MJH Broadcast Channel

Peter J. Polack, MD, FACS, and Zora Harrison, COO at Ocala Eye, discuss their adaptive approach to the pandemic in implementing health/social distancing guidelines and technology for patients and staff.

Peter J. Polack, MD, FACS, of Ocala Eye, discusses how proper patient education and nutrition have been key to managing an increase in dry eye patients during the pandemic.

Peter J. Polack, MD, FACS, and Zora Harrison, COO at Ocala Eye, share the protocols and technology their practice implemented throughout the pandemic that has enabled them to safely and efficiently treat their patients.

John Bladen, MBBS, BSc, MRCS, PGCert, PhD, FRCOphth, consultant ophthalmologist and oculoplastic surgeon, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK, speaks on the institution's response and workflow adjustments made amid the coronavirus pandemic, how virtual appointments have helped in working through a backlog of patients, and whether cancer may be the next big crisis in the UK due to missed diagnoses during the lockdown.

John J. Grande, CFP, and John S. Grande, CFP, of Grande Financial Services, continue their discussion on how having a solid financial plan in place can ease anxiety amid the pandemic, their advice to ophthalmologists contemplating retirement, as well as the uncertainty surrounding the economy ahead of the 2020 election, ongoing virus, and the unknown of what's in store for 2021.

John J. Grande, CFP, and John S. Grande, CFP, of Grande Financial Services, speak on how ophthalmologists should be working on or revisiting their financial plans six months into the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and ahead of a possible second wave, as well as the potential financial repercussions the economy may face.

Ranya Habash, MD, medical director, Technology Innovation, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami, speaks on what she wished she’d known about telemedicine in ophthalmology five years ago, the impact of the pandemic in regards to FDA regulations, as well as why the future of telemedicine requires a new way of thinking.

Ranya Habash, MD, medical director, Technology Innovation, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami, speaks on the obvious and not-so-obvious capabilities of telemedicine available to ophthalmologists in the ongoing pandemic.

Divya Srikumaran, MD, assistant professor of Ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute (Johns Hopkins University), discusses the results of a study published in the American Journalism of Ophthalmology regarding the growth and shift of the physician assistant profession into specialty care as well as the more valuable role PAs are taking in providing healthcare.

Tim McCall, PhD, associate director, Surveys & Analysis, American Academy of PAs, discusses a study published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology exploring the expanding role of assistant physicians into specialty care and ophthalmology practice.

Megan Berkenstock, MD, assistant professor of ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute (Johns Hopkins University) speaks on the change in patient diagnoses and visit numbers by subspecialties in the weeks before and after the discovery of COVID-19 as well as the protocol needed to allow for the program's ambulatory surgery centers.

Michael X. Repka, MD, vice chair of clinical practice at Wilmer Eye Institute (Johns Hopkins University) speaks on the institution's latest protocol changes allowing for the resumption of elective surgery as well as the adaptations clinicians have had to make in order to ensure the continuation of clinical practice at Wilmer Eye Institute.