OFFICE ADDRESS:

Wills Eye Institute
Glaucoma Service
840 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215)928-3342

ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES:

40 Monument Road, Suite 104
Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004
(610)6610-0446

EDUCATION

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

STAFF APPOINTMENTS

CERTIFICATION

LICENSURE

MEMBERSHIPS

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

CHAPTERS

PUBLICATIONS

PRESENTATIONS LOCAL

PRESENTATIONS NATIONAL
POSTERS

ABSTRACTS

EDUCATION

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

STAFF APPOINTMENTS

CERTIFICATION

National Board of Medical Examiners

LICENSURE

Pennsylvania – MD-038900-E
New Jersey – MA-49924

MEMBERSHIPS

• American Glaucoma Society (AGS)
• Fellow/American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO)
• Association for Research in Vision & Ophthalmology (ARVO)
• International Society of Spaeth Fellows
• New Jersey Academy of Ophthalmology
• Ophthalmic Club of Philadelphia
• American Medical Association
• Pennsylvania Medical Society
• Philadelphia County Medical Society
• Listed in “Best Doctors in America: Northeast Region”, 1996-2004; Woodward/White, Inc.
• Listed in “Guide to America’s Top Ophthalmologists”, 2004; SLD Industries
  

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

CHAPTERS

1. Schmidt CM, Wilson RP: Hereditary Aspects of Glaucoma. In: Biomedical Foundations of Ophthalmology, (ed.) Duane TD, Jaeger EA. JB Lippincott Co., Hagerstown, 1991.

2. Schmidt CM, Wilson RP, Tasman WE, Jaeger EA, eds. Duane’s Foundation of Clinical Ophthalmology “Hereditary Aspects of Glaucoma”, JB Lippincott, Philadelphia, PA Revised Edition 1991.

3. Moster MR, Bond JB, Wilson RP, Katz LJ, Spaeth GL, Schmidt CM, Terebuh A: Glaucoma: In: The Wills Eye Hospital Atlas of Clinical Ophthalmology. Tasman W, Jaeger EA (eds). Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia PA, 1996.

PUBLICATIONS

1. Schmidt CM, Wilson RP, Steinmann WC, Spaeth GL: Suture type affects Tenon’s cyst incidence in limbal-based trabeculectomy. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci:31.,:275, 1990.

2. Wilson RP, Cantor L, Katz LJ, Schmidt CM et al: Aqueous Shunts: Molteno versus Schocket. Ophthalmology 99:672-678, 1992.

3. Samuelson TW, Wilson RP, Steinmann WC, Schmidt CM: A prospective, randomized trial comparing the effect of routine post-operative medications on 5-Fluorouracil induced corneal toxicity following glaucoma surgery: Ointment vs. drop therapy. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci:33:736, 1992.

4. Chien AM, Cohen EF, Schmidt CM et al: Acute glaucoma after penetrating keratoplasty. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci:33:947, 1992.

5. Baez KA, Moster MR, Gandham S, Wilson RP, Schmidt CM: Combined cataract and glaucoma surgery with and without the use of 5-Fluorouracil: A randomized prospective study. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci:33:947, 1992.

6. Chien AM, Schmidt CM, Cohen EJ, Rajpal RK et al: Glaucoma in the Immediate Post-operative Period after Penetrating Keratoplasty. Am J. Ophth 115:711-714, June 1993.

7. Costa VP, Moster MR, Wilson RP, Schmidt CM et al: Effects of topical mitomycin C on Primary Trabeculectomies and Combined Procedures. Br J. Ophth:77:693- 697, 1993.

8. Costa VP, Wilson RP, Moster MR, Schmidt CM, Gandham S: Hypotony Maculopathy Following the Use of Topical Mitomycin C in Glaucoma Filtration Surgery. Ophthalmic Surgery 24:389-94, 1993.

9. Trible JR, Costa VP, Sergott RC, Spaeth GL, Smith M, Wilson RP, Katz LJ, Moster MR, Schmidt CM. The Influence of Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma upon the Retrobulbar Circulation: Baseline, Postoperative and Reproducibility Analysis. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society 245-265, 1993.

10. Costa VP, Sergott RC, Smith M, Spaeth GL, Wilson RP, Moster MR, Katz LF, Schmidt CS: Color Doppler Imaging in Glaucoma Patients with Asymmetric Optic Cups. J of Glaucoma 3(Suppl):S91-S97, 1994.

