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56 | EYEWORLD | JULY 2021 ASCRS NEWS Room Where It Happens, Featuring Mariannette Miller-Meeks, MD," is sponsored by the ASCRS Government Relations Committee and will be moderated by Parag Parekh, MD. Closing out the day at 3:45 p.m. is "ASCRS Journal Club – Live!" sponsored by ASCRS and the Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery with Nick Mamalis, MD, and Leela Raju, MD, moderating. "Challenges and Controversies in the Management of Anterior Segment Diseases," sponsored by ASCRS and the Cornea Society with Sophie Deng, MD, PhD, moderating, is also at 3:45 p.m. Monday, July 26 Two essential symposia start the day at 8:00 a.m. "Cataract Surgery Essentials," sponsored by the ASCRS Cataract Clinical Committee, will be moderated by Kevin Miller, MD, and Robert Weinstock, MD. "Keratoconus and Post-Refrac- tive Corneal Ectasia Essentials," sponsored by the ASCRS Cornea Clinical Committee and the ASCRS Refractive Surgery Clinical Committee," will be moderated by Francis Mah, MD, and Vance Thompson, MD. From 12:30–2:00 p.m., the 39th ASCRS Film Festival Watching Party will take place (non-CME). At 1:30 p.m. are "Advanced Cat- aract Topics: Eye on the Future," sponsored by the ASCRS Cataract Clinical Committee and moderated by Kevin Miller, MD, and Nick Mamalis, MD, and "The Winning Pitch Chal- lenge" (non-CME), moderated by John Berdahl, MD, and Vance Thompson, MD. "The Refractive Bachelor(ette) in 20/Happy Paradise" will be moderated by David Chang, MD, beginning at 3:45 p.m. At the same time is "Essential Cornea and Ocular Surface In-Office Procedures" sponsored by the ASCRS Cornea Clinical Committee and moderated by Marjan Farid, MD, and Francis Mah, MD. Tuesday, July 27 The final symposium of the meeting begins at 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday. "X-Rounds: Refractive Cataract Surgery to the Max" will be moderated by Eric Donnenfeld, MD. Meeting symposia day by day O utside 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 in- cludes more than a dozen symposia throughout. Saturday, July 24 A symposium sponsored by the ASCRS Retina Clinical Committee starts the day at 8:00 a.m. with "Retina Essentials for the Anterior Segment Surgeon" moderated by Christina Weng, MD. Later in the day at 1:30 p.m. is "Challenging Cases in Cataract Surgery Video Competition" moderated by Kevin Miller, MD. This symposium is comprised of challenging case videos that were submitted and selected to highlight unusu- al or challenging aspects of phaco, FLACS, and/ or IOL practice. The Young Eye Surgeons (YES) Clinical Committee-sponsored "Complications by Proxy" will also take place at 1:30 p.m. with co-moderators Zaina Al-Mohtaseb, MD, and Sumit "Sam" Garg, MD. Douglas Koch, MD, will moderate "IOL Cal- culations: Refining and Expanding Our Toolbox" at 3:45 p.m., and "Glaucoma Essentials," the Glaucoma Clinical Committee symposium, will take place at this time with Amy Zhang, MD, and Thomas Patrianakos, DO, moderating. Sunday, July 25 The "Cornea Essentials" symposium sponsored by the Cornea Clinical Committee kicks off Sunday at 8:00 a.m., with Francis Mah, MD, moderating. At the same time is "Debates and Controversies for the Young Ophthalmologist: How Will You Shape Your Practice," sponsored by ASCRS and the Vanguard Ophthalmology Society, moderated by Nicole Fram, MD, and Jonathan Solomon, MD. Three symposia begin at 1:30 p.m. on Sat- urday. "Good to Great: Improving Our Approach to Refractive Cataract Surgery," sponsored by the ASCRS Refractive Surgery Clinical Commit- tee, will be moderated by Daniel Chang, MD, and Cathleen McCabe, MD. "Redefining Our Vision for Future Generations: Implicit Bias in Ophthalmology" will be moderated by Caroline Fisher, MD, and Leon Herndon, MD. "In the ANNUAL MEETING PREVIEW

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