Jason Chin
Andover Eye Associates, USA
Title: Ophthalmic clinical trials: a global perspective and how to incorporate them into your practice
Biography
Biography: Jason Chin
Abstract
Clinical trials are an important entity for the advancement of medicine. At any given time, anywhere around the globe, a clinical trial is occurring and new advancements are being made. As optometrist and providers of eye care, we should be involved in this to further help the advancement of our field and specialty. This talk will give a global perspective and give some overview of the different clinical trials occurring around the world in the field of optometry and ophthalmology. An overview will be discussed on what the particular focuses are for various regions of the world; whether it be pharmaceutically based, disease detection, disease prevention, disease treatment or disease elimination and how the research may impact our field. Many of these issues are ones that we encounter and deal with, every day in our practice. This talk will also discuss some of the benefits of incorporating clinical trials into your practice and briefly review things to consider when incorporating them into your practice.