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A series of five lectures on the current management and treatment of ophthalmic diseases and disorders sponsored by the Florida Lions Eye Bank will begin in September.
The informative lectures, entitled Ophthalmology Today, are free and open to the public and will be led by Bascom Palmer Eye Institute practicing ophthalmologists.
The lecture schedule is below and each will begin at 7:30 p.m. at BPEI’s Retter Auditorium, 900 N.W. 17th St. in Miami.
Lecture Series Schedule
• Wed, Sep 26 — Glaucoma
• Wed, Oct 24 — Macular Degeneration
• Wed, Jan 23 — Cataracts
• Wed, Feb 27 — Cornea Transplantation
• Wed, May 28 — Neuro-Ophthalmology
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Sander Dubovy, M.D. is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Pathology and a fulltime retina specialist at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. Dr. Dubovy also serves as medical director of the Florida Lions Eye Bank. Dr. Dubovy graduated from the University of Virginia and the New York University School of Medicine and was drawn to the field of eye pathology early in his ophthalmic residency training at the University of Chicago. After completing a fellowship in ophthalmic pathology at the Wilmer Eye Institute, he served a two year residency in anatomic pathology at the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. During his pathology residency Dubovy served as a special fellow in the department of ophthalmic pathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington. Dubovy completed his training abroad, spending a year at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. There he trained under Bascom Palmer alumnus Alan Bird, M.D., an internationally recognized expert in inherited retinal degeneration and degenerative eye disease.