Teaching

Classroom instruction

For 18 years has held the position of attending teaching faculty at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Has conducted numerous didactic lectures,directed at all levels of education and training, on a wide range of topics germane to retinal science, engineering, new tool development and clinical care.

Clinical Instruction

Teaching of basic to advanced clinical skills for undergraduate, graduate, medical, resident and fellowship trainees.

Surgical Instruction

For the past 18 years has been a high volume clinical preceptor and attending teaching surgeon as well as an attending teaching surgeon on call in the Hopkins Wilmer operating rooms. Has provided intra-operative, pre-operative and post-operative instruction for retina fellows and ophthalmology residents in all years.

Over the past 10 years has taught Ophthalmological Clinical Needs Assessment Phase of thesis development for Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, Masters and PhD program participants. approaches to difficult or unsolved clinical problems.

Laboratory Course Offerings

Gene Therapy: Vector Construction and preclinical Application; Gene Therapy: Models of Ocular Disease at Wilmer, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.

Continuing Medical Education Instruction

Over the course of 17 years has been an invited speaker, moderator and discussant and panelist on various continuing Medical Education Instructions. Some topics include: Diabetic Retinopathy and Venous

Occlusive Disease; Age-Related Macular Degeneration; Geographic Atrophy-Treatments; Evidence based care in Retina; Cooperative Management of the Complicated Lens by the Anterior and Posterior Segment Surgeon; microsurgical techniques and retina surgery.