- Hi, my name is Allison Loh, and I'm the program director
for the pediatric ophthalmology fellowship
at Casey Eye Institute.
We're really excited to show you what
our program is all about
and what living in Portland is like!
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- So I've got an early day today.
I'm in the OR again.
But, I'm starting my day walking to work.
OHSU is up on a hill and it's in a forest.
And so, our backyard literally is called Marquam Forest.
And there are a bunch of trails and everything here.
I just want to give you a little view.
It's kind of a foggy day today.
You get a great view of downtown
and it's a pretty easy to walk to work.
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And I made it to
Elk's Children's Eye Clinic,
and I just wanted to show you the building.
These lights here,
this is for the cafe kind of restaurant that they have here.
It's Blink, it's on the first floor.
And then of course we have this
kinda cool,
looking building with the multicolored glass.
It's just a really nice place to work.
And it makes you feel,
there's a lot of space for kids.
Just relaxing to be here.
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- Hello, I'm Brad Hedricksen.
I am a former fellow over at Casey Eye Institute.
I graduated in 2020.
I Just wanted to,
share some of the things that I love about Casey Eye,
and why I think that it's the strongest
pediatric fellowship on the west coast.
So first of all, the surgical numbers.
I don't think enough can be sad about getting
good surgical numbers in your fellowship.
Great surgery numbers for strabismus,
for complex strabismus, as well as cataract.
You're not splitting your surgery numbers
with any other fellows.
Everybody there will really treat you like family.
And I don't think enough can be said about this,
the respect and the love that you will feel
from your faculty members and your peers there,
I think is unrivaled.
So, I think it's wonderful and hopefully you will too.
- Hi, my name is Kristen Rarey,
and I graduated from the Casey Eye Institute,
Pediatric Ophthalmology Fellowship almost 10 years ago.
First and foremost, you guys have already chosen wisely.
Doing pediatric ophthalmology is been so amazing.
I love my career.
I practice locally in Portland.
You know, and I have pediatric glaucoma,
pediatric retina, ocular oncology, pediatric cornea,
all of these highly specialized folks on speed dial.
They're just a text message away.
And everyone is just so responsive and so supportive.
And, you know, even if I just need reassurance
about a difficult case that I have coming up,
it's really the faculty at Casey.
It's the people aspect of it.
That for me, even 10 years down the road is something that
I continue to just be so grateful for.
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- I just took the elevator
up from Casey Eye to the main hospital.
It says welcome to LHSU.
This is also where we pick up the tram, right?
And so there's the tram, that goes from
the upper campus down to the main waterfront.
This is one of the kind of fun features.
And so down at the waterfront, that's where glaucoma is,
that's where some of the resident-run clinics.
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One of the things that I love about clinic
besides how beautiful it is and the high contrast,
easy visibility set up that we have is that we have,
is that there's an onstage and offstage area.
So what that means is, there's this offstage area
where you're able to work,
and communicate with the attendings or orthoptist.
But then, you are able to open the room,
and here we go on to the onstage area.
And this, you know, our clinic room,
And then, this is where patients are able to come in.
So patients come in from a separate area
just into the onstage.
And so you're able to have
the place where you're working, you're seeing patients,
and then you're also able to kind of close the door
and be in a safe, protected area as well.
It just makes it a really relaxed work environment.
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We're at the Doernbecher NICU,
and we're going to start ROP rounds.
Dr. P Campbell's going to be here.
We're going to see a number of kids.
We're gonna see a few that I treated, did laser.
And a Avastin injection on one of the other kids.
Should be pretty fun.
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- I have Glaucoma and Aniridia.
And Aniridia,
Aniridia means that, you know the color part of the eyes?
This part?
I don't have that, so my eyes are just black.
Dr. Reznick calls them blackberry eyes.
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