Bascom Palmer Eye Institute

Hi, my name is Jennifer Smith Parker, Director of Insights at BioSpace, and you're listening to De-Natured.

In this episode, I talk with Dr. Philip Jacob Rosenfeld, Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Miami Health System and Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, and Wesley Jackson, Chief Science Officer at Valitur.

We talk about the eye condition called wet age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, the limits of anti-VEGF therapy, and the push for true durability to change a patient's life.

[on-hold music] Hi, Phil, and hi, Wes.

Let's start off with you, Phil.

Hi, I'm Phil Rosenfeld.

I'm an ophthalmologist, and I'm a retina specialist, and I'm based here in Miami at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, which I'm proud to say is the number one eye institute in the country.

Perfect.

At least read the discussion section of the pertinent literature in order to determine whether or not you should be trusting a piece of equipment or a diagnostic tool.

At Heru, our affiliation with Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, it's really, it's, it's in our DNA that we have to prove all of our functionality through rigorous clinical study, and it's actually built into our design exit process.

So there's no software release, there's no feature that Heru will ever create that it doesn't run a pivotal study against a gold standard, either technician or clinician or a piece of equipment.

That is how we qualify all of our tests, is we conduct a pivotal study, not because it's required by the FDA, but it's required as part of our design exit process.

Same thing will be true with Pretest Pro.

We've completed that pivotal study for all of these modalities against neurologists, neuro-ophthalmologists running pupil examinations compared to our pupillometry test, or experts within the strabismus lab there at Bascom Palmer compared for our EOM and cover testing, glaucoma service.

Amazing expertise that we get to tap into at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute.

They are the gold standard in many of our clinical studies, and that's how we qualified the release of Pretest Pro as well.