2024 Best Abstract Award Nominees

Student:

1. Olivia Grech - Raised Intracranial Pressure Alters Cranial Nociception Which Can Be Rescued By Glucagon Like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonism And CGRP Antagonism In Vivo.
2. Mariam Tang - “Acute Vision Loss” In Patients Presenting To A Large Emergency Department: Impact Of A Hybrid Non-Mydriatic Ocular Fundus Camera With Optical Coherence Tomography
3. Lauren Seidman - Binocular Visual Function Testing in an Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) Cohort:  Low-Contrast Letter Acuity and Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) Tasks of MULES and SUN
4. Patrick Zhang - Racial Disparities In The Development Of Visual Impairment In Patients With Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension
5. Jordan Tang - Optimization of Patient Education Materials in Neuro-Ophthalmology
6. Connie Huang - Electric Field Stimulation Enhances Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor-Mediated Retinal Ganglion Cell Axon Regeneration After Optic Nerve Crush Injury
7. Jacqueline Jeon-Chapman - Prevalence and clinical associations of peripapillary hyper-reflective ovoid mass-like structures (PHOMS) in patients with craniosynostosis
8. Jim Xie - Efficacy of intra-arterial or intravenous thrombolytic therapy versus conservative standard therapy for central retinal artery occlusion: an individual patient data meta-analysis

Resident:

1. Amy (Mung Yan) Lin - Emergency Department (ED) Non-Mydriatic Fundus Photography Expediates Care For Patients Referred For “Papilledema”
2. J. Chacko - 10-Year Risk of Aortic and Carotid Complications in Patients with Giant Cell Arteritis
3. Muhammad Chauhan - Risk of Cranial Nerve Palsies and Double Vision Following CSF Diversion Procedures for Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus: A Large Database Study
4. Jessica Kraker - Frequency of Non-specific Optic Nerve Sheath Enhancement on Magnetic Resonance Imaging
5. Maximilian Friedrich - Curiouser and curiouser: a distributed brain network underlying Alice in Wonderland syndrome

Fellow-in-Training:

1. Avital Lily Okrent Smolar - Reducing Neuro-Inflammation in a Mouse Model of Mitochondrial Optic Neuropathy
2. Minjun Hur - Clinical Characteristics and Treatment Effects of Chronic Immunotherapy in Idiopathic Recurrent Papillitis and Idiopathic Recurrent Neuroretinitis: A Multi-center Retrospective Analysis