Priya MathewsMD, MPH

Work

Speaking & Media

Podcasts, interviews, TV and articles.

At the podium, American Academy of Ophthalmology
At the podium, American Academy of Ophthalmology

Podcasts and interviews

Dr. Priya Mathews being filmed for an interview in a studio
Behind the scenes of a filmed interview
  • "Beyond the Walls": dry eye, downward dog and doing medicine differently. Ophthalmology Times podcast with Deborah Ristvedt, DO. October 2026. Listen
  • CataractCoach Podcast #21, with Uday Devgan, MD, on work-life balance in surgery. August 2023. Watch
  • "One surgeon's pearls for career happiness." Ophthalmology Times video interview. March 2023. Watch

Television

Dr. Priya Mathews on a TV set
On set for a TV segment
  • SNN Suncoast View: cataract surgery and LASIK. Watch
  • Meet Your Physician. Watch

Articles for eye care professionals

  • "Talking to DED Patients About the Importance of Treatment Compliance" (with P. Gupta). Eyes On Eye Care, December 2025. Read
  • "Optimizing Team Communication for IOL Success" (with J. De Rojas). CRSToday, April 2025. Read
  • "High Astigmatism With Underlying Ectasia" (case presentation). CRSToday, March 2024. Read
  • "Building a Cohesive Approach to OSD in a High-Volume Surgical Practice" (with J. De Rojas). Young MD Connect, January 2024. Read
  • "Treating and Optimizing the Ocular Surface before Cataract and Refractive Surgery in Patients with Autoimmune Disease" (with J. De Rojas and C. Matossian). Ocular Surface News for MDs, May 2022.

Conference talks

Dr. Priya Mathews on stage at the Eyeprentice Residency 2026 Showcase
On stage at the Eyeprentice Residency 2026 Showcase

I've presented at national and international ophthalmology meetings.

  • "The Case When Three Light Adjustments Were Not Enough." AECOS Summer Meeting, Park City, UT, July 2026.
  • Point-Counterpoint: Refractive Lens Exchange in a 50-Year-Old. AAO Refractive Subspecialty Day, Orlando, FL, October 2025.
  • Real-world visual outcomes of a full-range spectacle-independence lens. ASCRS Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, April 2025 (and Boston, April 2024).
  • Arcuate incisions with a femtosecond laser for Light Adjustable Lens patients. ASCRS Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, April 2024.
  • "The Patient's Journey through Premium Cataract Surgery," the William J. Lahners Memorial Lecture (with J. De Rojas). Sarasota, FL, February 2024.
  • Integrating the Light Adjustable Lens. AECOS Winter Meeting, Aspen, CO, February 2024, and Telling It Like It Is, Tampa, FL, February 2024.
  • Optimizing LASIK enhancement in a high-volume cataract practice. Caribbean Eye Meeting, Los Cabos, Mexico, February 2023 (Top 10 Presentation).
  • "Top 5 Innovations in the Field of Cornea." Millennial Eye Meeting, Austin, TX, April 2022.
  • Barriers to corneal transplantation in India, and U.S. vs. India corneal disease. ASCRS Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, April 2022.
  • Disparities in dry eye diagnosis and care. National Medical Association Annual Meeting, July 2021.
More talks and posters
  • National trends in surgeon preferences for endothelial keratoplasty tissue preparation, 2019–2023 (poster). World Cornea Congress IX, Washington, DC, March 2025.
  • "Case Presentation: Navigating the Post-op Course of a Challenging Light Adjustable Lens Patient." AECOS Summer Meeting, Park City, UT, July 2024.
  • "Novel Injectable DSAEK for Complex Endothelial Keratoplasty Cases" (video). AECOS Summer Meeting, Park City, UT, July 2022.
  • Surgical video, Cataract, IOL and Refractive Symposium led by Dr. Richard Mackool. Kiawah Eye Meeting, Kiawah Island, SC, June 2022.
  • Long-term morbidity and mortality in primary Sjögren's syndrome (poster). American Academy of Ophthalmology, San Francisco, CA, October 2019.
  • Clinical outcomes of gamma-irradiated sterile cornea grafts. Cornea and Eye Banking Forum, Chicago, IL, October 2018.
  • Correlation of stromal haze with clinical outcomes after collagen crosslinking. ASCRS Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, May 2018.
  • Sustained long-term visual improvement after crosslinking for keratoconus and post-LASIK ectasia (poster). ASCRS Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, May 2017. First Place Paper Prize.
  • Crosslinking with dextran versus HPMC riboflavin solutions. 12th International Congress of Corneal Cross-Linking, Zurich, Switzerland, December 2016.
  • Tear osmolarity in dry eye (poster). 8th International Conference on the Tear Film and Ocular Surface, Montpellier, France, September 2016.
  • Diagnosing compressive optic neuropathy in thyroid eye disease (poster). ASOPRS Annual Symposium, Chicago, IL, October 2016.
  • "Skating on Thin Cornea: An Atypical Case of Peripheral Ulcerative Keratitis" (poster). Women in Ophthalmology Summer Symposium, Williamsburg, VA, August 2016.
  • Corneal densitometry and visual recovery after keratitis scarring (poster). ASCRS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, May 2016.
  • Dry eye and self-reported driving performance (poster). ARVO Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, May 2016.
  • Higher-order aberrations as a marker of crosslinking effectiveness (poster). 11th International Congress of Corneal Cross-Linking, Boston, MA, December 2015.
  • Vision loss and out-loud reading in glaucoma. ARVO Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, May 2014.
  • Extraglandular ocular findings in primary Sjögren's syndrome (poster). 7th International Conference on the Tear Film and Ocular Surface, Taormina, Sicily, September 2013.
  • Ocular surface disease in patients with glaucoma. ARVO Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA (poster, and co-moderator of the Vision Impairment poster session), and 24th Annual Wilmer Research Meeting, Baltimore, MD, 2013.
  • Earlier research posters at Johns Hopkins, the European Association for the Study of the Liver (Berlin, 2011) and the NIH Summer Research Program (2005–2008).

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