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The Frank B. Walsh Society Annual Meeting Archives contain presentations from the annual meeting of the Society, an event which is now part of the NANOS Annual Meeting (see our NANOS Annual Meeting Collection). Includes records from the first meeting in 1969, through to the present.

Frank B. Walsh Society Meeting #20, 1988
Organizers Terry A. Cox, H. Stanley Thompson, Robert S. Hepler, Ronald M. Burde
Neuro-Ophthalmologic World Congress (Four Seasons Hotel), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1988-05-07 through 1988-05-08
Meeting statistics: 2 days; 1 program; 20 presentations; 63 active participants (4 organizers; 3 moderators; 19 presenters; 54 authors)

Day 1: Saturday, May 7, 1988 (1988-05-07)

Program: Session 1
Chair: G. Lessell
Moderators: Robert B. Daroff

Case 1: An Adolescent With Bilateral Visual Loss
Presenters: Warren L. Felton III
Authors: Warren L. Felton III; Robert T. Leshner; Nitya R. Ghatak; Anne C. Price

Case 2: My Heavens - What Is It?
Presenters: John L. Keltner
Authors: John L. Keltner; Alan M. Roth

Case 3: Multiple Cranial Nerve Palsies and Uveitis: Try Again
Presenters: James R. Carl
Authors: James R. Carl; Chi-Chao Chan; David C. Herman; Alan G. Palestine

Case 4: Steroid Responsive Optic Neuropathy
Presenters: Greg A. Diamond
Authors: Greg A. Diamond; Floyd A. Warren; Douglas H. Miller; Clement E. Marks; Mark J. Kupersmith

Case 5: Pseudotumor Cerebri in a Child
Presenters: Larry P. Frohman
Authors: Larry P. Frohman; Vijay V. Joshi; Rudolph S. Wagner; Leonard J. Bielory

Case 6: Acute Visual Loss in a Woman with Metastatic Breast Carcinoma
Presenters: Joel M. Weinstein
Authors: Joel M. Weinstein; George L. Morris; Lindell R. Gentry; Gabrielle M. ZuRhein

Case 7: Optic Nerve Corpulence
Presenters: Marc H. Levy
Authors: Marc H. Levy; Roy W. Beck; Curtis E. Margo

Case 8: Somewhere Over the Sphenoid
Presenters: Michael L. Slavin
Authors: Michael L. Slavin

Program: Session 2
Chair: William F. Hoyt
Moderators: Shirley H. Wray

Case 1: An Unusual Presentation of an Optic Nerve Lesion
Presenters: Isaac Gutman
Authors: Isaac Gutman; Gideon Findler; Zvi Ram; Yochanan Goldhammer

Case 2: Renal Failure in a Girl with Visual Loss
Presenters: Ivor S. Levy
Authors: Ivor S. Levy

Case 3: Bromocriptine Resistant Pituitary Tumor
Presenters: Robert L. Lesser
Authors: Robert L. Lesser; Thierry J. Hufnagel; Joseph M. Miller

Case 4: The Inferior Orbital Fissure Syndrome
Presenters: Steven A. Newman
Authors: Steven A. Newman

Case 5: A Sellar Mass
Presenters: Wayne W. Shtybel
Authors: Wayne W. Shtybel; Melinda L. Estes; Robert L. Tomsak; Janet W. Bay

Case 6: Complex Visual Hallucinations in an Elderly Man
Presenters: Mark S. Borchert
Authors: Mark S. Borchert; Ann C. McKee; Simmons Lessell

Program: Session 3
Chair: James A. Sharpe
Moderators: William T. Shults

Case 1: The Case of Downbeating Nystagmus
Presenters: John R. Guy
Authors: John R. Guy

Case 2: No Laughing Matter
Presenters: Thomas J. McPhee
Authors: Thomas J. McPhee; Neil R. Miller

Case 3: An Unusual Cranial Polyneuropathy
Presenters: Deborah I. Friedman
Authors: Deborah I. Friedman; Alfredo A. Sadun

Case 4: Supranuclear Saccadic and Pursuit Paresis: Magnetic Search Coil and Pathologic Correlation
Presenters: Janine L. Johnston
Authors: Janine L. Johnston; James A. Sharpe; Mark J. Morrow

Case 5: A Brain Stem Syndrome
Presenters: Janine L. Johnston
Authors: Janine L. Johnston; James A. Sharpe; Mark J. Morrow

Case 6: A 70-Year-Old Man with Palinopsia and Visual Field Defect
Presenters: Valerie A. Purvin
Authors: Valerie A. Purvin; Julius M. Goodman; Jose M. Bonnin

Frank B. Walsh, MD

1895/10/18 - 1978/11/27

Frank B. Walsh worked as a neuro-ophthalmologist at the Wilmer Eye Institute of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Walsh is best known for his textbook Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology, which contains a compilation of Walsh's case reports and the conclusions he drew from them. Walsh is considered by many to be the father of neuro-ophthalmology due to his contributions to the field.