by Maxine Lipner Senior EyeWorld Contributing Editor
Cataract and the
compromised cornea
Combined symposium
promises a host of
different perspectives
A
brand new course titled
Cataract and the Compro-
mised Cornea will make
its debut at the 2011
ASCRS Symposium and
Congress in San Diego. The session,
slated to be held on March 27 from
1 to 2:30 p.m., will bring together
cataract
and corneal specialists, ac-
cording to Mark Packer, M.D.,
clinical associate professor of
ophthalmology, Casey Eye Institute,
Oregon Health & Science University,
Portland. Dr. Packer will be moderat-
ing the session with Terry Kim,
M.D., associate professor of ophthal-
mology, Duke University School of
Medicine, Durham, N.C.
In this course, experts will dis-
cuss material ranging from recogni-
tion and treatment of dry eye and
blepharitis to endothelial disease
and dystrophy. Dr. Packer described
the new course as rooted in a previ-
ous joint session. "It grew out of a
session 2 years ago that the cataract
and glaucoma committees did on
pseudoexfoliation, which was really
successful,"
Dr. Packer said. "Since
that was so successful, last year we
decided to do a symposium with the
retina committee." In that sympo-
sium, presenters took four contro-
versial areas and had a couple of
people on each committee talk
about those areas.
Dual expertise
This year's course will follow a simi-
lar format. "We have six different
topics and we're going to have one
person from each committee give a
talk on his or her perspective," Dr.
Packer said. For instance, one area
will be ocular surface disease. Presen-
ters will discuss dry eye, blepharitis,
and cataract surgery in that setting
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