MED Prof Spreads the Word About Glaucoma
MED's Haiyan Gong (MED'91) is participating in the first-ever World Glaucoma Day today, Thursday, March 6
Haiyan Gong (MED’91), a School of Medicine research assistant professor of ophthalmology, is part of a group of eye-care professionals who will visit Capitol Hill today to urge their congressmen to consider the importance of glaucoma awareness and research. The visit is one of many events planned for the first-ever World Glaucoma Day.
An international effort to raise awareness of the disease, World Glaucoma Day is a joint initiative of the World Glaucoma Association and the World Glaucoma Patient Association. Glaucoma causes irreversible visual damage and is the second most common cause of blindness worldwide. Half the affected people in the developed world do not know they have the disease, which can be detected with regular eye checkups and prevented.
Gong and her colleagues have a full day’s schedule that includes visits to both houses of Congress, a lecture about glaucoma, and a reception hosted by the American Glaucoma Society.
Rebecca McNamara can be reached at ramc@bu.edu.
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