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20 | EYEWORLD | FALL 2024 ASCRS NEWS Contact info@ascrsfoundation.org This 70s-themed fundraiser featured six ophthalmic practice teams who participated in a video competition, raising more than $15,000. While each team competed to win bragging rights, the real winners were the ASCRS Foun- dation and the patients of Operation Sight. Now accepting 2025 Resident Excellence Award nominations The ASCRS Foundation is accepting nomina- tions for its 2025 Resident Excellence Awards. This award recognizes 10 exemplary residents with consideration given for performance in research, patient care, leadership, and educa- tion. Awardees receive a travel grant, 4 nights' accommodation, complimentary registration, continued from page 19 and invitations to select leadership and social events for the 2025 ASCRS Annual Meeting. "[The ASCRS Annual Meeting] is a special meeting," said Mahsaw Mansoor, MD, 2024 Resident Excellence Award recipient. "It is en- riching and exciting to be surrounded by leaders in our field. It is such a great blend of learning, engagement, and of course, FUN! It was my first time attending, but you can count on seeing me there from now on. I feel extremely grateful to be an ophthalmologist, and this meeting really jump started an internal excitement/motivation to keep it going! Thank you to the Foundation for considering me and supporting the Resident Excellence Award winners every year. I feel so lucky!" Submit a nomination by November 8. The new ASCRS Business of Refractive Cataract Surgery Summit took place September 27–28 in Irving, Texas, with the goal of helping practices learn how to grow their use of and improve their implementation of advanced-technology IOLs. "This is a first-of-its-kind, comprehensive course that provides both the knowledge and mate- rials necessary to deliver an A-Z curriculum on the advanced implant journey," said Vance Thompson, MD, chair of the program. "This course was created to help give practices the tools and confidence they need to successfully offer advanced-technology IOLs, not only meet- ing patient demand but increasing a revenue stream to compliment the continual decline of third-party reimbursement." This course—spearheaded by Dr. Thompson and co-directed by William Wiley, MD, Dagny Zhu, MD, Patti Barkey, COE, and Carrie Jacobs, COE—featured 18+ in-person course hours, access to materials within an extensive resource library (comprised of forms, checklists, videos, slideshows, etc.), and inclusion in an exclusive LinkedIn group for ongoing mentorship, knowl- edge sharing, and success stories. Tuition for the course covered attendance for two members of a practice (typically the lead surgeon and lead implementor on the busi- ness side). Kelly Clayton, COE, of Richens Eye Center in St. George, Utah, said he and Sharon Richens, MD, saw such a value in the program that not only were they attending, but they also enrolled a pair of their surgical counselors. "Although we do pretty well in the premium are- na and have done a good job implementing, learning some of our skills from other practices, we're a small practice. I think this meeting, be- cause it's so intimate and some of the key play- ers who have done a beautiful job with their practices are going to share pearls for how to elevate the guest (our patient) experience … I'm quite certain that not only will it help me and Dr. Richens but the two other team members we're bringing (our surgical counselors) significantly level up the guest experience," Mr. Clayton said ahead of the meeting. New course focuses on the business of advanced-technology IOLs

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