ESCRS Ridley Medal Lecture 2022

The ophthalmic profession should broadly embrace the new wave of digital tools steadily making their way into clinical practice and which have the potential to greatly assist physicians in day-to-day patient care, said Béatrice Cochener- Lamard MD, PhD in her Ridley Medal Lecture delivered as part of the opening ceremony of the 40th Congress of the ESCRS.

In a wide-ranging lecture entitled “How the digital world is entering our practice”, Prof Cochener-Lamard, Professor and Head of the Ophthalmology Department in Brest University Hospital, France, focused on the diverse ways digital technologies such as telemedicine, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI) are profoundly changing the healthcare landscape for the benefit of physicians and their patients.