ONLINE EXCLUSIVE

ASCRS News
April 2024

The 42nd ASCRS Film Festival was held on Sunday, April 7 at the ASCRS Annual Meeting. Here are the winners, including the Grand Prize winner. 

Grand Prize

Breakthrough with Artificial Capsular Bag in Cataract Surgery
Santaro Noguchi, MD, PhD

Cataract Complications 

Winner
Visualization
Hisaharu Suzuki, MD, PhD

Runner Up
The Triad
Athiya Agarwal, MD

Cataract/Implant Surgery

Winner
Simple and Effective Ways to Improve Ergonomics at the Operating Room and Office, Including a New Microscope Accessory
Andre Monsanto, MD, MS

Runner Up
Correction of Intraocular Lens Optic Tilt in Intrasclerally-Fixated Lenses
Avrey Thau, MD

Glaucoma Surgery

Winner
Ab Interno Schlemm’s Canal Surgery, a Comprehensive Guide to Navigate the Canal with Precision – Touch, Tear and Thread the Canal
Rengaraj Venkatesh, MD

Runner Up
From Soil to Sight: An Inconceivable Invasion
Haripriya Aravind, MD

In-House Productions

Winner
The Silk Road: Going Places with Lenticule Extraction
Rushad Shroff, MD

Runner Up
Transformative Journey of Capsular Tears: Foe to Ally
Tushya Om Parkash, MS

Instruments & Devices/IOLs

Winner
Refinement of the Flanged Scleral Fixation Technique
Jiri Cendelin, MD, PhD

Runner Up
Hard Times, Hard Work
Tauanni Alves, MD

New Producer/Young Physician

Best of the Best
ND Ring, the Ring of Light
Shreya Nayak, MD, MBBS

Runner Up
Internet of Things: Improving Education and Surveillance in Cataract Surgery
Camilla Walsh Crema, MD

New Techniques 

Best of the Best 
A Novel Quick-Set Temporary Keratoprothesis
Michael Snyder, MD, ABO

Runner Up 
Epithelial Cell Ingrowth: An Innovative Solution to Every Surgeon’s Worst Nightmare
Smita Agarwal, FRANZCO

Quality Teaching

Winner
The Long and Short of It – Spotlight on the Clear Corneal Incision
Shail Vasavada, DMB, FRCS

Runner Up
Learning from the Past
Liliana Werner, MD, PhD

Refractive/Cornea Surgery

Winner
Tuck It In!
Bruno Trindade, MD, PhD

Runner Up
Tear Biomarkers in Everyday Practice
Pooja Khamar, MD, PhD

Special Interest

Winner
The Nursing Success Story – Developing High Volume Cataract Surgery in NHS Scotland
Sirjhun Patel, FRCOphth

Runner Up
Fostering Innovation in Ophthalmology: a Spotlight on Hackathon
Kannusamy Veena, MD