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ASRS Annual Meeting Sees Multiple Presentations from Jones Eye Institute

By Benjamin Waldrum

| The UAMS Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute made an impact at the American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS) 40th Annual Scientific Meeting, held July 13-16 in New York, with residents and faculty making 14 separate presentations.

“We are proud to have a prolific research team that is internationally recognized,” said Paul Phillips, M.D., Jones Eye Institute director and chair of the UAMS Department of Opthalmology in the College of Medicine. “This work is a testament to the great strides our residents and faculty are making in retinal research.”

Among the presenters were Zia Siddiqui, M.D.; Muhammad Shamim, M.D.; Zain Chauhan; Ahmed Shakarchi, M.D., MPH; John Coleman; Abdelrahman Elhusseiny, M.D.; Sayena Jabbehdari, M.D., MPH; and faculty members Ahmed Sallam, M.D., Ph.D., Sami Uwaydat, M.D., and Riley Sanders, M.D.

Their projects were:

  • Sallam: “Visual Outcomes and Complications of Combined versus Sequential Cataract Surgery and Pars Plana Vitrectomy: Multicenter Database Study.”
  • Sallam: “Retinal Detatchment and Hypotony.”
  • Uwaydat and Siddiqui: “Combined PKP and PPV for Complex Retinal Detachment Repair.”
  • Sanders and Sallam: “Keys to Success With Combined Phacovitrectomy.”
  • Sanders and Uwaydat: “Technique for Suprachoroidal Effusion Drainage in a Hypotonous Eye Using Viscoelastic and a Hypodermic Needle.”
  • Uwaydat, Shamim and Sanders: “A Twinkle in the Eye.”
  • Sanders, Uwaydat, Chauhan and Sallam: “Optical Coherence Tomography Choroidal Beam Sign as Indicator for Macular Hole-Associated Retinal Detachment.”
  • Shamim and Uwaydat: “Normal R1/R2 Ratios on mfERG in Patients With Plaquenil Retinopathy.”
  • Siddiqui, Coleman, Sallam and Uwaydat: “Incidence of Postoperativre Fibrin Syndrome in Diabetic Eye Receiving Dexamethasone Implant at Time of Pars Plana Vitrectomy.”
  • Shakarchi and Sallam, et al.: “Risk Stratification of Recurrent Pseudophakic Cystoid Macular Edema in Bilateral Consecutive Cataract Surgeries.”
  • Elhusseiny and Sallam, et al.: “Syphilis-Related Ocular Inflammation in HIV-Positive and HIV-Negative Patients.”
  • Jabbehdari, Soliman and Sallam: “Visual Outcomes and Postoperative Complications of Cataract Surgery Complicated by Dropped Nucleus Fragments.”
  • Chauhan, Sallam and Elhusseiny: “Analysis of the Cost-Effectiveness of Local Anesthesia Compared With General Anesthesia for Vitreoretinal Surgery.”
  • Sallam, et al.: “Short-Term Visual Results and Rate of Complications of Combined versus Sequential Cataract Surgery and Vitrectomy in Eye With Epiretinal Membrane.”

ASRS is the largest organization of retina specialists in the world, representing more than 3,000 physicians in all 50 US states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and 63 countries. The society serves as a national advocate and primary source of clinical and scientific information and education for its members.