Episodes

Friday Dec 15, 2023
Episode 41: Ophthalmologica spotlight episode
Friday Dec 15, 2023
Friday Dec 15, 2023
In this episode we look at two very interesting papers published in the latest editions of Ophthalmologica - Martin Busch presents his work on using microRNA as biomarkers for retinal disease and the panel discuss Christina Weisheit's paper on Co2 emissions from the ophthalmic OR. Chaired by Patricia Udaondo, Matias Iglicki and Andreas Ebneter.
Links to papers:
https://karger.com/oph/article/246/3-4/169/861433/High-Impact-Actions-to-Reduce-the-Carbon-Dioxide

Friday Dec 01, 2023
Episode 40: Prof David Huang: The co-inventor of OCT
Friday Dec 01, 2023
Friday Dec 01, 2023
Fresh from his exciting win of the Lasker Award - often dubbed the American Nobel Prize - Professor David Huang (USA) - the inventor of optical coherence tomography (OCT) - joins Prof Pearse Keane (UK) and Tunde Peto (Hungary/UK) to talk about how he and colleagues developed the technology and about the impact it has had on retinal medicine

Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
Episode 39: The Euretina Retinal Medicine Clinical Research Award
Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
As applications open for the Euretina Retinal Medicine Clinical Research Award, we hear about the award from Euretina EVP, Dara Conlon. We also gain interesting insights from previous winners Camiel Boon (Netherlands) and João Pedro Marques (Portugal) to see how the award has furthered their research.

Friday Sep 29, 2023
Episode 38: Preview of Euretina Congress 2023
Friday Sep 29, 2023
Friday Sep 29, 2023
In this podcast Euretina President, Mr Alistair Laidlaw and Euretina EVP Dara Conlon explore the highlights of this year's congress which is on track to be the biggest and most exciting meeting yet!

Friday Sep 15, 2023
Friday Sep 15, 2023
In this episode, journalist Ramadan Younis and his executive producer Simon Cox tell us about their far-reaching BBC documentary. "Blind Faith" exposes the international practice of defrauding patients of Retinitis Pigmentosa with false hopes of treatment or cure with little or no evidence of efficacy. They are joined by Prof Robert McLaren of the University of Oxford, who consulted on the documentary and evaluated the scientific claims being made by bad actors in the programme. You can watch the documentary here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0f95ky3

Friday Sep 01, 2023
Episode 36: The Ophthalmologica Lecture: Maximilian Pfau
Friday Sep 01, 2023
Friday Sep 01, 2023
In this episode, we’re going to dig into the subject of this year’s Ophtalmologica lecture which will be delivered on the Saturday afternoon at this year’s congress in Amsterdam. Professor Maximilan Pfau is a clinician with a specialism in AMD and Inherited Retinal diseases in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University Eye Hospital, Basel, Switzerland. He's joined by Editor in Chief of the Ophthalmologica Journal; Professor Martin Zinkernagel

Tuesday Aug 15, 2023
Episode 35: Treating PCV and Pachychoroid in Different Populations
Tuesday Aug 15, 2023
Tuesday Aug 15, 2023
In this episode, we head to Asia to hear from colleagues in Japan, Singapore and South Korea about their experiences treating PCV and Pachychoroid in different populations. The podcast is chaired by Prof Taiji Sakamoto (Japan) and Prof SeungYoung Yu (South Korea) who are joined by Prof Gemmy Cheung and Prof Adrian Koh (Singapore)

Monday Jul 31, 2023
Episode 34: The Euretina Lecture: OncoVR
Monday Jul 31, 2023
Monday Jul 31, 2023
In this podcast, we hear from Euretina Keynote Bertil Damato (UK/Sweden) about his upcoming talk on OncoVR at the 2023 Euretina Congress. He is joined by colleague Carl Groenewald (UK) and Heinrich Heimann (Chair - UK)

Monday Jul 03, 2023
Episode 33: The Euretina Innovation Summit - All You Need to Know
Monday Jul 03, 2023
Monday Jul 03, 2023
In this podcast, we'll be hearing about an exciting new event taking
place in Amsterdam at the Euretina Congress in October; the inaugural
Euretina Innovation Summit (EIS). Kourous Rezaei (USA) and Anat
Loewenstein (Israel) - two members of the organising committee - will
discuss the programme and motivation behind the event with chair Frank
G Holz (Germany)

Thursday Jun 15, 2023
Episode 32: Macular Holes and Glaucoma in Myopia
Thursday Jun 15, 2023
Thursday Jun 15, 2023
In this podcast, we’ll explore two areas in the subspecialty of myopia: Aude Couturier will share her expertise in macular holes and Dr Yves Lachkar will discuss glaucoma in highly myopic patients. Chaired by David Gaucher and Jost Jonas