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Eye Research
Activities of Retina Specialists of Alabama
Birmingham, Alabama
Dr. Robert Morris and
Dr. C. Douglas Witherspoon are vitreoretinal surgeons whose practice,
Retina Specialist of Alabama, LLC, is located in Birmingham, Alabama,
U.S.A. They are faculty members in the University of Alabama
at Birmingham Department of Ophthalmology, and clinical vision researchers
for the Helen Keller Foundation for Research and Education.
Drs. Morris,
Witherspoon, and Kuhn have contributed substantially to the development
of effective and safe techniques for the surgical treatment of macular
pucker, macular hole and the other traction maculopathies. In fact,
they introduced the term traction maculopathy in 1994, calling attention
to the common cause and treatment of these various disorders.
Their videotape
productions of macular surgery, Key Hole and Apple Peel,
and FILMS, repair of macular hole and macular pucker were
selected "Best of Show," for
excellence in the educational category at the annual meeting of
the American Academy of Ophthalmology in 2000 and again in 2003.
They were honored at ceremonies for this work.
After proving
that the pathologic ILM can safely be removed from the macula, they
developed a novel technique (FILMS™) to "float" the
abnormal EMP/ILM complex from the macula. This patented technique
(U.S. patent number 6,024,719, February, 2000) offers many advantages
in that it is simple, fast, and easily reproducible. The ILM and
all overlying proliferation is removed in one stage.
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