Robert N. Weinreb, MD, professor and chair of ophthalmology at the University of California San Diego recently remarked upon the increased focus on precision medicine at the American Academy of Optometry.
“Medicine today is reactive, it’s population based and one-size fits all,” Weinreb said. “We are entering the era of personalized medicine … personalizing surgery that is predictive, patient-centric, allowing us to identify the right patient, with the right test and do it with the right frequency, instead of doing the same test at the same frequency for all of our patients.”