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WaveTec CEO Tom Frinzi Hints at Plans for Future

WaveTec CEO Tom Frinzi spoke to the ease of the deal that paired his company with Alcon, hints at plans for the future and explains how the Ophthalmology Innovation Summit aided the process of turning around the once troubled company. Speaking With: Tom Frinzi Thomas Frinzi is Senior Vice President of Abbott’s vision business, which…

Laurent Attias Explains How Alcon Will Maximize the Ora System’s Potential

Laurent Attias, head of Global Commercial Strategy of Alcon, explains why the WaveTec Vision integration has gone so well and how Alcon will maximize the Ora System’s potential. Also, Attias adds his insights on the fascinating joint venture between Alcon and Google to develop a next generation contact lens. Speaking With: Laurent Attias Laurent Attias…

Alcon’s George Stresses Innovation

A breakdown of the most salient points offered by opthalmology’s newest leader – Jeff George, President & Global Head of Alcon. Video Guest Jeff George Jeff was appointed to lead Alcon in May 2014. As the global leader in eye care, Alcon provides innovative products that enhance quality of life by helping people worldwide see…

CheckedUp

iDoc Inc. wants to revolutionize how doctors and patients interact. Its mobile platform allows doctors to educate patients, help them make decisions, and provide interactive tools for follow-up or chronic care. Founder and CEO Richard M. Awdeh, MD reported that in a recent clinical trial in four high-volume practices, CheckedUp reduced the share of patients…

Assort

Assort is a surgical management system that has insight, hindsight, and foresight, explained Assort Pty. Ltd.’s CEO Noel Alpins, MD. It can be used to analyze all ophthalmic parameters, including intraocular pressure and visual acuities. Assort uses the Alpins method to plan astigmatism surgery and analyze outcomes. Part of the Assort system, the iAssort software,…

A View From The AAO – Ophthalmic Innovation in 2014

Speaking at the recent OIS@AAO meeting, American Academy of Ophthalmology EVP and CEO David W. Parke II, MD, highlighted health care system integration forces that are aggregating physicians into larger groups, encouraging hospital mergers, and accelerating physician employment. Much of the consolidation is happening as part of the push towards accountable care organizations (ACOs). About…

i-Optics

[creativ_media type=”vimeo” url=”https://vimeo.com/111856584″] Presenter: Jeroen Cammeraat Jeroen Cammeraat is CEO of i-Optics and investor in the company since 2010. A serial entrepreneur and Senior Executive with 20+ years of global experience in the medical technology and life sciences market. View Full Profile

PowerVision

PowerVision Inc.’s FluidVision, an intraocular lens designed to treat presbyopia and/or cataracts, is the only technology that restores true accommodation, reported company President and CEO Barry Cheskin at the OIS forum. It does so by efficiently harnessing the natural muscular forces of accommodation in the eye to move fluids inside the lens. That fluid movement…

WaveTec Vision Systems

WaveTec Vision Systems ORA system is the first intra-operative diagnostic tool on the market to enhance visual outcomes in cataract surgery. It allows surgeons, in real-time, to see incisions and intraocular lens (IOL) alignment to support optimal IOL positioning. Thomas G. Frinzi, the company’s President and CEO, announced to OIS attendees that WaveTec’s acquisition by…

Opening The Door For Premium IOLs

[creativ_pullleft colour=”light-gray” colour_custom=”” text=”Episode 017″] OIS stalwart Jack Holladay, MD shares details on the work of a task force comprised of representatives from the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the Food and Drug Administration charged with updating the regulatory agency’s Grid and developing a Guidance Document for Extended Depth of Focus and Accommodating IOLs. The…

Ocular Therapeutix Starting to Sprint

[creativ_pullleft colour=”light-gray” colour_custom=”” text=”Episode 016″] Prior to starting Ocular Therapeutix, Amar Sawhney, already a successful medtech entrepreneur, was a bit concerned about the unique challenges posed by the ophthalmology sector. Today, with the commercial launch of its ReSure Sealant underway and a successful IPO completed, Sawhney says he’s more than confident in the plan to…

Device, Delivery, & Diagnostic Company Showcase

Chicago—The 6th Annual Ophthalmology Innovation Summit (OIS), held here prior to the annual American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) featured a plethora of intriguing early- to mid-stage companies focused in the medical devices arena. A regular presenter in past OIS meetings has been Tom Frinzi, President and CEO of WaveTec Vision (Aliso Viejo, California). Frinzi has…