Day 3 – Monday, November 18

AAO OPENING SESSION

Before Paul Sternberg Jr., MD, steps aside from his role as the American Academy of Ophthalmology's president, he said he does not look back to recount his time in the office. Instead, he addressed the future. » MORE

In New Orleans, the theme song "The Saints Go Marching In," includes the famous line, "I want to be in that Number." The American Academy of Ophthalmology is hoping that thousands of its members will want to be in that number, too—the Intelligent Research in Sight (IRIS) Registry. » MORE

Calling it an "innovator's dilemma," Mark S. Blumenkranz, MD, reflected on the extreme difficulties inventors often face in the beginning of a technological advance. » MORE

CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS

The reality of glaucomatous progression bites, said Joel S. Schuman, MD—and it can bite even before structural or functional change is clinically noted by current technology. » MORE