Webinar: The truth about tubes and the evolution of glaucoma surgery
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Optometry Today (OT), in partnership with Moorfields Private Eye Hospital and the AOP, are pleased to provide this 60-minute webinar.
This session will provide an overview of recent evolutionary changes in glaucoma surgery and place them in context in relation to the type and severity of glaucoma. The unmet need in more complex and more advanced glaucomas will be highlighted and the changing role of tube implants in these cases, described.
7.00PM - 8.00PM
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The truth about tubes
CPD ref no: C-103856
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- Practitioners will be updated on the contemporary surgical management of glaucoma
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Professor Keith Barton
Keith Barton is a consultant ophthalmologist and glaucoma specialist at Moorfields Eye Hospital, professor of ophthalmology at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and co-founder and co-chair of Ophthalmology Futures Forums and the International Glaucoma Surgery Registry.
His areas of interest are the surgical management of glaucoma, especially aqueous shunt devices, micro-invasive glaucoma surgery and the management of glaucoma in uveitis. Keith has been at the forefront of surgical innovation in glaucoma, specifically glaucoma surgical devices and is a co-inventor of the Paul Glaucoma Implant.
Professor Barton was editor-in-chief of the British Journal of Ophthalmology from 2014-2021, has been invited to lecture on every continent, and has twice been voted by The Ophthalmologist magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in ophthalmology - in 2018 he was voted no. 10 in the world.