Learn how to preserve and grow your contact lens patient base with advice from practice owner Dana Salgado, OD (1:57). James Deom, OD, MPH, FAAO, offers scleral lens troubleshooting tips (7:45), and Mile Brujic, OD, FAAO, describes how his practice changed over the course of roughly 30 days due to the coronavirus (12:03), while Nicole Harris, OD, shares some of the lessons she's learned during her optometric residency (19:35). As an added bonus, listen to the audio version of MOD's Up Close column (24:50), which poses various questions to different optometric physicians. In this episode we learn more about Jacob Lang, OD, FAAO, Dipl ABO.

The ARVO Board of Trustees had only a few weeks to turn their massive, in-person meeting into a virtual symposium that highlighted the year's biggest advancements in ophthalmology research. Iris Rush, the Executive Director of ARVO, spoke to New Retina Radio about the experience, and spelled out what they learned that can be applied to future ARVO meetings.

Blake K. Williamson, MD, MPH, MS, shares his experience getting LASIK after years of performing refractive surgery on his patients. Dr. Williamson's father, Charles Williamson, MD, performed the surgery using the STAR S4 IR® Excimer Laser System with iDESIGN® Refractive Studio from Johnson & Johnson Vision. Dr. Blake Williamson compares how his expectations for LASIK measure up to his personal postoperative outcome.

Want to take your dry eye practice to the next level? Consider adding ocular aesthetics. Listen as Leslie and Jackie talk with guest Selina McGee, OD, FAAO, about how she got into the aesthetics side of dry eye.

In-person retina conferences are halted, but the flow of data isn't. In this episode of New Retina Radio, Jennifer Lim, MD, breaks down 100-week data from the PANORAMA trial, which she shared at the ARVO virtual meeting. Dr. Lim's presentation may help retina doctors make informed treatment decisions about long-term therapy for nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy.

You've committed to treating patients with dry eye, but in order to treat them, you have to diagnose them. In this episode, Leslie and Jackie talk about establishing a dry eye protocol, what equipment is necessary, testing, and more.

Gary Wörtz, MD, is joined by contributors Nandini Venkateswaran, MD, and Dagny Zhu, MD. Listen as they describe their experiences in ophthalmology training and discuss the challenges of navigating the transition to practice.

Jacob Lang, OD, FAAO, and Laura Capelle, OD, FAAO, kick off this episode with their article on managing glaucoma in 2020, particularly for patients who may be candidates for a micro invasive glaucoma surgery (skip to 1:25). Andrew J. Mackner, OD, then talks about the current state of collaboration between optometry and ophthalmology (skip to 6:39), and Patrick Vollmer, OD, FAAO, explains how he began offering emergency eye care, explaining that it's a much-needed service that is warmly rewarded (skip to 15:22).

National responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have varied. Will responses in the retina clinic look more homogenous than governments' actions have? NRR Guest Host María Berrocal, MD (United States), invites Hai Lu, MD (China), Virgilio Morales-Canton, MD (Mexico), and Martin Charles, MD (Argentina), to discuss how the global retina community will communicate, act, and respond in the months ahead.

Kendall Donaldson, MD, MS; Preeya Gupta, MD; and Marguerite McDonald, MD, FACS, tackle how to explain the value of laser cataract surgery and toric IOLs to patients who have astigmatism.