John S. Kennerdell Collection

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John S. Kennerdell, MDThe John S. Kennerdell Neuro-Ophthalmology Collection contains 66 lectures covering a wide variety of orbit disorders by ophthalmologic surgeon and orbital expert, Dr. Kennerdell.

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  1. Anatomy And Physiology For The Neuro-Ophthalmologist
    1. Bony anatomy
      1. Orbit
      2. Bony communications
        1. Superior orbital fissure
        2. Inferior orbital fissure
        3. Ethmoidal foramina
        4. Zygoma
      3. Skull
        1. Anterior cranial fossa
        2. Middle cranial fossa
        3. Posterior cranial fossa
    2. Anatomy of the orbit, the eyelids, and the lacrimal pathways
      1. Lacrimal gland
    3. Afferent visual pathways
      1. Optic Nerve
  2. Ocular And Neurologic Evaluation
    1. Ancillary tests obtained in neuro-ophthalmology
      1. Ocular and orbital ultrasound
  3. Neuro-Ophthalmic Symptoms And Signs
    1. Visual Field Loss (Scotoma)
    2. Double vision (diplopia)
    3. Ptosis
    4. Orbital Signs
      1. Proptosis
      2. Enophthalmos
      3. Proptosis (Exophthalmos)
  4. Disorders Of The Afferent And Efferent Visual Pathways
    1. Orbital pathology causing neuro-ophthalmic manifestations
      1. Trauma
      2. Mass lesions
        1. Neoplasms
      3. Inflammation/Infection
        1. Myositis
        2. Orbital inflammation
        3. Thyroid orbitopathy
        4. Orbital cellulitis
        5. Abscess
      4. Orbital manifestations of dural fistulas
  5. Systemic, Neurologic, And Ophthalmic Disorders Commonly Associated With Neuro-Ophthalmic Manifestations
    1. Neurologic disorders commonly associated with neuro-ophthalmologic manifestations
      1. Head and ocular injury
        1. Diagnose and evaluate orbital and facial fractures
      2. Neuro-ophthalmic manifestations of neoplasms:
        1. Orbital Tumors
          1. Histiocytoma, Malignant Fibrous
          2. Lymphoma
          3. Lymphangioma
          4. Liposarcoma
          5. Meningioma
          6. Neurilemmoma
          7. Rhabdomyosarcoma
          8. Schwannoma
      3. Infections (neuro-ophthalmic manifestations of localized and systemic infections)
        1. Orbital infections (cellulitis)
      4. Myopathies (involving the extraocular muscles)
        1. Ischemic(1)
          1. Orbital ischemic syndrome
        2. Inflammatory(1)
          1. Thyroid orbitopathy
          2. Orbital inflammatory disease
    2. Neuro-ophthalmic manifestations of iatrogenic diseases
      1. Various drugs with specific neuro-ophthalmologic complications, including
        1. Facial and orbital injections
      2. Neuro-ophthalmic complications of surgical procedures
        1. Ocular and orbital surgery
  6. Procedures Commonly Performed/Obtained in Neuro-Ophtahlmology
    1. Surgical and endovascular procedures and their complications
      1. Approaches for orbital biopsies and orbital tumors
      2. Orbital decompression

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Biography

John S. Kennerdell, MDWhile studying biology at Bucknell, John Kennerdell was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and active with Cap and Dagger, Concern and Action, Chorale, and Phi Sigma biology honor society.

Following graduation from the Temple University School of Medicine, he served in the U.S. Navy before pursuing a private ophthalmology practice. He was acting chairman of ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and, in 1985, became the chairman of the department of ophthalmology at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, a department he developed over the course of 11 years.

He is now a professor of surgery (ophthalmology) at Medical College of Pennsylvania, chairman of the department of ophthalmology at Allegheny General Hospital, and adjunct professor of both neurology and ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

He has received numerous professional awards during his illustrious career, including the Senior Honor Award of the American Academy of Ophthalmology in 1997. He has made more than 20 presentations throughout the world and his published contributions to medical literature have resulted in more than 130 peer-reviewed papers, 28 book chapters, and two books.

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John S. Kennerdell, MD

Chair, Department of Ophthalmology, Allegheny General Hospital Professor, Ophthalmology, Drexel University College of Medicine

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