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Wills Hospital (1897), 18th & South Logan Square, Philadelphia, PA. Now site of The Logan Hotel. James Wills Jr., a Quaker merchant, was instrumental in the founding of Wills Eye through his bequest of $116,000 in 1832 to the City of Philadelphia. Wills stipulated that the funds were to be used specifically for the indigent, blind, and lame.
Currently, Shields and her husband Dr. Jerry A. Shields head up the oncology department at the Wills Eye Hospital. [4] Located in Philadelphia, the Wills Eye Hospital sees at least 50% of the 300 children diagnosed with retinoblastoma each year and at least 1/3 of the adults diagnosed with ocular melanoma in the USA. She was voted by her peers ...
After graduating from the University of Michigan Medical School, he completed a residency in ophthalmology at Wills Eye Hospital and completed post-residency fellowships in ophthalmic pathology and retinal surgery. He is part of a full-time practice devoted to tumors and pseudotumors of the eyelids, conjunctiva, intraocular structures, and orbits.
Dr. William Tasman (1929–2017) an American ophthalmologist, was the ophthalmologist-in-chief at Wills Eye Hospital [1] His work had a profound impact on the treatment of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). [2]
George L. Spaeth, MD. Dr. George Spaeth (born March 1932, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American ophthalmologist specializing in glaucoma at Wills Eye Institute. [1] [2] [3] Spaeth is also affiliated with Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Graduate Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Chestnut Hill Hospital, Bryn Mawr Hospital, and Miner's Memorial Hospital.
Patients using Novo Nordisk's wildly popular weigh-loss drug Wegovy and its similar medicines for type 2 diabetes may be at increased risk for a sight-threatening eye condition, according to data ...
Prior to arriving at NYU in 2016, he was Distinguished Professor and Chairman of Ophthalmology, Eye and Ear Foundation Endowed Chair in Ophthalmology, Director of UPMC Eye Center (2003-2016) and before that was at Tufts University 1991–2003, where he was Residency Director (1991-1999) and Glaucoma and Cataract Service Chief (1991-2003). In ...
In 2007, she became the Ophthalmologist-in-Chief of Wills Eye Hospital and co-director of the Wills Vision Research Center at Jefferson. She also is an attending surgeon at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in the Division of Ophthalmology. [citation needed]