11. Rapuano CJ, Schmidt CM, Cohen EJ, Rajpal RK, Raber IM, Katz LJ, Wilson RP, Laibson PR, Kremer I: Results of Alloplastic Tube Shunt Procedures Before, During, or After Penetrating Keratoplasty. Cornea 14:26-32, 1995.

12. Costa, VP, Wilson RP, Moster MR, Schmidt CM, Gandham S, Smith M. The Intraoperative Use of Mitomycin C in Refractive Glaucoma. Revista Brasileira De Oftalmologia 54:7-13, 1995.

13. Araujo SV, Bond JB, Wilson RP, Moster MR, Schmidt CM, Spaeth GL: Long-term Effect of Apraclonidine. Br J. Ophthalmol, 79/12:1098-1101, Dec 1995.

14. Leen MM, Moster MR, Katz LJ, Terebuh AK, Schmidt CM, Spaeth, GL: Management of Overfiltering and Leaking Blebs with Autologous Blood Injection. Archives of Ophthalmology, 113:1050-1055, August 1995.

15. Schmidt CM, Katz LF, Moster MR: “Formula Revealed!”, Ophthalmology, Letter to the Editor 103; 700, May 1996.

16. Yan KJ, Moster MR, Azuara-Blaco A, Wilson RP, Araujo SV, Schmidt CM: “Mitomycin-C Supplemental Trabeculectomy, Phacoemulsification, and Foldable Lens Implantation”. Journal of Cataract Refractive Surgery, 23:565-569, May 1997.

17. Wilson RP, Chang WJ, Sergott RC, Moster MR, Schmidt CM, Bond JB, Harris A: “A Color Doppler Analysis of Nifedipince-Induced Posterior Ocular Blood Flow Changes in Open Angle Glaucoma”, Journal of Glaucoma, 6:231-236, August 1997.

18. Blanco AA, Bond JB, Wilson RP, Moster MR, Schmidt CM: “Encapsulated filtering Blebs After Trabeculectomy with Mitomycin-C”. Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers 28:805-809, October 1997.

19. Azuara-Blanco A, Moster MR, Wilson RP, Schmidt CM: “Simultaneous Use of Mitomycin-C with Baerveldt Implantation”. Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers 28;12:992-997, December 1997.

20. Azuara-Blanco A, Wilson RP, Spaeth GL, Schmidt CM, Augsburger JJ: Filtration Procedures Supplemented with Mitomycin C in the Management of Childhood Glaucoma”. BJ Ophthalmol 83:151-156, Februrary 1999.

21. Wilson RP, Moster MD, Schmidt CM, Spaeth GL, et al: “Reversal of Optic Disc Cupping After Glaucoma Surgery Analyzed with a Scanning Laser Tomograph”. Ophthalmology, Vol. 106, No. 5; 1013-1018, May 1999.

22. Kim DK, Aslanides IM, Schmidt CM, Wilson RP, et al: “Long-term Outcome of Aqueous Shunt Surgery in Ten Patients with Iridocorneal Endothelial Syndromes”. Ophthalmology, Vol. 106, No. 5; 1030-1034, May 1999.

23. Henderer JD, Heeg MC, Moster MR, Myers JS, Schmidt CM, et al: “A Randomized Trial of the Long-term Effects of Digital Ocular Compressions in the Late Postoperative Period”. Journal of Glaucoma, Vol. 10, No. 4; 266-270, August 2001.

PRESENTATIONS LOCAL

Schmidt CM, Katz LJ: “Use of Cyanoacrylate Tissue Adhesive in the Management of Leaking Filtration Blebs”, Pennsylvania Academy of Ophthalmology Annual Meeting, Hershey PA, June 1990.

Moster MR, Wilson RP, Schmidt CM, Oh Y: “Combined Double Plate Molteno Tube Shunt and Trabeculectomy with Releasable Sutures”. Wills Eye Hospital Annual Conference, Philadelphia PA, April 1991.

Chien AM, Schmidt CM, Rajpal RK, Sperber LT: “Acute Glaucoma after Penetrating Keratoplasty”. Wills Eye Hospital Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 1992.

Schmidt CM, Wilson RP, Katz LJ, Moster MR: “Combined Glaucoma Surgery and Secondary Suture Posterior Chamber IOL’s: Technique and Experience”. Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, April 1992.

Moster MR, Ko P, Wilson RP, Schmidt CM: “The Effect of Sodium Hyaluronate on Intraocular Pressure after Trabeculectomy”. Wills Eye Hospital Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 1992.

Moster MR, Wilson RP, Schmidt CM: “Management of Overfiltering and Leaking Blebs with Autologous Blood Injection”. Paper presentation: 46th Annual Wills Eye Conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 21-22, 1994.

