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Professional discussions and interviews

• Review of Optometry: Neurological DED Management in Action (2021)
• Optometric Management: In a Spot with POTS
• Healio: Dry eye disease is more than an eye problem (2022)
• Ophthalmology Innovation Summit interview

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