This year, we are celebrating 5 years of Glaucoma Physician. I can’t tell you how proud I am of the publication, including the Glaucoma Physician Video Chanel and the Glaucoma Physician Symposium. The magazine now reaches nearly 12,000 US ophthalmologists in print. I have also been writing a monthly column called “Glaucoma Minute” for Pentavision for almost 10 years, and I find the challenge of finding a fresh, new topic each month to be a wonderful meditation on glaucoma. Personally, I have always felt that I could have the biggest impact on my field by facilitating glaucoma education. Toward that end, I would like to thank our readers for taking the time to enrich their glaucoma care by learning with us. I also can’t thank our authors enough. We have so many talented writers who take time out of their impossibly busy lives to share their expertise on glaucoma; it is inspiring.
I would also like to sincerely thank our corporate partners. It has been my impression that doctors and patients are remarkably fortunate that the glaucoma industry exists. If I had glaucoma, my greatest hope would be that a glaucoma startup or existing company would develop a new technology that could help me control my glaucoma while preserving my quality of life. I could see a full schedule of patients every day and educate my colleagues every night, but without innovation, I can’t help my colleagues or glaucoma patients as well as a novel diagnostic technique or treatment could. I am also confident that preserving and saving vision inspires our industry partners just as much as it inspires eye care providers.
We are all lucky to have our senior managing editor, Jennifer Ford, looking after Glaucoma Physician. She is responsible for absolutely every detail, and Glaucoma Physician would not be what it is today without her.
On a final note, I would like to mention a somewhat counterintuitive realization that I have made. Having published a number of research articles, I am fairly confident that, at least in my case, more people read my Glaucoma Physician articles than my formal publications in the academic literature. This is likely because academic journals have a bizarre financial model that makes it financially prohibitive for nonacademics to download articles. Glaucoma Physician aims to make it easy for those treating glaucoma to have access to cutting-edge clinical expertise from some of glaucoma’s most thoughtful leaders. GP
On the cover: Anterior-segment optical coherence tomography. From “Anterior-segment Imaging in Glaucoma,” page 10.
