CRST: The Podcast
CRST: The Podcast

12.21.22

Best of 2022

Listen to highlights from the top five episodes of the past year. The grand prize winner of CRST’s 2022 Phaco Saves video contest, Ahmed Assaf, MD, PhD, FRCS(Ed), discusses the case featured in his winning video. Karolinne Maia Rocha, MD; Mark Lobanoff, MD; and George O. Waring IV, MD, FACS, discuss considerations in new refractive IOLs. Robert J. Weinstock, MD; Caroline Watson, MD; William F. Wiley, MD; Arjan Hura, MD; and M. Amir Moarefi, MD, explore the benefits of nontraditional fellowships. D. Brian Kim, MD; Ashley Brissette, MD, MSc, FRCSC; Nicole R. Fram, MD; and J. Morgan Micheletti, MD, share how they would approach a series of challenging scenarios in the preoperative consultation. Finally, Chief Medical Editor Cathleen M. McCabe, MD, hosts a discussion of preferred treatments and patient selection for pharmacologic agents, premium IOL technologies, and refractive procedures with guests Audrey R. Talley Rostov, MD; Brian M. Shafer, MD; Mitchell C. Shultz, MD; Stephen G. Slade, MD, FACS; and Dagny C. Zhu.

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