Acknowledgments

We are grateful to our Glaucoma Center of Excellence colleagues who made many helpful editorial comments for this guide, including Henry Jampel, Don Zack, Pradeep Ramulu, Michael Boland, Tom Johnson, Amanda Bicket, Jithin Yohannan, Ian Pitha, Randy Craven, Elyse McGlumphy, Judith Goldstein, and David Quigley. Thanks to Elizabeth Bower for the cover photograph of the Wilmer Institute Smith Building and to Azam Husain for designing our beautiful book. Special thanks to Timothy Phelps of Art as Applied to Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine for the drawings. Special thanks also go to Dr. Janet Alexander, William Ricky Buie, COT, and Karen Klima, CRNO, CRA, COMT for contributing clinical photographs. Additional thanks go to the medical students involved in this project, who we hope will become ophthalmologists one day, Azam Husain and Ashley Zhou.

For those who read this book and are motivated to make a contribution to “Wilmer Glaucoma Research”, they can do so online at https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/wilmer/charitable_giving. Please select “Glaucoma” from the “Please designate my gift to support” drop-down menu.

For those who wish to make an appointment for consultation about glaucoma with the Wilmer Glaucoma Center of Excellence doctors, the internet address is https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/wilmer/patient-information/appointments/index.html. From that site, appointments can be made online or by telephone.

There is an online version of this guide that can be viewed at no charge by going to the Glaucoma Service web page https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/wilmer/services/glaucoma.html or clicking on the link for Diagnosis Glaucoma (https://diagnosisglaucoma.com). There, you will find an audio version of this book, a podcast, and other helpful resources.

Other sites with authoritative information on glaucoma include: