In collaboration with the American Society of Retinal Specialists, the American Academy of Ophthalmology held a special debate session on October 3, 2022 during its annual meeting in Chicago, where several topics were discussed. Dr. Sebag was invited to speak about his experience performing limited...
Meeting name: 5th Meeting on OCT in Ophthalmology and New Therapies Date: Sep 30 & Oct 1, 2022 (my keynote lecture was on Sep 30) Location: Bydgoszcz, Poland Sponsors: Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland & Oftalmika, Bydgoszcz, Poland Title of Keynote Lecture: See the Invisible – the quest of imaging vitreous J...
The Bronx High School of Science introduced a new feature which highlights the school's more than 50,000 alumni making an impact. Dr. Sebag was happy to serve as the first of the series, sharing a glimpse into his experience at the school and its impact...
On April 25, 2022 Dr. Sebag delivered a lecture in Washington D.C. to the American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) entitled “Vitrectomy Improves Vision in Multifocal Pseudophakia”. This presentation was based upon a study of 180 patients treated at the VMR Institute for...
The VMR Institute is proud to announce that Dr. Sebag is once again a recipient of the Orange County Medical Association Physician of Excellence Award for 2022. Criteria for Physician of Excellence Award: To be selected for the Physicians of Excellence honor, candidates must meet the following...
On Nov 13, 2021 Dr. Sebag presented an invited lecture to the American Academy of Ophthalmology on the topic of vitreous and Vision Degrading Myodesopsia (clinically significant vitreous floaters). After explaining the causes of this disease, he shared with the audience of eye surgeons the...
Dr. Sebag has been invited as a guest speaker to the German Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting lecturing on September 30, 2021. The title of his lecture is “Vitreous Hyalocytes in Health & Disease." Hyalocytes are cells that reside within the outer vitreous body (gel filling the...
Floaters arise from the vitreous body, the gel that fills the center of the eye. Myopia is the clinical term for near-sightedness that is due to abnormal elongation of the eye. A common reason to perform vitrectomy (surgery to remove the gel in the center of...
Floaters arise from the vitreous body, the gel that fills the center of the eye. A recent study (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oret.2020.07.015) examined data from the American Academy of Ophthalmology to analyze re-operations following vitrectomy (surgery to remove vitreous from the center of the eye) for Vision Degrading Myodesopsia...
On April 21, 2021, Dr. Sebag, Dr. Gui of the VMR Institute for Vitreous Macula Retina and Dr. Hubschman of the Stein Eye Institute at UCLA published a letter to the editor in the British Journal of Ophthalmology entitled “Re: Lam et al.: Postoperative outcomes of idiopathic...