Dr. Michael J. Pro

The Wills Eye Hospital has a very busy Glaucoma department training three clinical Fellows per year as well as numerous research Fellows. In addition to the surgical and clinical training of the clinical Fellows, Dr. Pro is involved in resident Glaucoma education. Aside from clinical practice, Dr. Pro is a frequent lecturer regionally and nationally. Dr. Pro is a member of several medical associations including the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Glaucoma Society, and the Pennsylvania Medical Society. He is a past President of the Greater Philadelphia Ophthalmic Society. His expertise includes all types of glaucoma treatment and surgeries, including state-of-the-art minimally invasive surgeries such as Gonitomy procedures, Hydrus micro stent, and istent devices, which are frequently combined with cataract surgery. His research interests include novel glaucoma surgical techniques and devices. He has published studies in numerous peer-reviewed journals and is a peer reviewer for the Journal of Glaucoma and Graefe’s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology.  He teaches an instructional course that he initiated on Glaucoma Drainage Devices (tube shunts) at the annual American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting.  He has been the course director and organizer for the annual Glaucoma Update, a part of the Saturday Update Courses at Wills Eye Hospital.