Eyetube Podcasts

Cohost Blake Williamson, MD, MPH, invites Raymond Stein, MD, from Bochner Eye Institute in Toronto for a conversation about the PanOptix, a presbyopia-correcting IOL that was first approved by the FDA last year. Dr. Stein draws on his extensive experience and shares surgical pearls for US-based surgeons who are acclimating to this new technology.

Cynthia Matossian, MD, discusses the impact that meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) can have on IOL calculations, as seen in the literature and her own practice. She also shares her LipiFlow® protocol for pre-surgical patients with MGD and practice workflow tips to reduce surgical delay.

In this episode, host Gary Wörtz, MD, is joined by residents Cherie Fathy, MD, and David Felsted, DO. They discuss finding their voices as young ophthalmologists and share how they are beginning to establish their own personal brands.

William Wiley, MD; Brandon Ayres, MD; and John Berdahl, MD, join Marguerite McDonald, MD, FACS, to share how they explain the benefits of premium-channel IOLs to patients.

Dry AMD research was a hot topic at this year's ARVO annual meeting. Could ethically sourced stem cells from human embryos provide a solution to this challenging disease? Chris Riemann, MD, shared data from an early phase trial that sought to understand the safety of RPE cells surgically implanted below the retina.

Learn how to preserve and grow your contact lens patient base with advice from practice owner Dana Salgado, OD (1:57). James Deom, OD, MPH, FAAO, offers scleral lens troubleshooting tips (7:45), and Mile Brujic, OD, FAAO, describes how his practice changed over the course of roughly 30 days due to the coronavirus (12:03), while Nicole Harris, OD, shares some of the lessons she's learned during her optometric residency (19:35). As an added bonus, listen to the audio version of MOD's Up Close column (24:50), which poses various questions to different optometric physicians. In this episode we learn more about Jacob Lang, OD, FAAO, Dipl ABO.

The ARVO Board of Trustees had only a few weeks to turn their massive, in-person meeting into a virtual symposium that highlighted the year's biggest advancements in ophthalmology research. Iris Rush, the Executive Director of ARVO, spoke to New Retina Radio about the experience, and spelled out what they learned that can be applied to future ARVO meetings.

Blake K. Williamson, MD, MPH, MS, shares his experience getting LASIK after years of performing refractive surgery on his patients. Dr. Williamson's father, Charles Williamson, MD, performed the surgery using the STAR S4 IR® Excimer Laser System with iDESIGN® Refractive Studio from Johnson & Johnson Vision. Dr. Blake Williamson compares how his expectations for LASIK measure up to his personal postoperative outcome.

Want to take your dry eye practice to the next level? Consider adding ocular aesthetics. Listen as Leslie and Jackie talk with guest Selina McGee, OD, FAAO, about how she got into the aesthetics side of dry eye.

In-person retina conferences are halted, but the flow of data isn't. In this episode of New Retina Radio, Jennifer Lim, MD, breaks down 100-week data from the PANORAMA trial, which she shared at the ARVO virtual meeting. Dr. Lim's presentation may help retina doctors make informed treatment decisions about long-term therapy for nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy.

You've committed to treating patients with dry eye, but in order to treat them, you have to diagnose them. In this episode, Leslie and Jackie talk about establishing a dry eye protocol, what equipment is necessary, testing, and more.

Gary Wörtz, MD, is joined by contributors Nandini Venkateswaran, MD, and Dagny Zhu, MD. Listen as they describe their experiences in ophthalmology training and discuss the challenges of navigating the transition to practice.

Jacob Lang, OD, FAAO, and Laura Capelle, OD, FAAO, kick off this episode with their article on managing glaucoma in 2020, particularly for patients who may be candidates for a micro invasive glaucoma surgery (skip to 1:25). Andrew J. Mackner, OD, then talks about the current state of collaboration between optometry and ophthalmology (skip to 6:39), and Patrick Vollmer, OD, FAAO, explains how he began offering emergency eye care, explaining that it's a much-needed service that is warmly rewarded (skip to 15:22).

National responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have varied. Will responses in the retina clinic look more homogenous than governments' actions have? NRR Guest Host María Berrocal, MD (United States), invites Hai Lu, MD (China), Virgilio Morales-Canton, MD (Mexico), and Martin Charles, MD (Argentina), to discuss how the global retina community will communicate, act, and respond in the months ahead.

Kendall Donaldson, MD, MS; Preeya Gupta, MD; and Marguerite McDonald, MD, FACS, tackle how to explain the value of laser cataract surgery and toric IOLs to patients who have astigmatism.

Protocols have changed significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Which of those procedures are here to stay and which will disappear as the pandemic subsides? NRR host John Kitchens, MD, invites Murtaza "Moo" Adam, MD; David R.P. Almeida, MD, PhD, MBA; and Christina Weng, MD, MBA, to discuss which changes implemented in 2020 will be permanent fixtures in retina practice.

New Retina Radio checks in with different corners of the globe to hear how retina specialists are responding to changing conditions in their nations. NRR host Allen Ho, MD (United States), and guest host Ehab El-Rayes, MD, PhD (Egypt), invite Matteo Forlini, MD (Italy), and Monica Lövestam-Adrian, MD (Sweden), to share their tactics for providing optimal patient care in the wake of a global pandemic.

Hosts Gary Wörtz, MD, and Blake Williamson, MD, MPH, connect with William P. Bahnfleth, PhD, PE, FASHRAE, FASME, FISIAQ, and Traci Hanegan, PE, FASHRAE, to discuss HVAC systems and COVID-19 transmission.

The COVID-19 crisis has forced retina specialists to implement a number of protocols-and wish for a number of technologies. Which of those will endure after the pandemic subsides and which are particular to the moment? NRR host John Kitchens, MD, is joined by Caroline Baumal, MD; María Berrocal, MD; and Judy Kim, MD, to discuss which practices will be rolled into modern protocols, which technologies on the horizon may have greater value in a post-COVID world, and how treatment decisions have (or have not) been adjusted to face today's unique challenges.

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages in some places and subsides in others, retina-focused societies from around the world must provide guidance to their members. How are different organizations doing so? Special guest host and president of the Retina World Congress Tarek Hassan, MD (United States), sits down with Asia-Pacific VitreoRetina Society leadership member Paisan Ruamviboonsuk, MD (Thailand), and Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology Immediate Past-President J. Fernando Arevalo, MD, PhD (United States), and Euretina General Secretary Anat Loewenstein, MD (Israel).