2020 VISION Magazine

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24 2020 VOLUME 36

COVER STORY 2 Smarter. Faster. Stronger. Artificial Intelligence is Shaping the Future of Eye Care —and Duke is Leading the Way

28 New Faculty

8 Identical Twin Eye Images Lead to

34 Honors and Awards

Promising Alzheimer’s Discovery

1 Message from the Chair 30 News and Notes 40 Administration, Faculty and Staff

10 Next-Generation Treatment for Chronic Noninfectious Posterior Uveitis

11 Family Outside the U.S. Sought Duke Specialist

To Treat a Child with Severe Neurotrophic Keratopathy

12 First Genetic Association of Increased Risk of Glaucoma in African Ancestry Populations

14 Navigating Surgical Complexity in Adult Strabismus 15

Effective Diagnosis and Treatment of Ocular Surface Disease in Cataract and Refractive Surgery Patients

18 Still Rockin’

Sculptor Captures His Own Experience with Eye Disease

20 Duke Eye Center by the Numbers 22 Our Immune System Can See 24 Seeing the Future

Through a Transformative Pledge

26 Faced with Vision Loss, Young Man Bets on Himself Editor Tori Hall Writers Laura Ertel, Tori Hall, Lindsay Kenton, Samiha Khanna, Catherine Lewis Art Direction Pam Chastain Design Photography Kevin Caldwell Photography, Ben McKeown Photography, Madeline Gray Copyright 2020 © Duke Eye Center dukeeye.org

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