Ambati Elected Member of International Retina Society

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 3, 2012) − Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati, professor of physiology and professor and vice chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, has been elected into the membership of Club Jules Gonin, a club regarded as the most exclusive international society of retina physicians and surgeons. 

Ambati was recently inducted at the biennial meeting Club Jules Gonin in Reykjavik, Iceland.  He presented a talk entitled, “Multifaceted inflammatory pathways in Macular Edema” and a poster on “NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation Drives RPE Cell Death in Geographic Atrophy."

The club was named for Dr. Jules Gonin (1870 - 1935), a professor of ophthalmology in Lausanne, Switzerland, who pioneered the procedure of ignipuncture, the first successful surgery for the treatment of retinal detachments. Between 1902 and 1921, Gonin developed his understanding of how retinal detachments formed and how they had to be effectively treated. Gonin is credited as single handedly changing the landscape of retinal detachment surgery forever.

Club Jules Gonin currently has only 267 members in 43 countries.

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