Podcasts about optometric services

BioTissue is a proven industry leader and also the maker of Prokera® biologic corneal bandage devices, which eye doctors use around the world to heal and treat ocular conditions, including neurotrophic keratitis, moderate to severe dry eye disease, persistent epithelial defects, and many other ocular surface diseases. For more information on BioTissue, please visit www.biotissue.com, and if you have any additional questions, feel free to email Roger Kennedy (rkennedy@biotissue.com) Damon Dierker, OD, FAAO is Director of Optometric Services at Eye Surgeons of Indiana and an adjunct faculty member at the Indiana University School of Optometry. Dr. Dierker has developed a dedicated dry eye clinic within his practice and helps colleagues across the country in this area as the creator of Dry Eye Boot Camp and co-founder of Eyes on Dry Eye. Additionally, he is Past President of the Indiana Optometric Association. Roger Kennedy is the Director of Marketing at BioTissue. He has been in the eyecare industry for 11 years, with roles in both sales and marketing. Roger has been with BioTissue for five years; previously, he held multiple positions with CooperVision.   ------------------------- Let's Connect! Follow and join the conversation! Instagram: @aaron_werner_vision

Glenn van Zutphen and award-winning author Neil Humphreys are joined by David Chong, CEO and Director of Optometric Services, Mee Me and Eugene Yoo, Senior Director for Vision Care in Singapore and SEA, Johnson & Johnson Visionto discuss common factors leading to myopia in Singapore and it can be prevented and treated among children. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode we are joined by Dr. Marc Bloomenstein where he will give his perspective on refractive surgery and corneal crosslinking.  Marc Bloomenstein OD, FAAODr. Marc R. Bloomenstein is a 1990 graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles with a degree in Biology.  He received his optometric degree from the New England College of Optometry in 1994.  After graduation Dr. Bloomenstein finished a residency in secondary ophthalmic care at the Barnet Dulaney Eye Center in Phoenix, Arizona.  He received his  fellowship from the American Academy of Optometry in December 1998.Currently Dr. Bloomenstein is the Director of Optometric Services at the Schwartz Laser Eye Center in Scottsdale, Arizona and President of MRB Eye Consultants. Dr. Bloomenstein is on the editorial board of Primary Care of Optometry News, Review of Optometry, Optometry Times, Modern Optometry, Optometric Management and a frequent contributor to other various optometric journals. Dr. Bloomenstein served as the Chairman of the AOA Continuing Education Committee and served on the board of the Ocular Surface Society of Optometry (OSSO), as well as a founding member of the Optometric Cornea, Cataract, and Refractive Society (OCCRS). Dr. Bloomenstein has served as the President of the Arizona Optometric Association, Legislation Chair and President of the Board of the Arizona Optometric Charitable Foundation. Dr. Bloomenstein has delivered over 1500 invited lectures worldwide and serves as a consultant to numerous industry-leading pharmaceutical, biomedical and information technology companies.

About Dr. Damon Dierker:Dr. Dierker is Director of Optometric Services at Eye Surgeons of Indiana and an adjunct faculty member at the Indiana University School of Optometry. He practices consultative optometry with special interests in ocular surface disease and retinal disorders. He has developed a dedicated dry eye clinic within his practice and helps colleagues across the country in this area as the creator of Dry Eye Boot Camp and co-founder of Eyes on Dry Eye. Additionally, he serves as President of the Indiana Optometric Association. 

On this episode, Dr. Louise Sclafani shared with us how she get started and how she broke the barrier for the women in Optometry. About Dr. Louise Sclafani: Louise A. Sclafani, OD, FAAO, FSLS '89 ICO, served as Associate Professor of Surgery and Director of Optometric Services at University of Chicago from 1993-2017. Her main interests include contact lenses, corneal disease, and surgery co-management. She applies her experience of challenging hospital based care as Vice President of Professional Affairs for SynergEyes and continues to see patients at SoLo Eyecare,  a private practice in Chicago and at the Illinois College of Optometry where she also trains optometry interns. She has held leadership roles in the American Optometric Association including Illinois State President, Chair of the Cornea and Contact Lens Section. She was awarded the status of Diplomate by the American Academy of Optometry CCLRT where she serves as Vice Chair of the Section, is a Fellow of the Scleral Lens Society, Associate Member of the International Society of Contact Lens Specialists, and selected by Review of Optometry as one of the Top 10 Females at the Forefront of Optometry.Social Media:Instagram: @sclafanilouise LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/louise-sclafani-a0387234/

