JNV: The Journal of Narrative Visions

An online journal for narrative ophthalmology, optometry, and vision care

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    • Kalla Gervasio, MD
    • Albert Wu, MD, PhD
    • Danielle Spencer, PhD
    • Megan Yu, BA
    • Natalia Romano Spica, MS
    • Bala Ambati, MD, PhD
  • Fall 2025 Edition
    • A Conservative Approach to Healing: Lessons from an Eye Injury – Seth Higgins
    • Rural Poverty, Hope, and AI: An Eye Screening Journey to Coastal Bangladesh by Randall Stafford, MD, PhD
    • Eyes on Hope – Antonio Yaghy, MD
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    • Year 2024
      • Summer 2024 Edition
        • I once saw a man with no eyes – Rida Khan
        • Blurred Margins – Sarishka Desai
        • Clarity – Swetha Sriramoju
        • Focus – Swetha Sriramoju
        • Vision’s Fragility – Antonio Yaghy, MD
    • Year 2023
      • Fall 2023 Edition
        • Blepharoplasty and Blue Socks – Roger McKnight, PhD
        • Acrylic – Kristin LaFollette, PhD
        • In a Clinic, Halls of Care – Antonio Yaghy, MD & Maria Yaghy, MD
        • they say love makes the blind man see – Marilee Kneeland
    • Year 2022
      • Winter 2022 Edition
        • A Hard Day in the Operating Room – Nancy L. Glass, MD, MBA
        • Divine Dance – Michael Moussa, MD
        • My Eye Exam – Ashley Lai
    • Year 2021
      • Spring 2021 Edition
        • Eyes in PPE – Kiah McSwain
        • A Boxer’s Sight Unseen – Donna La May Newman, PA-C
        • Hidden Tears – Sanjana Sundara Raj Sreenath
      • Fall 2021 Edition
        • Reflections on the Practice of Ophthalmology in a Pandemic – Lyna Azzouz
        • It Drew Me In – Karen Lee
        • Prismic Ghosts – Andy McLean, MD, MPH
        • Ode to My Right Eye – Teresa Milbrodt
        • Hymn of Glasses-Wearers – Teresa Milbrodt
        • Ophthalmology Consult – H. Douglas Jin, MD
        • Dry Eye – Antonio Yaghy, MD
        • Visions – Lyna Azzouz
    • Year 2020
      • Fall 2020 Edition
        • Lessons Learned from Living with ‘Lazy Eye’ – Megan Yu
        • Sightless – Paul Rousseau, MD
        • Virtual Ophthalmology Rotations in the time of COVID-19 – Bilal Ahmed
        • Eye surgery – Antonio Yaghy, MD
    • Year 2019
      • Spring/Summer 2019
        • Sight – Sheel R. Patel
        • The Human ‘I’ – Antonio Yaghy, MD
        • The ‘eye’ris – Antonio Yaghy, MD
        • ‘Tree’D OCT – Antonio Yaghy, MD
      • Winter 2019 Edition
        • Short-Sighted by Kelly Chen
        • Seeing Things Like It’s My Last Chance To See Them – Thoughts Following Cataract Surgery by Richard Koenig
    • Year 2018
      • Summer 2018
        • Untitled – Mariam Abdulghani
      • Winter/Spring 2018
        • Bayou Green – Kelley Yuan
        • The Sunday Ceilidh – Rachel MacLean
        • Eye Contact – Alice Shieh
        • “Oculus” and “Vernissage”– Karl Lorenzen
        • Sight – Fae Kayarian
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      • Fall 2017
        • Two Eyes Open – Timothy Baerg
    • Year 2016
      • Spring 2016
        • On Repeat – Meleha Ahmad
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      • January 2015
        • Sight for the Sightless – Bala Ambati, MD, PhD
      • February 2015
        • Open Eyes – Aiperi Yusupova
        • Changing Lives, Transforming Communities – Michael Yei
        • Cytokine Storm – Karishma Gupta
      • March 2015
        • Vision (1-3) – Ian Kwok
      • April/May 2015
        • Monet and Melanopsin – David W. Marshak, PhD
        • Optometry in Ghana: A Foreground of Primary Eye Care – Eugene Appenteng Osae
      • June/July 2015
        • “The Room” – A novel explanation of the functional anatomy of the eye- Trystan MacDonald
        • Adaptive Optics and Retinal Blood Flow- Edmund Arthur, OD
      • August/September 2015
        • Theia and Aristotle, perhaps – Katharine Lawrence, MPH
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Winter 2019 Edition

The Journal of Narrative Visions: Winter 2019 

Reflective Essays

Short-Sighted – Kelly Chen

Seeing Things Like It’s My Last Chance To See Them – Thoughts Following Cataract Surgery – Richard Koenig

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