Glaucoma Fellowship

​Fellowship Expectations:

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• The clinical glaucoma fellow assists faculty in the care of glaucoma patients, over 250 per week, including ambulatory care, laser surgical procedures and surgical procedures in the operating room. 

• ​The clinical fellow spends their time at both the Institute and the Veterans Administration Hospital.

• During the 12-month training, the clinical fellow will observe or perform under supervision over 100 glaucoma surgical procedures including trabeculectomy, trabeculectomy combined with phacoemulsification and posterior chamber intraocular lens implantation, seton implantation, bleb revision, endocyclophotocoagulation combined with extracapsular cataract extraction, Ex-PRESS™ shunt implantation, iStent insertion, and secondary intraocular lens implantation

• ​Perform 250 cataract surgeries as the primary surgeon utilizing the most up to date technology including small incision surgery and the latest intraocular lens

• Participate in clinical and basic research studies that may lead to result presentations and publications at national meetings and in peer-review journals.

• Participate in resident and medical student teaching and supervision of resident surgical procedures.

• Attend departmental journal club meetings with faculty and residents

•  The 12-month research fellowship allows ample time to develop and carry out to completion a research project, which in the past included studies on optic nerve imaging analysis, epidemiological studies of risk factors for surgical failure, the role of cytokines in glaucoma and the role of adjunctive antifibrotic drugs in filtration surgery.