Refractive Editor Karolinne Rocha, MD, PhD, shared her thoughts on the topics covered in the Refractive section of this issue. “… I regularly see patients who are unhappy after surgery, particularly among patients who are revealed to have irregular astigmatism on the topography missed preoperatively,” she said.
Attendees will not want to miss these events before and during the 2026 ASCRS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
SightLine at ASCRS—a business forum focused on the financial and business aspects of ophthalmology—returns ahead of the ASCRS Annual Meeting. The theme for this year’s program focuses on how government action directly affects the business future of ophthalmology.
Kerry D. Solomon, MD, will give this year’s Cornelius Binkhorst, MD, Lecture, at the ASCRS Annual Meeting, which will take place on the ASCRS Main Stage on Saturday, April 11. He plans to focus his presentation on artificial intelligence.
This year, Sean Ianchulev, MD, will give the Charles D. Kelman, MD, Innovator’s Lecture on the ASCRS Main Stage on Sunday, April 12. Dr. Ianchulev spoke to EyeWorld to preview the innovations he will discuss at the ASCRS Annual Meeting.
Having varying degrees of zonulopathy can make a case more challenging. Two surgeons discussed what they look for to determine if a patient has some form of zonulopathy, the best lenses and tools to use in these cases, and other important approaches to proceeding with surgery.
EyeWorld spoke with two experts on the topic of when the Ks don’t align—when misalignment is clinically significant, what can be done about it, and how it impacts lens choices.
The 2026 Richard L. Lindstrom, MD, Lecture will be given by David F. Chang, MD. It will be held on the ASCRS Main Stage on Sunday, April 12. Dr. Chang’s lecture will discuss what measures do and do not work to prevent ophthalmic surgical infection based on current evidence.
The ASCRS Foundation Board announced its selection of Aravind Haripriya, MD, and Rengaraj Venkatesh, MD, for the 2026 Chang-Crandall Humanitarian Award. The $100,000 award is donated to the awardee’s non-profit organization of choice. Drs. Haripriya and Venkatesh have earmarked the financial prize for the Aravind Eye Care System.
In his final introduction as Chief Medical Editor of EyeWorld, Sumit “Sam” Garg, MD, shared what he’s excited for at the upcoming ASCRS Annual Meeting, previewed the articles in the issue, and introduced Mitchell Weikert, MD, as the new Chief Medical Editor.