“Ophthalmic Clues to Systemic Disease”

Description

The eye has been described as the window to the soul. See what clues it can also provide to your canine and feline patients' systemic health.

Biography

Dr. Glaze is a 1976 graduate of Texas A&M University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. Following 2 years in small animal general practice in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, she returned to academia to complete a residency and Master’s degree in veterinary ophthalmology at Michigan State University.  She returned to Baton Rouge in 1981, where she remained on the faculty of Louisiana State University’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital until July 2001, retiring as Professor Emeritus of Veterinary Ophthalmology.  She joined the Gulf Coast Animal Eye Clinic, Houston TX, in August 2001, where she is one of three board-certified ophthalmologists on staff.

Dr. Glaze is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists, board-certified since 1981, and has served as secretary-treasurer (1989-1999), Regent (1999-2003), and president (2004).  She was the first woman elected president of the American Society of Veterinary Ophthalmology (ASVO).  While on LSU’s faculty, she received the School of Veterinary Medicine’s Faculty Service Award, the campus-wide Gamma Sigma Delta Outstanding Teaching Award, and numerous citations from the Student Government Association for outstanding classroom instruction.  She has spoken to veterinary groups throughout the world, has authored a variety of journal articles and book chapters, and is the co-author (with Dr. Kerry Ketring) of veterinary atlases on feline ocular disease and canine inherited ocular disorders.  Her university research focused on the use of novel lytic peptides for the treatment of herpetic ocular disease in animals.