Eye Tea - Ophthalmology Podcast

Eye Tea - Ophthalmology Podcast

Welcome to Eye Tea. Fill your cup with the latest in ophthalmology and vision science. Engage with world-renowned experts and future ophthalmology leaders in a candid roundtable discussion as they discuss current innovations, future directions, and their life stories.

Episodes

September 10, 2024 42 mins

This talk was recorded live at ARVO 2024 in Seattle, WA.


Join this invigorating talk where our rising medical student James Lai (moderator) and Dr. Gagan Kalra (founder) discuss innovation in ophthalmology with strategic funding, research, and advocacy with Dr. Michael F. Chiang, Dr. Daniel Pelaez, Dr. Whitney Sambhariya and Dan Ignaszewski.


This podcast is in collaboration with NAEVR. The National Alliance for Eye and V...

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This from the vaults episode was held live on April 2, 2022.
What’s happening with AI and biomedical imaging for the eye? Hear from and ask our experts, Jennifer I. Lim at University of Illinois at Chicago and Minhaj N. Alam at Stanford School of Medicine.
Chat soon, and bring your favorite beverage!


Dr. Lim is a leading authority on retina and vitreoretinal diseases. She has performed more than 6,000 vitreoretinal surg...

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In this 3rd and final part of the 3 part deep dive with ⁠Dr. Michael Abramoff⁠,⁠ Dr. Gagan Kalra⁠ (host) delves into the regulatory processes and ethics of medical AI with Dr. Abramoff.

Dr. Michael Abramoff, MD, PhD, (FARVO) is the Robert C. Watzke, MD Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Iowa, with a joint appointment in the College of Engineering, a fellowship-trained retina specialist, compute...

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In this 2nd part of the 3 part deep dive with ⁠Dr. Michael Abramoff⁠,⁠ Dr. Gagan Kalra⁠ (host) delves into his struggles and rewards around building a company, bringing products to market, and skills he needed to develop out of necessity.

Referenced reading materials:

⁠~reimbursement of medical AI (Open Access -Free)⁠

Dr. Michael Abramoff, MD, PhD, (FARVO) is the Robert C. Watzke, MD Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences a...

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Join this vivid discussion between a prescriber of prostheses, a maker of prostheses, and a user of prostheses, brought together from all around the world through Eye Tea.

This talk was recorded on Feb 26, 2022.

JP Labuschange (@oneeyemodel) is a user of ocular prosthesis and has monocular vision. Originally from Africa, this trail-blazer aspires to become an actor. He embraces his ocular prosthesis proudly and has taken to social...

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Niloufar Bineshfar with Eye TeaM interviews Dr. Jay Sridhar (Straight from the cutter's mouth) at the VBS Live 2024 in Miami.

Join this on-the-floor conference lobby experience and learn about perspectives from our experts!


Dr. Jay Sridhar is the chief of ophthalmology for the Olive View Medical Center, part of LA County hospital system and an Associate Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute...

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In this 1st part of the 3 part deep dive with Dr. Michael Abramoff, Dr. Gagan Kalra (host) delves into the life story of Dr. Abramoff.

Referenced reading materials:

~reimbursement of medical AI (Open Access -Free)

Dr. Michael Abramoff, MD, PhD, (FARVO) is the Robert C. Watzke, MD Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Iowa, with a joint appointment in the College of Engineering, a fellowship-trained re...

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Listen in on this exciting 2nd episode of our military ophthalmology and ophthalmic trauma series!

Meet our panelists:

Barton Blackorby, MD

Dr. Blackorby is an active duty vitreoretinal surgeon with the US Army at Madigan Army Medical Center in Fort Lewis, Washington. He earned his medical degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, where he served as the Medical School Class President. He also serves as a Deputy Di...

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Listen in on this engaging conversation about military ophthalmology and ocular trauma with Drs. Groves and Justin. This talk is moderated by Katherine Leviste, Nicholas Reyes, and Hannah Walsh

Dr. Grant A Justin, MD 

Dr. Justin is a board-certified ophthalmologist and is affiliated with Tripler Army Medical Center, in Hawaii and Duke University Hospital in North Carolina. He holds the Vice President chair of ASOT (The American So...

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Join Sruti Rachapudi in an exciting conversation with an incredible force in neuro-ophthalmoogy, Dr. Andrew G. Lee (Youtube@drandygolee


Get ready with your tea, iced or hot, for this awesome session ☕️



Dr. Lee is a Professor in the Departments of Ophthalmology, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Weill Cornell Medical College. He is a Neuro-ophthalmologist and is the Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology, Blanton E...

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Join in as our trail-blazing medical student host, Aretha Zhu, and newly matched resident, Jasmine Mahajan, engage in an exciting conversation on telemedicine in glaucoma with our experts, Dr. Natasha Kolomeyer, Dr. Albert Khouri, and Dr. Ben Szirth. As always, keep ready a cup of tea (or your favorite beverage) ☕️ Learn about our guests: Dr. Albert Khouri has a faculty appointment as a Professor of Ophthalmology at Rutgers New Je...

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Eye TeaM dives into a conversation with Pankaj Kapahi, Ph.D., and Brian Hodge, Ph.D. about their recent work on aging research in the eye and how it relates to extended lifespans. Read the paper published in Nature Communications here - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-30975-4


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Rudrani Banik, MD, is Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a member of the Ophthalmology Faculty Practice at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai. She is a Board-certified Ophthalmologist specializing in Neuro-Ophthalmology and Comprehensive Ophthalmology. She manages the entire spectrum of diseases affecting vision which arise from the nervous system including: optic neu...

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Midhat H. Abdulreda, MS, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Surgery, Microbiology and Immunology, and Ophthalmology at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine. His lab is located at the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) and his research focuses on the immunobiology of diabetes and islet transplantation. He has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since his postdoc training through the prestigious National ...

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This episode was recorded live at the YMDC meeting in Austin in 2023.

Join Gagan Kalra, Hannah Walsh, Aretha Zhu from Eye TeaM in a conversation with Drs. Amar Shah, Taj Nasser, Neel Vaidya to hear perspectives about what they wished they learned during residency training!

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Nicoh Reyes, MD, Hannah Walsh, and Anthony Olganov along with Eye TeaM dive into this conversation with Drs. Leslie Hyman, Richard Lee, and Pulin Shah about Global Ophthalmology.


Get to know our panelists:

Dr. Hyman is an ocular epidemiologist with expertise in observational epidemiologic studies and clinical trials. She earned her PhD in Epidemiology from The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health (now B...

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Dr. Gagan Kalra, Dr. Mike Zein, Dr. Grayson Armstrong, Katherine Leviste, and our Eye Tea crew discuss technological innovations in ophthalmology with Dr. Florence Cabot and Dr. Parul Ichhpujani. This exciting conversation spans telemedicine, AI applications, and mentorship in ophthalmology! 



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Join Dr. Gagan Kalra and Katherine Leviste from our Eye TeaM in this collaborative talk with the Med Tech club that covers this futuristic topic of Brain Machine Interface with our expert guest Dr. Ranya Habash

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In this episode, Dr. Gagan Kalra and Katherine Leviste dive into a conversation about Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery (MIGS) with Dr. Inder Paul Singh, Dr. Ze Zhang, and Dr. Rikki Enzor. These leaders have real-world experience with MIGS and associated clinical trials. A lot of new innovations are underway! 

There is a lot to learn in this ophthalmology podcast episode:

1. How did these trailblazers get into ophthalmo...

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