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Paying tribute to the generations of Asian and Pacific Islanders who have enriched America's history and are instrumental in its future success.

Dr. Thomas Wong and some of his optometry students, Julie Song SUNYOPTOM’22, Trinh (Emma) Hoang SUNYOPTOM’22 and Andrew Kageyama SUNYOPTOM’22 discuss being asian in America.

Dr. Thomas Wong is and Associate Clinical Professor serving as the Director of Clinical Externships and Director of New Technologies at SUNY Optometry. He served as the chief of adult and pediatric primary care at the Univeristy Eye Center from 2011 to 2015, and previously as the Chief of Optometry at Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic States.

Learn why the ‘model minority’ myth hurts Asian Americans | EYE NEWS TV with Thomas Wong, OD and his optometry students.

Experts believe that the model minority myth has hidden anti-Asian racism for far too long.

Dr. Thomas Wong and some of his optometry students, Julie Song SUNYOPTOM’22, Trinh (Emma) Hoang SUNYOPTOM’22 and Andrew Kageyama SUNYOPTOM’22 discuss how the Asian Myth of Minority has played a role in their lives as a student and as a person.

Asian Americans are often stereotyped as studious, successful, smart , a model minority who excel in education and accomplish the “American Dream.” Despite its positive overtones this stereotype is damaging for Asian Americans and other students of color. The model minority myth pits students of color against each other and ignores the reality of systemic racism that Asian Americans continue to encounter.

Dr. Thomas Wong is and Associate Clinical Professor serving as the Director of Clinical Externships and Director of New Technologies at SUNY Optometry. He served as the chief of adult and pediatric primary care at the Univeristy Eye Center from 2011 to 2015, and previously as the Chief of Optometry at Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic States.

Corina van de Pol, OD, PhD | Assistant Professor at the Southern California School of Optometry teaches eye care providers how to do a proper Red/Green Balance Refraction Procedure for a patient with a IC-8® Small Aperture IOL.

The IC-8 IOL uses a small aperture to extend clear focus across a continuous range of around 3.00 D. Due to this unique method of action, current automated refraction devices may return unreliable results as the IC-8 IOL has no specific focal point. So, it is important to use a technique such as Red/Green, Mid-Point or Maximum Plus Refraction to accurately determine the eyes’ true refraction.

In this video, I will take you through a step-by-step approach for using a Red/Green balance refraction procedure to determine the endpoint refraction of an eye implanted with an IC-8 small aperture IOL.

A red/green balance technique may be used to find the Mid-Point balance refraction and is done after determination of a patient’s manifest spherical and cylinder refraction and confirming their best acuity.

The purpose of this procedure is to determine the correcting spherical lens power in the IC-8 IOL eye. This procedure makes use of the chromatic aberration properties of the eye, which results in shorter green wavelengths being focused in front of the longer red wavelengths.

How to perform an IC-8® Small Aperture IOL Mid-Point Refraction Procedure? | Optometrist-Ophthalmologist.

Corina van de Pol, OD, PhD | Assistant Professor at the Southern California School of Optometry teaches eye care providers how to do a proper Mid-Point Refraction Procedure for a patient with a IC-8® Small Aperture IOL.

The IC-8 IOL uses a small aperture to extend clear focus across a continuous range of around 3.00 D. Due to this unique method of action, current automated refraction devices may return unreliable results as the IC-8 IOL has no specific focal point. So, it is important to use a technique such as Mid-Point, Red/Green or Maximum Plus refraction to accurately determine the eyes true refraction.

Refractions can be more challenging in the IC-8 IOL eye. Because of the extended depth of focus provided by the small aperture, these patients will tolerate a larger range of introduced lenses without experiencing blur.
AcuFocus™ has developed a technique termed a “Mid-Point” refraction which provides more consistent results with small aperture technologies. The technique is very similar to the technique we use for Negative Relative Accommodation/ Positive Relative Accommodation or as we typically call it, NRA/PRA in near testing, but it is being done with a distant target. Alternatively, a “red/green” balance test can be used to determine the refractive endpoint.

In this video, I will take you through a step-by-step approach for using a Mid-Point refraction technique to determine the refraction of an eye implanted with an IC-8 small aperture IOL.

