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Mark Blecher

Author Mark Blecher

Mark Blecher is the co-director of the Cataract Service at the Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, PA, USA and Assistant Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at nearby Thomas Jefferson University. Mark can claim to have trained more cataract surgeons in the US than almost anyone else, and was recently the recipient of Wills Eye Hospital’s greatest honor, the Silver Tray Award. He also operated on his own mother at her insistence and when he’s not lecturing, teaching or with patients, he retreats to his farm to recharge.

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Business & Profession Professional Development

Why Snellen Must Die

| Mark Blecher

For the sake of our patients and our profession, we need to improve upon the nineteenth-century pictograms that are currently used for visual assessment.

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| Phoebe Harkin, Ruth Steer, Roisin McGuigan, Mark Hillen, Michael Schubert, James Talks, Mark Talary, Tiarnan Keenan, Andreas Layer, Michael F. Chiang, Alain Saad, Alex Huang, Gregory D. Parkhurst, Hakam Ghabra, Mauricio Pérez, Alex Walsh, Pearse Keane, Hemlata Gupta, Karl Golnik, Jim Taylor, David Boyer, Francisco Sánchez León, Nikki Hafezi, Florian Kretz, Elizabeth Yeu, Sathish Srinivasan, Pooja Bandivadekar, Tushar Agarwal, Milind Pande, Niro Narendran, Michael Mrochen, Ray Radford, Ike Ahmed, Bala Ambati, Frederik Raiskup, Farhad & Nikki Hafezi, Bobby Qureshi, Arthur Cummings, Luis Izquierdo Jr., Jodhbir (Jod) Mehta, Bojan Pajic, Robert Montés-Micó, Boris Stanzel, Carl Glittenberg, Steven Vold, Renato Ambrósio Jr., Marsha Link, Erik Mertens, Bruce Allan, Juan Mura, Mark Latina, Gunther Grabner, Cathy Schanzer, M. Stewart Galloway, Jesper Hjortdal, Shafiq Rehma, Adam Jacobs, Mark Latina, José Cunha-Vaz, J. Martin Collinson, John West, Hongming Chen, Justin Hanes, Robert Langer, Amanda Hayhurst, Theo Seiler, Rod Solar, Cécile Delcourt, Sanjay Mantry, Anita Nevyas-Wallace, Carlos Buznego , Joannah Vaughan, David Huang, Pete Sudbury, Gerd Auffarth, Sibylle Scholtz, Farhad Hafezi, Paul Karpecki, Rachel Pilling, Michael Mrochen, David Geffen, Takami Sato , Carol Shields, Isabelle Leach, Alain Saad , Nicole Kretz, Andy Davies, Ehud Assia, Stela Vujosevic, Mark Blecher, Laura Hobbs, Marie-José Tassignon, Johan Blanckaert, Gullapalli Rao, David Kent, Marc Muraine, Magali Saint-Geniez and Patricia D’Amore, Kristine Morrill , Irv Arons, Marianne Shahsuvaryan, Sebastian Waldstein, Gregory Hageman, Fedra Hajizadeh , David Keegan, Scott Mackie, Caroline McHugh, Florian Gekeler, Nadir Bayoumi, Sophia Ktori , Rolf Schwind , Grace Willatt, Jeff Machat, Sondra Black, David Andrews, Eberhart Zrenner, Harminder Dua, Mark Shusterman, Arthur Cummings, Richard Gallagher, Mark Zacharria

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