Whitney Hauser: Hi. I’m Dr. Whitney Hauser with Dry Eye Coach Podcast. And today I am joined by Dr. Walt Whitley. Dr. Whitley is the director of Optometric Services at Virginia Eye Consultants. And he also oversees the Dry Eye Center there with some of his colleagues. So, welcome to our program today, Walt. How are you? Walt Whitley: I’m doing excellent. How are you, Whitney? Whitney Hauser: I’m doing great. I’m doing great. We’re going to be talking today about educating patients about treating their dry eye disease and including a feature called flares. I’m going to kind of dive into some questions and then we’re going to get some of your perspective on how you talk to your patients about this particular aspect of dry eye disease. To kind of kick us off, why is there a need for a short-term treatment for dry eye? I mean, we have a lot of chronic therapies out there. Why do you think there’s a need for a short-term treatment for dry eye disease? Walt Whitley: That’s a great question, Whitney. And when it comes to the need, it’s because patients are suffering. You just mentioned the word chronic. We’ve always heard about a chronic inflammatory condition that gets worse over time. However, patients, they’re suffering. What we need to do is have treatments that are available that can help provide them rapid relief. You mentioned dry eye flares. With the flares, when is this going to occur? Oftentimes patients don’t know. How often does it occur? They don’t know either. But they know it does happen. Unfortunately, some patients feel that it’s pretty, pretty common. They don’t realize that it’s actually dry eye or maybe associated with dry eye. We’re all familiar with the various symptoms with dry eye, the sandiness, burning that patients may have. We know the [1:58] is inflammation as well that leads to that chronic vicious cycle that we’ve talked about. But when it comes to the flares… Whitney Hauser: You know… Walt Whitley: Go ahead. Whitney Hauser: No. You hit on a great point, Walt, and that’s, they don’t know when it’s going to happen. We don’t know when it’s going to happen. But the education component of at least talking to them about it. The fact that they’re already, probably, experiencing it and now kind of putting a name on it. If they’re not already experiencing, what might happen is really important because, by the time it’s happening, it’s hard to get into our offices, sometimes. Especially with what we’re seeing right now with COVID-19, you can’t just jump into your optometrist’s office at the drop of a hat. It takes some time. The education, I think, probably is more important than ever. Walt Whitley: Oh, definitely. The sandiness, the grittiness, that’s what we always think of. Whitney Hauser: Right. Walt Whitley: But what matters to patients is looking at the quality of vision. Patients, they do experience blur, and you and I have talked about this before, that blur or fluctuations in vision is a sign of dry eye disease. If patients are suffering from that, they definitely want treatment for that. I mean, there’s numerous reasons why there’s a need for this. You mentioned chronic, once again. Chronic means long-term therapy. But when we look at compliance, yes, we can tell a patient what to do, do they do it? Yes or no. Short-term is going to be much easier than long-term management because we know the data shows that over time, patients are going to be, not necessarily compliant, but adherent and that’s what we want when it comes to our patients; them owning their condition, owning their disease state and their treatment. When we look at the adherence data, within a year, about 60% of patients may have discontinued their therapy. Whitney Hauser: Right. Walt Whitley: We need to get, we need shorter therapy to get in, get out, address their concerns,

Hello, and welcome to this episode of 20/20 Money! My guest on today’s show is Dr. Damon Dierker. Damon already has a very storied career in optometry, so I was excited to have him on today to talk about dry eye and I feel it’s important to give a bit of a backstory to help set the stage. Clinically, he is a partner and Director of Optometric Services at Eye Surgeons of Indiana, one of (if not the) top tertiary care/referral center in the state of Indiana. His areas of clinical expertise include advanced retinal disease including diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration, and glaucoma as well as advanced ocular surface disease treatment. He is a frequent presenter of continuing education presentations to doctors across the country and is an adjunct faculty member of Indiana University’s School of Optometry and directs the clinical externship program at ESI. As if that wasn’t enough, he is also the President-Elect of the Indiana Optometric Association. The reason that I wanted to have Damon on the show today is because he’s created a program that has helped many ODs around the country implement a dry eye treatment program in their practice. It’s no secret that treatment of dry eye is becoming a growing topic of concern—both from the patient’s and doctor’s perspective. It’s also an area that over time can boost revenue and thus profitability of a practice. However, implementing a dry eye program into an existing practice can seem daunting and something that ODs may put off until “they get around to it.” In this conversation, Damon talks about how he came up with the idea of forming his Dry Eye Boot Camp program and how it evolved and grew into a passion project side business for him to help ODs implement dry eye tx into their practice. We cover all aspects of dry eye: the mindset shift that first must occur with the OD, the equipment and tech needed, the investment needed of both time and money, the potential ROI, a scheduling strategy to consistently grow dry eye in your practice, the standard of care for diagnosing and treating dry eye, and the various ways of marketing this additional service to both existing and new patients. As a reminder, you can get all the information discussed in today’s conversation by visiting our website at www.integratedpwm.com and clicking on the Learning Center. While there, you can also set up a 20-30min Discovery conversation to learn a little bit more about what it means to work with our firm and how we serve ODs all over the country or check out any number of additional free resources like our eBooks and on-demand webinars. And with that introduction, I hope you enjoy my conversation with Dr. Damon Dierker. ————————————————————————————— Please rate and subscribe to 20/20 Money on these platforms Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play Stitcher  ————————————————————————————— For past episodes of 20/20 Money with full companion show notes, please check out our episode archive here!

