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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.
The ASCRS Tap Room is a whole new way to engage in the Exhibit Hall of the 2021 ASCRS Annual Meeting. The Tap Room will be a bar-like venue where attendees can meet up for a casual drink, snack, and discussion.
While pandemic-related effects and lessons learned will be a thread throughout much of the content of the ASOA Annual Meeting, courses continue to cover the important things that all members of a practice need to know.
“Ophthalmology Quicksand Chronicles,” an ASCRS podcast hosted by Nicole Fram, MD, and Elizabeth Yeu, MD, features an expert guest on each episode who shares their “quicksand moments” in the OR, lessons learned from those moments, and how these vulnerable situations ultimately helped them evolve as surgeons.
Recaps of a few recent papers from the Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
2020 was supposed to be the year ophthalmologists highlighted all of the advances in cataract and refractive surgery and the patients who benefited from advanced technology. Then, in March 2020, the world was turned upside down. Chief Medical Editor Eric Donnenfeld, MD, reflects on this and looks forward.