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His father was the prominent tuberculosis specialist R. S. Gass. Donald Gass moved as a child with his family from Canada to
Nashville. He received in 1950 his bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University and then served from 1950 to 1953 in the U.S. Navy as an active line officer during the Korean
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The book, "Stereoscopic Atlas of
Macular Diseases: Diagnosis and Treatment," describes several hundred congenital, infectious, age-related and inflammatory eye diseases. Illustrating those disorders with photographs and drawings, the work is widely known as Gass's Atlas and is now in its fourth
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bloodstream, invading the area between the retina and choroid and causing severe vision loss in one eye.
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edition. In preparing his book, Dr. Gass helped to pioneer the use of
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J. Donald Gass M. D. Vanderbilt Alumni Award - YouTube
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