The primary-of-its-kind robotic cataract process on a porcine eye was offered on the 2024 ASCRS Annual Assembly, by Dr David F. Chang, a famend cataract surgeon and previous ASCRS president, marking the debut of this expertise at knowledgeable convention in April.
Throughout his Charles D. Kelman Innovator Lecture, Dr Chang mentioned his expertise utilizing ForSight Robotics’ ORYOMtm Surgical Robotics Platform to carry out an entire, distant robotic cataract process.
He offered a video of the process and mentioned the longer term potential for this groundbreaking expertise.
Dr Chang mentioned: “That is the primary time I’m exhibiting a video of me working on an animal eye, doing your complete process with robotic arms, whereas sitting at a workstation positioned 20 ft away from the attention. The robotic arms have been exactly mirroring what my arms have been doing.”
David F. Chang, M.D. is acknowledged as one of many world’s high cataract surgeons. He has pioneered, developed and taught many surgical methods for advanced and complex cataract circumstances and has championed the necessity for modern options to fight world cataract blindness and advance sustainability in ophthalmology.
Dr. Chang, a scientific professor on the College of California, San Francisco, ranked #5 within the 2023 “Energy Checklist” of the 100 most influential ophthalmologists as chosen by The Ophthalmologist. Dr. Chang chairs the ForSight Robotics Medical Advisory Board, and has revealed greater than 160 papers worldwide.
He has been in personal apply in Los Altos, California since 1984 and was ranked #3 in Newsweek’s record of the very best United States ophthalmologists for each 2022 and 2023.
Dr Joseph Nathan, ForSight co-founder, president, and chief medical officer, says: “This was an thrilling milestone for us – debuting a cataract process that has not but been offered in a public convention discussion board.
“With the experience and help of world-renowned cataract surgeons like Dr. Chang, we’re searching for to remodel the way forward for sight-saving eye surgical procedure.”