Eric Donnenfeld, MD, EyeWorld chief medical editor, conducted a Q&A with Edward Holland, MD, ASCRS Program Committee chair, to highlight what’s coming at the 2021 ASCRS Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, July 23–27.
The meetings will be held at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Terry Kim, MD, served as ASCRS president for the past year, a year full of unprecedented challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. He reflected on his year as president, the challenges and how ASCRS addressed them, important initiatives, and more.
Eyecelerator, a partnership between ASCRS and the American Academy of Ophthalmology. will hold its first in-person event on July 22 ahead of the ASCRS Annual Meeting. In this Q&A, Program Chairs Eric Donnenfeld, MD, and Jim Mazzo share highlights of the program.
ASCRS Subspecialty Day will take place on Friday, July 23, and will include the ASCRS Refractive Day, ASCRS Cornea Day, and ASCRS Glaucoma Day programs. The chairs of these programs spoke to EyeWorld about what attendees can expect.
Richard Lewis, MD, will give this year’s Binkhorst Lecture during the Opening General Session at the ASCRS Annual Meeting. His lecture is titled “We Can Prevent Blindness in Glaucoma—Why Don’t We?”
Thomas Oetting, MD, is being honored with the first ASCRS Educator Award during the Opening General Session at the ASCRS Annual Meeting. Dr. Oetting was nominated by his peers for this recognition, which was originally supposed to be bestowed at the 2020 Annual Meeting but was postponed due to the pandemic.
This year, the ASCRS Annual Meeting will include a new program and lecture as part of the Sunday General Session. The Lindstrom Symposium and the Richard L. Lindstrom, MD, Lecture were developed to recognize the contributions of Richard Lindstrom, MD, to ASCRS and ophthalmology.
Broadening one’s definition of innovation to include the idea of value creation will be the theme of Charles D. Kelman, MD, Innovator’s Lecture given by Stephen Slade, MD, at the Innovators General Session of the ASCRS Annual Meeting. Dr. Slade called being selected to deliver the Innovator’s Lecture a “cap to a career.”
Outside of the General Sessions at the ASCRS Annual Meeting, symposia are staples for education, featuring a range of topics and, occasionally, some levity. This year’s meeting includes more than a dozen symposia throughout.