Podcasts about minnesota eye consultants

If there’s one podcast you listen to all year – this is it!Dick Lindstrom explains how saying “Yes” to opportunities, led him into an extremely gratifying and successful career in ophthalmology – which was the furthest thing from his plan to take over the family construction business.This episode is packed with gems of insights on building an academic practice and working with industry to balancing work and family. Ophthalmology’s leaders convene at the Ophthalmology Innovation Summits held several times a year. OIS Podcasts keeps the conversation going the entire year. In weekly podcasts, Host Ehsan Sadri interviews the most influential industry executives, investors, KOLs, and researchers about what they see as the most exciting approaches to finding new ways to treat eye disease. Join the conversation by subscribing to the OIS Podcast.

In this OIS Podcast, David Alpern, partner at Varsity Healthcare Partners, and Brent Wilde, president of Minnesota Eye Consultants, offer complimentary perspectives on Private Equity’s impact on ophthalmology practices.

Last month, Minnesota Eye Consultants announced it was working with private equity investor Waud Capital to create an entity that could build a national eye care provider. In part two of our interview with MEC founder Richard Lindstrom, MD, we discuss the impact similar consolidations could have on the sector.

Consolidation is coming to ophthalmology. Last month, Minnesota Eye Consultants agreed to partner with a private equity group to expand beyond the Twin Cities. In the first of a two-part podcast, founder Richard Lindstrom, MD, explains why the deal was done.

For the first episode of 2014, we are excited to bring you a conversation with widely-known Richard Lindstrom. We talk about the "seminal" changes he has witnessed in regard to the technology of cataract surgery, the increased expectations of patients in regard to outcome, integrated eyecare delivery, the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, the $500 cataract surgery barrier and more! Dr Richard L Lindstrom, founder and attending surgeon of Minnesota Eye Consultants and Adjunct Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota Department of Ophthalmology, is a board-certified ophthalmologist and internationally recognized leader in corneal, cataract, refractive and laser surgery. He has been at the forefront of ophthalmology's evolutionary changes throughout his career, as a recognized researcher, teacher, inventor, writer, lecturer and highly acclaimed physician and surgeon.