Ophthalmology Published Paper Of Work I Do

Dont know if this is of interest to anyone, but I know from PMs that some have asked what I do for work, while most of my work is not computer fixing or tech, it is related to tech as we use computing to diagnose eye diseases, so both my interests are covered.

This paper came out of a database I wrote mainly to help track patient cases we had through a review panel meeting we have weekly and to save paper, it was looked over and noticed we could use it to collate data on prevalence of types of Wet AMD (which is my main area of work) so we looked at a offshoot of wet AMD and this paper came out of it and now published in a top journal

http://bjo.bmj.com/content/early/2017/03/07/bjophthalmol-2016-310074

 

Yup, main area is nAMD (Wet AMD) but work on studies for diabetes, macular oedema, vein occlusions, Central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR), malarial retinopathy, general eye population studies (sample sets most will have no eye disease) to name some, also run a screening clinic for wet AMD weekly and work with the academics at the university on developing new computerised diagnostic tools in both software and machinery as well as teach trainee ophthalmologists.

Previous work was in digital imaging at Kodak as well as the computing aspect of my interests, which lend themselves to this work, been at this for 12yrs now.

Very true on the varying degrees of what people of age can and cannot see, in clinic I see those in 90s that are spritely as hell but then others in 70s that are not, best patient ever I saw was a brill lady with tourettes, her daughter kept apologising I said its no dont as hear worse from staff in work!!

 

Thanks and its been well received but it also for me has a knock on effect of giving me more work as from this and data I collect we are starting 3 more studies as well as redesigning how we screen patients with suspected nAMD (Wet AMD) and if not nAMD what do you do next, virtual clinics are likely the answer with an ever growing patient list.

 

Thanks LS and I would be the same with your legal mumbojumbo! its great we still in respective areas use latin, confuses folk into thinking we are very clever!

 

hahaha I have similar in a list I typed up of eye conditions and phrases in a word doc on my phone