UAB receives $3.5 million grant for eye care outreach

UAB has received a five-year, $3.5 million grant to study strategies to detect and manage glaucoma and other eye diseases in community-based settings. This grant will be focused on populations that are most at risk and the least likely to have access to eye care. The grant has been awarded to Lindsay Rhodes, assistant professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. The research plan seeks to implement and evaluate a telemedicine-based strategy in patients that are primarily treated…
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