Dr. Felipe Medeiros discusses current treatment for glaucoma at the Discovery Eye Foundation’s 2011 Vision Symposium.
Dr. Medeiros is an associate professor of clinical ophthalmology in the University of California, San Diego Department of Ophthalmology. He specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of all forms of glaucoma. He was educated at the University of Sao Paulo and completed a two-year fellowship in glaucoma at UCSD.
Dr. Medeiros has over 80 peer-reviewed publications in major ophthalmology journals and three books on the evaluation of the optic nerve, visual field and intraocular pressure in glaucoma. He is also the recipient of numerous awards in ophthalmology, including the American Glaucoma Society Clinician Scientist Award. Dr. Medeiros also has been appointed as medical director of clinical research at the Hamilton Glaucoma Center. He has developed a risk calculator that estimates the risk of glaucoma in patients with ocular hypertension. In addition to his interest in risk assessment, Dr. Medeiros has longstanding clinical research interests in glaucoma diagnosis and monitoring and has lectured throughout the world. He was selected in July 2005 as one of only eight glaucomatologists to present at the “Future of Glaucoma” Symposium during the World Glaucoma Congress in Vienna, Austria. Dr. Medeiros is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, Association of Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, the Editorial Board of the Journal of Glaucoma, the International Glaucoma Review and an associate member of the Advisory Board of the World Glaucoma Association.