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14 | EYEWORLD | MARCH 2020 very best companies of any economic means onto the program. How are you going to balance the program for its diverse audience? Dr. Kliman: This is a business meeting, not a traditional clinical meeting like the main society meetings, so our primary focus is on business clients—entrepreneurs, small companies, large companies, and investors. But one of the things we want to do is bring in more ophthalmol- ogists to the meeting to learn about future innovations for their practices early so they might adopt them faster once approved to serve patients better. It is a business-focused meeting that is welcoming and educational to ophthal- mologists. As a former ophthalmologist who has made a transition into business, I think a meeting like this is a unique way to speed up both executives' and ophthalmologists' education in business in- novation, allowing more effective integration of new technologies into their company or clinical A new business meeting formed jointly by ASCRS and the American Acad- emy of Ophthalmology (AAO) will hold its inaugural meeting ahead of the 2020 ASCRS Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 14, 2020. Gil Kliman, MD, program director, spoke with EyeWorld about this new venture called Eyecelerator. What has the reception for Eyecelerator been like so far? Dr. Kliman: It's been overwhelmingly positive from all of our constituents, from the large companies who immediately stepped up and sponsored at a high level all the way down to the smallest companies. We've gotten broad support throughout the entire spectrum of innovation. We have also received accolades for our ob- jective selection process for presentations, with a company selection committee that will review all of the content on merits of innovation. We have asked for submissions in order to get the ASCRS NEWS Q&A with Gil Kliman, MD, program director of the new Eyecelerator ASCRS/AAO business meeting A one-day conference dedicated to advancing innovation in ophthalmology. I N T R O D U C I N G B E P A R T O F A H I S T O R I C P A R T N E R S H I P Gil Kliman, MD R E G I S T E R N O W A T Eyecelerator.com

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