Essentials of Glaucoma Surgery by Malik Y Kahook

Essentials of Glaucoma Surgery by Malik Y Kahook

Essentials of Glaucoma Surgery provides a window into glaucoma surgical procedures with rapid insight and ready-to-reference information from more than 50 experienced surgeons in the profession. This resource uses a real world approach to explain surgical glaucoma, allowing the information to be quickly digested and put to use by the reader. Essentials of Glaucoma Surgery is led by Dr. Malik Y. Kahook and uses concise and straightforward text to clearly explain surgical procedures, along with pearls of practice to augment the chapters and provide advice from the experts, therefore preparing the reader for the operating room. This comprehensive handbook offers explanations of surgical instruments, expert FDA information related to current regulation of surgical devices in the United States, and an appendix of surgical dictation's. Essentials of Glaucoma Surgery also includes sections that uniquely add historical context, as well as sections with information on the regulatory environment as it relates to devices used for the surgical management of glaucoma. Additionally, a section is included that offers perspectives from renowned experts on glaucoma surgery from where it began to where the future will go. With its real-world approach, user-friendly format, expert advice, and unique point of view, practising ophthalmologists, residents, fellows, and medical students will benefit from Essentials of Glaucoma Surgery.

"This is a high quality book that meets the standard expected by ophthalmologists for an informative bookOverall, it is a valuable addition to the bookshelf of any glaucoma specialist."  

-Sriranjani P. Padmanabhan, MD, Doody's Book Review Service

Malik Y. Kahook, MD is Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of Clinical and Translational Research in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Colorado. He also directs the glaucoma service and glaucoma fellowship, and serves as a faculty member in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Colorado. He specializes in the medical and surgical treatment of glaucoma and cataracts. He is active within the ophthalmology community including memberships in the American Academy of Ophthalmology, American Glaucoma Society, American Society of Refractive and Cataract Surgeons, and the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. Dr. Kahook has authored more than 180 peer-reviewed manuscripts, abstracts, and book chapters, and is editor of Chandler and Grant’s Glaucoma. He was awarded an American Glaucoma Society Clinician-Scientist Fellowship Award for 2007 as well as the American Glaucoma Society Compliance Grant for 2006 and was named New Inventor of the Year for the University of Colorado in 2009 and Inventor of the Year for 2010. He has filed for 12 patents, several of which have been licensed by companies for development and commercialization. Dr. Kahook is a consultant to the Food and Drug Administration’s Ophthalmic Device Division.    

Dr. Kahook completed his residency training at the University of Colorado, Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Institute in Denver, Colorado, where he was named Chief Resident. He then went on to complete his fellowship in glaucoma from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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ISBN 13	9781617110122
ISBN 10	1617110124
Title	Essentials of Glaucoma Surgery
Author	Malik Y Kahook
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Inc
Year published	2012-08-30
Number of pages	448
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