Join this season’s new expert panel of Cecelia Koetting, OD; Walt Whitley, OD; and Marjan Farid, MD, as they deliberate on a myriad of interesting cases across the ocular surface spectrum. 

Karolinne Maia Rocha, MD, the guest medical editor for CRST’s February issue on new refractive IOLs, moderates a discussion of challenges in IOL inventory management (and how to address them to increase efficiency) as well as the positive and negative ripple effects of expanded IOL options with guests Mark Lobanoff, MD, and George O. Waring IV, MD, FACS.

Ben LaHood, MD, MBChB(dist), PGDipOphth(dist), FRANZCO, who served as a member of the judges' panel for CRST’s Phaco Saves video contest, joins grand prize winner Ahmed Assaf, MD, PhD, FRCS(Ed), and runner up Steven G. Safran, MD, to discuss the cases featured in their winning videos and how they stay calm during challenging situations in the OR.

Revisit some of the top-recorded CRST articles of the year, including “Robotic Cataract Surgery,” from the July 2021 Disruptive Technologies episode; “Dropped Nucleus,” from the April 2021 Strengthening Your Mental Grit in the OR episode; and “50 Years of Evolution,” from the September 2021 The 20th Anniversary of CRST: Improving Efficiency With Advances in Phaco Technology episode. 

Shareef Madhavi; Cynthia Matossian, MD, FACS; and M. Amir Moarefi, MD, join this episode to share advice and discuss tips for boosting your ROI for refractive surgery, dry eye disease, and aesthetic procedures, respectively. 

The season finale of CRST: The Podcast’s mini series Genetics and Eyecare Today features Nicole Fram, MD, and Melissa Barnett, OD, FAAO, FSLS, FBCLA. Dr. Fram explains what corneal collagen crosslinking is and shares her protocol for administering the therapy. She also describes the typical situation in which she uses genetic testing using AvaGen™, The Genetic Eye Test (Avellino). Dr. Barnett speaks to the importance of evaluating the family members of patients with keratoconus and explains why she uses genetic testing to screen patients in her practice.

Rob Noecker, MD, and Ahmad Aref, MD, sit down to discuss the relation between the management of IOP and endothelial cell health. Drs. Noecker and Aref review an ongoing study looking at endothelial cell loss associated with canaloplasty performed in combination with cataract surgery, the efficacy of combined cataract surgery and canaloplasty with the iTrack™ canaloplasty microcatheter, the benefits of early intervention, and more. 

This episode of CRST: The Podcast is sponsored by Nova Eye Medical. 

Three surgeons who have helped spark meaningful change in various developing countries around the world share their journeys and describe the impact their services have made not only on the communities they’ve served but also in their own practices. Join Timothy Page, MD, Eric Purdy, MD, and Geoffrey C. Tabin, MD in this episode as they share some touching stories of service and describe just how they’ve learned under pressure.

This episode of CRST: The Podcast comes full circle to discuss advances in phacoemulsification—one of the topics featured in the debut issue of our print publication. A lot has changed since September 2001, and in today’s episode James A. Davison, MD, FACS, Himani Goyal, MD, Jason J. Jones, MD, Mitrofanis Pavlidis, MD, and Vittorio Picardo, MD, share how they have improved the efficiency of their surgical technique with advances in modern phaco technology. 

In this special edition episode of CRST: The Podcast’s mini series Genetics and Eyecare Today, three well-known eye care practitioners discuss patient cases that involve the use of genetic testing with AvaGen™, The Genetic Eye Test (Avellino), and weigh in on how this information factors into decisions about each patient's course of treatment.