yale Ophthalmology Spring Symposium/Alumni Day 2016.  He spoke on Vascular Abnormalization with Periodic Antiangiogenic Therapy in Age-Related Macular Degeneration. Over the 45 year history of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at Yale, scientific discovery and treatment options for the range of ocular diseases have evolved into a massive body of knowledge. The faculty presenters at this symposium are contemporary experts in focused ophthalmic disciplines including cornea and external disease, glaucoma and retina, and will describe vision-saving medical and surgical therapies now considered the gold standard. This year's symposium explored updates in pediatric ophthalmology and adult retinal disorders, in addition to comprehensive offerings in glaucoma, cornea, and visual science. For more information about this symposium, click here.

Richard F. Spaide, MD was the recipient of the 2016 Roger H. Johnson Award, which is given every two years by the University of Washington.  The selection committee accepts nominations of clinicians and scientists throughout the world for this highly esteemed recognition.  According to the committee, "The successful candidate will be the nominee who is deemed by the selection committee to have made the most significant contribution to our understand of the pathogenesis or treatment of AMD."