Schmidt CM, Gedde S, Bond JB, Moster MR: “Preliminary Experience with the Ahmed Tube Shunt”. Paper presentation: 46th Annual Wills Eye Hospital Conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 21-22, 1994.

Bond JB, Wilson RP, Moster MR, Schmidt CM: “Incidence of Bleb Encapsulation After Glaucoma Filtering Procedures Done with Mitomycin”. Paper presentation: 47th Annual Wills Eye Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 16-19, 1995.

Schmidt CM, Gedde S, Bond JB, Moster MR: “Preliminary Experience with the Ahmed Tube Shunt”. Paper presentation: 47th Annual Wills Eye Hospital Conference: Philadelphia, PA, March 16-19, 1995.

Bond JBB, Schmidt CM, Katz LJ, Spaeth GL: “Optic Nerve Damage in the Patient with Glaucoma and Optic Nerve Drusen”. Presented: 48th Annual Wills Eye Hospital Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 16, 1996.

Faculty: Wills Eye Hospital, Glaucoma Update, Gonioscopic Evaluation and Management, “Gonioscopy: How It Helps in Diagnosis and Treatment”, Philadelphia, PA, February 1, 1997.

Faculty: Glaucoma Update: Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, February 15, 1997.

Invited Lecturer: “Visual Fields” Ophthalmology Residents, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, February 20, 1997.

Schmidt CM, Bond JB, Katz LF, Moster MR: “Results of Brimonidine Use in Apraclonidine Allergic Patients”. Paper presentation: 49th Annual Wills Eye Hospital Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 20, 1997.

Aslanides IM, Schmidt CM, Spaeth GL, Lanzl I: “Use of Autologous Scleral Flap in Tube Shunt Surgery”. Paper presentation: 49th Annual Wills Eye Hospital Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 20, 1997.

Invited Lecturer: “Filtration Procedures, Pitfalls and Perils”, Riverview Hospital, Redbank, NJ, October 8, 1997.

Speaker: “Medical Treatments for Glaucoma and Their Side Effects”. Lecture series: Wills Eye Hospital’s Patient Support Group, Philadelphia, PA, November 9, 1997.

Glaucoma Service Faculty Panel: “Understanding Glaucoma: Case Presentations Stressing Perimetry”, Wills Eye Hospital, February 28, 1998.

Co-Moderator Late Afternoon Workshop, “The Prozac-free Guide to Managing the Post-Operative Glaucoma Patient”: 50th Annual Wills Eye Hospital Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 12, 1998.

Schmidt CM, Bond JB, Kim DD, Katz LJ: “Use of Multiple Tube Shunts in Refractory Glaucoma”, Paper presentation: 50th Annual Wills Eye Hospital Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 13, 1998.

Faculty: Wills Eye Hospital Glaucoma Update, Handling Glaucoma Disasters: Avoiding, Recognizing, and Managing Major Problems; “Suprachoroidal Hemorrhage: Avoidance and Coping”, Philadelphia, PA, October 24, 1998.

Faculty: Wills Eye Hospital Glaucoma Core Lecture, “Medications: What, When, Why, How and What Dangers?” January 7, 1999.

Invited Lecturer: “Gonioscopy and the Management of Angle Closure Glaucoma”, Ophthalmology Residents, Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, PA, January 22, 1999.

Invited Lecturer: “Congenital and Developmental Glaucomas”, Ophthalmology Residents, Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, PA, October 29, 1999.

Moster MR, Kansall S, Schmidt CM, Wilson RP: “Patient Comfort with the Use of “Blitz” Anesthesia Versus Retrobular Anesthesia in Glaucoma Surgery”; paper presentation: 52nd Annual Wills Eye Hospital Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 9-11, 2000.

Invited Lecturer: “Update in the Medical Management of Glaucoma”, Lehigh Valley Ophthalmological Society. Allentown, PA, May 9, 2000.

Lecture to the Wills Eye Hospital Residents, “Medical and Surgical Management of Glaucoma”. March 22, 2001, Philadelphia, PA.

Workshop Moderator: “When and How to Place and Release Releasable Sutures in Glaucoma Surgery”. 53rd Annual Wills Eye Hospital Conference, Philadelphia, PA,
March 29, 2001.

Invited Lecturer: “Update on the Management of Glaucoma”. Reading Ophthalmological Society, Reading, PA, May 9, 2001.

Invited Lecturer: “Medical Treatment of Glaucoma”. Wills Eye Hospital Residents, Philadelphia, PA, October 11, 2001.

