Dr. Brooks J. Poley, MD, now a Bluffton resident, spoke with us about his work and study into the causes of adult glaucoma, its prevention and its treatment. Dr. Poley, who was born in 1933, grew up in OmahaNebraska, where he worked high school summers on a cattle ranch in the sand hills of western Nebraska. He completed his undergraduate degree at PrincetonUniversity in 1955, and his residency in Ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1964. He practiced ophthalmology for 30 years in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Poley and his wife Liz, married for 52 years, spent many years running the campaign to build the Children's Hospital of Minneapolis and he created the first craniofacial reconstruction team in the Midwest.
His volunteer work included teaching at the University of Minnesota and foreign assignments on the Hope Ship in Jamaica, the KingKalidEyeHospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, surgery on the Orbis Airplane in Abu Dhabi, surgery in Honduras, teaching at SantanaCenter in the Dominican Republic, and surgery in the Turk and Caicos Islands.
Poley holds eight US patents, two that are pending on the Cause, Prevention, and Treatment of Glaucoma. He shared with us the study that he and Richard Lindstrom, MD explored three years ago. They studied 700 eyes to confirm their theory on the cause, prevention and treatment for glaucoma. 
