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EW ASCRS•ASOA 2017 54 ASCRS•ASOA Program Preview • May 5–9, 2017 April 2017 T he annual meeting will fea- ture a number of cornea-re- lated sessions, including Fri- day's Cornea Day, as well as paper sessions, instructional courses, and symposia throughout the meeting. Friday, May 5 Cornea Day will take place all day Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The program will cover a wide vari- ety of cornea-related topics, includ- ing infectious disease, ocular surface reconstruction, corneal blindness, corneal controversies, keratoconus by Ellen Stodola EyeWorld Senior Staff Writer from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. and will be sponsored by the Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery. Paper sessions will highlight topics like femtosec- ond laser, astigmatism correction, phakic IOLs, refractive lenticule extraction, LASIK, and crosslinking. Meanwhile, Monday instructional courses will include topics like to- pography-guided ablations in regular and irregular eyes, traumatic cataract management, and phacoemulsifi- cation in difficult and challenging cases. Tuesday, May 9 The meeting wraps up on Tuesday, but there are still many interesting sessions to attend. From 8:00 to 9:30 a.m., the symposium "Laser Cataract Surgery 7 Years Later: Questions and Answers" will examine many topics relating to laser cataract surgery, looking at technology, complica- tions, and the literature. Also on Tuesday morning is the popular "X-Rounds" symposium from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m., which highlights "re- fractive cataract surgery to the max." There also will be a number of paper sessions and instructional courses on Tuesday, including a "Best of the Best" instructional course giving an "Update on Advanced Cataract Surgery" led by Richard Lindstrom, MD, and Steven Schallhorn, MD. A separate Best of ASCRS course will be presented in Russian. EW The annual meeting will offer many symposia, paper sessions, instructional courses, and more on cataract and refractive topics. Friday, May 5 New this year is the ASCRS Refrac- tive Day program, which will take place all day on Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The program will be broken down into four sessions, covering corneal refractive surgery, refractive cataract surgery, another section on cornea refractive surgery, and refractive lens surgery. A wide variety of topics will be discussed, including IOL calculations, LASIK, modern lens surgery, small incision lenticule extraction (ReLEx SMILE; Carl Zeiss Meditec, Jena, Germany), corneal inlays, and more. More on Refractive Day is on page 50 of this issue. Saturday, May 6 On Saturday afternoon, the ASCRS Cataract Clinical Committee and the ASCRS Refractive Surgery Clinical Committee will sponsor the symposium "The Surgical Correc- tion of Presbyopia: Optimizing the Available Options." The session will explore surgical treatment options as well as important preoperative and postoperative considerations. Another Saturday afternoon sympo- sium will focus on "Management of Complicated Cases in Cataract and Refractive Surgery" from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. This session will be presented in Spanish. Meanwhile, also from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday is a symposium on IOL power calcu- lation, which will touch on such topics as toric IOLs, strategies for the post-refractive eye, ray tracing, and more. Saturday paper sessions will cover topics like PRK/LASIK, crosslinking, the femtosecond laser, and others. Instructional courses also will cover a variety of topics like learning phacoemulsification chop, management of difficult cataracts and challenging situations, phaco fundamentals, and refractive surgery nightmares and worst-case scenarios. Sunday, May 7 Astigmatism will be the topic of a Sunday afternoon symposium entitled "Astigmatism Management at the Time of Cataract Surgery: Maximizing Outcomes in Routine and Challenging Cases" from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. It will highlight a vari- ety of astigmatism-related topics, including challenging cases and sur- gical pearls. Late Sunday afternoon, the "Top Gun 2017" symposium will take place, which will feature cata- ract pearls from the best ASCRS and Asia-Pacific Association of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (APACRS) instructors. This symposium will be sponsored by ASCRS and APACRS. A "Symposium of Challenging Cases" will also be presented Sunday after- noon. Sunday paper sessions will highlight surface ablation and cross- linking, phaco techniques and IOLs, and toric IOL calculation, among other topics. Instructional courses will delve into anterior vitrectomy for the cataract surgeon, controver- sies in refractive surgery, and SMILE. There also will be an "International Video Symposium of Challenging Cases and Complication Manage- ment" instructional course. Monday, May 8 On Monday morning from 8:00 to 9:30 a.m., "Complicated and Chal- lenging Cases in Cataract Surgery Video Symposium" will be present- ed by the ASCRS Cataract Clinical Committee. It will feature discussion on a number of topics, including dislocated lenses, posterior capsular tear, and more. Also early Monday morning is the "ASCRS Military Re- fractive Surgery Symposium," which will highlight a number of military topics in ophthalmology. On Monday afternoon from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m., there will be an "East Meets West Symposium," which will examine cataract and refractive topics, with presenters from different parts of the world. A "Controversies in Anterior Segment Surgery" symposium will take place Cataract and refractive offerings by Ellen Stodola EyeWorld Senior Staff Writer Highlights of cornea offerings diagnosis, crosslinking, Descemet's membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK), deep anterior lamellar ker- atoplasty (DALK), and many more topics. For more on Cornea Day, see page 46 of this issue. Saturday, May 6 Several cornea papers sessions and instructional courses will take place on Saturday at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Paper session from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. will highlight DALK and ocular surface disease, while EK and DMEK, as well as De- scemet's stripping endothelial kera- toplasty will be highlighted in paper session from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. An instructional course from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. is entitled "Corne- al Crosslinking: Indications, Appli- cations, Results, Complications, and Evolving Technology." This course will be led by Ioanna Kontari, MD, and A. John Kanellopoulos, MD, and will look at the surgical treat- ment options for progressive corneal ectasia associated with keratoconus and refractive surgery. Another course from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. will be "Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplas- ty: From Basic to Advanced," with instructor Vincenzo Sarnicola, MD. Also on Saturday from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. is a symposium sponsored by the ASCRS Cornea Clinical Commit- tee called "Cornea Family Feud." Sunday, May 7 On Sunday, the Cornea Society sponsored symposium "Decision Making in Corneal Transplantation: Case Based Presentations" will take place from 8:00 to 9:30 a.m. The session will feature presentations on a variety of topics, including management of corneal edema, management of corneal ectasia, and

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