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Koray Gumus, MD, FEBOphth

Professor of Ophthalmology

WhatsApp: +90 (532) 665-2101  

51. TURKISH OPHTHALMOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING

I attended the 51st Turkish Ophthalmological Association annual meeting in Antalya on 24-29th October 2017. I gave seven talks on the topics of corneal wound healing, contact lens and corneal cross linking (its mechanism and the management of complications). In this very well organized meeting, there were numerous great panels, symposiums, courses, oral presentations, and subspecialty conference series, in which all the latest information was satisfactorily discussed. 

I would like to thank all of my dear colleagues who contributed to this success. 

INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC ACUVUE EYE HEALTH ADVISOR MEETING

29 Temmuz 2017 - Johnson and Johnson firması tarafından, Sao Paulo’da 3.sü düzenlenen “Acuvue International Scientific ACUVUE Eye Health Advisor” toplantısında, biri kuru göz diğeri de kontakt lenslerde astigmat düzeltilmesiyle ilgili iki ayrı konuşma yaptım. Oldukça güzel organize edilmiş bu toplantıda, Latin Amerikalı meslektaşlarımla ve firma yetkilileri ile bir arada olmak çok keyifliydi.

I attended the 3rd "Acuvue International Scientific ACUVUE Eye Health Advisor” meeting on 29th July 2017 in Sao Paulo and gave two talks on "Latest Thinking and Treatments for Dry Eye" and "Astigmatism Correction: Accelerated Stabilization Design & LAVA". I would like to thank all of my Latin American colleagues and JJ for organizing such a great meeting.  

A NEW DRY EYE TREATMENT: INTRANASAL TEAR NEUROSTIMULATION

Our recent clinical trial about a new promising treatment modality, intranasal tear neurostimulation, has already been published in the "American Journal of Ophthalmology." Even though it has been a few days since its publication, it started to attract attention among the clinicians and media. I believe that this new therapeutic approach in the management of dry eye will be discussed more in the following days.

Please do not hesitate to contact me regarding your questions and request for the full text of the article.

Sincerely yours

Koray Gumus, MD, FEBOphth
Professor of Ophthalmology

A NEW BOOK

Dear my followers,

A new textbook about the management of pterygium has already been published. My colleagues (Cynthia I. Tung, Zaina Al-Mohtaseb) and I wrote the 20th chapter on "Management of Pterygium with Coexisting Cataract". I strongly recommend this up-to-date, comprehensive and very useful textbook to all ophthalmic surgeons who are interested in pterygium.

Sincerely yours,

Koray Gumus, MD, FEBOphth

Professor of Ophthalmology 

PROFESSORSHIP

DUYURU:
26 Ağustos 2016 tarihi itibariyle Erciyes Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Göz Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı'ndaki profesörlük kadrosuna atanmış bulunmaktayım.  

ANNOUNCEMENT:
I got the title of "Professor of Ophthalmology" as of 26 August 2016. 

POSTER PRESENTATION AT ARVO MEETING

I presented our recent study entitled "Randomized, controlled, crossover trial comparing the impact of sham or intranasal neurostimulation on conjunctival goblet cell degranulation" at ARVO meeting in Seattle. The research topic received a great deal of attention amongst the scientists during the poster session. 

Briefly, our results have documented that the Oculeve Intranasal Lacrimal Neurostimulator (Allergan plc, Dublin, Ireland.) not only increases aqueous tear production, it also stimulates conjunctival goblet cell mucin secretion, offering a promising new approach to treatment of dry eye. 

I'd like to thank Prof. Stephen C. Pflugfelder (Professor of Ophthalmology at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA) and Michael Ackermann (Vice President Neurostimulation at Allergan) for inviting me to investigate this brand-new innovative product that will change the management of dry eye. 


Sincerely,


Koray Gumus, MD, FEBOphth

TWO CONFERENCES IN USA

I gave two talks at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami on February 19-20th, 2016. The first talk was about "Treatment of Dry Eye and Clinical Investigation of Optive Fusion" at the VIII. State of Art International Meeting that was organized by the Allergan. The second talk was about "Corneal Wound Healing & Epi-off Corneal Cross-linking" at the PanCornea meeting that was organized by Pan-American Cornea Society. 

I'd like to thank all of my colleagues who attended the meetings from Latin American counties and both the executive board members of Allergan and Pan-American Cornea Society for organizing these two great meetings. 

Sincerely yours,


Koray Gumus, MD, FEBOphth

NEWS RELEASES ABOUT OUR STUDY

You can find the links of the news that were released about our recent study entitled "A New Matrix Therapy Agent (CACICOL20) for Faster Corneal Healing Following Epi-off Crosslinking With Ultraviolet A and Riboflavin"

http://www.aao.org/newsroom/news-releases/detail/regenerative-medicine-speeds-healing-of-eye-tissue

http://www.physiciansbriefing.com/Article.asp?AID=705414

PRESENTATION AT AAO MEETING

I presented final results of our recent study entitled "A New Matrix Therapy Agent (CACICOL20) for Faster Corneal Healing Following Epi-off Crosslinking With Ultraviolet A and Riboflavin" at the meeting of American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) in Las Vegas. 

I'd like to thank Thea Laboratories (Clermont-Ferrand, France) for their invaluable support for the study.

RECENT PUBLISHED ARTICLES

My recent articles have been published in the "Eye and Contact Lens: Science and Clinical Practice". The titles and links of the articles are listed below: 

Warmest regards

Koray Gumus, MD, FEBOphth

- A New Fitting Approach for Providing Adequate Comfort and Visual Performance in Keratoconus: Soft HydroCone (Toris K) Lenses.
http://www-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.ezproxyhost.library.tmc.edu/pubmed/26340384


- Corneal Pseudodendritic Lesions Masquerading as Herpetic Keratitis in a Patient With Tyrosinemia Type I.
http://www-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.ezproxyhost.library.tmc.edu/pubmed/26322918

INVITATION TO EYE & CONTACT LENS: SCIENCE AND CLINICAL PRACTICE

As of today, I've joined the editorial board of the "Eye and Contact Lens: Science and Clinical Practice" on invitation by the editor-in-chief Prof. Penny Asbell. 

Eye and Contact Lens which is the journal of the Contact Lens Association of Ophthalmologists (CLAO), includes contact lenses, refractive surgery, cornea, ocular surface disease, glaucoma, and related anterior segment subjects.

Sincerely yours,

Koray Gumus, MD, FEBOphth

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We've been performing corneal cross-linking with UV-A / riboflavin (CXL) in keratoconus, pellucid marginal degeneration and post-LASIK ectasia since 2008. And today, the number of CXL we performed have just reached to 700 patients. We'd like to thank all of our patients for their trust and loyalty.

Sincerely yours,

Koray Gumus, MD, FEBOphth

LAUNCH MEETINGS OF TWO NEW DAILY DISPOSABLE CONTACT LENSES

I gave two talks on brand new daily disposable contact lenses, Biotrue ONEday (Bausch & Lomb) and Total Dailies 1 (Vision Care, Alcon, Novartis) contact lenses in Kayseri (28^th May 2014) and Istanbul (29^th May 2014). At these meetings, we discussed the pros and cons of the use of daily disposable contact lenses and important features of these two new daily disposable contact lenses.  

On behalf of my colleagues, I’d like to thank Bausch & Lomb and Alcon for these contact lenses and meetings.

Looking forward to being together in another meetings,

Warmest regards,

Koray Gumus, MD, FEBOphth