ASRS has released new national television and radio public service announcements (PSAs) to highlight the critical role of retina specialists in preventing blindness in millions of Americans who experience retinal detachment, age-related macular degeneration (AMD), diabetic retinopathy, and other retinal conditions. In English and Spanish TV and radio spots, America’s retina specialists urge the public to protect their vision from preventable blindness and vision loss by promptly seeking care from a retina specialist at the first sign of retinal disease. "When you have a heart problem, you consult a cardiologist because they are the physician with the most specialized education and training to treat heart conditions; similarly, Americans who experience retinal conditions should seek care from retina specialists who have by far the most extensive and specialized training in preventing blindness from retinal disease,” said ASRS President @ReginaldSanders Reginald J. Sanders, MD, FASRS. “Our goal is to encourage the public to prioritize their vision health, understand the symptoms of retinal disease, and seek out expert retina specialist care if needed to protect their most precious sense, their eyesight.” Learn more at https://lnkd.in/e-zHvPDy. #RetinaSpecialist #PSA #HealthyVision #PreventBlindness
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ASRS – The American Society of Retina Specialists is the largest organization of retina specialists in the world.
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The American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS) is the largest organization of retina specialists in the world, representing over 3,000 physicians in all 50 US states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and 63 countries. The Society serves as a national advocate and primary source of clinical and scientific information and education for its members.
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The July/August 2024 issue of JVRD is now available. Read on for insights from Editor-in-Chief Dr. Tim Murray on the issue's highlights and access articles here: https://lnkd.in/gXs2gXsS.
Providing Value in Retina Care Retina specialists find fulfillment in connecting with their patients by guiding them through their eye health journey with empathy and professionalism. The mutual respect and collaboration between patients and retina specialists are essential components of value-based eye care. Clinical trials, translational research, and interdisciplinary collaborations fuel the progress of eye care, offering hope for novel therapies and breakthroughs in managing vision-threatening conditions. From a payer’s perspective, the “major” focus has evolved away from best clinical outcomes, leading to measures that directly impact personalized patient care. Two clear examples: 1. Prior-authorization requirements for treatment—an approach, at least in retina specialty care, that serves only to delay care given that treatment is approved in more than 99% of cases. 2. Step therapy—which requires a defined clinical care approach that is virtually always focused on cost rather than on the unique individual who requires treatment. The ASRS has strongly opposed both these measures on best-clinical-practice grounds. Recent research on cost has been broadened to consider the indirect costs of care—visits require time away from work or family, often include a driver or family member, and typically have significant opportunity cost. Sadly, virtually every program at a national policy level seems driven by cost first and benefit last. Highlights In This Issue: Talcott et al,1 for the ASRS Artificial Intelligence (AI) Task Force, present their report on AI as it pertains to ophthalmology, focusing on the potential for AI to have an impact on virtually every aspect of retina specialty care while recognizing—even this early in the process—the real concerns for bias, exclusion, and misinformation tied to early AI “training” and deployment. Perez et al6 look at the social media platform Reddit as to medical accuracy in its discussion of ocular stem cell therapies for retinal degenerative diseases. As is often suggested, “Dr. Google” may not be the best source of patient-focused clinical information, and Reddit forums were found to be a source for rapid dissemination of misinformation. To view these articles, and the JVRD July/August issue, click: https://lnkd.in/e25CsfzW.
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𝗔𝗦𝗥𝗦 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀, 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗚𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗹 𝗛𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗨𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀 This week, ASRS members and other specialists visited Capitol Hill in Washington, DC to advocate directly to their legislators as part of the annual Alliance of Specialty Medicine Advocacy Conference. Each year, the fifteen member societies of the Alliance bring physicians to Washington to advance shared priorities and speak on behalf of their patients and practices. Among the issues discussed were the need to reform Medicare physician payment to include inflation-based updates and to enact reforms to step therapy and prior authorization that reduce physician burden and protect patients. Physician participants stressed to lawmakers that declining reimbursement and increasing administrative burdens put unsustainable stress on physician practices and may limit access for beneficiaries. #ASMFLYIN
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𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗦𝗥𝗦 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗮𝘂𝗴𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗠. 𝗚𝗶𝗹𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗦𝗥𝗦 𝗩𝗶𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗲 The Foundation of the American Society of Retina Specialists is pleased to announce that Michael Yu, MD, a vitreoretinal fellow at the Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been selected to receive the 2024 M. Gilbert Grand ASRS Vitreoretinal Fellowship Award. The perpetual award was established by Dr. Grand to expand access to retina specialist fellowship training opportunities by helping offset some of the financial burden incurred by 2nd-year trainees during fellowship. Prior to his fellowship, Dr. Yu attended the University of Pennsylvania, graduating Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Engineering specializing in biomedical engineering. He received the Rose Research Award given annually to the top 10 senior research projects at Penn, the Robert J. Holtz Research Award, and the Vagelos Research Grant. He was a finalist in the Penn Bioengineering Senior Design Competition. He received his medical degree from the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University and completed his ophthalmology residency at Stanford University. A prolific researcher currently involved in multiple ongoing clinical trials, Dr. Yu has published 26 peer-reviewed articles, ten as first author. He has also written six book chapters and presented at numerous conferences, including the ASRS, the Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting, Bioengineering Research Symposium, Jefferson Sigma Zi Research Symposium, Jefferson AOA Research Symposium, Atlantic Coast Retina Club, Wills lntraocular Tumor Symposium, ARVO, and the International Society of Ocular Oncology. The M. Gilbert Grand ASRS Vitreoretinal Fellowship Award is made possible by the generosity of ASRS member M. Gilbert Grand, MD, and his family, as well as Dr. Grand’s prior retina fellows, colleagues and his patients. The named endowment will generate a perpetual award each year of $2,500 at this time. It has been established to assist retina fellows with the hope that the recipients will be inspired to give back similarly later in their careers. To support the M. Gilbert Grand ASRS Vitreoretinal Fellowship Award, visit https://lnkd.in/grffgcsj and select the M. Gilbert Grand Award from the Donation Category dropdown menu. More information on the award is available at www.asrs.org/GrandAward. To learn more about the Foundation’s activities supporting next-generation retina specialists visit https://lnkd.in/gMZz6wYx.
