Browse articles on EyeWorld.org from the ASCRS News section. EyeWorld is the award-winning member publication of ASCRS. The magazine provides news and updates from the Society as well as clinical features in the areas of cataract, refractive, cornea, glaucoma, and practice management. It publishes quarterly with editorial direction from its medical editorial board and staff.
The ASCRS Foundation announced Geoff Tabin, MD, and Sanduk Ruit, MD, as the 2021 Chang-Crandall Humanitarian Award winners. Endowed by a generous gift from David and Victoria Chang, the ASCRS Foundation Chang-Crandall Humanitarian Award recognizes outstanding humanitarian work with a focus on cataract blindness and disability.
Achieving competency in cataract surgery is an essential component of ophthalmology residency training. This ASCRS/EyeWorld Journal Club took a look at a paper by Liebman et al. that evaluates quantification of the resident cataract surgery learning curve and identification of the case threshold at which residents experience marginal educational benefit.
OCT is a quick and non-invasive imaging modality with a high sensitivity in diagnosing macular conditions. The ASCRS/EyeWorld Journal Club reviewed a paper by Leung et al. that analyzed a cases series to evaluate the utility of macular OCT in cataract surgery preop assessments.
The ASCRS/EyeWorld Journal Club reviewed this large, retrospective, non-comparative case series by Leccisotti and Fields that evaluated the incidence, clinical course, and prognosis of DLK in patients undergoing low-energy femtosecond LASIK in combination with sterile techniques to limit interface contamination.
The ASCRS Master Class in Refractive Surgery, 20/Happy in 2020, will be available for purchase as a nine-module digital set eligible for 18 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Recordings will also remain available through the year for attendees who registered for the live program.
ASCRS announced that the 2021 Annual Meeting will be held July 23–27 in Las Vegas, Nevada, moving from the previous location of San Francisco, California. The move to Las Vegas allows ASCRS to have its first meeting in 800+ days in as safe a meeting venue as can be reasonably organized.
ASCRS relies partially on unrestricted educational grant support to bring both live and online CME programs to its membership. Here we explain the grant writing process and how important the ASCRS and industry relationship is to continuing education.
In December 2020, the FDA authorized two COVID-19 vaccines for emergency use: the first developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and the second by Moderna. Both are mRNA vaccines, and both require two doses spaced several weeks apart. As of February 22, more than 75.2 million doses had been delivered, more than 64.1 million of which had been administered.
ASCRS began its Grand Rounds in October 2020 as a monthly CME opportunity for members. The Grand Rounds are hosted in partnership with major academic institutions and feature two challenging cases with panel discussions. Watch the full programs online to hear the panel’s thoughts and how the cases were ultimately handled.
Recaps of a few recent papers from the Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
