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fall/winter 2012 volume 4 number 2

TEAA Meeting ~ p. 2

Top to bottom, Jean Ramsey,

Bob Hutchins, and Joe

Tauber, speakers at the

June 23, 2012 TEAA meeting

Boston Magazine names its 2012 “Top Doctors” Tufts University School of Medicine Ophthalmology

Jay S. Duker, MD, New England Eye Center, TUSM Thomas R. Hedges, MD, New England Eye Center, TUSM Katrinka L. Heher, MD, New England Eye Center, TUSM

Bonnie A. Henderson, MD, Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston, TUSM Jeffrey L. Marx, MD, Lahey Clinic Medical Center, TUSM

Bradford J. Shingleton, MD, Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston, TUSM Mitchell Strominger, MD, New England Eye Center, TUSM

2012 New England Eye Center Graduation

Sam Sokol, PhD

1942-2012

In

memoriam

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Graduating residents with their education coordinator. Left to right, Bryan Monson, MD, Jordana Goren-Fein, MD, Liz Cook, Catherine Cox, MD, and Jill Carmody, MD

Jay S. Duker, MD Director of New

England Eye Center and

2012 Grant Lecturer

Lloyd Aiello, MD

Save the date Friday, June 28, 2013 Come to Boston! 2013 New England Eye Center Resident and Fellow Graduation

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Tufts Eye Alumni Meeting This year’s alumni sessions continued the tradition of excellence. Joe Tauber, ’87, gave an informative and humorous account of his experience specializing in corneal disease in Kansas City, Missouri. Bob Hutchins, ’86, challenged the audience with very interesting unknown cases he has collected as a retina specialist at the University of Cincinnati. And, Jean Ramsey, ’94, gave an energetic and enlightening overview of her activities as president of the council of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

Alumni called to shape future TEAA How should the Tufts Eye Alumni Association be organized? Who will do the work? How will we support its mission ongoing? How do we define our goals? At a business meeting comprised of the attendees of the latest reunion, and continued informally through lunch, the future and potential of the TEAA was discussed. The need for high level participation by alumni volunteers was recognized. Such considerations as basic organization, by-laws, defining of goals, projects and events, relation of the Association with the New England Eye Center and Tufts University, qualifications for and categories of membership , dues and fundraising, officers and governing committees, newsletter and website are areas of discussion and opportunity for involvement. Input is our starting place. Please write us to help the TEAA to arrange priorities and build an organization that reflects the vision and addresses the needs of you, the alumni. Contact Tom Hedges ([email protected]) with your suggestions.

Resident class of ’86 Bob Hutchins, Sam Gold, Leah Levi and Debbie Zuckerman had a great time.

Photos throughout by Ryan Hulse, New England Eye Center photography dept.

David Reese and Jean Ramsey

Jean Ramsey, Bob Hutchins, Joe Tauber, and Tom Hedges

Leah Levi and Joe Tauber

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Resident and fellow graduation, June 22, 2012 A day of case and research presentations from the residents and fellows was followed by the ceremonies of the New England Eye Center graduation. The Morton Grant Lecture was delivered by Dr. Lloyd Aiello. Dr. Aiello’s engrossing story of the developing treatment of diabetic eye disease prepared us to consider its future. In a well integrated discussion Dr. Aiello reviewed the history of eye diabetes treatment in Boston, the establishment of the Beetham Eye Center at Joslin Diabetes Center, and his own role in that history including his major groundwork in photocoagulation and ceaseless

efforts in testing and establishing new modalities of treatment. He delineated, in the context of ophthalmologic and social implications, the progress in understanding diabetes, described by the ancients as flesh melting into urine, through the breakthrough introduction of insulin therapy in the early 1900’s when it became the “disease you can live with,” and the expanding need for treatment of diabetic eye disease. Throughout, this discussion awoke and informed our consideration of the complications resulting from medicine’s successes in improving and extending life.

Graduating residents present their Teaching Award

for attending faculty to Dru Krishnan, MD (center)

Jay Duker (right) and Dru Krishnan present Jordana Goren-Fein with the

Preefer Resident Research Award

and their Teaching Award for a fellow to

Robin Vora, MD (center)

Now Where? The 2012 Graduate Residents

Jill Carmody, MD Newton Wellesley Eye Associates

Newton, MA

Bryan Monson, MD Southwestern Eye Center

Mesa, Arizona

Catherine Cox, MD

Oculoplastics Fellow

New England Eye Center

Jordana Goren Fein, MD

Medical Retina Fellow

New England Eye Center

Save the date Friday, June 28, 2013 Come to Boston! Class of 2013 New England Eye Center Resident and Fellow Graduation

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Graduating medical retina fellow Robin Vora, MD, with Dr. Reichel. Dr Vora is now in

practice at Kaiser Permanente – Oakland, CA

Graduating oculoplastics fellow Jeffrey Peckinpaugh, MD (center), with preceptors, Drs.

