News & Updates from NOAO

We’re Going Green!

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The New Orleans Academy of Ophthalmology is going green!  This means that we’ll be providing a limited number of hard-copied programs at this year’s symposium.  We will, however, have an unlimited number of programs available to download on our website closer to the event date.  Stay tuned!
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2014 Speaker Spotlight: Terry Kim, MD

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Dr. Terry Kim practices cataract, corneal, and refractive surgery at Duke University Eye Center, and also serves as principal and co-investigator on a number of research grants from the National Institutes of Health.   He is on the Governing Board for ASCRS as Chair of the Cornea Clinical Committee, on the Annual Program Committee for AAO, and on…
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Hindsight, 1976: Dr. Arnall Patz

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In 1976 our topic was Retinal Diseases, and among our speakers was the famed Dr. Arnall Patz.  Born in 1920 in Elberton, Georgia, Dr. Patz was the youngest of seven children in the only Jewish family in town.  He received both his bachelor’s and medical degrees from Emory University. After a stint in the US Army…
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2014 Speaker Spotlight: Uday Devgan, MD

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Dr. Uday Devgan is passionate about ophthalmology with a special interest in cataract and refractive surgery. He is in private practice at Devgan Eye Surgery in Los Angeles and a partner at Specialty Surgical Center in Beverly Hills, California. In addition, he is Chief of Ophthalmology at Olive View UCLA Medical Center where he has…
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2014 Speaker Spotlight: Audina Berrocal, MD

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Dr. Berrocal is currently Assistant Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology and Medical Director of the Retinopathy of Prematurity Service at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute.  Many of Dr. Berrocal’s pediatric patients are premature babies born with various retinal conditions whom she sees in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine/Jackson Memorial Hospital.  She also works…
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