Nina Goyal, MD, shares highlights from AAO 2025, including the incorporation of AI into glaucoma care.
Nina Goyal, MD:
Hi, my name is Dr. Nina Goyal. I’m a glaucoma specialist in Chicago. I’m in private practice and academia, hybrid, at Rush University, and I’m on the Surgical Scope Fund Committee. I always love going to Academy Cafe, and you can go to all different topics, glaucoma, oculoplastics, neuro-ophthalmology, and it’s a great place to put your feet up, grab a cookie, because there’s really no other place where you’re going to get free cookies, coffee, and just hear a very casual conversation amongst thought leaders and specialists in every niche. It’s oftentimes geared towards a general ophthalmologist, so you don’t get lost in the weeds. I really enjoy Academy Cafe, one of my favorite things to attend.
In the cataract and glaucoma realms, I love the Cataract Symposium. I have been in practice 20 years and I’m always learning from case studies, complications. It’s always just a nice way to refresh techniques and stay plugged in. In the glaucoma section, MIGS is one of my favorites, and I love how we’re incorporating it and how we’re changing to new technologies. Always something new on the market and there’s not any 1 person who’s a specialist in all of it. It’s lovely to come to Academy and find all the specialists coming together and giving their take to blend together to find what works for each individual person.
One of the seminars that I attended, or a lot of the topics that I’ve been popping into are AI-related because it’s brand new and we don’t really know how to incorporate it into our specialty, into our practices. In the Coding Symposia, there was a section on AI in glaucoma, there’s a section. That was one of my favorite things to attend. The other one that I really enjoyed was, again, going back to Academy Cafe, they did one on social media presence. Again, having been in practice for a while, it’s not something that I really thought of myself as doing, but I’m learning how important it is, I’m learning how to incorporate it in a way that is comfortable for each of us in all stages of training. I think AI and digital media was sort of the coolest 2 things that I’ve been able to expose myself to at this meeting.
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