Business & Profession

Attending conferences, making presentations and sitting on committees is part and parcel of the job for leading ophthalmologists. Here are my tips to make sure you arrive fresh and look the part.

Sitting down with Julia Haller, Ophthalmologist-in-Chief, and Joseph Bilson, Chief Executive Officer of the Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

The Salzburg Reading Desk is one promising approach to standardizing visual assessments for multifocal intraocular lenses.

For the sake of our patients and our profession, we need to improve upon the nineteenth-century pictograms that are currently used for visual assessment.

Although baby boomers may be in a state of denial regarding their own aging, ophthalmologists know differently. In particular, four diseases of the ageing eye comprise a demographic and economic timebomb.

Aflibercept gets approved by NICE, STAAR’s Visian ICL with CentraFLOW gets approved in Japan, and rises and falls in Allergan and Alcon’s revenues.

Acucela prices its initial public offering on the Tokyo Stock Exchange at $162M.

Mice that take exercise exhibit slower retinal degeneration than those that don’t. It could work for people too.

Our cataloging of the major eye diseases is insightful, even though impact factor analysis is flawed.

The Ophthalmologist Travel Award represents a great opportunity: the chance of a free trip to the AAO 2014 congress in Chicago – flights, accommodation, and congress registration fees, in return for a chronic DME case study.