Invited Lecturer: “New Glaucoma Therapies for 2002”. Ophthalmic Club of Philadelphia, December 3, 2001.

Open Discussions: “Glaucoma and the Natural Lens”. Wills Eye Glaucoma Service & Foundation, March 2, 2005.

PRESENTATIONS NATIONAL

Schmidt CM, Katz LJ, Spaeth GL “Use of cyanoacrylate tissue adhesive in the management of leaking filtration blebs”. AAO Annual Meeting, New Orleans, October 1989.

Faculty: “Mistakes in the Medical and Laser Management of Glaucoma”. Presented: Wills Eye Hospital Winter Seminar: “An Update for the Comprehensive Ophthalmologist”. Rancho Mirage, CA February 27-28, 1997.

Invited Speaker: “Filtration Procedures; Pitfalls and Perils” Riverview Hospital Physicians, Red Bank, NJ October 8, 1997.

Lecturer: International Society of Spaeth Fellows Annual Pre-Academy Meeting, “Hypotony Retinopathy/Maculopathy After Filtration Surgery”. New Orleans, LA, November 8, 1998.

Faculty: Wills Eye Hospital Annual Glaucoma Conference, “Hypotony-Various Causes and Management” and “Combined Cataract-Trabeculectomy Procedures-Our Approaches”. St. John, US Virgin Islands February 4-6, 1999.

Invited Lecturer: “Update in Medical Management of Glaucoma”. Suffolk County Ophthalmological Society, Long Island, NY December 22, 2000.

Faculty: Wills Eye Hospital 24th Annual Glaucoma Conference, “Refractive Surgery and the Glaucoma Patient”. St. John, US Virgin Islands February 8, 2001.

Instructor: “Phcoemulsification in the Glaucoma Patient”. Skills Transfer Lab, AAO Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA November 13, 2001.

POSTERS

Schmidt CM, Wilson RP, Steinmann WC, Spaeth GL: “Suture Type Affects Tenon’s Cyst Incidence in Limbal-Based Trabeculectomy”. Poster Presentation at ARVO Meeting, Sarasota, FL May 1, 1990.

Moster M, Costa VP, Wilson RP, Schmidt CM: “Complications of Topical Intraoperative Subconjunctival Mitomycin-C in Glaucoma Filtration Surgery”. Poster presentation: ARVO Meeting, Sarasota, FL May, 1993.

Costa VP, Sergott RC, Spaeth GL, Moster MR, Katz LJ, Schmidt CM, Wilson RP, Smith M: “Color Doppler Imaging in Glaucoma Patients with Asymmetric Optic Cups”. Poster presentation: ARVO Meeting Sarasota, FL May 1993.

Trible JR, Sergott RC, Spaeth GL, Wilson RP, Katz LJ, Moster MR, Schmidt CM: “Color Doppler Analysis of Hemodynamic Alterations in Glaucoma Patients after Trabeculectomy”. Poster presentation: ARVO Meeting, Sarasota, FL May 1993.

Wahl SM, Wilson RP, Moster MR, Schmidt CM, Smith M, Mansukani SM, Boes DA, Spaeth GL: “Retinal Detachment in Pigment Dispersion Syndrome and Pigmentary Glaucoma”. Poster presentation: ARVO Meeting, Sarasota, FL 1994.

Moster MR, Marr B, Bond JB, Wilson RP, Schmidt CM: “The Simultaneous Use of Mitomycin-C with Tube Shunt Procedures for Intractable Glaucoma”. Poster presentation: ARVO Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, FL 1995.

Marr B, Moster MR, Schwartz L, Wilson RP, Bond JB, Schmidt CM: “Glaucoma Filtering Surgery in Patients With Cicatricial Pemphigoid”. Poster presentation: ARVO Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 1995.

Yang KJ, Woldorf AH, Araujo SV, Wilson RP, Moster MR, Schmidt CM, Bond JB: “Long-term Results of Combined Phacoemulsification/Trabeculectomy with Mitomycin-C”. Poster presentation: ARVO Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 1995.

Araujo SV, Bond JB, Wilson RP, Moster MR, Schmidt CM, Spaeth GL: “The Effect of Continuing Use of Added Apraclonidine Hydrochloride on the Intraocular Pressure of Glaucoma Patients”. Poster presentation: ARVO Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, FL 1995.

Lu DW, Yang KJ, Augusto-Azura-Blanco A, Marr B, Schmidt CM, Wilson RP, Moster MR: “The Effect of Simultaneous Use of Mitomycin-C on Baerveldt Implantation”. Scientific poster presentation: AAO, Atlanta GA, 1995.

