Northwestern Medicine ‘Dinner With the Experts’

The Department of Ophthalmology at Northwestern Medicine is proud to offer a new series, Dinner With the Experts. As leaders in the field of ophthalmic research and treatment, our faculty offer this series of cases, updates and clinical insights to our ophthalmology colleagues around the world.
 
Robert S. Feder, MD, vice chairman of Education in the Department of Ophthalmology and Dinner With the Experts chair, says “One of my goals is to widen the educational footprint beyond our department at Northwestern Medicine. By offering a one-hour virtual interactive meeting with one of our accomplished faculty members, we will provide interesting cases, brief talks and clinical updates with useful takeaways offering residents, fellows and comprehensive eye physicians regionally, nationally and internationally impactful learning experiences at no charge.”
 
Upcoming Events
Registration for each Dinner With the Experts event will be open in the weeks before, with a new link for each.
 
Cataract and Refractive – Repairing Irises and Fixating IOLs: Simplifying the Complex
Surendra Basti, MD
Tuesday, November 18
6 – 7 pm (CT)
 
Program Objectives:
1. To provide a better understanding of the nuances of fixating lenses with sutures or flanges.
2. Clarifying when and how to manage iris defects.
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Uveitis
Timothy Janetos, MD
Tuesday, December 16
6 – 7 pm (CT)
 
Oculoplastics
Liza M. Cohen, MD
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
6 – 7 pm (CT)
 
Ocular Pathology
Paul J. Bryar, MD
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
6 – 7 pm (CT)
 
Neuro-ophthalmology
Nicholas J. Volpe, MD
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
6 – 7 pm (CT)
 
Retina
Manjot K. Gill, MD
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
6 – 7 pm  (CT)
 
Ocular Oncology
R. Christopher Bowen, MD
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
6 – 7 pm  (CT)
 
Cornea
Robert S. Feder, MD
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
6 – 7 pm (CT)
Event Recaps
Using OCT Imaging and Perimetry to Detect Glaucoma Progression
Angelo P. Tanna, MD, focused on several areas of glaucoma progression during his session. One of which was why early and accurate detection of disease progression is so critical in glaucoma care. “Often, both with visual fields and imaging, mild but real disease-associated changes over time are dismissed as noise. On the other hand, in the case of imaging, changes attributable to normal aging, artifacts or non-glaucomatous processes such as the release of vitreous traction or an improvement of retinal edema, for example, are misdiagnosed as signs of glaucoma progression. Obviously, it is very important to correctly determine whether the glaucomatous disease process is stable or not because that drives treatment decisions that will have a real impact on patients' quality of life. Unnecessary therapies have the potential to cause harm and the failure to appropriately intensify therapy in patients with disease progression leads to further, usually preventable, vision loss.”