Geoffrey G. Emerson of Retina Consultants of Minnesota and medical director at the Phillips Eye Institute in Minneapolis and an associate adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota, previews the 2024 annual meeting of the American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS) starting Wednesday, July 17, in Stockholm, Sweden.
Geoffrey G. Emerson, M.D., Ph.D., of Retina Consultants of Minnesota and medical director at the Phillips Eye Institute in Minneapolis and an associate adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota, previews the 2024 annual meeting of the American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS) starting Wednesday, July 17, in Stockholm, Sweden.
Emerson is the program chair of ASRS and helped organize the meeting's content.
In this video interview with Managed Healthcare Executive, he says new themes to the research and presentations at this year's meeting include artificial intelligence, retina complications associated with myopia, and continuing from last year's meeting, geographic atrophy and two new treatments for it, Syfovre (pegacetacoplan) and Izervay (avancincaptad pegol).
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