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Proliferative retinopathy leads to risk of sight loss

Thomas Wong, OD, FNAP, is an Associate Clinical Professor at the SUNY College of Optometry serving as both the Director of Clinical Externships and New Technologies focused on innovative ophthalmic technologies improving patient outcomes, ocular disease, contact lenses, bioethics, clinical research, and medical informatics.

Applying precision medication to glaucoma and genomics

OCT helps diagnose retinoschisis in glaucoma patients 

Diagnosing and treating diabetic macular edema (DME) can pose a challenge for ODs. A. Paul Chous, OD, MA, FAAO, CDE, examines a case of non-center involved DME and the challenges he faced when treating one patient.

Improving visual function, retinal integrity in DME patient

Dr. Rachel Grant received her Doctor of Optometry degree in 2012 from Southern California College of Optometry. She completed a postgraduate residency in ocular disease and primary care at Hu Hu Kam Memorial Hospital. She is actively involved in volunteer

The next patient sitting in your chair may have narrow angles. Find out how to best diagnose and manage patients with narrow angles; it can have a significant long-term impact on their visual outcome.

Diagnosing and managing patients with narrow angles

Christina Petrou received her Doctor of Optometry in 1990 from the Illinois College of Optometry and undertook dual residencies at Chicago’s West Side Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center in hospital-based optometry and ophthalmologic comanagement 

Spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) has grown in importance to optometric patient care. One OD shares her experience of moving from quarterly use of a rented device to purchasing an OCT for her small private practice and how it has improved clinical care and patient education.

How OCT can help a smaller practice

Dr. Radoiu is a Diplomate and immediate past chair of the American Academy of Optometry’s Comprehensive Eye Care Section. He is a candidate for a master’s degree in public health at Salus University and graduated from the Michigan College of Optometry at 

Angioid streaks are a rare but potentially visually debilitating condition that present a unique challenge to the average eyecare provider. Learning to recognize its clinical presentation is just a start in an often difficult diagnosis to differentiate it from other similar retinal presentations. Ultimately understanding its association with a variety of systemic diseases is essential in successfully identifying and mitigating its link to vision loss.

How to diagnose angioid streaks

Is retinal specialist at Retina Macula Specialists of Miami.

Is retinal specialist at Retina Macula Specialists of Miami

Dr. Shechtman is a former professor at Nova Southeastern University College of Optometry. She is an advisor to Carl Zeiss Meditec, a consultant for Genentech, and serves on the advisory board for Bausch + Lomb, Allergan, Alcon Nutritional Dept., and Scien

Creating a partnership between the optometrists and retinal practices will enhance the care of patients and serve as a continuing source of education and reference for the OD community. This constant communication will help diabetic patients who are suffering from this multifactorial disease that affects their bodies. DR must be addressed from the optometrist’s point of view, retinal specialist’s point of view, and the primary-care physician’s point of view.

Using imaging to manage diabetic retinopathy

Times are changing, and the amount of information coming at us from all directions can easily be overwhelming. This information-whether true or false-is unrelenting and has increased in magnitude over the past five years. Part of it may be the natural progression of one’s career and the expansion of one’s network, but most of it is just the sheer volume that is at our fingertips.

Leveraging the evidence for patient care today

Recognize characteristics and stages of macular hole for better pictures