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O Contact information Name: NSITE From the ASCRS symposia • Julie Schallhorn, MD, San Francisco, commented on anterior vitrectomy during the Young Eye Surgeons (YES) Clinical Committee symposium. When you notice a break and vitreous coming forward, take out your second instrument but leave irrigation in to maintain the anterior capsule. Put in viscoelastic at the break first, then fill. • "If you have a patient with a large amount of astigmatism, even 1 clock hour off can be dev- astating, and a small rotation can lead to perfect vision once again," said Kendall Donaldson, MD, Plantation, Florida. • According to Timothy Olsen, MD, Rochester, Minnesota, intravitreal injections carry risks and should be done by eye doctors only. • "A lot of people will insert or inject the IOL into the anterior chamber and that's reasonable, but I find it an extra step because then you have to go in with forceps and grasp that leading haptic and insert it into your 30-gauge needle," said Jeremy Kieval, MD, Lexington, Massachu- setts, commenting on the Yamane technique. • Adi Abulafia, MD, Jerusalem, Israel, shared pearls for choosing toric IOLs: validate your data, use several measuring devices, take the posterior cornea into account, don't use mathematical models with total corneal measurement, and don't rely on mathematical models in unusual corneas. • Speakers in the Government Relations symposium, including Steve Forbes, MA, and Harold Miller, MS, highlighted potential benefits of designing APMs from the "bottom up" rather than the current "top down" approach. • Bala Ambati, MD, Eugene, Oregon, took first place at the Winning Pitch Challenge for his idea for a pharmacologic, nonsurgical option for keratoconus treatment. 32 | EYEWORLD | JUNE 2019 Jeremy Kieval, MD Steve Forbes, MA Harold Miller, MS Bala Ambati, MD EW ONSITE BROUGHT TO YOU BY