CLEVELAND – Matthew Kraay, MD, Director of Joint Reconstruction and Arthritis Surgery at University Hospitals Case Medical Center (UHCMC) and Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, is the recipient of the Kingsbury G. Heiple, MD, and Fred A. Lennon Professor of Orthopaedics Endowed Chair.

The Fred A. Lennon Charitable Trust created the Heiple-Lennon Chair to support research and technology advancements in orthopaedics at UHCMC and Case, while honoring Dr. Kingsbury Heiple, former chairman of the UHCMC Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, for his numerous contributions to the hospital. Fred A. Lennon was the founder of the Swagelok Company, a privately held company that designs, manufactures and delivers an expanding range of the highest-quality, fluid system products and solutions.

CLEVELAND –  University Hospitals Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine announce the results of a first-ever study that bolsters findings of a national study confirming the viability of older corneas for transplant and complements today’s news of the NIH/NEI decade-long Cornea Donor Study (CDS). The unique five-year Specular Microscopy Ancillary Study (SMAS), carried out in Cleveland, analyzed 347 patient images from 80 sites across the United States of those patients who had not experienced graft failure after corneal transplantation.

The results were analyzed at the Specular Microscopy Reading Center (SMRC) located at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center that uses a specialized microscope and techniques to count cells. SMRC was the central reading center involved in the national CDS that followed recipients of cornea transplants. The Cleveland study measured a key layer of cells (endothelial cells) in the back of the cornea responsible for keeping the cornea clear by drawing out water.