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𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐲 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢-𝐕𝐄𝐆𝐅 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞; 𝐀𝐒𝐑𝐒 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬 Last week, a study published in @JAMAOphthalmology (https://lnkd.in/gyqvcugr), found that more than 96% of retina specialists’ requests for prior authorization to treat patients with anti-VEGF drugs were approved by private payers. The study was led by ASRS Practice Management Committee member Sabin Dang, MD, with data contributed by fellow committee members and other ASRS members’ practices. Despite the exceptionally high rate of approval for prior authorization requests, the study also found that most requests were associated with a delay of care and each request required a median of 100 minutes of clinic staff time. ASRS will use the results of this study to continue our advocacy to reduce the burden of payer tactics, such as prior authorization. If you haven’t already contacted your legislators in support of legislation to reform prior authorization, visit https://p2a.co/fgbvpqb to send an instant, pre-written message.
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The May/June 2024 issue of the Journal of Vitreoretinal Diseases is now available. Access the issue's robust table of contents and subscribe to read full articles today! https://lnkd.in/gJu7-qj9
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What's new on the JVRD Author's Forum podcast? Associate editor-in-chief, John T. Thompson, MD, FASRS is one of the featured guests on a new episode of the JVRD Author's Forum podcast. On this episode, Tim Murray, MD MBA, JVRD Editor-in-chief, meets with Dr. Thompson to discuss updates for the application of the 2020 spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) consensus to the preoperative classification of macular hole and other macular pathologies to determine whether SD-OCT classification can be useful in determining visual outcomes. Tune in to explore how this study categorized the VA outcomes in eyes treated with PPV with membrane peeling based on the disease classification using the new consensus based OCT definition. Visit the JVRD Author's Forum webpage (https://lnkd.in/grDQuTi7) or our YouTube channel (https://lnkd.in/gtTw7shF) to watch this and other Author's Forum episodes. Audio episodes are available on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other podcast directories.
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Cutting Across Continents Webinar Series Continues May 22 Learn how retina specialists across the globe are meeting today’s surgical challenges! Join us for the second in our series of international webinars on Wednesday, May 22, 7:30 – 8:45 PM Indian Standard Time (2- 3:15 PM Coordinated Universal Time). The surgical event will be co-hosted by the ASRS and the Vitreoretinal Society of India. Co-Moderators are Sunir Garg, MD, FASRS, and Yodpong Chantarasorn, MD. Expert Faculty and Topics: · Hemanth Murthy, MBBS, MD, FASRS: Bangalore, India -- Diabetic Tractional Retinal Detachments · Mallika Goyal, MD: Hyderabad, India -- Fibrin Glue to Successfully Close Retinal Breaks in Complex Retinal Detachments · Mudit Tyagi, MS, FASRS: Hyderabad, India -- Endoscopy In Retinal Surgeries · Dharmesh K. Kar, MD, FASRS: Mumbai, India -- IOFB Management · Alay S. Banker, MD: Ahmedabad, India -- Dealing With Difficult Posterior Hyaloid and PVR Membrane Dissection Follow this link to register (bit.ly/ASRS-May-22-Zoom) or visit https://lnkd.in/gmjfPy6M for a downloadable flyer!
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Registration is now open! Don't miss out! Prevent Blindness Hosts 13th Annual Focus on Eye Health Summit: “Being Seen and Heard”, a Two-Day Virtual Event - INVISION Magazine Prevent Blindness, the nation’s eye health and safety nonprofit organization, will host the 13th annual Prevent Blindness Focus on Eye Health Summit on July 10-11, 2024, as a virtual interactive event. The theme for this year is “Being Seen and Heard,” with the goal to amplify and educate on the importance of a person-centered approach to vision health interventions, research, communications, and care. This year’s agenda is specifically designed to address a variety of topics including how social determinants of health contribute to increased or decreased eye health disparities; how innovative strategies, emerging technologies, surveillance, and collaborative approaches promote eye health; and how engaging individuals results in reduced barriers to care as well as more meaningful policy, research, and programs. https://lnkd.in/g-i8Ezab
Prevent Blindness Hosts 13th Annual Focus on Eye Health Summit: “Being Seen and Heard”, a Two-Day Virtual Event
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Don't miss the ASRS 42nd Annual Scientific Meeting, July 17-20 in Stockholm, Sweden! The preliminary 42nd Annual Scientific Meeting program is now available at https://lnkd.in/emA4Eur. First, browse the schedule at a glance and then click the blue button at the top of the schedule to view the full meeting program with presentation titles and authors. *Please note that the online meeting program will continue to be updated to reflect additional details as they become available. If you have not yet registered, now is the time! Visit https://lnkd.in/gSmMWUzh to register today.
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