Dr. Travis Zigler is an optometrist and entrepreneur. Travis and his wife Jenna have been actively involved with Volunteers for Optometric Services to Humanity, which is a group that travels worldwide to give eye examinations to people who cannot afford nor obtain such care. They have made trips to Ecuador, Peru, and Jamaica twice, and have plans to participate in future missions. Dr. Travis Zigler is on a mission to end preventable blindness.

Dr. Travis Zigler is an optometrist and entrepreneur. Travis and his wife Jenna have been actively involved with Volunteers for Optometric Services to Humanity, which is a group that travels worldwide to give eye examinations to people who cannot afford nor obtain such care. They have made trips to Ecuador, Peru, and Jamaica twice, and have plans to participate in future missions. Dr. Travis Zigler is on a mission to end preventable blindness.

In this episode of The Functional Medicine Radio Show, Dr. Carri's special guest Dr. Travis Zigler explains dry eye causes and treatment. Dr. Travis Zigler is an optometrist. Travis and his wife Jenna have been actively involved with Volunteers for Optometric Services to Humanity, which is a group that travels worldwide to give eye examinations to people who cannot afford nor obtain […] The post Dry Eye Causes and Treatment with Dr. Travis Zigler appeared first on The Functional Medicine Radio Show With Dr. Carri.

His name is Dr. Travis Zigler,  he and his wife Jenna have been actively involved with Volunteers for Optometric Services to Humanity, which is a group that travels worldwide to give eye examinations to people who cannot afford nor obtain such care. They have made trips to Ecuador, Peru, and Jamaica twice, and have plans to participate in future missions.  Dr. Travis Zigler is on a mission to end preventable blindness.

For this episode of Critical Issues in EyeCare: An MD/OD Conversation hosts Nathan Bonilla-Warford, OD and Mitchell Jackson, MD are joined by  John Novak, OD. He discusses a subject near and dear to his heart - giving back to the community by volunteering eye care services.   Some of the topics include: The satisfaction of helping those in need Local and international opportunities Monetary and Time donation  Press and recognition    Some of organization that were mentioned in the show are:  Eyecare International - http://www.eyecareint.org/ VOSH International - http://vosh.org/ Lions Club International - http://www.lionsclubs.org/ Vision Is Priceless - http://www.visionispriceless.org/ VisionUSA - http://www.aoafoundation.org/vision-usa/ About Dr. Novak: Dr. John Novak grew up in the Cleveland area, graduated from The Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology in 2001 and is a 2005 graduate of The Ohio State University College of Optometry. Dr. Novak completed a hospital-based residency at the Wade Park Veterans Affairs Medical Center in 2005-2006. He gained additional experience with the U.S. Public Health Service working on the Navajo Indian Reservation near Canyon de Chelly, AZ. Dr. Novak also participated in the Student Volunteers for Optometric Services to Humanity with a trip to the Dominican Republic in 2004, providing eye exams to those in need. He also has traveled to El Salvador in humanitarian efforts and provided exams in Cleveland and Columbus for those with low-income families.

Blepharitis remains a significant source of discomfort for patients, and over the years docs have tried a variety of therapeutic approaches to treating the problem. In this ODwire.org Radio show, we talk with Walter O. Whitley, OD, Director of Optometric Services at Virginia Eye Consultants about: The etiology of blepharitis Current therapies The use of tea tree oil Tips to [...] The post Blepharitis, Tea Tree Oil & Cliradex — with Dr. Walter Whitley [#R039] appeared first on ODwire.org.