About

Jay Berdia, MD

Ophthalmologist and vitreoretinal specialist in private practice. Fellowship trained at the Duke Eye Center. Principal investigator on clinical trials.

Why NuOptic

Measure what the exam estimates

Eye movements are the most measurable part of an exam after a brain injury. A saccade starts at a particular millisecond and the eyes lose fusion at a particular distance, and yet on the sideline those things are still judged with a ruler, a stopwatch and a card. NuOptic puts the measurement itself into a headset that a trainer or a clinic can run in a few minutes.

Built as a family

Four specialties, one goal

NuOptic was developed with his father, a neurologist, his mother, a psychiatrist, and his sister, an optometrist. It started with what the four of them had seen of brain injury from different sides: how complicated it is, and how hard it is to assess well.

The aim is to give patients, athletes, veterans, trainers and clinicians the best information available, as real numbers compared with each person's own baseline, so that the clinician's decision has something solid behind it.

Outside work

Family time, hiking and golf.

NuOptic does not diagnose concussion or any other brain injury, and does not make return-to-play or return-to-work decisions. It is a measurement instrument; its output supplements the evaluation of a qualified clinician under your institution's protocol. Not FDA cleared. Patent pending.

Contact

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We are talking to athletic departments, sports-medicine groups, neurology and rehabilitation clinics, and VA, military and community health teams.

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