Sara Wester ((new)) Jun 2026

: Her research demonstrated that teprotumumab significantly reduces proptosis (eye bulging) and diplopia (double vision), offering an alternative to invasive orbital decompression surgery.

: Her clinical expertise spans cosmetic and reconstructive eyelid surgery, orbital tumors, and trauma. sara wester

The title essay is a standout. Wester describes watching a stranger hold a coffee cup—too tightly, pinky out, thumb over the rim—and uses that image to unravel a thirty-page meditation on shame and upbringing. She writes: “We are not taught to hold things. We are taught to hold them as we were held. Awkwardly. Desperately. With too much force where tenderness is required.” This is Wester at her best: taking the microscopic and expanding it into a universe. She does not offer solutions. She offers better questions. Wester describes watching a stranger hold a coffee

Here is a write-up regarding her career and impact. Awkwardly

: Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (BPEI) at the University of Miami.