Heher and Kapadia. Dr. Peckinpaugh joins the Rocky Mountain Eye Center,

Missoula, MT.

Retina physicians: Drs. Reichel, Rogers, graduating fellows J. Sonya Bryant & Carolyn Chen, Duker, and Baumal. Dr. Bryant has joined the

Retina Group of Washington, D.C and Dr. Chen, the Houston Eye Associates.

(Right, l to r) Cornea fellow Naveen Rao, MD, Dr. Wu, cornea fellow Amy Kelmenson, MD, Dr. Hu and Dr. Kenyon. Dr. Rao is now an attending at Lahey Clinic, Burlingon, MA, and Dr. Kelmenson has joined the Colorado Eye Associates.

Dr. Mattox, graduating glaucoma fellows Max Kim, MD, and Juan Horta-Santini, MD, Drs. Parminder and

Krishnan. Dr. Kim is now in practice with Arizona Glaucoma Specialists and Dr. Horta-Santini is practicing

in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Graduating fellows

move on to practice

Resident and fellow

graduation dinner is a great tradition

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Samuel Sokol, Ph.D., dies at age 70 after 40 years at Tufts Sam died at home on September 18, 2012. He was born in Pittsburgh, the son of Samuel Jr. and Letitia Sipolino Sokol. Sam’s career is described in this Newsletter 4:1, p. 4, “Samuel Sokol, PhD: 40 years at Tufts.” http://medical.alumni.tfts.edu/wp-content/uploads/TEAAnewslettervol4no1.pdf Sam is survived by his wife, Heather, three adored grandchildren, Ryan, Jessica and Ashlyn, his daughter Jennifer and her husband Mark, son Brad and his wife Chellise, and sister Kathy, as well as many colleagues, friends and grateful patients. He had played piano since childhood, and, in the last few years, participated in jazz ensembles at the New England Conservatory. He was also a marathon runner and a triathlete. During a memorial service at the medical center Paul Rosman, former chair of pediatric

neurology, spoke of Sam’s contributions to the neurology service during his second career as a neuropsychologist. Tom Hedges recalled Sam’s practical approach to electrophysiology. Jay Geyer described Sam’s love of jazz and played guitar in a trio of social workers that also included Chris Jolliffe on bass and Henry Wan on drums.

They interpreted Miles Davis’s “All Blues” and Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “How Insensitive” in a performance Sam would have loved to join. Hope Schreiber shared warm remembrances of working with Sam as fellow neuropsycholgists. Sam’s wife Heather,

his daughter, and grandchildren were grateful to know how well respected Sam was here at TMC. The electrophysiology lab in pediatric ophthalmology will be dedicated to Dr. Sokol.

Johanna Seddon honored

On June 23, 2012, in Orlando, Florida, The J. Donald Gass, MD, Beacon of Sight Award was presented to Johanna M. Seddon, MD, ScM, Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of Ocular Immunology, Tufts University School of Medicine, New England Eye Center. In receiving the award, Dr, Seddon is “Recognized by the Florida Association of Retina Experts as an individual who provides illumination and significant contribution to the understanding, treatment, or elimination of vitreoretinal diseases.” Recently also Dr. Seddon was Distinguished Lecturer, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, and Distinguished Speaker, UC Davis Eye Center, and was published in Nature Genetics.

Duker, Reichel and Seddon among Top Authors in Ophthalmology

Microsoft Corporation publishes a listing of the “Top Authors” in various specialties in medicine. The ranking is based on number of publications as well as the number of times the authors’ publications get cited. We have 3 researchers ranked in the top 75 world-wide: Jay S. Duker, MD is ranked #4; Elias Reichel, MD is ranked #11 and Johanna Seddon, MD, MPH is ranked #72. Tufts Medical Center - Tufts University School of Medicine is the only institution in the world to have 2 faculty members among the top 11 authors. The link to the “Top Authors In Ophthalmology” is as follows

http://academic.research.microsoft.com/RankList?entitytype=2&topdomainid=6&subdomainid=18&last=0&orderby=7

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Residents in Ophthalmology Class of ‘15

New fellows from diverse residency programs pursue subspecialty training at New England Eye Center

Kirstin L. Tawse, MD Nora W. Muakkassa, MD Gregory D. Lee, MD Joseph Ho, MD University of Pennsylvania New York University Robert Wood Johnson Boston University School of Medicine School of Medicine Medical School School of Medicine

Marissa L. Weber, MD Elvia L. Conseco, MD Mehul H. Nagarsheth. MD Jonathan B. Kahn, MD Walter Reed MC U Texas Health Sciences Case Western Reserve New York University 1st year retina fellow cornea fellow glaucoma fellow cornea fellow

David J. Diaz, MD Catherine A. Cox, MD Jordana G. Fein, MD Roger A. Goldberg, MD, MBA Washington University New England Eye Center New England Eye Center Bascom Palmer Eye Institute glaucoma fellow oculoplastics fellow medical retina fellow 1st year retina fellow

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Left, clockwise, 2nd year residents Jennifer

Renz, MD, Avneet Sodhi, MD, Kevin

Sitko, MD and Claudia Bartoloni, MD.

