Practice Management News

NEW YORK — Knowing his audience consisted of ophthalmologists who are evaluating if private equity is right for them, trader and TV personality Guy Adami shared his philosophy for business and thoughts on current market forces.

NEW YORK — Richard L. Lindstrom, MD, discusses how private equity investments in ophthalmology could be beneficial to practice owners at the Open Your Eyes to Private Equity meeting preceding OSN New York 2019.

NEW YORK — At the Open Your Eyes to Private Equity meeting preceding OSN New York 2019, Jim Mazzo, global president of ophthalmic devices at Carl Zeiss Meditec, discusses how the symposium is helpful to those interested in private equity investment.

VSP Global announced the acquisition of Visionworks to further its mission of improving access to affordable and quality eye care.

The FDA has sent a warning letter to Greenbrier International, Inc., doing business as Dollar Tree, for receiving over-the-counter drugs made by foreign manufacturers that were found to have serious violations of federal law.

Wills Eye Hospital’s Ophthalmologist-in-Chief Julia Haller, MD, was recently selected to be one of 100 new members of the National Academy of Medicine, which recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional and academic achievement and commitment to service.

HOUSTON — The ability to say yes and no can make a significant difference in the ability to prevent or eliminate physician burnout, according to several panelists here at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting.

SAN FRANCISCO — At the American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting, Vance Thompson, MD, discusses how to prepare rural practices to develop and incorporate corneal collagen cross-linking capabilities.

For adults in the United Kingdom, sight is the most valuable sense, a cross-sectional web-based survey found.

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — On a panel about private equity at the OCTANe Medical Technology Innovation Forum here, two ophthalmologists agreed that the time is now for going the private equity route but only for the right types of private practices.