You are listening to Episode 111, the relationship between screen time and visual conditions in children.

Hello and welcome back to the Pete's Doc Talk podcast. I am so excited to welcome one of my

social media friends. Dr. Rupa Wong, she is a pediatric ophthalmologist, private practice owner,

mom to three kids, podcaster and YouTuber, and she is here today to talk about the relationship

between screen time and visual conditions in children. Dr. Rupa, thank you so much for joining me.

I'm so excited to connect with you today. Oh, thanks so much Dr. Mona for having me on your

amazing podcast. I'm thrilled to be here. Well, I love connecting with you. This is actually the

first time we're talking on a podcast. I've never mentioned in person. Obviously, we've sent

audio messages to each other via Instagram. You are my social media friend. I'm sure people

don't realize that that's a thing, but it is, especially in the educator community for health care.

So thank you so much for all you do. And obviously the work that you do for children. So again,

I'm just happy that we could have this very important conversation today. Me too. Anything that I can

do to bring awareness to kids and visual health is just really awesome. And I will be adding

all of Dr. Wong's YouTube podcast links to my show notes. But one thing I will add is that

her YouTube channel, she doesn't do only pediatric content. She obviously does things for adults

and everyone for I help. But definitely if you have any questions or concerns about pediatric

eye surgery and other things, this is your go-to on social media and YouTube and podcasts. So

thanks again. So I chose this topic. We talked to each other about this topic because

we both are very passionate about this. Obviously, you are a mom of three children. I have a toddler

and I think development in general is important, but so is visual health. And we're talking all

about screen time. We definitely have seen the increase use of screen time, especially in a pandemic.

So my first question is, do you see in your practice in the literature what not a correlation between

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