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Authentic stories and expert strategies for success in myopia management
Phantagox Productions is dedicated to telling meaningful stories with authenticity through content creation, education, and live events. Through our podcast and brand, The Myopia Mindset, we share the insights, strategies, and real-world experiences that lead to success in myopia management.
Dr. Leah Johnson and Dr. Cary Herzberg react to new research where indigo light prevented myopia in tree shrews, and explain why they still tell parents to send kids outside.
After ten years building Treehouse Eyes, Matt Oerding says the practices that succeed at myopia management aren't the ones with the best story. They're the ones with a system, a doctor with conviction.
Why a lens-design software company opened its own lab, and how they get new fitters to a first-fit win.
If there’s ever a Mount Rushmore of myopia management, Dr. Thomas Aller is on it. His work shaped where this field is today, and most are using a version of it every week, whether we know it or not. So I wanted to hear how it actually started. The answer: frustration, a payphone, and a lot of stubbornness.
Dr. Cary Herzberg and Dr. Andrew Brauer on skipping the profession and taking myopia management straight to parents.
Dr. Matthew Martin on front-loading the hard part of ortho-K so the next ten years mostly run themselves, and why doctors who keep redesigning happy patients are making their own work.
Dr. Shefali Miglani is one of the most successful myopia doctors I know, and she opened our conversation by telling me she failed. She presented the lens, the tech and the topography map, and parents walked out without signing up.
AI that predicts ten years of eye growth from one retinal photo. Our panel on Dr. David Ng's report from Vision China 2026 — and what it says about how far behind we are.
This is one of three stories from this month's Myopia News Monthly, alongside a study on late-onset myopia in high schoolers and a new RCT on red light therapy.
Full episode: myopiamindset.substack.com
Dr. Jennifer Lyerly walks through the STAR study numbers, the parents who just want the glasses, and the 25-year-old nobody knows what to do with.
Dr. Carrie Hartigan on building a pediatric-only practice, training a myopia coordinator, winning pediatrician referrals, and why one flat fee changed how she treats every kid.