Hope, Happiness, and Action With Dr. Sebag: Eye Floaters Action Movement Podcast Interview In August, Jonathan Reed, host of The Eye Floaters Action Movement podcast--a podcast dedicated solely to eye floaters with the goal of providing its subscribers and listeners updates on research and cures to fight...
Dr. Sebag has just received the Senior Achievement Award awarded by the American Academy of Ophthalmology. This award is based upon Dr. Sebag’s contribution to the advancement of Ophthalmology since first joining the Academy in 1981. Dr. Sebag joins "a prestigious group of ophthalmologist[s] . . . whose contributions...
On June 9, 2018 Dr. Sebag delivered an invited lecture at Harvard Medical School in Boston. The annual meeting of the department of Ophthalmology was held at the Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary, where Dr. Sebag trained as a resident in Ophthalmology and as a...
The XXIII North-East Congress of Ophthalmology event took place in mid-March this year in João Pessoa, Brazil. The three day event featured lectures, panels, and courses, with the 286 participating speakers, both Brazilian and foreign, as well as 40 companies, 170 exhibitors, and a total of 776...
The 18th Annual Retina Fellows Forum Meeting took place in Chicago, Illinois in January this year. VMR Institute's Dr. Chong was invited to give a speech about something personal and meaningful. The annual meeting which invites over 90% of the graduating fellows in the country to learn their...
Curing Patients of Debilitating Eye Floaters In December, Dr. Sebag was asked to be interviewed by Straight From The Cutter's Mouth: A Retina Podcast from the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, which interviews the leaders of the field of vitreoretinal surgery. He was asked to discuss his...
For over 100 years, the The American College of Surgeons has organized an annual clinical congress that was held this year in San Diego. Dr. Jerry Sebag lectured at the congress, sharing the experience at the VMR Institute for Vitreous Macula Retina in treating...
Happy Halloween from the VMR Institute. It was a real treat to see our wonderful patients on Halloween! Trick or Treat ! ...
On October 7, 2017 Dr. Sebag lectured to the 50th annual meeting of The Retina Society, founded by his mentor at Harvard, Dr. Charles Schepens. Dr. Charles Schepens, regarded as the "father of modern retinal surgery," and whose inventions and innovative procedures greatly impacted the ophthalmology...
At ARVO's, The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, annual meeting, VMR Institute's own Jeannie Nguyen-Cuu presented the results of our research to develop a self-administered questionnaire for people with floaters. We created the questionnaire in order to evaluate the degree of impact vitreous floaters have...