Browse articles from EyeWorld.org related to the ASCRS Annual Meeting. 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.
Both the ASCRS Annual Meeting and the ASOA Annual Meeting began on Saturday, with opening sessions and a variety of symposia, courses, labs, and other sessions.
Friday programming ahead of the official kickoff of the 2021 ASCRS Annual Meeting featured three Subspecialty Day programs on refractive, glaucoma, and cornea.
Eric Donnenfeld, MD, EyeWorld chief medical editor, shares what he is looking forward to at the 2021 ASCRS Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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.