Valley Eye Professionals; Wills Eye Hospital
Dr. Jody Piltz-Seymour has provided subspecialty glaucoma care throughout the Philadelphia region for more than 30 years. She is the director of the Glaucoma Care Center at Valley Eye Professionals where she enjoys practicing with her expert partners. Dr. Piltz-Seymour is on the faculty at the Wills Eye Hospital and is an Adjunct Professor of Ophthalmology at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania.
After receiving her medical degree and ophthalmology training from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, she performed her Glaucoma Fellowship at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver under the artful mentorship of Drs. Stephen Drance, Gordon Douglas, and Fredrick Mikelberg. Dr. Piltz-Seymour served as the Director of Glaucoma Services at the Scheie Eye Institute/University of Pennsylvania for 15 years, establishing a glaucoma fellowship program in 1992 and serving as its director for 14 years.
Traveling with Orbis, Unite for Sight, and the Wills Eye Hospital initiative in Rwanda, Dr. Piltz-Seymour has worked with local physicians to advance glaucoma care in the developing world, including Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda, and Vietnam. Collaboratively, she helped develop a comprehensive didactic glaucoma curriculum on the Orbis portal, CyberSight, which can be live streamed internationally and viewed online. Through the CyberSight portal, Dr. Piltz-Seymour lectures virtually, reaching physicians around the globe. In 2016 she was honored with the Humanitarian of the Year award from the Pennsylvania Academy of Ophthalmology.
Dr. Piltz-Seymour has been a clinical researcher throughout her career. She served as principal investigator for the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study, the Collaborative Initial Glaucoma Treatment Study, and the Low-Tension Glaucoma Study. She is currently facilitating a research team at the University of Pennsylvania involved in the study of volatile organic compounds in the identification of ovarian and pancreatic cancer.
Dr. Piltz-Seymour has leadership roles in the major US and international societies, chairing and serving on program committees for AGS, ASCRS, WGC and AAO. Along with Dale Heuer, she has moderated the spirited Super Bowl of Grand Rounds/Cases and Cocktails at AGS for more than a decade. She has received the 2019 American Glaucoma Society Educator of the Year Award, as well as an Achievement Award, Senior Achievement Award, and Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology. She was honored as the Surgery Day Lecturer at the AGS annual meeting 2023. She has been named “Top Doctor” by Philadelphia Magazine/Castle-Connolly since 2019.
