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Ophthalmol Case Rep 2017 Volume 1 Issue 1
August 21-23, 2017 | Toronto, Canada EYE AND VISION3rd International Conference on
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Andrew G. Lee
Houston Methodist Hospital, USA
Five neuro-ophthalmic disorders you cannot afford to miss
N europhthalmic disorders may present to the general
Ophthalmologist and mimic benign entities. Although
comprehensive eye doctors are not expected to be a Neuro-
Ophthalmologist, they are expected to recognize, triage,
and refer. Five potentially vision or life threatening Neuro-
Ophthalmic conditions will be discussed and should not be
missed: They are: giant cell arteritis, typically presenting as
visual loss in the elderly; pituitary apoplexy is a condition
presenting as acute and severe headache and bilateral visual
loss to Ophthalmologist; posterior communicating artery
aneurysm presenting as a painful, pupil involved third nerve
palsy; fungal abscess in an immunosuppressed patient but
especially diabetic ketoacidosis; and arterial dissection of
the vertebral or carotid artery producing an acute painful
Horner syndrome with or without visual loss. All eye doctors
should be aware of these five Neuro-Ophthalmic conditions
that none of us can afford to miss.
Speaker Biography
Andrew G. Lee, M.D. was born in New York City but moved to Charleston, West Virginia
in 1969. He graduated valedictorian from Charleston Catholic High School and attended
UVA (cum laude, BA in biology). He completed medical school at UVA (Alpha Omega
Alpha) in 1989 and internship at UVA affiliated hospital in Roanoke, Virginia followed
by ophthalmology residency and was chief resident at Baylor College of Medicine.
Dr.LeecompletedaFightforSightresearchfellowshipandclinicalneuro-ophthalmology
fellowship at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore, Maryland
in 1994. Following fellowship training, He joined the ophthalmology faculty at Baylor
and UT MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. In 2000, Dr. Lee joined the faculty at
the University of Iowa and was promoted to Full Professor in 2007.
In 2009, Dr. Lee returned to Houston to chair the Blanton Eye Institute at Houston
Methodist Hospital and is currently Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and
Neurosurgery atWeill Cornell Medical College; Adjunct Professor at University of Iowa
and Baylor College of Medicine and Texas A and M University; Clinical Professor at the
University of Texas Medical Branch, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, and University of
Buffalo, SUNY.
He has served on the Editorial Board of 25 journals including JAMA Ophthalmology, the
American (AJO), Canadian (CJO), and the Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology (JJO), the
Asia Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology, the Journal of Neuro-ophthalmology, Survey of
Ophthalmology, andEye and was the founding editor in chief of the Journal of Clinical
and Academic Ophthalmology. He is on the board of and will be the President Elect of
the North American Neuro-ophthalmology Society (NANOS).
He has published over 400 peer-reviewed publications, 40 book chapters, and nine
full textbooks in ophthalmology. He has been the invited speaker at over 4oo national
and international eye meetings and has given 12 named lectureships. He has received
the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) honor award, senior honor award,
secretariat award, and the life honor achievement award. He has a special interest in
graduate medical education and has received the resident teaching award seven times
at five different academic institutions.
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