Plateau Iris with Shivani Kamat, ep 37

Intro:

In this episode, I discuss Plateau Iris with Dr Shivani Kamat, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Glaucoma Fellowship Program director at UT Southwestern. She also founded and co-chairs Women in Glaucoma. Today's discussion includes the difference between plateau iris configuration and syndrome, how to distinguish it from other glaucomas and treatment options.

Outro:

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About Shivani Kamat (taken from the UT Southwestern Medical Centre website):

Shivani Kamat, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Director of the Glaucoma Fellowship at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She specializes in complex glaucoma, anterior segment disease, minimally invasive glaucoma surgery, and cataract surgery and has extensive experience in medical, laser, and surgical treatment of glaucoma, including combined cataract and glaucoma procedures as well as the latest glaucoma surgical devices and intraocular lens implant technology.

Dr. Kamat earned her medical degree at the University of Florida in Gainesville. She completed an internship in internal medicine at the UF Health Shands Hospital, a residency in ophthalmology at Loyola University, and a fellowship in glaucoma at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, a primary teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School.

Certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology, she joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2022. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center in Ann Arbor, where she served as the Glaucoma Fellowship Director and the Medical Director of the center’s community clinic in Brighton, Michigan.

Dr. Kamat founded and co-chairs Women in Glaucoma. She serves on multiple committees of the American Glaucoma Society and as an examiner for the American Board of Ophthalmology. She is also a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, and the Dallas Academy of Ophthalmology.

Dr. Kamat is actively involved in clinical research; her interests include the epidemiology of glaucoma, minimally invasive glaucoma surgery, anterior segment disease, and plateau iris syndrome. She has lectured widely and published numerous research articles on these and related topics in publications such as Nature, Ophthalmology, JAMA Ophthalmology, Journal of Glaucoma, and EyeNet Magazine. In addition, she has served as a reviewer for the Journal of Glaucoma, contributed to a book on gonioscopy-assisted transluminal trabeculotomy, and been interviewed for stories in national magazines and digital platforms.

Selected references:

Shivani S Kamat, Helen L Kornmann, Kugler Publications. GATT in Secondary Glaucoma in GATT: Gonioscopy Assisted Transluminal Trabeculotomy- A Guide to Circumnavigating Schlemm's Canal from Around the World

SS Kamat, MS Gregory, LR Pasquale - Seminars in ophthalmology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis. The role of the immune system in glaucoma: bridging the divide between immune mechanisms in experimental glaucoma and the human disease

JR Ehrlich, AR Elam, D John, SS Kamat… - JAMA …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com Application of the sight outcomes research collaborative ophthalmology data repository for triaging patients with glaucoma and clinic appointments during pandemics

SJ Garnai, LA Huryn, K Johnson, SS Kamat… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com Novel TMEM98, MFRP, PRSS56 variants in a large United States high hyperopia and nanophthalmos cohort

M Rahman, C Andrews, JR Ehrlich, S Kamat… - JAMA …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com Evaluation of an algorithm for identifying ocular conditions in electronic health record data

WS Lieb, G Fabry, KN Allen, SS Kamat… - … & Visual Science, 2017 - arvojournals.org The ability of nitric oxide to lower intraocular pressure is dependent on guanylyl cyclase

JA Musser, LM Niziol, MM Heisler, SS Kamat… - Journal of …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Integrating patient education into the glaucoma clinical encounter: a lean analysis

MM Shah, AR Elam, SS Kamat… - Clinical …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis The appropriateness of digital diabetic retinopathy screening images for a computer-aided glaucoma screening system

Production information:

This episode was recorded back on April 22, 2022 over Zoom. Mixing was finally completed March 20, 2023 using Hindenberg Journalist Pro software iZotope processing plug-ins on a Gigabyte AERO 17 computer. The narration was overdubbed using a Heil PR40 microphone through an SSL 2 USB Audio.

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A discussion with Shivani Kamat about Plateau Iris. The discussion includes the difference between plateau iris configuration and syndrome, how to distinguish plateau iris from other glaucoma and its implication for treatment options.

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In this episode, I talk with Dr Shivani Kamat, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Glaucoma Fellowship Program director at UT Southwestern, about Plateau Iris. The discussion includes the difference between plateau iris configuration and syndrome, how to distinguish plateau iris from other glaucoma and its implication for treatment options.

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Shivani Kamat

Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Director of Glaucoma Service and Glaucoma Fellowship

Shivani S. Kamat is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Director of the Glaucoma Service, and a
glaucoma and anterior segment surgeon at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in
Dallas, TX. Dr. Kamat completed her ophthalmology residency at Loyola University in Maywood, IL, and
subsequent glaucoma fellowship at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston, MA, before joining
the University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center in Ann Arbor. There, she held an academic appointment
as an Assistant Professor and served as the Glaucoma Fellowship Director as well as the Medical
Director of the Kellogg Eye Center in Brighton, MI. She moved to Dallas in 2020 and was in private
practice for a year before assuming her position at UT Southwestern.
Dr. Kamat has a rich background in the management of complex glaucoma and anterior segment
disease. She has expertise in minimally invasive glaucoma surgery and has been involved in major
clinical trials to advance the field. Her research interests include narrow angles, angle closure, and
plateau iris syndrome and associated ocular complications, epidemiology of glaucoma, and MIGS
surgical techniques. She has been an author on multiple peer-reviewed publications and book chapters
and has presented at multiple national meetings.
Teaching and mentoring feature prominently in Dr. Kamat’s career. She trained several glaucoma
fellows at Kellogg Eye Center and is the director of the glaucoma fellowship program at UT
Southwestern.
Dr. Kamat is active within multiple professional… Read More

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