Timothy P. Powers, M.D., an eye surgeon on the staff of Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge, will discuss the various treatment options at the next Women's Center brown bag lunch. He will also look at the evaluation and diagnosis of glaucoma.

The program is scheduled Tuesday, Jan. 20 at 12 noon in the main lobby of Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge. Timothy P. Powers, M.D., an eye surgeon on the Methodist staff, will be the guest speaker. Free glaucoma screenings will be offered from 10 a.m. until noon in the lobby.

Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases, rather than one disease, in which excess fluid builds up and increases pressure in the eyes. Untreated, it damages the optic nerve and vision becomes progressively worse. The person loses peripheral vision, then tunnel vision, and eventually becomes totally blind, Powers explained.

The guest speaker, who is associated with The Eye Center of Oak Ridge, graduated from the Quillen-Dishner College of Medicine. He completed a residency in anatomic pathology at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, as well as a residency in ophthalmology and a fellowship in ophthalmic pathology at the Medical University of South Carolina.

In addition to his surgical practice at The Eye Center of Oak Ridge, Powers is an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville in ocular pathology. He is also a contributing author of scientific publications and ophthalmology textbooks.

Powers and his wife, Billy Von, live in Claxton with their two-year-old son, John Paul.