Laser Eye Surgery

... Advanced Medical Optics Pledges $1 Million for ASCRS Foundation-Sponsored Independent Research and Programming in Refractive Lenticular Science Advanced Medical Optics Pledges $1 Million for ASCRS Foundation-Sponsored Independent Research and Programming in Refractive Lenticular Science SAN FRANCISCO, March 15 /PRNewswire/ - Advanced Medical Optics (AMO) has pledged $1 million to support American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) Foundation-sponsored research in refractive lenticular science, it was announced here today by I.

Howard Fine, MD, ASCRS Foundation Chairman during the Opening General Session of the ASCRS Symposium and Congress.

"In 2006, we will begin work on a substantial multi-year program to support new research and new educational programs that explore the rapidly emerging science of refractive lenticular surgery," said Fine, announcing the AMO grant.

"Ophthalmology stands on the edge of an exciting new future and the changes we will experience during the next few years will be exponential.

The established paradigm of a single, government-funded provider of eye care is quickly giving way to patient-driven, multi-variant options.

What we have seen to date represents only the first timid steps into a new world of opportunity.

In the coming years, the ever-increasing merger of cataract and laser refractive science will change our practices and greatly increase what we can offer our patients." "As th...

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