Most innovations in ophthalmology originate from a challenge faced by a practicing clinician. It is the clinician in the arena face to face with patients and their problems who first recognizes the unmet needs and looks for answers. Disruptive examples of clinician-driven innovation include IOLs, phacoemulsification, YAG laser posterior capsulotomy, laser therapy of retinal disease, LASIK, anti-VEGF treatment for wet age-related macular degeneration, mechanical vitrectomy and all the MIGS procedures, to name only a few.
While it is definitely an ophthalmologist’s duty to diagnose and
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