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OUR MISSION & PASSION:
ELIMINATE GLAUCOMA BLINDNESS 

OUR AREAS OF EMPHASIS

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GLAUCOMA PATIENT CARE

The Glaucoma Clinic is staffed by 4 faculty fellowship trained glaucoma specialists who are renowned for their expertise in clinical and surgical glaucoma management.

OUR GLAUCOMA SERVICE FACULTY

Erin Boese Glaucoma Doctor

Erin A. Boese MD

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John Fingert Glaucoma Doctor

John H. Fingert MD PHD

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Andrew Pouw Glaucoma Doctor

Andrew E. Pouw MD

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Nathan Sears Glaucoma Doctor

Nathan C. Sears MD

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Wallace LM Alward MD

Young H. Kwon MD PHD

Christian Mays MD

Glaucoma Fellow Physician

Emeritus Glaucoma Faculty

Glaucoma Research Faculty

OUR RECENT NEWS

Dr. Boese and the Iowa Glaucoma team discovered a new GJA3 mutation that causes congenital cataract and secondary glaucoma

In a JAMA Ophthalmology article, Dr. Boese reports a large pedigree with 11 family members that developed congenital cataracts due to an Asp67Tyr mutation in the GJA3 gene. Glaucoma typically follows early cataract removal in less than 50% of congenital cases, However, 100% of this pedigree's members developed glaucoma after cataract surgery. Read more about this discovery here and a commentary by Dr. James Brandt and Dr. Suma Shankar here.

OUR PUBLICATIONS

John Fingert Glaucoma Genetics Lab PCR

Click here to see all of our publications on PUBMED

Select publications described below:

Familial Glaucoma—A Pedigree Revisited With Genetic Testing After 70 Years
JAMA Ophthalmology, 2022, in press

In this manuscript, we report detection of a MYOC mutation in a juvenile glaucoma pedigree first described by Dr. Frey and Dr. Posner in 1952. Read more about this manuscript here.

OUR MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS

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GLAUCOMA EDUCATION

• Development of the world's most used audio/visual resources for teaching glaucoma

• Faculty are award-winning teachers

• Education of patients, trainees, and colleagues is a top-priority 

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Read more about our glaucoma education efforts

and access our glaucoma education resources here.

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