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These questions and more are explanined br Dr. Thomas Wong.

Dr. Thomas Wong is and Associate Clinical Professor serving as the Director of Clinical Externships and Director of New Technologies at SUNY Optometry. He served as the chief of adult and pediatric primary care at the Univeristy Eye Center from 2011 to 2015, and previously as the Chief of Optometry at Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic States.

Dr. Wong received his Doctor of Optometry degree from SUNY Optometry in 1989. He serves on the Board of Governor at Georgetown University, and the PCPI (Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement). He provides eye exams for the Washington Jesuit Academy, Chicago Scholars, and Cristo Rey High Schools.

One of the things I want to bring up that I really like about UPNEEQ this new product, is I have something I can do for ptosis. My referring physicians now have something because a lot of times, they may have referred that patient to me, "What are you going to do with it?" Well, I don't do lid lifts and I don't do ptosis repair. So many times they're referring that patient to me, I'm seeing that patient and referring it onto the plastic surgeon. So now what I'm doing is teaching all those referring physicians as well as my staff, "Hey, we've got this new product."

Blepharoptosis: an abnormal, low-lying upper eyelid margin. Drooping eyelids may occur on both sides (bilateral) or on one side only (unilateral), in which case it is more easily noticed. Congenital ptosis is eyelid drooping that is present at birth; when it develops later, it is referred to as acquired ptosis.

Karl Stonecipher, MD | Key Opinion Leader for the Eye Care Community
Whether you need an eye exam or laser eye surgery, you need to choose an experienced and qualified ophthalmologist. Dr. Stonecipher from Laser Defined Vision, PA in Greensboro, NC has over 20 years of experience. After graduating from the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine he completed his residency at Tulane Medical Center then followed with his fellowship at the McGee Eye Institute in Oklahoma City, OK. Dr. Stonecipher has been a keynote speaker for medical events all over the globe and has countless publications and accolades.

With any patient, we always want to talk about specific disease entities in a caring in a kind way. People come to us as ophthalmologists and they have a cataract. Well, it's easy. They can't see. They come to us as a LASIK surgeon and they say, "Doc, I want to get rid of my glasses." So the forethought after that comment is pretty easy. We're going to talk to them about laser vision correction, or we're going to talk to them about cataract surgery and premium IOLs. Well, for some reason, many physicians feel uncomfortable sometimes talking about acquired ptosis or droopy eyelids because they think of it as a cosmetic problem.

Blepharoptosis: an abnormal, low-lying upper eyelid margin. Drooping eyelids may occur on both sides (bilateral) or on one side only (unilateral), in which case it is more easily noticed. Congenital ptosis is eyelid drooping that is present at birth; when it develops later, it is referred to as acquired ptosis.

Karl Stonecipher, MD | Key Opinion Leader for the Eye Care Community
Whether you need an eye exam or laser eye surgery, you need to choose an experienced and qualified ophthalmologist. Dr. Stonecipher from Laser Defined Vision, PA in Greensboro, NC has over 20 years of experience. After graduating from the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine he completed his residency at Tulane Medical Center then followed with his fellowship at the McGee Eye Institute in Oklahoma City, OK. Dr. Stonecipher has been a keynote speaker for medical events all over the globe and has countless publications and accolades.

The first important thing that I would like people to hear me say and my little simple pearl with blepharoptosis, or acquired ptosis or a droopy eyelid, is we got to make the diagnosis.

Blepharoptosis: an abnormal, low-lying upper eyelid margin. Drooping eyelids may occur on both sides (bilateral) or on one side only (unilateral), in which case it is more easily noticed. Congenital ptosis is eyelid drooping that is present at birth; when it develops later, it is referred to as acquired ptosis.

Karl Stonecipher, MD | Key Opinion Leader for the Eye Care Community
Whether you need an eye exam or laser eye surgery, you need to choose an experienced and qualified ophthalmologist. Dr. Stonecipher from Laser Defined Vision, PA in Greensboro, NC has over 20 years of experience. After graduating from the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine he completed his residency at Tulane Medical Center then followed with his fellowship at the McGee Eye Institute in Oklahoma City, OK. Dr. Stonecipher has been a keynote speaker for medical events all over the globe and has countless publications and accolades.