Our Mission
The mission of Pacific Vision Foundation is to prevent blindness and to improve vision for those who see imperfectly by fostering the highest level of eye care for the public. This is to be accomplished through contributing to excellence in patient care, improving education of both health care professionals and the public, and innovative clinical ophthalmic research.
PVF Awards Grant to Rona Silkiss, MD, FACS, Alex Wade, PhD, and Michael Chappell, MD for Evaluation of Neurological Manifestations of Thyroid Eye Disease with fMRI
Lead by the principal investigator Rona Silkiss, MD, the objective of this study is to investigate, for the first time, the neuronal correlates of the neuropsychological changes seen in hyperthyroidism and thyroid eye disease using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
Dr. Silkiss is Chief of the Division of Ophthalmic Plastic, Reconstructive and Orbital Surgery. Dr. Silkiss is also an Associate Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Silkiss has a 20+ year experience treating thyroid eye disease. She has successfully written and carried to completion research grants in the area of thyroid eye disease.
Dr. Wade is a Federally-funded PI at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute specializing in neuroimaging and the visual system. He is also an adjunct assistant professor in the UCSF Neurology Department and uses the fMRI system at the UCSF Neuroscience Imaging Center on a regular basis. He has considerable experience in the type of fMRI experiments proposed here and will be available to generate stimuli, assist in scans and help with data analysis.
Dr. Michael Chappell is a third year ophthalmology resident at CPMC. He will be entering an ophthalmic plastic and orbit fellowship in Seattle upon completion of his ophthalmology training at CPMC.
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News
2011 Newsletter
• Ophthalmic Education
Past and Present
• Spotlight: Clark Warden
• Ultrasonic Biomicroscopy
•Discovery Within
Ophthalmology
•Advances in
Cataract Surgery
•Barkan Day
• 1997-2007:
30 Years of Opportunity
• Welcome to Building Sight
• In Memory of
Dr. Jerome Bettman
