Thank you to everyone who attended our recent GP and optometrist webinar in June! Please see abstracts and references from our ophthalmologists’ presentations below.

Dr Sonya Bennett: What Role do Supplements Play in Eye Care?

Supplements in healthcare are popular and often patients ask us about taking supplements for their particular ocular health issues. This lecture educated attendees on the evidence for the use of supplements for various ophthalmic conditions including dry eye, glaucoma, macular degeneration, and how we recommend that these are applied in clinical practice.

Nutrients, 2022 Nov 25;14(23):5014 

Nutraceuticals: A Promising Therapeutic Approach in Ophthalmology

Carlos Rodrigo Castro-Castaneda 1, Francisco Altamirano-Lamarque 1, Alan Gabriel Ortega-Macías 1, Francisco J Santa Cruz-Pavlovich 1, Alejandro Gonzalez-De la Rosa 1  2, Juan Armendariz-Borunda 1  3, Arturo Santos 1  2, Jose Navarro-Partida 1  2

Nutrients for Eye Health and Disease Management

Eyewiki, American Academy of Ophthalmology

Joobin Khadamy, MD, FEBO

Dr Clairton de Souza: All You Need to Know About Retinal Detachment

Retinal detachment is a major cause of severe vision loss in the general population. It has an incidence of 11.8 new cases in 100,000 individuals per year in North New Zealand. This talk presented its pathophysiology, predisposing factors, prevention, differential diagnosis and modern surgical management.

Retinal detachment

Lin JB, Narayanan R, Philippakis E, Yonekawa Y, Apte RS.

Nat Rev Dis Primers. 2024 Mar 14;10(1):18. doi: 10.1038/s41572-024-00501-5.

PMID: 38485969 Review.

International incidence and temporal trends for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Ge JY, Teo ZL, Chee ML, Tham YC, Rim TH, Cheng CY, Wong TY; SNEC Surgical Retina Research Group; Wong EYM, Lee SY, Cheung N.

Dr Richard Hart: Artificial Intelligence: What is it and How is it Changing Ophthalmology?

Artificial intelligence refers to software that is designed to mimic cognitive functions such as problem-solving and learning. AI machines can be trained to recognize patterns in large quantities of raw data. The technology is revolutionizing many aspects of human life and work. AI has numerous applications in Ophthalmology. This presentation covered what AI is and how it is being applied in various fields of Ophthalmology.

If you would like to suggest topics for our next seminar, or have any queries please email us on info@cityeye.co.nz

We look forward to seeing you at our next City Eye Specialists event soon!