Overcoming Macular Degeneration : A Guide to Seeing Beyond the Clouds. This item is unavailable.Overcoming Macular Degeneration : A Guide to Seeing Beyond the Clouds

A leading opthamologist offers a definitive guide to macular degeneration, examining the causes and symptoms of this progressive eye disease and discussing various treatment options to slow its progression, risk factors associated with the ailment, visual rehabilitation, and other key issues. Original.

Dr. Yale Solomon, M.D. has been a practicing ophthalmologist in Bay Shore, New York, since 1956, and he has specialized in treating macular degeneration and other low-vision patients. He is an associate clinical professor of ophthalmology at SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine on Long Island and is founder and president of Volunteer Eye Surgeons International, a philanthropic organization that since 1983 has sent U.S. ophthalmologists to Third World countries on medical mercy missions. Dr. Solomon is director emeritus of ophthalmology at Southside Hospital in Bay Shore, and senior ophthalmologist at Good Samaritan Hospital, West Islip, New York. In 1990, at age 64, Dr. Solomon was diagnosed with macular degeneration in his left eye, and in the summer of 1997 macular degeneration began affecting vision in his right eye. Dr. Solomon lives in Brightwaters, New York, with his wife, Isobel. They have four grown sons and ten grandchildren.

Jonathan D. Solomon is an independent marketing consultant and business writer. Prior to launching his consulting business, Mr. Solomon served for five years as vice president of marketing for Optical Data, a company that produces technology-based educational programs for schools. Mr. Solomon is adjunct professor of communications at the Rutgers Graduate School of Management in Newark, New Jersey, where he teaches a course in writing and oral presentation skills to MBA students. A graduate of Wesleyan University, Mr. Solomon also earned a Master of Science degree in journalism from Boston University and an MBA in marketing from Fordham University. Mr. Solomon, who is Yale Solomon's oldest son, lives in Westfield, New Jersey, with his wife, Maureen, and their two young children.