Understanding Retinoblastoma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXZWu56EUFc Retina Health for Life Podcast Retinoblastoma is a rare form of eye cancer that affects infants and small children. In recent years, significant advances have been made in retinoblastoma diagnosis and treatment, helping not only save children’s lives but in many cases preserving vision in the eye affected by cancer. On this episode of […]

Cancer never stops – and neither do we

https://theophthalmologist.com/subspecialties/cancer-never-stops-and-neither-do-we? Cancer Never Stops – and Neither Do We Organizing our ocular oncology service in unprecedented circumstances Carol Shields | 09/21/2020 | Hot Topic The Ocular Oncology Service at Wills Eye never stopped working during the COVID-19 pandemic – instead of putting the brakes on patient care, we flipped the switch and nearly overnight converted to a telehealth […]

Dr. Carol Shields tops 2020 list of international ophthalmologists

The Power List 2020 – Power List 2020 Carol L. Shields, Director, Ocular Oncology Service, Wills Eye Hospital and Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA Your three wishes? To save every life; to save every eye; to save every visual acuity. Realizing that this might not be possible, currently, then I would modify the last: […]

PA Lt. Gov. Fetterman’s wife detects ‘glow’ in daughter’s eye

Know the glow It’s not unusual for parents to find a special sparkle in their children’s eyes, but there was something else going on with Grace Fetterman, the 8-year-old daughter of Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman. In photographs, when Grace’s siblings had the telltale red eye of a camera’s flash, Grace had a yellow glow […]

Colonia’s Poznanski has the vision to win a NJ state wrestling title

https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/high-school/wrestling/2019/12/18/nj-wrestling-colonias-poznanksi-has-vision-win-state-title/2691780001/ John Poznanski may have lost an eye to a rare disease as a toddler, but the adversity has not impaired the nationally ranked Colonia High School wrestler’s state championship vision. “Many people probably don’t know that I only have one eye,” said Poznanski, who had his left eye replaced with an ocular prosthesis shortly […]

Light-activated Nanoparticle for Uveal Melanoma

https://www.aao.org/interview/light-activated-nanoparticle-therapy-uveal-melanom   In this interview from AAO 2019, Dr. Carol Shields discusses a new light-activated nanoparticle therapy (AU-011) for ocular melanoma. The particle, which is attached to a chromophore, binds to melanoma cells and is activated by a 689-nanometer light. Early-stage trials look promising, she explains, with preliminary results demonstrating minimal vision loss, suggesting this […]

Malignant Transformation

https://www.aao.org/1-minute-video/multimodal-imaging-signs-of-malignant-transformati In this 1-Minute Video, Dr. Carol Shields offers tips for managing patients who present with a pigmented lesion at the back of the eye. Risk factors that predict the transformation of choroidal nevus in melanoma can be remembered with the following mnemonic: To Find Small Ocular Melanoma Doing IMaging. T: thickness over two millimeters; […]