- GlaucomaIncludes consultation, refraction and dilation, Glaucoma and Cataract test. Test for: Crossed eyes, near and far sightedness, and diabetic eye evaluation.
- OphthalmologyDr Nakkash returned to Detroit, MI and started practicing. He joined Wayne State University Kresge Eye Institute and was awarded the academic degree of Clinical Instructor of Ophthalmology. He was assigned to Sinai-Grace Hospitals to teach the ophthalmology residents. As the private practice grew, Dr Nakkash had to reduce the teaching hours but continued attending the Detroit Medical Center (DMC) Wayne State University educational program to the present time.
- Macular DegenerationAfter medical school, Dr Nakkash went into residency in general medicine and surgery. He was accepted in the ophthalmology residency program at Saint Luke Case Western University, Cleveland, OH. He became the Chief Resident in Ophthalmology. Thereafter, Dr Nakkash took a special course in Cleveland Clinic and achieved a certificate in treating macular degeneration. He became one of the pioneers in the photo-dynamic therapy (PDT) utilizing the compound “Vertiporfin” to treat the blood vessels of the retina.
- CataractsDr Nakkash has performed more than thirty thousand major and minor lids procedures, close to twenty thousand retina laser treatments, about ten thousands glaucoma laser surgeries, and more than five thousand cataract extractions with lens implants.
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- Colon CancerDr Nakkash has seen and suffered a great deal of calamities. How can a doctor tell a patient that the life expectancy due to this disease is only up to the third decade of life? How can an ophthalmologist tell an attorney that he might have colon cancer just by looking at his retina? How can an ophthalmologist tell a middle-aged engineer that he might have leukemia? Worst of all: How can an ophthalmologist tell a young mother, a newly-graduate pharmacist that she will go totally blind in the next five to ten years? These are real example that challenges our love for what we do and contest our passion to heal.... To fulfill The Hippocratic Oath: To DO No Harm.... To Relieve Pain!
- ChemotherapyAlchohol, drugs, and many medications are well known with their effects on the eyes, such as steroids, anti-inflammatory drugs, Cancer chemotherapy, hormones, cardiac pills,... etc