Schmidt CM, Bond JB, Moster MR, Wilson RP: “Conjunctival Epithelial Defect Incidence after Mitomycin Antifibrosis in Trabeculectomy”. Scientific poster presentation: AAO, Atlanta, GA, 1995.

Moster MR, Marr B, Bond JB, Wilson RP, Schmidt CM: “The Simultaneous of Mitomycin-C with the Tube Shunt Procedures for Intractable Glaucoma”. Scientific poster presentation: AAO, Atlanta, GA, 1995.

Marr B, Moster MR, Schwartz L, Wilson RP, Bond JB, Schmidt CM: “Glaucoma Filtering Surgery in Ptients with Cicatricial Pemphigoid”. Scientific poster presentation: AAO, Atlanta, GA 1995.

Araujo SV, Bond JB, Wilson RP, Moster MR, Schmidt CM, Spaeth GL: “The Effect of Continuing Use of Added Apraclonidine Hydrochloride on the Intraocular Pressure of Glaucoma Patients”. Scientific poster presentation: AAO, Atlanta, GA 1995.

Yang KJ, Woldorf SV< Araujo SV, Wilson RP, Moster MR, Schmidt CM, Bond JB: “Long-term Results of Combined Phacoemulsification/Trabeculectomy with Mitomycin-C”. Scientific poster presentation: AAO, Atlanta, GA 1995.

Halikiopoulos D, Moster MR, Azuara-Blanco A, Wilson RP, Schmidt CM: “The Outcome of the Functioning Filter after Trabeculectomy Surgery And Subsequent Cataract Extraction”. Scientific poster presentation: AAO, Chicago, IL, 1996.

Halikiopoulos D, Moster MR, Azuara-Blanco A, Wilson RP, Schmidt CM: “The Outcome of the Functioning Filter after Trabeculectomy Surgery and Subsequent Cataract Extraction”. Poster presentation: Wills Eye Hospital 49th Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 1997.

Flaherty KJ, Moster MR, Wilson RP, Schmidt CM, Spaeth GL, Katz LJ, Eid TE, Aslanides I, Gandham SB, Collur S, Azuara A, Lanzl IM: “Evaluation of Subjective Patient Comfort with Latanoprost Use”. Poster presentation: Annual ARVO Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 1997.

Henderer JD, Heeg MC, Myers JS, Moster MR, Schmidt CM, Katz LJ, Spaeth GL: “Long-term Effects of Digital Ocular Compression in the Late Post-Operative Period”, Poster presentation: Annual ARVO Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 2000.

ABSTRACTS

Samuelson TW, Wilson RP, Steinmann WC, Schmidt CM, Katz LJ, Spaeth GL, Moster MR: “A Prospective Randomized Trial Comparing The Effect of Routine Post-Operative Medications on 5-Fluorouracil Induced Corneal Toxicity Following Glaucoma Surgery”. Published Abstract: ARVO, Sarasota, FL, 1992.

Baez KA, Moster MR, Gandham S, Wilson RP, Schmidt CM: “Combined Cataract and Glaucoma Surgery with and without the Use of 5-Fluorouracil A Randomized Prospective Study", Published Abstract, AAO, 1993.

Schmidt CM, Bond JB, Moster MR, Wilson RP: “Conjunctival Epithelial Defect Incidence After Mitomycin Antifibrosis in Trabeculectomy”. Published abstract: ARVO, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 1995.

Moster MR, Marr B, Bond JB, Wilson RP, Schmidt CM: “The Simultaneous Use of Mitomycin C with Tube Shunt Procedures for Intractable Glaucoma, Published Abstract”. ARVO, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 1995.

Wilson RP, Araujo SV, Azuara-Blanco A, Moster MR, Schmidt CM: “Aqueous Shunts for Intractable Glaucoma in Infants”. Published Abstract: ARVO, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 1996.

Araujo SV, Augsburger JJ, Spaeth GL, Azuara-Blanco A, Wilson RP, Moster MR, Schmidt CM: “Agreement Between clinical and Ultrasound Biomicroscopy Findings in Different Types of Glaucoma”. Published abstract: ARVO, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 1996.

Wilson RP, Araujo SV, Azuara-Blanco A, Moster MR, Schmidt CM: “Aqueous Shunts for Intractable Glaucoma in Infants”. Published Abstract: ARVO, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 1996.

Flaherty KJ, Moster MR, Wilson RP, Schmidt CM, Spaeth, GL, et. al. “Evaluation of Subjective Patient Comfort with Latanprost Use”. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science: AAO, San Francisco, CA 1997.