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This series features experts in ophthalmology sharing their thoughts on the one unsolved challenge they wish there was a solution for.
This series features experts in ophthalmology sharing their thoughts on the one unsolved challenge they wish there was a solution for.
Editor's note: The below transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.
One thing that I could say that I wish that there was a solution for as someone who has been a very early adopter of MIGS and with the explosion of all the MIGS technologies, it really would be nice to be able to have a more–a better diagnostic tool of knowing exactly where the problem is in the outflow system, so that we can target our treatments specifically to that. I think that it would be helpful for us to be able to have better outcomes and to be able to better utilize the tools that we have so that we can get better outcomes, more consistently.
Well, I mean, being a glaucoma specialist, we'd love to be able to repair damaged optic nerve. So replacement of retinal ganglion cells, that would be the Holy Grail, as it were, of glaucoma.
If there was one thing that I wish there was a solution for, it would be what I actually think is the biggest unmet need in all of medicine, and that's mental illness. And that may be difficult to hear coming from an ophthalmologist, but I think that that's where the unmet need is, and if we can get a hold of that, that will have a big impact on how we can treat the patients that we're responsible for with eye conditions.