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PAAO-YO Info: 5 Tips To Get Your Paper Published

by paao-yo | Jan 4, 2021 | Featured, YO-Info

These are my tips on how to achieve the sometimes frustrating and time consuming goal of publishing your hard work...

2019 Gillingham Pan-American Fellowship Experience: Dr. Alvaro Mejia Vergara

by paao-yo | Nov 20, 2020 | Going Abroad, PAAO-YO Experiences, Pan-American Scholarship Reports

Fellowship training has been one of the best experiences in my academic career. I spent one year in training with six of the most prestigious neuro-ophthalmologists in America.

PAAO-YO Research: Erick Hernandez Bogantes

by paao-yo | Nov 10, 2020 | Yo-Research

Hernandez-Bogantes E, Campos-Fuentes E, Barrantes-Dominguez M, Wu L. Orbital Cellulitis in Chagas Disease: An Unusual Presentation. Ophthalmic Plast Reconstr Surg. 2020 Aug 25. doi: 10.1097/IOP.0000000000001748. Online ahead of print.

How to apply what you’ve learned abroad

by paao-yo | Oct 26, 2020 | Featured, YO-Info

Training overseas will be the most enriching experience in your career. However, not all the things you will have learned will necessarily translate to your real-life practice back home.

PAAO Pediatric Ophthalmology Fellowship Experience: Dr. Lucas B. Farias

by paao-yo | Oct 20, 2020 | Going Abroad, PAAO-YO Experiences, Pan-American Scholarship Reports

When I was selected for the 2019 Pediatric Ophthalmology Fellowship at UT Southwestern/Children’s in Dallas it was like a dream come true.

PAAO-YO Research: Dhariana Acón

by paao-yo | Oct 20, 2020 | Yo-Research

Acón D, Hamichi SE, Berrocal A, Murray TG. Leukocoria in a 2-Year-Old Patient With Atypical Optic Nerve Fiber Layer Myelination. J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus. 2020;57:e56-e58. Published 2020 Aug 19. doi:10.3928/01913913-20200527-02

Acón D, Hussain RM, Yannuzzi NA, Berrocal AM. Complex Combined Tractional and Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment in a Twenty-Three-Year-Old Male With Wagner Syndrome. Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging Retina. 2020;51(8):467-471. doi:10.3928/23258160-20200804-07

PAAO Curso de Liderazgo: An experience that impacts your whole life!

by paao-yo | Sep 18, 2020 | Curso-Experience, PAAO-YO Experiences

PAAO Curso de Liderazgo: An experience that impacts your whole life! 20 September 2020It has already been nine years since a very nice group of colleagues from around the world and I met in San Francisco for one of the most interesting and wonderful experiences of my...

PAAO-YO Research: Miguel Angel Vázquez Membrillo

by paao-yo | Sep 2, 2020 | Yo-Research

Vaìzquez-Membrillo M, Siqueiros- Maìrquez L, NuìnÞez FF, et al. Prolactin stimulates thevascularisation of the retina in newborn mice under hyperoxia conditions. J Neuroendocrinol. 2020;00:e12858.

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Scholarship Experience – Fabiola Jerez

by paao-yo | Sep 2, 2020 | Going Abroad, PAAO-YO Experiences, Pan-American Scholarship Reports

My name is Fabiola Jerez from Honduras. I received a BCC Training Scholarship from the PAAO and PAOF.

PAAO-YO Research: Camila Ventura

by paao-yo | Aug 26, 2020 | Yo-Research

Chatziralli I, Ventura CV, Touhami S, et al. Transforming ophthalmic education into virtual learning during COVID-19 pandemic: a global perspective [published online ahead of print, 2020 Jul 10]. Eye (Lond). 2020;1-8.

Ventura LO, Travassos S, Ventura Filho MC, Marinho P, Lawrence L, Wilson ME, Carreiro N, Xavier V, Gois AL, Ventura CV. Congenital Zika Syndrome: Surgical and Visual Outcomes After Surgery for Infantile Strabismus. J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus. 2020;57(3):169-175.

Science Communication… Is there training?

by paao-yo | Aug 19, 2020 | Going Abroad, PAAO-YO Experiences

As medical researchers, we know that the importance of research is as much about ideas as it is about knowing how to communicate them. Science communication is part of our daily life; as doctors we must inform our patients about their sufferings and treatments, give lectures, write scientific articles or proposals.

Unique Experience in China: Miguel Angel Vázquez Membrillo MD PhD

by paao-yo | Aug 19, 2020 | Going Abroad, PAAO-YO Experiences

Miguel Angel Vázquez Membrillo, Mexican ophthalmologist with subspecialty in retina and vitreous, shares his experience in the realization of his postdoctoral project (2015-2016) in rural communities in southern China.

Scholarship Experience – Returning home to COVID: Dhariana Acon

by paao-yo | Aug 10, 2020 | Going Abroad, PAAO-YO Experiences, Pan-American Scholarship Reports

Scholarship Experience - Returning back home After a Life-changing Experience Abroad: Dhariana Acon 11 August 2020International Fellowship: Retuning Back Home After a Life-changing Experience Abroad Report by Dhariana Acon (Costa Rica) It’s been 3 months since...

SOPANOP Scholarship Experience: Gerardo Graue-Moreno MD

by paao-yo | Aug 4, 2020 | Going Abroad, PAAO-YO, PAAO-YO Experiences, Pan-American Scholarship Reports

In 2013, I was lucky to be part of the first generation to receive the scholarship from the SOPANOP and the PAAO, sponsored by Allergan, to go for one month in an internationally prestigious center of oculoplastics in the United States or Europe...

PAAO-YO Research: Natasha Cruz

by paao-yo | Jul 27, 2020 | Yo-Research

Melo GB, da Cruz NFS, Emerson GG, et al. Critical analysis of techniques and materials used in devices, syringes, and needles used for intravitreal injections. Prog Retin Eye Res. 2020.

Roca, J. A., Maia, M., da Cruz, N. F. S., et al. Non-contact wide-angled visualization with chandelier-assisted scleral buckling for primary uncomplicated rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. Graefe’s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, 2020.

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