YES Know Your Tools/Toy Box: Preoperative Diagnostics

Description
Sponsored by the Cataract Clinical Committee
In this webinar, attendees will learn from expert surgeons about basic preoperative diagnostic tools needed for cataract surgery. This will include how to evaluate varying corneal topographers and biometers. In addition, case studies will show examples of preoperative diagnostic evaluation in patients with compromised corneas and post-refractive eyes. Case presentations will also discuss preoperative diagnosis of astigmatism to aid in the use of toric IOLs.

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Cataract preoperative topography biometry post-refractive surgery astigmatism management young eye surgeons YES

Webinar Faculty

ZAINA AL-MOHTASEB, MD

Zaina Al-Mohtaseb, M.D. is an ophthalmologist specializing in cornea, external disease, cataract and refractive surgery. Dr. Al-Mohtaseb earned her medical degree with honors from Baylor College of Medicine. She completed her ophthalmology residency at the Cullen Eye Institute at Baylor College of Medicine.

Samuel H. Lee, MD

Samuel H. Lee, MD joined Sacramento Eye Consultants in June 2016. He received his medical degree from Loma Linda University School of Medicineand completed his internship at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center. In 2009, Dr. Lee came to Sacramento for his ophthalmology residency at UC Davis Eye Center, and then moved to Chicago to complete a Cornea and Refractive Surgery fellowship at the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Kevin M. Miller, MD

Kevin M. Miller, MD, is a full professor and the Kolokotrones Chair in Ophthalmology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is the Chief of the Cataract and Refractive Surgery Division, Director of the Anterior Segment Diagnostic Laboratory, and a member of the Stein Eye Institute. Dr. Miller is the recipient of four endowed cataract research funds at UCLA including the Paul Vicari fund, Pat and Joe Yzurdiaga fund, Albert Sarnoff fund, and Amalia Simon Roth fund.

Mitchell Weikert, MD

Mitchell P. Weikert, M.D., M.S. is an Associate Professor at the Cullen Eye Institute, Baylor College of Medicine. He obtained his medical degree and ophthalmology residency at Baylor College of Medicine, where he served as Chief Resident during his final year of training. He completed his fellowship in cornea, external disease, cataract and refractive surgery at the John. A. Moran Eye Center.