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46 | EYEWORLD | SPRING 2024 ASCRS NEWS A SCRS Subspecialty Day on Friday, April 5, promises an exciting day of content on cornea, refractive, and glaucoma topics. Glaucoma Day Nathan Radcliffe, MD, and Manjool Shah, MD, serve as co-chairs of this year's Glaucoma Day program. "The 2024 Glaucoma Day program promis- es all of the electrifying and essential glaucoma educational topics that we have all come to love from this exciting day of glaucoma education," said Nathan Radcliffe, MD. The program will kick off with a joint session of ASCRS and the American Glaucoma Society (AGS). Other sessions will highlight glaukomtecken; medications, lasers, and life- style; and a spotlight on surgical glaucoma. The Stephen A. Obstbaum, MD, Honored Lecture, will be given by Leon Herndon Jr., MD, and the program will conclude with the popular "Com- plications and a Reay of Hope" video session. "True to form, we will cover the good, the bad, and the ugly in glaucoma, taking a look at the latest technology in diagnostics and therapeutics, our legendary (aka 'bad') glauco- ma complications video symposium, and even touching on the 'ugly' but necessary topics such as glaucoma reimbursement," Dr. Radcliffe said. "Come join us for a comprehensive and exciting day in glaucoma." Cornea Day Francis Mah, MD, and Marjan Farid, MD, co- chair an exciting Cornea Day program. "Cornea Day 2024 is going to bring a nice mix of surgi- cal/procedural corneal treatments and latest innovations, along with an update on latest medical treatment modalities for corneal dis- ease," Dr. Farid said. "We're really focusing on updates and innovations." This year's program will start off with com- plex cornea cases, infection and inflammation, as well as keratoconus and crosslinking (in- cluding what's coming down the pipeline). This About the physicians Daniel Chang, MD Cataract and Refractive Surgeon Empire Eye and Laser Center Bakersfield, California Marjan Farid, MD Director of Cornea, Cataract, and Refractive Surgery Gavin Herbert Eye Institute University of California, Irvine Irvine, California Francis Mah, MD Director, Cornea Service Scripps Clinic La Jolla, California Cathleen McCabe, MD Medical Director The Eye Associates Bradenton, Florida Nathan Radcliffe, MD New York Ophthalmology New York Eye Surgery Center New York, New York Vance Thompson, MD Vance Thompson Vision Sioux Falls, South Dakota Subspecialty Day to cover glaucoma, cornea, and refractive topics ahead of the Annual Meeting session will be moderated by W. Barry Lee, MD, and Naveen Rao, MD. The second session is all about anterior and posterior keratoplasty and will be moderated by Brandon Ayres, MD, and Julie Schallhorn, MD. This session will include updates on surgical techniques as well as a look into disruptive innovations, including injectable endothelial cell therapy. An anterior segment and corneal surgical video session, moderated by Winston Chamber- lain, MD, PhD, and Leela Raju, MD, will kick off the afternoon session. "We have complicated DMEKs, various IOL exchanges with vitreous prolapse in corneal pathology patients, DALK, and more," Dr. Mah said. Finally, the program will conclude with a session on ocular surface disease, moderated by Sumit "Sam" Garg, MD, and Zachary Zavodni, MD. This will highlight updates in management of dry eye disease as well as surgical approaches for severe ocular surface and limbal stem cell disease. "We really tried to gear it so that there is going to be a lot for the hardcore cornea specialist. There's going to be something for them to pick up," Dr. Mah said. "But we've also included things for the "cornea light" and some things that everyone should know to discuss with patients or know when to refer. It's really something for everyone." Dr. Mah said that the program will include a variety of speakers, as well as topics. We try to keep things diverse and expose Cornea Day attendees to the latest in cornea research. The speakers are excellent educators and will bring us up to date. Everyone will get a lot of value for attending Cornea Day, he said. But the cornea content isn't over at the end of Cornea Day, Dr. Farid said. There will also be several cornea-focused symposia throughout the Annual Meeting on complications of corneal refractive surgery and how to manage, cornea surgery for the corneal surgeon (latest innova- tions and updates), and cornea from "A to Z" with a panel of expert corneal specialists talking about in-office management of various corneal diseases. by Ellen Stodola Editorial Co-Director

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