In this episode, John A. Hovanesian, MD, FACS, and Jim Mazzo are live from Octane’s Ophthalmology Technology Forum with guests Tibor Juhasz, PhD, Richard L. Lindstrom, MD, Sumit “Sam” Garg, MD and Jean-Pierre Hubschman, MD.

• Welcome to the Eyeluminaries podcast 00:05
• Review of episode 33 00:49
• Intro of Tibor Juhasz, PhD 01:35
• Tell us about your background and how you changed LASIK, cataract and glaucoma surgery. 02:27
• How is ViaLase impacting glaucoma treatment? 06:55
• How the treatment works 08:24
• The importance of having a good team 11:02
• Intro of Richard L. Lindstrom, MD 12:58
• What is your perspective on what is happening today and what changes are you hoping for? 14:28
• Integrated eye care delivery 17:00
• Dentistry, a future model for eye care 17:50
• Post-graduate medical education is changing 19:09
• Was there a technology that you thought was a slam dunk and failed? 23:01
• Any technology that you didn’t expect to take off? 24:37
• Intro of Sumit “Sam” Garg, MD 26:58
• What do you see changing in ophthalmology residency programs around the country? 28:52
• How do you instruct young physicians to be collaborative in care? 30:42
• If you weren’t a cornea specialist (or a model) what would you be? 32:10
• Advice for young ophthalmologists today? 33:42
• Share a Jim Mazzo story with us! 35:28
• Intro of Jean-Pierre Hubschman, MD 37:07
• Why did you, with a robotics company, decide to start in cataract surgery? 38:23
• How do you become more efficient in robotic surgery? 41:00
• How do we work on the economic side of this? 43:38
• What’s it like running a company vs being a retina surgeon? 44:46
• Give us your feedback 48:16
• Thanks for listening 48:30

 

Tibor Juhasz, PhD, is the founder and CEO of ViaLase Inc. He was also the co-founder of IntraLase and LenS.

Richard L. Lindstrom, MD, is the founder and an attending surgeon at Minnesota Eye Consultants, an adjunct professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota, department of ophthalmology as well as the global chief medical editor of Ocular Surgery News.

Sumit “Sam” Garg, MD, is the medical director at the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute at UC Irvine.

Jean-Pierre Hubschman, MD, is the co-founder and CEO of Horizon Surgical Systems.

 

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Disclosures: Hovanesian consults widely in the ophthalmic field. Mazzo reports being an advisor for Anivive Lifesciences, Avellino Labs, Bain Capital, CVC Capital and Zeiss; executive chairman of Neurotech, Preceyes BV and TearLab; and sits on the board of Crystilex, Centricity Vision, IanTech, Lensgen and Visus. Healio could not confirm disclosures for Garg, Hubschman, Juhasz, and Lindstrom at the time of publication.