Controversies in Modern Eye Care 2023: Glaucoma compliance

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Alena Reznik, MD, shares short reflections on the glaucoma panel presented during the 2023 Controversies in Modern Eye Care meeting.

Alena Reznik, MD, a glaucoma specialist in LA and the Orange County area, shares short reflections on her panel, "Pearls in comanaging glaucoma," which she co-presented during the 17th annual Controversies in Modern Eye Care symposium at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, California.

This transcript has been edited for clarity.

Alena Reznik, MD:

Hi, my name is Dr. Alena Reznik, I'm a full-time glaucoma specialist in LA and Orange County area. I'm here today to speak about all the wonderful new developments in the drug delivery devices for glaucoma. We're so used to prescribing eyedrops for patients who prescribe 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, so forth and so on. But do they actually take it? Now we have an opportunity to take away compliance from the hands of the patients into the hands of the physicians or providers.

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