ASCRS•ASOA SYMPOSIUM & CONGRESS, SAN DIEGO 2015
Resolving controversies in anterior segment surgery
by Lauren Lipuma EyeWorld Staff Writer
EyeWorld Daily News • The official ASCRS•ASOA Show Daily
Monday, April 20, 2015
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Leveraging technology to drive the
future of health and medicine
by Lauren Lipuma EyeWorld Staff Writer
W
hen it comes to tech-
nology, physicians
are still practicing old
school medicine, but
it is time to change
their way of thinking, said Daniel
Kraft, MD, San Francisco, this year's
speaker at the ASCRS Lecture on
Science and Medicine.
A renowned physician-scientist,
Dr. Kraft has 20 years of experience
in clinical practice, biomedical
research, and healthcare innovation.
He holds numerous medical device,
immunology, and stem cell-related
patents and has founded several
information technology and bio-
technology companies.
Rather than reacting to rapidly
advancing technologies, physicians
should take a proactive role, leverag-
ing technology to provide the best
care for their patients, Dr. Kraft said.
This is what will bring healthcare
into the modern era.
"We need to think differently
if we're going to reinvent health-
care and address some of the grand
challenges we have in whatever field
we're in," he said. "Technology can
be disruptive, but we should be the
disrupters, not the disruptees."
T
he second annual "60
Minutes" session took place
on Sunday morning with
a focus on controversies in
anterior segment surgery.
In this though-provoking session,
experts in the field shared their
views on 4 major issues cataract and
refractive surgeons face today. Their
ideas were then questioned and de-
bated by ASCRS Young Eye Surgeons
(YES) Clinical Committee members
Elizabeth Yeu, MD, Norfolk, Va.,
John Berdahl, MD, Sioux Falls, S.D.,
and Preeya Gutpa, MD, Durham,
N.C.
Going dropless
Eric D. Donnenfeld, MD, Rockville
Centre, N.Y., presented the first
controversy, dropless drug delivery.
According to Dr. Donnenfeld, this
is an idea whose time has finally
come. Patients go blind every day
because they don't take their medi-
cations, Dr. Donnenfeld said, so effi-
cient drug delivery represents a huge
unmet need in ophthalmology.
Compliance with drop regimens
is an issue for several reasons, but
the bottom line is that patients
Even small leaks can lead to
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Dr. Kraft discusses how physicians can use technology to enhance healthcare delivery.
Dr. Lewis discusses sequential phaco and trabeculectomy procedures for glaucoma.
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