National Diabetes Awareness Month is a great time to remind your loved ones about the importance of annual, dilated eye exams which can reveal hidden signs of the disease and enable timely treatment to help prevent vision loss.

Joseph M. Coney, MD, recently returned from Port au Prince, Haiti after his 3rd trip to the region to train qualified general ophthalmologists there in the skills needed to perform retinal surgery and procedures. 

Our own Joe Coney, president of the Ohio Ophthalmological Society, attended this years Congressional Advocacy Day in Washington, DC. 

Dr. Coney presented a lecture, “When to Refer to Retina,”  at the 13th Annual Surgical Eye Care Foundation Continuing Education Seminar held in Memphis in February, 2018. 

Dr. Singerman, Executive Secretary of the Macula Society, recently attended the Society’s 41st Annual Meeting held in Beverly Hills, California, and served on the meeting planning committee.

Early diagnosis and treatment (of AMD) can reduce the risk of vision loss, so it is important to have your eyes examined regularly. Find out more in this informative article.

Congratulations to Maggie and Jackie from our Youngstown RACI office, who recently graduated from nursing school with high honors!

Lawrence J. Singerman, MD, was awarded the J. Donald M. Gass Award at the commemorative 50th Anniversary Meeting of the Retina Society, held in Boston, Massachusetts. 

At the commemorative 40th anniversary meeting of the Macula Society in Singapore, Dr. Lawrence Singerman of Retina Associates of Cleveland was honored with a once-in-a-lifetime award bearing his name.  The Macula Society Lawrence J. Singerman Medal will be awarded each year by the Society’s Awards Committee to an outstanding individual chosen for exceptional contributions to retinal clinical trials, which have been Dr. Singerman's passion for 40 years. 

Congratulations to our RACI physicians who were recently inducted as Charter Members of the Retina Hall of Fame 

Dr. Lewis from Retina Associates of Cleveland was recently interviewed in Youngstown by NBC News for its Healthy Living segment, regarding the upcoming Solar Eclipse and how to view it safely.

Serious and permanent eye damage will occur if you do not take precautions and use proper eclipse viewing safety glasses that meet CE & ISO standards.

The 40th Annual Macula Society Meeting took place June 7th- 10th , 2017, at the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore.  Lawrence J. Singerman, MD, had the honor of presenting the 2017 Arnall Patz Medal to Neil M. Bressler, MD on Friday, June 9th during the conference.

Dr. Singerman...and other members of the CLEAR Study Group presented results from an observational study that evaluated the agreement between standard vision assessment tools and the Paxos Mobile App in visual acuity and Amsler grid testing.