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...
On March 20, 2021, Dr. Sebag, Dr. Gui of the VMR Institute for Vitreous Macula Retina and colleagues at the Doheny Eye Institute at UCLA and the Beverly Hills Institute of Ophthalmology published a letter to the editor in the Journal Experimental Eye Research entitled “Importance of the...
To date, most doctors considered ‘floaters’ to be little more than nuisances. However, recent studies have shown that there can be severe effects on vision, specifically the ability to discern shades of gray, which is an important component of vision. This condition has been named...
Dr. Sebag is pleased to announce he has been invited to speak as a special guest speaker at the Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment – understanding and avoiding failure virtual meeting. The meeting, organized by Alcon Experience Academy, will be held on April 28th, 2021. In his...
Dr. Gui had the distinct privilege of virtually presenting his research about wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) on September 21-22, 2020 at the annual Retina Society meeting. Dr. Gui and colleagues found that in their study population, an increased injection frequency of anti-vascular endothelial growth...