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PodCast Listing:
  1. Program Title: Glaucoma with comorbid diabetes.
    Description: With Louis R. Pasquale, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, and Co-Director of the Glaucoma Service at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.
    Speaker: Louis R. Pasquale, MD
    Program Length: 12:32
      

  2. Program Title: Is Variation in IOP Over 24 Hours Important?.
    Description: With Joel Schuman, MD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Eye and Ear Institute
    Speaker: Joel Schuman, MD
    Program Length: 11:31
      

  3. Program Title: Severity of Visual Field Loss and Health Related Quality of Life.
    Description: With Rohit Varma, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology and Preventive Medicine and Director of the Glaucoma Service and Ocular Epidemiology Center at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Pasadena.
    Speaker: Rohit Varma, MD
    Program Length: 13:00
      
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  4. Program Title: Tools for Monitoring Disease Progression in Glaucoma.
    Description: A conversation with Jay Katz, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, and Co-Director of the Wills Eye Institute Glaucoma Service in Philadelphia
    Speaker: Jay Katz, MD
    Program Length: 10:31
      
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  5. Program Title: Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty and Medications: Best Clinical Practices Part 1 of 2.
    Description: Mark A. Latina, MD, Associate Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at New England Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine and Associate Surgeon at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
    Speaker: Mark A. Latina, MD
    Program Length: 11:19
    Part 1 of 2
      
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  6. Program Title: Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty and Medications: Best Clinical Practices Part 2 of 2.
    Description: Mark A. Latina, MD, Associate Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at New England Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine and Associate Surgeon at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
    Speaker: Mark A. Latina, MD
    Program Length: 12:12
    Part 2 of 2
      
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  7. Program Title: Corneal thickness and its measurement.
    Description: Leon Herndon, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Duke University on Corneal thickness and its measurement
    Speaker: Leon Herndon, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
    Program Length: 9:34
      

  8. Program Title: Opinion: Use of a target IOP range in glaucoma management.
    Description: A conversation with Kuldev Singh, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology at Stanford University, regarding target IOP in glaucoma management.
    Speaker: Kuldev Singh, MD
    Program Length: 16:17
      

  9. Program Title: Spontaneous IOP fluctuation and the Monocular Drug Trial.
    Description: A conversation with Anthony Realini, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Associate Director of the Glaucoma Service at the West Virginia Eye Institute in Morgantown.
    Speaker: Anthony Realini, MD
    Program Length: 13:59
      

  10. Program Title: The Tube vs Trabeculectomy Study: one-year follow up.
    Description: James D. Brandt, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of California at Davis and a coauthor of the Tube vs Trabecular Study, details the one-year-followup results.
    Speaker: James D. Brandt, MD
    Program Length: 14:30
      

  11. Program Title: Diagnostic modalities and the early detection of glaucoma.
    Description: A conversation with Sanjay Asrani, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, on the topics of diagnostic modalities and the early detection of glaucoma.
    Speaker: Sanjay Asrani, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
    Program Length: 13:34
      

  12. Program Title: Deciding when to treat glaucoma, and what to tell patients.
    Description: A conversation with George L. Spaeth, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology and Chief of Glaucoma Service at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia. He has a special interest in the quality of life of patients with glaucoma, and insight on deciding when to treat.
    Speaker: George L. Spaeth, MD
    Program Length: 16:27
      

  13. Program Title: The value of diurnal IOP measurement.
    Description: A conversation with Robert Ritch, MD, Surgeon Director and Chief of Glaucoma Services at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. He offers his expert opinion on and describes his experience with diurnal IOP measurement.
    Speaker: Robert Ritch, MD
    Program Length: 14:20
      

  14. Program Title: New imaging techniques in the early diagnosis of glaucomatous optic nerve damage.
    Description: A conversation with Rohit Varma, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology and Preventive Medicine, and Director of the Glaucoma Service and Ocular Epidemiology Center, at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is an expert on changes in the optic nerve in glaucoma as well as new imaging techniques in the early diagnosis of glaucomatous optic nerve damage.
    Speaker: Rohit Varma, MD, MPH
    Program Length: 15:41
      

  15. Program Title: New technology for the treatment of open-angle glaucoma.
    Description: With Brian A. Francis, MD of the University of Southern California's Doheny Eye Institute in Los Angeles. He's an authority on novel diagnostic tests and treatments for glaucoma, including the emergence of new technology for the treatment of open-angle glaucoma.
    Speaker: Brian A. Francis, MD
    Program Length: 15:18
      

  16. Program Title: Current thinking about glaucoma, target IOP, and the management of surgical complications.
    Description: A conversation with Paul F. Palmberg, MD, PhD, of the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, an authority on the treatment of glaucoma and the management of the complications of glaucoma surgery.
    Speaker: Paul F. Palmberg, MD, PhD
    Program Length: 16:03
      

  17. Program Title: News about medical therapy to reduce intraocular pressure.
    Description: A conversation with Richard K. Parrish II, MD, a nationally recognized glaucoma specialist at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute as well as a board-certified ophthalmologist who is Professor and Associate Dean for graduate medical education at the University of Miami.
    Speaker: Richard K. Parrish II, MD
    Program Length: 10:33
      

  18. Program Title: A case study of progressive primary open angle glaucoma.
    Description: Joseph Caprioli, Professor of Ophthalmology and Chair of the Glaucoma Division at UCLA, presents a case study of an 80-year-old man with progressive primary open angle glaucoma.
    Speaker: Joseph Caprioli, MD
    Program Length: 8:27