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Kourtney Houser, MD, and Kendall Donaldson, MD, MS, had a session where they talked about the early diagnosis of keratoconus and key indicators in tomography that might help diagnose keratoconus before vision loss.

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Melissa Barnett, OD, Director of Optometry at the University of California, Davis, talked about her session at IKA that focused on keratoconus from the patient perspective.

Elizabeth Yeu, MD, Executive Board Member of IKA, and a cataract and refractive surgeon at Virginia Eye Consultants, talked about perioperative considerations for cataract surgery in keratoconus patients.

Justin Schweitzer, OD, FAAO, from Vance Thompson Vision, talked about his session at the IKA Symposium discussing cross-linking in keratoconus treatment, with a look at both the present and looking toward the future.

Barry Eiden, OD, FAAO, FSLS, President and Co-founder of IKA, talked about his session at the meeting centering around the pediatric prevalence of keratoconus, the importance of early diagnosis, and the impact this can have on practices.

Christine Sindt, OD, FAAO, Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Iowa School of Medicine, talked about her session at the meeting focusing on higher order aberrations and the correction of complicated optics on scleral contact lenses.

Alan Glazier, OD, FAAO, talked about a session he is a moderator in that discusses the education of the public on keratoconus, from screening to diagnosis, and the roles clinicians can take to assist in the anxieties of the patients.

At this year's ARVO meeting, Irene Santiago Tierno, MS, talked with Ophthalmology Times about the paper she presented on how abnormal subendothelial matrix exacerbates choroidal endothelial cell death in early age-related macular degeneration.

At this year's ARVO meeting, Michael Chaglasian, OD, spoke with Ophthalmology Times about the paper he presented on the detection of glaucoma with a novel widefield imaging device combined with OCT

Dilsher S. Dhoot, MD, shared details about the Week 52 safety and efficacy data from the US phase 1 clinical trial of sustained-release axitinib hydrogel implant (OTX-TKI) for neovascular age-related macular degeneration at the 2024 Retina World Congress meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

At this year's ARVO meeting, Irene Santiago Tierno, MS, talked with Ophthalmology Times about the paper she presented on how abnormal subendothelial matrix exacerbates choroidal endothelial cell death in early age-related macular degeneration.

At this year's ARVO meeting in Seattle, Washington, the Eye Care Network spoke with Niranchana Manivannan, PhD. She spoke about the poster presentation, "Feasibility and clinical efficacy of an OCT B-scan of interest tool."

At this year's ARVO meeting, Daniela Ferrara, MD, PhD, FASRS, presented a paper on predicting functional outcomes for different treatment durations of faricimab in Diabetic macular edema.

At this year's ARVO meeting, Edmund Tsui, MD, presented a paper on the analysis of anterior chamber inflammation through automated quantitative assessment of swept-source anterior segment OCT images.

Professor Paulo-Eduardo Stanga spoke with Modern Retina about a new wearable assistance device at the 2024 Retina World Congress meeting held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

At this year's ARVO meeting, Roger Goldberg, MD, presented a paper on hard exudates and their resolution in patients with diabetic macular edema treated with either faricimab or 2 mg aflibercept.

This year at ARVO, Anand Swaroop, PhD, was awarded the Friedenwald Award Lecture 2024. He spoke with the Eye Care Network about this lecture and what the award meant to him.

This year at ARVO, Emily Chew, MD, was awarded the Proctor Award Lecture. She spoke with the Eye Care Network about this lecture and what the award meant to her.

This year at ARVO, Daniel Saban PhD, was awarded the Cogan Award Lecture. He spoke with the Eye Care Network about this lecture and what the award meant to him.

David Eichenbaum, MD, spoke with Modern Retina about the phase 3 trial of sozinibercept at the 2024 Retina World Congress meeting.

Modern Retina spoke with Paulo-Eduardo Stanga, MD, from The Retina Clinic London, London, United Kingdom at the 2024 Retina World Congress meeting.

Christine Kay, MD, spoke with Modern Retina to share insights from her presentation on longitudinal BCVA and safety analysis of mutation-agnostic MCO-010 optogenetic therapy For retinitis pigmentosa

David Almeida, MD, PhD, MBA, presented on gene therapy associated uveitis at the 2024 Retina World Congress meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

At this year's ARVO meeting in Seattle, Washington, the Eye Care Network spoke with Noel Brennan, MScOptom, PhD. The clinical research fellow at Johnson and Johnson shared highlights from his presentation on myopia control and predictive modeling.

At this year's ARVO meeting, the Eye Care Network spoke with Daniel Saben PhD, who is being awarded the Cogan Lecture at this year's event.

At this year's ARVO meeting in Seattle, Washington, Dolly Chang, MD, PhD, presented data on the early fluid reduction in patients with diabetic macular edema, and how that correlates with 1-year outcome with a deep learning-based retina segmentation tool using the Phase 2 BOULEVARD trial.