Professor of Ophthalmology, University Iowa College of Medicine

Ophthalmology

Wallace L. Alward practices Ophthalmology. He went to medical school at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He received 3 awards: "America's Top Doctors", "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification" and "Fellow (FAAO)". Dr. Wallace L. Alward is also published. He has 100 publications published. The lastest publication: "Medical management of glaucoma.' He accepts Medicare payments and is listed with Medicare.gov.

Publications

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• Boston type 1 keratoprosthesis for primary congenital Glaucoma.
• IridoCorneal Endothelial Syndrome in a 14-Year-Old Male.
• Heterozygous triplication of upstream regulatory sequences leads to dysregulation of matrix metalloproteinase 19 in patients with cavitary optic disc anomaly.
• A Vector Force Model of Upper Eyelid Position in the Setting of a Trabeculectomy Bleb.
• Movement of Retinal Vessels to Optic Nerve Head with IntraOcular Pressure Elevation in a Child.
• The Centennial of Modern Gonioscopy.
• Graft Survival Versus Glaucoma Treatment After Penetrating or Descemet Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty.
• Successful Long-term Management of Iris Flocculi and Miosis in a Patient With a Strong Family History of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms and Dissections Associated With an M...
• Thin Central Corneal Thickness and Early-Onset Glaucoma in Lacrimo-auriculo-dento-digital Syndrome.
• Identification of Proteins that Interact with TANK Binding Kinase 1 and Testing for Mutations Associated with Glaucoma.
• Analysis of ASB10 variants in open angle Glaucoma.
• Circumferential Iris Transillumination Defects in Exfoliation Syndrome.
• Assessment of SNPs associated with the human glucocorticoid receptor in primary open-angle Glaucoma and steroid responders.
• Genetic analysis of PITX2 and FOXC1 in Rieger Syndrome patients from Brazil.
• Glaucoma therapy escalation in eyes with pseudophakic corneal Edema after penetrating keratoplasty and Descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty.
• Robust multiscale stereo matching from fundus images with radiometric differences.
• Copy number variations on chromosome 12q14 in patients with normal tension Glaucoma.
• Chromosome 7q31 POAG locus: Ocular expression of caveolins and lack of association with POAG in a US cohort.
• Copy number variations and primary open-angle Glaucoma.
• Genome-wide analysis of copy number variants in age-related Macular degeneration.
• A history of gonioscopy.
• Escalation of Glaucoma therapy after deep lamellar endothelial keratoplasty.
• A case-control comparison of the clinical characteristics of Glaucoma and ocular hypertensive patients with and without the myocilin Gln368Stop mutation.
• Rate and pattern of visual field decline in primary open-angle Glaucoma.
• Variations in the myocilin gene in patients with open-angle Glaucoma.
• Progressive axial myopia in a juvenile patient with traumatic Glaucoma.
• Automated segmentation of the cup and rim from spectral domain OCT of the optic nerve head.
• Variance owing to observer, repeat imaging, and fundus camera type on cup-to-disc ratio estimates by stereo planimetry.
• Primary open-angle Glaucoma.
• How I choose a prostaglandin analogue.
• Lyst mutation in mice recapitulates iris defects of human exfoliation Syndrome.
• LOXL1 mutations are associated with exfoliation Syndrome in patients from the midwestern United States.
• Heritable features of the optic disc: a novel twin method for determining genetic significance.
• Concordance of diurnal intraocular pressure between fellow Eyes in primary open-angle glaucoma.
• Diurnal fluctuation and concordance of intraocular pressure in Glaucoma suspects and normal tension Glaucoma patients.
• Automated segmentation of the optic disc from stereo color photographs using physiologically plausible features.
• Familial cavitary optic disk anomalies: identification of a novel genetic locus.
• Familial cavitary optic disk anomalies: clinical features of a large family with examples of progressive optic nerve head cupping.
• No association between variations in the WDR36 gene and primary open-angle Glaucoma.
• Progressive iris changes in a case of Axenfeld-Rieger Syndrome.
• Analysis of RNA splicing defects in PITX2 mutants supports a gene dosage model of Axenfeld-Rieger Syndrome.
• The C677T variant in the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene is not associated with disease in cohorts of pseudoexfoliation Glaucoma and primary open-angle glauco...
• Retinal synthesis and deposition of complement components induced by Ocular hypertension.
• Gonioscopy in primary angle closure Glaucoma.
• Macular degeneration and glaucoma-like optic nerve head cupping.
• Atypical Pigment dispersion syndrome in a child.
• Evaluation of optineurin sequence variations in 1,048 patients with open-angle Glaucoma.
• Rate of optic disc cup progression in treated primary open-angle Glaucoma.
• Biomedicine. A new angle on Ocular development.
• A family with Axenfeld-Rieger Syndrome and Peters Anomaly caused by a point mutation (Phe112Ser) in the FOXC1 gene.
• Myocilin Glaucoma.
• Screening for mutations of Axenfeld-Rieger Syndrome caused by FOXC1 gene in Japanese patients.
• Rate of visual field loss and long-term visual outcome in primary open-angle Glaucoma.
• Expression of the Glaucoma gene myocilin (MYOC) in the human optic nerve head.
• A spectrum of FOXC1 mutations suggests gene dosage as a mechanism for developmental defects of the anterior chamber of the eye.
