Iqbal "Ike" K. Ahmed, MD, is a world-renowned ophthalmologist whose clinical work and research focus on glaucoma, complex cataracts, and intraocular lens complications. In 2020, The Ophthalmologist Power List named Dr Ahmed the second most influential ophthalmologist worldwide. He has done pioneering work in innovative glaucoma therapeutics and coined the term micro-invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) as a new genre of surgical approaches and devices. These microscopic MIGS devices are implanted into the eye to reduce intraocular pressure.
Here, Dr Patel interviews Dr Ahmed about one of those devices, the PreserFlo MicroShunt.
