CME INDIA Presentation by ⚜ Dr. M. Gowri Sankar, MD, Senior Assistant Professor, Dept. of General Medicine, Government Medical College and ESI Hospital, Coimbatore.
Today’s History Feature:
Dr. J. Donald M. Gass
(Aug 2, 1928 – Feb 26, 2005)
💠Canadian-American Ophthalmologist
💠Father of Macular Diseases
His contributions…
🔸Donald Gass was born to a physician father and he studied medicine in Vanderbilt University School. Then he received his MD in 1957.
🔸After his studies, he began his career at Wilmer Eye Institute in Johns Hopkins Hospital. Thereupon he did his fellowship in ophthalmic pathology and joined as a faculty in Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami Medical School.
🔸In 1972, he became a Professor of Ophthalmology. His distinguished approach made him effective in clinical research and teaching.
🔸In 1961, two medical students – Novotny and Alvis from Indiana University described and demonstrated the Retinal Fluorescein Angiography.
🔸Subsequently, Dr. Gass pioneered the utilization of Fluorescein Angiography and published his experience in the evaluation of retinal diseases.
🔸He was the first to describe many Macular Diseases and made significant contributions to Chorioretinal Diseases.
🔸Moreover, he published more than 280 scientific articles and a ground-breaking textbook “Stereoscopic Atlas of Macular Diseases: Diagnosis and Treatment.”
🔸In his book, he described around hundreds of eye diseases with illustrations, photographs and drawings. His enormous work has widely accepted as “Gass’s Atlas.“
🔸His eponyms…
🔅 Irvine Gass Syndrome – Macular edema leads to visual impairment following cataract surgery.
🔅 Gass Classification of Macular Hole.
🔅 Gass Classification of Parafoveal Telangiectasia.
🔸Eventually, his ground-breaking work earned worldwide recognition. He is regarded as one of the most significant figures to emerge in ophthalmology in the last 100 years.
A Day to Commemorate…
A Marvellous Clinical Acumen
Dr. J. Donald M. Gass 🙏
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