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Mike Lahey, M.D.

Detailed Description of this session:

Review of various diseases of the retina, and explore surgical procedures. Find out how the eye works, what diseases affect it and how they are treated.

Mike Lahey's Biography:

After training to be a retinal specialist, I joined Hayward Kaiser in 1993 and have been treating retinal diseases and doing retinal surgery there since 1993.

Educational Background:

UCSD undergrad 1979-1983 Bachelor of Art in Biology
University of Texas San Antonio Medical School 1983-1987 MD degree
Internship St. Mary’s Hospital San Francisisco 1987-88
Residency UCSF Ophthalmology 1988-1991
Fellowship in Vitreoretinal diseases 1991-1993

Related Links:

Combining phacoemulsification and vitrectomy in patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy.

Lahey JM, Francis RR, Kearney JJ, Cheung M.

Curr Opin Ophthalmol. 2004 Jun;15(3):192-6. Review.

Images in clinical medicine. Optic neuritis due to Bartonella henselae infection.

Herz AM, Lahey JM.

N Engl J Med. 2004 Jan 8;350(2):e1. No abstract available.

Complications of hydrogel explants used in scleral buckling surgery.

Kearney JJ, Lahey JM, Borirakchanyavat S, Schwartz DM, Wilson D, Tanaka SC, Robins D.

Am J Ophthalmol. 2004 Jan;137(1):96-100.

Hypercoagulable states and central retinal vein occlusion.

Lahey JM, Kearney JJ, Tunc M.

Curr Opin Pulm Med. 2003 Sep;9(5):385-92. Review.

Combining phacoemulsification with pars plana vitrectomy in patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy: a series of 223 cases.

Lahey JM, Francis RR, Kearney JJ.

Ophthalmology. 2003 Jul;110(7):1335-9.

Peripheral retinoschisis and exudative retinal detachment in pars planitis.

Pollack AL, McDonald HR, Johnson RN, Ai E, Irvine AR, Lahey JM, Lewis H, Rodriguez A, Ryan EH Jr, Shields CL.

Retina. 2002 Dec;22(6):719-24.

Laboratory evaluation of hypercoagulable states in patients with central retinal vein occlusion who are less than 56 years of age.

Lahey JM, Tunç M, Kearney J, Modlinski B, Koo H, Johnson RN, Tanaka S.

Ophthalmology. 2002 Jan;109(1):126-31.