CHICAGO—Prevent Blindness has declared May 16-22, 2022 as the third annual “Inherited Retinal Disease (IRD) Genetic Testing Week.” Educational materials, such as a fact sheet, social media graphics, and a dedicated webpage, preventblindness.org/inherited-retinal-diseases/ are available. New this year to IRD Genetic Testing Week are two informational videos. Alina V. Dumitrescu, MD, clinical associate professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus, inherited eye disease at the University of Iowa hospitals and clinics, is featured in a new “IRD and Genetic Testing” episode in the Focus on Eye Health Expert Series. Read More