Dear Readers,
I extend our best wishes for a healthy and good new year.
Here at the Foundation, we are ringing in 2025 with a special project to highlight the observance of Glaucoma Awareness Month. Each day this month, TGF is posting a new message on social media to shine a spotlight on patients and others who are tackling this disease. How are they struggling? How are they thriving? Our aim is to raise awareness about the importance of early detection and the need for ongoing research. The campaign is sponsored by Bausch + Lomb.
It has been a busy end of the year. After earlier webinars ranging from what to do if you have just been diagnosed, to how far we’ve come toward making eye transplantation a reality, the final webinar this year focused on interventional glaucoma, which is shifting treatment protocols to intervene earlier. You can read about it in this issue. A new year of webinars begins on January 28th, when Dr. Poonam Misra will dispel some myths about glaucoma surgery.
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In this newsletter you can also read about five new research grants we’ve just funded, and the selection of two new glaucoma fellows.
Looking ahead, we hope you’ll save the date of April 3, when TGF will hold its annual gala at New York’s Mandarin Oriental on Columbus Circle. We’d love to welcome you there!
We start the new year so grateful for the ongoing support of our friends and readers. In the year ahead, we look forward to addressing issues and answering questions that are important to you. If there are subjects you’d like us to explore in future issues, let us know at info@glaucomafoundation.org.
With your support, we look forward to what lies ahead.
Thank you,
Elena Sturman