IN-PERSON: Knobloch Lecture featuring Demetrios Vavvas, MD, PhD

Event Details

Retinal Symposium

2023 Knobloch Visiting Professor

Friday, December 1, 2023

Features University of Minnesota Knobloch Visiting Professor:
Demetrios Vavvas, MD, PhD

Mendakota Country Club

1:30 Trainee Case Presentations

3:00 Demetrios Vavvas, MD, PhD, Presentation - Critical Review of the Literature of New Drugs in nvAMD and GA

4:00 Break

4:20 Faculty/Attending Case Presentations

6:00 MAO Social Hour

7:00 Dinner

7:30 Knobloch Lecture Presentation: Demetrios Vavvas, MD, PhD - Management of Difficult Surgical Cases - Vitrectomy in Boston Keratoprosthesis Patients

Demetrios Vavvas, MD, PhD

Massachusetts Eye and Ear - Director of the Retina Service

Harvard Medical School - Solman and Libe Friedman Professor of Ophthalmology

Demetrios G. Vavvas, MD, PhD, is the Solman and Libe Friedman Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Co-Director of the Ocular Regenerative Medicine Institute. Dr. Vavvas also serves as Director of the Retina Service at Massachusetts Eye and Ear.

A full-time clinician scientist, he received his ophthalmology training in the Harvard Medical School Residency Program. After serving as the Chief Resident and Director of the Eye Trauma service at Mass Eye and Ear, he completed a fellowship in Vitreoretinal Surgery there where he received the Fellow of the Year award for his resident teaching and served as the Chief Fellow.

He is an active member of the retina faculty seeing a variety of surgical and medical vitreoretinal diseases. Dr. Vavvas' clinical work focuses on macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, trauma and oncology. He was the first to describe use of small gauge vitrectomy for complications of cataract surgery and trauma and has described a modified approach to an old surgical technique called scleral buckle in order to make it more predictable and easier to teach to trainees. Along with Drs. Dean Eliott and John B. Miller, he co-directs and organizes the Annual Fellows Course tailored for first-year vitreoretinal fellows from over 20 different programs in the nation.

Clinical Interests:

AMD (macular degeneration), diabetic retinopathy, oncology

Education

Undergraduate School: McGill University (Biology/Neurosciences) Graduate School: Boston University School of Medicine (PhD) Medical School: Boston University School of Medicine Internship: Boston Medical Center (Internal Medicine) Residency: Harvard Medical School (Ophthalmology) Fellowship: Massachusetts Eye and Ear (Vitreoretinal Surgery) Board Certifications: Ophthalmology

This meeting is held in conjunction with the University of Minnesota Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Neurosciences.

ACCREDITATION STATEMENT This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Minnesota Medical Association and University of Minnesota, Department of Ophthalmology. The Minnesota Medical Association (MMA) is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

CME STATEMENT The Minnesota Medical Association designates this Regularly Scheduled Series for a maximum of 5.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ . Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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