Walkers Available
The Nurses' Station reminds you that there are walkers available in the Nurses’ Station and in the Retina Clinic to assist with patient transfers.
Be Prepared for a Mess in the Library, May 12-20
Starting next Wednesday the O'Brien Library (01137 PFP) will be a hub of noise and confusion.
The Library is being given a facelift. It will be a mess for a while including very limited access to the library computers, some dust, paint fumes, and noise. However, it will all be worth it in the end so Rita and I beg your patience.
UI Optical FYI
UI Optical is one of the few places in town that provides glasses to Medicaid recipients.
Medicaid recepients are only eligible for one complete set of spectacles every 2 years. Medicaid makes an exception to this rule if there is a diopter or more change in the spectacle lens power. Additionally, Medicaid will provide a second pair of glasses within two years if the original pair is lost.
This is a regular column by the UI Optical opticians designed to provide you with answer to questions they are routinely asked by our patients. If you have specific questions you would like to see answered in this column, please forward your questions to trish-duffel@uiowa.edu and then look for the answer in the weeks to come.
Humanism Award
Among the resident physicians chosen by the M3 class to receive the 2010 Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award presented by the Gold Foundation was our own Jason Brinton, MD. Dr. Brinton and the other recipients were honored at the Humanism in Medicine Celebration on Wednesday, May 5.
Vote for Sight for Soldiers
Pepsi Refresh is hosting a contest to win a $50,000 grant to help defray LASIK costs for Iowa National Guard troops deploying to Afghanistan and Iraq this fall. The grant that would go straight to the troops undergoing LASIK and that the top 10 projects in online voting will each win $50,000. We need all the votes we can muster!
Please take a minute every day the month of May to support our soldiers! It's free, it's easy, and you will help defray the cost of laser surgery to Iowa National Guard troops.
The Iowa Academy of Ophthalmology is sponsoring Sight for Soldiers, a project to provide discounted laser surgery for Iowa National Guard soldiers going to Iraq and Afghanistan in 2010. This is important because the combat conditions make it impossible to wear contacts and glasses can be dangerous and difficult to wear in the field with the other protective eye gear. Even with the discounts, troops have to pay significant money out of pocket. This $50,000 grant would go back to these soldiers to help with that cost. Grant recipients are determined by VOTES!
It's easy, it's free, it will take you a few seconds each day! Just go to www.refresheverything.com every day in May and VOTE for this project! To get started:
Go to: www.refresheverything.com and in the Search box in upper right corner, type: Laser
Our grant: "Laser Eye Surgery for National Guard soldiers going to Afghanistan" will appear on top
On right, click: Vote for this idea
The first time you will need to sign in, answer a few questions, and create a password. You can now vote every day for the month of May. You have 10 votes each day, but can only vote once for each idea, so please only vote for ours!
Help the Iowa Academy of Ophthalmology support our Iowa National Guard soldiers going to Afghanistan and Iraq! Just VOTE every day in the month of May and pass this on!
Thank you!
The Iowa Academy of Ophthalmology and our Soldiers
Graduation Is Sooner Than You Think
Ophthalmology Resident and Fellow Graduates
If you are a Resident or Fellow graduating this June, please send Trish a note (trish-duffel@uiowa.edu) about your plans after graduating. Please do not assume someone else will give me this information, they won't.
The information is used in a special supplement to the Ophthalmology Update (see last year's issue) and will also appear in abbreviated form in a future Iowa Vision.
Where you are planning to go from here? The information need not be anything long and involved… "Entering private practice with (name of practice or who you will be practicing with) in (City, state, country)" or "Will be an assistant professor of (specialty) at (Institution) in (location)" or "continuing my studies with an additional fellowship in (specialty) at (institution) in (location)"
DEADLINE: June 1.
FAMILY members of local graduates
Each year the Ophthalmology Update includes a supplement with information about our sons, daughters, spouses, grandchildren, who are graduating from high school, college, graduate school, professional school (and kindergarten and preschool…) This has been a very popular supplement over the years. We’ve followed a few graduates from high school graduation through college and graduate/professional school. Please don't assume I know about your graduate unless you tell me. (I am blissfully oblivious occasionally.)
If you would like a family member included in this year’s supplement please send the information to Trish Duffel (trish-duffel@uiowa.edu). Please include your graduate’s name, your relationship to the graduate, where they are graduating from, what their plans are for the future (going on to college? Where and what major if known. Taking a job somewhere? Where? etc.) ALSO, please send Trish a jpeg image or loan her a photo of your graduate to scan (She promises to return it). See last year’s supplement.
DEADLINE: June 1.
Parting Shot
Dr. Esther Hong was one of several residents, fellows and faculty members who had a poster at ARVO this year. Thank you to Dr. Allen for sending back this picture.