Dr. Irving L. Weissman, MD
Ophthalmologist
280 Washington St Suite 308 Brighton MA, 02135Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Irving Weissman is an ophthalmologist practicing in Brighton, MA. Dr. Weissman specializes in eye and vision care. As an ophthalmologist, Dr. Weissman can practice medicine as well as surgery. Opthalmologists can perform surgeries because they have their medical degrees along with at least eight years of additional training. Dr. Weissman can diagnose and treat diseases, perform eye operations and prescribe eye glasses and contacts. Ophthalmologists can also specialize even further in a specific area of eye care.
Education and Training
New York Univ Sch of Med, New York Ny 1966
New York University School of Medicine 1966
Board Certification
OphthalmologyAmerican Board of OphthalmologyABO
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Cyclophilin C-associated protein: a normal secreted glycoprotein that down-modulates endotoxin and proinflammatory responses in vivo.
- In vivo proliferation and cell cycle kinetics of long-term self-renewing hematopoietic stem cells.
- Allorecognition in colonial tunicates: protection against predatory cell lineages?
- Self-renewal, differentiation or death: regulation and manipulation of hematopoietic stem cell fate.
- Antibodies to CD44 and integrin alpha4, but not L-selectin, prevent central nervous system inflammation and experimental encephalomyelitis by blocking secondary leukocyte recruitment.
- Lymphoid development from hematopoietic stem cells.
- Heritable germ and somatic cell lineage competitions in chimeric colonial protochordates.
- Induction of germline transcription in the TCRgamma locus by Stat5: implications for accessibility control by the IL-7 receptor.
- CD8+TCR+ and CD8+TCR- cells in whole bone marrow facilitate the engraftment of hematopoietic stem cells across allogeneic barriers.
- The role of apoptosis in the regulation of hematopoietic stem cells: Overexpression of Bcl-2 increases both their number and repopulation potential.
- Stem cells: units of development, units of regeneration, and units in evolution.
- Translating stem and progenitor cell biology to the clinic: barriers and opportunities.
- Posttranscriptional regulation of Bruton's tyrosine kinase expression in antigen receptor-stimulated splenic B cells.
- Lymphoid precursors.
- A clonogenic common myeloid progenitor that gives rise to all myeloid lineages.
Awards
- Boston Super Doctors 2011
- Chief, Division Of Opthalmology, Caritas
- St. Elizabeth medical Center Of Boston.
- Past President, Mass Society Of Eye Physicians
- Surgeons.
- Man Of The Year 2004 Massachusetts Society 2004
- Of Eye Physicians And Surgeons.
Treatments
- Cataracts
- Diabetes
- Macular Degeneration
- Headaches
- Glaucoma
- Retinal Detachment
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Presbyopia
- Blepharitis
- Nearsightedness
- Conjunctivitis
Professional Memberships
- Fellow American Academy of Ophthalmology
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