Third Biennial Military Vision Research Symposium: Traumatic Eye and Brain Injury

 (l-r) Kenneth Fischer, M.B.A., President and C.O.O., Schepens Eye Research Institute, Major General George W. Weightman, M.D., Commanding General, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Fort Detrick, MD., Darlene A. Dartt, Ph.D., Director of Scientific Affairs, and Michael S. Gilmore, Ph.D., Director of Research, Schepens Eye Research Institute, at the symposia which took place Tuesday, September 16 - Thursday, September 18, 2008 at the Starr Center,  Schepens Eye Research Institute, Boston.  Major General  Weightman was the Keynote Speaker for the event.

The symposia was sponsored by The United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command’s Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center and Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School. Portions of the Symposium and research are supported by the U. S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Cooperative Agreement Number W81XWH-07-2-0038.

 

(l-r) Sharon Comvalius-Goddard, M.P.H., Director of Grants and Contracts, Schepens Eye Research Institute and Colonel Robert A. Mazzoli, M.D., Consultant to the Surgeon General; Chief and Chairman, Ophthalmology; Director, Ophthalmic, Plastic, Reconstructive and Orbital Surgery, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma Washington.

 

 

Colonel Mazzoli, M.D., during the conference in the Starr Center.

 

 

 

 

 

(l-r) Schepens scientists Maya Bitar, M.D., and Ulu Jukunas, M.D. during the presentation of their poster and video showing anterior segment reconstruction
surgery after traumatic corneal injury.

 

 

 

 

(l-r) Major General Weightman and Robert C. Read, M.B.A., Contracting Officer’s Reperesentative, IPA, T.R.U.E. Research Foundation, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Fort Detrick, MD.

 

 

 

 

(l-r) Darlene A. Dartt, Ph.D., and Captain Eli Lozano, Aide de Camp to Major General Weightman