Speakers at Friday’s 2023 ESCRS iNovation® Day urged attendees to use practicality and persistence when treating myopia, the ocular disorder taking the eye care world by storm. Media MICE caught up with industry titan Jim Mazzo, Executive Chairman, Neurotech, and Dr. Ken Nishchal, Chief of the Division of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, at the Messe Wien Exhibition & Congress Centre to discuss technology and common sense in managing myopia.
Besides listening to sage advice from your mother (Don’t’ spend too much time reading screen! Don’t read in dim light! Go outside and soak up the sun!), Dr. Nischal recommended cooperation between specialties and using the World Society of Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus’ 2023 Consensus Statement for guidance on what works and what doesn’t. The marketplace for myopia management is huge and only growing, Mazzo said – so check out the highlights of this blockbuster ESCRS 2023 Day One event now!
