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One physician shared how switching out the typical top on a glaucoma medication for the Nanodropper Adaptor, a screw-on cap that delivers a smaller drop of the medication, has helped her glaucoma patients from a compliance standpoint.
ASOA wants your help in encouraging practices to update contact information on their websites. This is part of a collaborative effort between ASOA and their industry partners as they work toward solving the recurring theme of “who do I contact at the practice for different business opportunities?”
While there a lot of different technologies that can give patients excellent refractive results after cataract surgery, this area keeps expanding and improving. As more options become available, it increases the complexity of talking to patients. This is what the symposium Having “The Talk” focused on at the 2024 ASCRS Annual Meeting.
Highlighting the importance of advocacy and political involvement for ASCRS members, longtime political observer and campaign expert Charlie Cook was this year’s guest speaker at the ASCRS Government Relations symposium during the 2024 ASCRS Annual Meeting. He discussed politics and the upcoming election and took questions from the audience.
In “Navigating Real-World Obstacles to Digital Transformation in Your Practice,” a session sponsored by the Digital Clinical Committee during the 2024 ASCRS Annual Meeting, one presentation focused on an up-and-coming training tool—Alchemy Vision—that seeks to achieve several goals.
The 42nd ASCRS Film Festival was held on Sunday, April 7 at the ASCRS Annual Meeting. Here are the winners, including the Grand Prize winner.
Vance Thompson, MD, said he is very much looking forward to his new role as ASCRS President. “Over the years, ASCRS has played such a large part in my education and networking with fellow ophthalmologists and industry and my interest in research and development,” he said.
Elizabeth Yeu, MD, having served as ASCRS president for the past year, reflected on her tenure and the future of the Society.
One might think that the topic of ocular dominance is simple, set, well understood. But there are some recent findings that might have an impact on the concept and its relevance to lens selection and target setting for monovision and blended vision.
Among the important indications for use of the EVO ICL (STAAR Surgical)—age, amount of myopia, astigmatism correction, etc.—there is one parameter that some surgeons say could be causing confusion. Five of these surgeons discussed anterior chamber depth.