Feb 02, 2023 | UCI Health Live Well Magazine

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A Sister's Gift Restores Sight

Karen Ketchum had just gone through surgery to remove a melanoma followed by immunotherapy when she developed a mysterious new condition, lesions that began appearing all over her body, including her eyes, making it hard to see. Eventually she was referred to the UCI Health Gavin Herbert Eye Institute and ophthalmologist Marjan Farid, MD, a specialist in cornea surgery and ocular stem cell transplantation who leads the newly established UCI Health Severe Ocular Surface Disease Program.

Feb 01, 2023 | UCI Health

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Elite stem-cell transplant program for eye surface damage opens at UCI Health

The UCI Health Gavin Herbert Eye Institute now offers sight-saving ocular stem cell transplants for severe eye surface damage, becoming only the second medical institution in the nation to treat this blinding condition.

Jan 30, 2023 | UCI School of Medicine

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UCI Medical Students Work in Community OC Eye Project Clinic

UCI ophthalmologists and medical students regularly volunteer their time working at the OC Eye project clinic. The OC Eye Project hosts free ophthalmology clinics for medically-underserved residents in Orange County.

Jan 23, 2023 | UCI News

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Grabbing the Golden Goose

Tibor Juhasz, UCI professor of ophthalmology and biomedical engineering, won a 2022 Golden Goose Award for helping to develop a now widely used LASIK surgery device.

Dec 14, 2022

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Message from the Chair (2022 Recap)

As 2022 draws to a close, we can celebrate an amazing year of growth and success for the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute.

Dec 01, 2022

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Holland Foundation for Sight Restoration Selects UCI Health Gavin Herbert Eye Institute

UCI Health offers the gift of sight to patients with severe eye damage

Nov 23, 2022 | UCI Health Live Well Magazine

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Dietary supplements to help fight macular degeneration

Fightin vision loss with supplements. Certain vitamins and supplements can help prevent advanced age-related macular degeneration.

Nov 22, 2022

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Welcoming Two New Specialists

The Gavin Herbert Eye Institute recently welcomed two new physicians to our faculty: pediatric ophthalmologist Stephen Prepas, MD, and neuro ophthalmologist Sam Spiegel, MD.

Oct 27, 2022 | University of California

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Eye-opening discovery about adult brain's ability to recover vision

A discovery about how some visually impaired adults could start to see offers a new vision of the brain’s possibilities.