Right, clockwise, 3rd year residents Kavita

Bhavsar, MD, Steven Williams, MD,

Michelle Liang, MD and Laurel Vuong,

MD.

Supervise at Sharewood Malden Free Clinic

Sharewood, in Malden, MA, is a free community health service operated by Tufts medical students. Attendings are needed in our eye clinic. Your

participation in one or more clinic session makes it possible. Alternate Tuesday evenings. Contact [email protected].

Alumni buy teaching lab an operating microscope

A fourth Leica operating microscope has been purchased for the Surgical Teaching Laboratory with funds generously donated by the Tufts Eye Alumni. The lab is now superbly equipped with four phacoemulsification teaching stations including a Legacy and three Infinity phaco machines, as well as an additional station for suturing. The highly regarded teaching lab is used by residents and fellows as well as residents from the Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine. It provides indispensable support for their education. Additionally, community ophthalmologists wishing to enhance their surgical skills or re-educate in phaco are also served by our premier teaching facility.

Teach in the wet lab Boston Dispensary

Your help is needed in the NEEC surgical teaching laboratory, located in the Boston Dispensary at Tufts Medical Center. To inquire or to sign on, please contact education coordinator Elizabeth Cook at [email protected], or Joel Reisman, M.D., directly, at [email protected].

and Darin R.

Goldman, MD

(right)

Second year

retina fellows

Hyung Cho,

MD (left)

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Eye pathologist Nora Laver, M.D., moves full time to Dept. of Ophthalmology

New England Eye Center’s ocular pathologist, Nora Laver, M.D., has accepted a full time appointment in the Department of Ophthalmology, Tufts University School of Medicine, and New England Eye Center, Tufts Medical Center, effective October 1, 2012. Dr. Laver has administratively relocated to the New England Eye Center, and has moved her office and laboratory to the 4th floor of the Boston Dispensary building, adjacent to the ophthalmology surgical teaching lab. Dr. Laver has served as Director of Ocular Pathology of the New England Eye Center for the past 14 years, coinciding with her tenure with the Tufts Medical Center and TUSM Department of Pathology, during which she has held a second appointment in the Dept. of Ophthalmology. Ongoing, she will hold a primary appointment in Ophthalmology and will continue also to be affiliated with the Dept. of Pathology. Her move to ophthalmology will enable Dr. Laver to concentrate more fully on ocular pathology, and represents the realization of her goal since her training years, to be a dedicated ocular pathologist. Dr. Laver is a graduate of the University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She completed a residency in pathology at Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC. She then completed a fellowship in cytopathology at Georgetown University Medical Center, and Callender-Binford Fellowships in ocular pathology and in oral and maxillofacial pathology, both at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington D.C. Dr. Laver is Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Associate Professor of Pathology at Tufts University School of Medicine. In addition to directing ocular pathology at the New

England Eye Center, she has served as Director of Pathology Residency Training, Director of Cytopathology and Director of Head and Neck Pathology. She is a consultant to the Boston University Department of Pathology and has been and is presently responsible for all eye pathology

consultation not only at Tufts but at B.U., as well as for consultation to many ophthalmology practices regionally. Her robust ocular pathology service is called on in over 2,000 cases per year, and will expand, with this move, to address the growing need for expert pathological examination of ocular tissue. “It has been a great pleasure and privilege to have collaborated with so many ophthalmologists, and I look forward to my new role so that the support I can provide in the care of their patients can grow,” Dr. Laver

emphasized. Dr. Laver’s training and experience uniquely qualify her to evaluate ocular pathology specimens. She is certified by the American Board of Pathology in anatomic pathology and cytopathology. She is available for consultation regarding the entire spectrum of ocular pathology cases, including whole globes, orbital exenterations, eyelid biopsies, conjunctival biopsies, corneas and vitrectomy specimens. Methods include standard histology, immunofluorescence studies, immunohisto-chemistry, in situ hybridization, flow cytometry, PCR, and electron microscopy studies. Please visit http://neec.com/Pages/Services/Other_Specialties/Opthalmic_Pathology.php for information on specific specimen fixation and handling. Requesting Dr. Laver’s assistance in a case is straightforward and easy to arrange. Practicing ophthalmologists and those in training are encouraged to call or email Dr. Laver at 617 636-1035 or [email protected] to discuss your immediate or longer range needs, or to initiate a request for specimen biopsy.