On November 5, 2022 Dr. Sebag presnted a lecture at the 55th annual meeting of The Retina Society at The Langham Hotel in Pasadena. The title was Limited Vitrectomy Improves Visual Function in Multi-Focal Pseudophakia with Vision Degrading Myodesopsia.[JS1] Patients who have undergone cataract surgery with implantation of...
In collaboration with the American Society of Retinal Specialists, the American Academy of Ophthalmology held a special debate session on October 3, 2022 during its annual meeting in Chicago, where several topics were discussed. Dr. Sebag was invited to speak about his experience performing limited...
Meeting name: 5th Meeting on OCT in Ophthalmology and New Therapies Date: Sep 30 & Oct 1, 2022 (my keynote lecture was on Sep 30) Location: Bydgoszcz, Poland Sponsors: Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland & Oftalmika, Bydgoszcz, Poland Title of Keynote Lecture: See the Invisible – the quest of imaging vitreous J...
On January 24, 2022, Dr. Wayne Gui, of the VMR Institute, will present a lecture on the aging eye at the Huntington Beach Senior Center sponsored by Hoag Medical Group. In his presentation, Dr. Gui will discuss what is and is not normal for an...
On Nov 13, 2021 Dr. Sebag presented an invited lecture to the American Academy of Ophthalmology on the topic of vitreous and Vision Degrading Myodesopsia (clinically significant vitreous floaters). After explaining the causes of this disease, he shared with the audience of eye surgeons the...
Dr. Sebag has been invited as a guest speaker to the German Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting lecturing on September 30, 2021. The title of his lecture is “Vitreous Hyalocytes in Health & Disease." Hyalocytes are cells that reside within the outer vitreous body (gel filling the...
Floaters arise from the vitreous body, the gel that fills the center of the eye. Myopia is the clinical term for near-sightedness that is due to abnormal elongation of the eye. A common reason to perform vitrectomy (surgery to remove the gel in the center of...
Floaters arise from the vitreous body, the gel that fills the center of the eye. A recent study (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oret.2020.07.015) examined data from the American Academy of Ophthalmology to analyze re-operations following vitrectomy (surgery to remove vitreous from the center of the eye) for Vision Degrading Myodesopsia...
On April 21, 2021, Dr. Sebag, Dr. Gui of the VMR Institute for Vitreous Macula Retina and Dr. Hubschman of the Stein Eye Institute at UCLA published a letter to the editor in the British Journal of Ophthalmology entitled “Re: Lam et al.: Postoperative outcomes of idiopathic...
On March 20, 2021, Dr. Sebag, Dr. Gui of the VMR Institute for Vitreous Macula Retina and colleagues at the Doheny Eye Institute at UCLA and the Beverly Hills Institute of Ophthalmology published a letter to the editor in the Journal Experimental Eye Research entitled “Importance of the...