• Long-term results of Eyes with penetrating keratoplasty and glaucoma drainage tube implant.
• Non-secretion of mutant proteins of the Glaucoma gene myocilin in cultured trabecular meshwork cells and in aqueous humor.
• Evaluation of the myocilin (MYOC) Glaucoma gene in monkey and human steroid-induced ocular hypertension.
• Rieger Syndrome: a clinical, molecular, and biochemical analysis.
• The genetics of open-angle Glaucoma: the story of GLC1A and myocilin.
• Localization of MYOC transcripts in human eye and optic nerve by in situ hybridization.
• Axenfeld-Rieger Syndrome in the age of molecular genetics.
• Correlation of automated visual field parameters and peripapillary nerve fiber layer thickness as measured by scanning laser polarimetry.
• Haploinsufficiency of the transcription factors FOXC1 and FOXC2 results in aberrant Ocular development.
• Frequency doubling technology perimetry for the detection of Glaucomatous visual field loss.
• Combination of autologous blood injection and bleb compression sutures to treat Hypotony maculopathy.
• Myositis associated with a Baerveldt Glaucoma implant.
• Expression of the Mf1 gene in developing mouse hearts: implication in the development of human congenital heart defects.
• Expression pattern and in situ localization of the mouse homologue of the human MYOC (GLC1A) gene in adult brain.
• Analysis of myocilin mutations in 1703 Glaucoma patients from five different populations.
• Control of intraOcular pressure after trabeculectomy.
• Medical management of Glaucoma.
• A novel homeobox gene PITX3 is mutated in families with autosomal-dominant Cataracts and ASMD.
• The forkhead transcription factor gene FKHL7 is responsible for Glaucoma phenotypes which map to 6p25.
• Characterization and comparison of the human and mouse GLC1A Glaucoma genes.
• Clinical features associated with mutations in the chromosome 1 open-angle Glaucoma gene (GLC1A)
• Autosomal dominant iris hypoplasia is caused by a mutation in the Rieger Syndrome (RIEG/PITX2) gene.
• Unilateral pigment dispersion and Glaucoma caused by angle recession.
• Nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy: role of nocturnal arterial hypotension.
• A randomized study of mitomycin augmentation in combined phacoemulsification and trabeculectomy.
• Identification of a gene that causes primary open angle Glaucoma.
• Incomplete elimination of exercise-induced Pigment dispersion by laser iridotomy in Pigment dispersion syndrome.
• Cloning and characterization of a novel bicoid-related homeobox transcription factor gene, RIEG, involved in Rieger Syndrome.
• Fine mapping of the autosomal dominant juvenile open angle Glaucoma (GLC1A) region and evaluation of candidate genes.
• Molecular genetics of Glaucoma: current status.
• Genetic linkage of familial open angle Glaucoma to chromosome 1q21-q31.
• Clinical features and linkage analysis of a family with autosomal dominant juvenile Glaucoma.
• A placebo for mitomycin C.
• Experimental endoscopic goniotomy. A potential treatment for primary infantile Glaucoma.
• Asymmetric pigmentary Glaucoma caused by unilateral angle recession.
• Low-energy argon laser suture lysis after trabeculectomy.
• Nocturnal arterial hypotension and its role in optic nerve head and ocular ischemic Disorders.
• Aggressive nevus of the iris with secondary Glaucoma in a child.
• Combined phacoemulsification, posterior chamber intraocular Lens implantation, and trabeculectomy with mitomycin C.
• Linkage of posterior polymorphous Corneal dystrophy to 20q11.
• Tenon's cyst formation after trabeculectomy with mitomycin C.
• Linkage of autosomal dominant iris hypoplasia to the region of the Rieger Syndrome locus (4q25).
• Marked intraOcular pressure rise following blood injection into a filtering bleb.
• Pigment dispersion secondary to cysts of the iris Pigment epithelium.

Schools

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• Ohio State University College of Medicine

• University Hosps

• University Of Louisville

• Bascom Palmer University Miami

Procedures Preformed

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• Anterior Vitrectomy
• Cataract Removal Surgery
• Cornea Transplant
• Destruction of Lesion of Retina and Choroid
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Conditions Treated

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• Acute Endophthalmitis
• Age-Related Macular Degeneration
• Aphakia and Other Disorders of Lens
• Astigmatism
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Doctors Specialties

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• Ophthalmology

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• America's Top Doctors
• CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
• Fellow (FAAO)

Education

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• Jackson Memorial Hospital - Jackson Health System
• University of Louisville
• University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
• The Ohio State University College of Medicine

Drug Facts

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NPI NUMBER		1063413417
NPPES Provider LastName		ALWARD
NPPES Provider FirstName		WALLACE
NPPES Provider ZIPCode		522421009
NPPES Provider State		IA
Specialty Description		Ophthalmology
Total Claim Count		1808.0
Distinct Opioid Count		0.0
Opioid Claim Count		0.0
Percent Opioid Claims		0.0

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Medicare Facts

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1063413417
Last Name Of The Provider	ALWARD
First Name Of The Provider	WALLACE
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