Dr Eytan Blumenthal, one of our invited speakers, prepared an entertaining and thought provoking talk about glaucoma surgery and the cocept of feedback loops. Writing an article about his talk is akin to dancing about architecture. Nonetheless, here are my notes and thoughts about his lecture.
Read MoreIn the previous paper that I summarized on this blog, the authors looked at whether Benzalkonium Chloride (BAK) exposure was correlated with worsening prognosis for glaucoma surgery. This paper looks at the mechanism of toxicity of BAK on a trabecular meshwork cell line and its possible effect on gap junctions.
Read MoreCorey Boimer, a 3rd year medical student, presented this work as part of the Canadian Glaucoma Society session at the 74th Annual meeting of the Canadian Glaucoma Society. This talk was given at 1048hrs on 10Jun2011 in Vancouver, BC.
Read MorePresented 0910hrs 10Jun2011 as the CJO Lecture in the Current Concepts I session: Canadian Ophthalmological Society 74th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC by Dr Colin Cook
Read MorePresented 0855hrs 10Jun2011 in the Current Concepts I session: Canadian Ophthalmological Society 74th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC by Dr Dale Heuer.
Read MoreI started this site in 2009 to write about Glaucoma, Health IT (EMR, EHR), Technology and to host my podcast series "Talking About Glaucoma." There is a shortcut to this blog to make it easier to find http://iguy.tv/blog.
I am a glaucoma sub-specialized Ophthalmologist and have a full time clinical practice at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic of the Geisel School of Medicine in Hanover, NH. I have a longtime interest in the use of technology to help in medical care as well as in Education. In addition, I was a very early adopter and developer of Electronic Medical Record systems who has lectured internationally on the topic of making the transition to EMRs in daily practice.
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