Sukhmandeep Kaur
Sukhmandeep Kaur is a third-year at Touro COM Harlem with a strong interest in ophthalmology and business. Her passion for ophthalmology stems from her experience attending eye camps in Allahabad, India where she came to grasp the ability of cataract surgery, a low cost, minimally invasive intervention, to alter the course of peoples’ lives. Prior to starting medical school, she founded a tutoring company that used a virtual platform to tutor students all over the United States. She hopes to use her experiences in ophthalmology and business to help foster more virtual technology that can be instrumental in treating ophthalmologic emergencies in third world countries where other diagnostic and surgical equipment may be unavailable.
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Treating Ocular Surface Disease with Amniotic Membranes
Amniotic tissue is used to treat patients with chronic inflammation, corneal defects, dry eye, or other ocular surface diseases. This article will cover the use and type of amniotic membranes in treating ocular surface disease.
Neuropathic Corneal Pain: The Underlying Cause of Chronic Dry Eye
When diagnosed dry eye disease remains symptomatic after months of treatment, you might come to question the initial diagnosis. However, when unrelenting eye sensitivity with ocular pain comes into play, neuropathic corneal pain is high on the differential.