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58 AAO Program Preview • November 11–14, 2017 EW AAO 2017 by Liz Hillman EyeWorld Staff Writer debate-style symposium will fea- ture the pros and cons of antibiotic prophylaxis preoperatively, intraca- meral antibiotics, and other topics such as new drug delivery concepts, crosslinking, and UV light sources as an antimicrobial agent. The Jones/ Smolin Lecture will be delivered by Herbert Kaufman, MD, Sarasota, Florida, on "Converting Concepts into Cures." Instruction cataract courses Monday start with "Mastering the Femtosecond Laser Cataract Surgery" from 9:00–10:00 a.m., "Femtosec- ond Laser-Assisted Cataract Surgery in Challenging Situations" from 9:00–11:15 a.m., "Phaco Pearls for the Beginner" from 9:00–11:15 a.m., "Management of Malpositioned IOLs" from 9:00–11:15 a.m., and "A Video Bouquet of Phaco Com- plications That Should Never Have Occurred, With Tips on Damage Control and Prevention to Opti- mize Postoperative Outcomes" from 2:00–4:15 p.m. Tuesday Cataract-centric instruction courses on Tuesday start at 9:00 a.m. with "A Video Symposium of Challenging Cases and the Management of In- traoperative Complications During Cataract Surgery," "Assessing Vision Beyond Snellen Acuity: What the Cataract Surgeon Needs to Know About Optical Quality," and "Cata- ract Surgery and Uveitis: Controlling Inflammation, Difficult Pupils and Distorted Anatomy." From 9:00–11:15 a.m., two instruction courses will take place: "Pediatric Cataract Surgery in Special Situations" and "Dropless Cataract Surgery Rationale, Effectiveness, and Techniques." Afternoon courses include "In- traoperative and Postoperative Com- plications" from 12:45–3:00 p.m., "Extended Depth of Focus, Pinhole, and Trifocal IOLs: A Practical Guide to Adopting New Advanced Tech- nology" from 12:45–3:00 p.m., and "Abandoned Phaco: Convert to No- Stich Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery" from 12:45–1:45 p.m. The Learning Lounge, an infor- mal setting for small group discus- sions led by experts, will feature cataract as a topic from 9:30–10:30 a.m. EW Lecture by Alan Crandall, MD, Salt Lake City. Eight video cases will also be presented during this session with discussion on topics like posterior capsule tear in various scenarios, how to handle zonulopathy in cer- tain circumstances, MIGS in com- plicated cataract cases, ultra brunes- cent cataracts, rock hard cataracts, phaco in small pupils, converting to extracapsular cataract surgery, IOL exchange, retained cortex, retained lens, iris defects, and more. This session will engage the audience with response pads, asking for their thoughts on management decisions for various cases. After seeing re- sponses from the audience, panelists will provide their expert opinions. A cataract-focused symposium, "Historical Controversies in Cataract Surgery: From Couching to Phaco," will take place from 12:15–1:45 p.m. "Refractive Cataract Surgery Today: Maximizing Your Outcomes," a symposium from 2:00–4:00 p.m. with chairs Edward Holland, MD, Cincinnati, and Richard Hoffman, MD, Eugene, Oregon, will feature expert speakers who will discuss new technologies and techniques from astigmatism management to surgical presbyopia correction. A 3:45–5:15 p.m. symposium co-sponsored by the Ocular Micro- biology and Immunology Group on "Hot Topics for Minimizing Infec- tions in Cataract Surgery" will cover different antibiotic treatments and practices for cataract surgery in the U.S. and around the world. This p.m.), and the use of surgical adhe- sives and amniotic membrane in conjunctival, corneal, cataract, and refractive surgery (4:30–5:30 p.m.). The symposium "Cataract Surgery: The Cutting Edge" will take place from 12:15–1:45 p.m. Robert Osher, MD, Cincinnati, will chair this symposium with panelists Richard Lindstrom, MD, Minneapolis, David Chang, MD, Los Altos, California, Warren Hill, MD, Mesa, Arizona, Robert Cionni, MD, Salt Lake City, Michael Snyder, MD, Cincinnati, Boris Malyugin, MD, PhD, Moscow, Russia, Abhay Vasavada, MD, Ahmedabad, India, Iqbal "Ike" Ahmed, MD, Toronto, Canada, Douglas Koch, MD, Hous- ton, and Samuel Masket, MD, Los Angeles. Sunday's second cataract-fo- cused symposium is the Ophthalmic Premier League's video competition on managing cataract complications. Teams include "The Fantastic Four" with captain Brandon Ayres, MD, Philadelphia, the "Cata-Rock Stars" with captain Mitchell Weikert, MD, Houston, "The Nutcrackers" with captain Eric Donnenfeld, MD, Rockville Centre, New York, and "The Ringers" with captain Yuri McKee, MD, Mesa, Arizona. Amar Agarwal, MD, Chennai, India, and Dr. Lindstrom will chair the session. Monday From 8:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m., "Spot- light on Cataract Complications" will feature the Charles D. Kelman A breakdown of cataract- centric education by day T he American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) promises a wealth of cat- aract offerings at its 2017 annual meeting in New Orleans. Symposia, instruction courses, sessions in the Learning Lounge, and a plethora of relevant labs (for an additional fee) await. Here's a breakdown by day of just some of these offerings. Sunday Instruction courses kick off from 10:15 a.m.–12:30 p.m. with sessions including "Code Red: Mastering Phaco Nightmares and Worst-Case Scenarios: A Video-Based Course" and "Best of the Best: An Update in Cataract Surgery." From 10:15–11:15 a.m. are offerings that include a video-based course in unexpected and unpleasant cataract cases. A course from 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. will focus on small incision lenticule extraction. Afternoon courses will cover combining cataract surgery with glaucoma surgery (2:00–4:15 p.m.), pearls and pitfalls for learning phaco chop (3:15–5:30 p.m.), phaco in eyes with coexisting vitreoretinal pathol- ogies (3:15–5:30 p.m.), maximizing refractive outcomes with ocular imaging and biometry (4:30–5:30 p.m.), toxic anterior segment surgery after cataract surgery (4:30–5:30 October 2017 Cataract offerings at AAO 2017

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