Diagnosis: PHPV Jakov was born on January 13, 2022 and was discharged from the maternity ward as a perfectly healthy newborn. But, like any mother, Nikolina soon noticed that the left eye of her baby was not the same as the right eye, and that …
Interview with Chantal Kritzinger
Chantal Kritzinger, an ocularist in Johannesburg, South Africa, always knew she wanted to go into a helping profession. After completing high school, she pursued studies in psychology and gravitated toward working with adults with special needs until a desire to study further gave way to …
PreventBlindness.Org
Prevent Blindness (PB) has been preserving sight and preventing blindness in the United States for more than 100 years! Established in New York in 1908, Prevent Blindness was the second national voluntary organization in the US preceded only by the American Lung Association. As Megan …
Ryu’s Glow Story
Diagnosis: Retinoblastoma Ryu is only ten years old but has already fought a battle most will never face in a lifetime. When Ryu was only six months old his mother, Agatha, sensed there was something not quite right. Ryu’s left eye would periodically drift. Agatha …
Interview with Murali Krishnamurthy
Last year, Megan Webber, Co-Founder of KnowTheGlow, had the privilege of speaking with Bharath Balasubramaniam, President of the Sankara Eye Foundation and Eye Institute, an organization at the forefront of universal comprehensive eye care in India. Bharath introduced Megan to Murali Krishnamurthy and the two …
Interview with Dr. Rajeev Ramchandran
As a young boy, Dr. Rajeev Ramchandran remembers spending a lot of time with his aunt. In the 1970’s, his father had returned to India to visit his sister, Dr. Ramchandran’s aunt, and noticed that she was having trouble seeing her university books. She was …
Hillary Yeager – The Ocular Octopus – Yeager Ocular Prosthetics
Hillary Yeager has spent most of her life watching her father, Dan Yeager, make artificial eyes in his practice in Iowa City, Iowa. Yeager Ocular Prosthetics is a family owned and operated business. Hillary initially decided she was going to be a dental assistant and …
Cody’s Glow Story
Diagnosis: Bilateral Cataracts & Bilateral PHPV When Cody was two months old Ana noticed something was not right with her son, Cody’s, eye. It looked a little smaller than his left eye and when she took a flash photo of him for a passport to …
Julia’s Glow Story
Carme Julià Ferré, a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at la Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain is the extraordinary mother of two beautiful daughters, Anna and Julia. When Julia was eight months old, she was diagnosed with Retinoblastoma. Fortunately …
Flaum Eye Institute Welcomes Dr. Vikas Khetan!
A few weeks ago, Megan Webber and Christina Gill had a wonderful opportunity to sit down and meet one of Rochester’s newest ophthalmologists, Dr. Vikas Khetan. Dr. Khetan moved with his wife and son in February 2022 to Rochester, New York. He was brought on …