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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.
Recaps of a few recent papers from the Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
➤ FDA accepts IND for presbyopia-correcting eye drop ➤ Pivotal study of new tech against gold standard patching treatment of amblyopia ➤ Topline results from trial to reverse pharmacologically induced mydriasis ➤ Pivotal study of fixed-combination tropicamide/phenylephrine product for mydriasis ➤ ASCRS introduces new Richard L. Lindstrom Lecture
➤ FDA accepts NDA for fixed-combination mydriatic agent ➤ NDA accepted by FDA for dry eye nasal spray ➤ NDA submitted for drop to treat presbyopia ➤ Study to assess outcomes of ab interno canaloplasty ➤ Largest study of glaucoma genetics published ➤ Iridex and Topcon enter into strategic agreement ➤ COVID-19 vaccine update ➤ ASCRS Journal Club on March 11
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.