EyeWorld is the official news magazine of the American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery.
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6 EW ASCRS NEWS 68 62 34 MEETING REPORTER Reporting from the 2018 BRASCRS annual meeting 68 IN OTHER NEWS Racing for a cure for blindness 76 Dr. Sohn sets sights on taking first place and making it to his next national championship by Liz Hillman Research highlight First-in-human randomized controlled study compares phaco with miLOOP and phaco alone 34 Microinterventional nucleus disassembly with miLOOP resulted in significantly less phaco energy in moderate to advanced cataract by Liz Hillman Research highlight Optimizing femto fragmentation patterns based on lens density lowers phaco time 36 Study finds lower effective phaco time with pie fragmentation pattern for denser lenses by Liz Hillman Research highlight Normal tension glaucoma: The result of repetitive strain? 51 A closer look at the impact of eye movements by Maxine Lipner REFRACTIVE Refractive editor's corner of the world Diagnostics in refractive cataract surgery: Corneal topography 57 Experts share why corneal topography should be a part of every cataract evaluation by Michelle Stephenson Research highlight A wrinkle in LASIK 60 The latest on clinically significant flap striae by Maxine Lipner GLAUCOMA Pharmaceutical focus An inside look at outflow drugs for glaucoma 48 How these new agents are successfully lowering IOP by Maxine Lipner CORNEA Cornea editor's corner of the world Study shows little effect from omega-3 fatty acids 62 Recent research finds that placebo had equivalent efficacy as a mainstay dry eye treatment by Rich Daly Research highlight Surveying the field 65 Differing views on bacterial keratitis treatment by Maxine Lipner RESIDENTS EyeWorld journal club Review of "An updated cataract surgery complexity stratification score for trainee ophthalmic surgeons" 54 by Angela Verkade, MD, Rizwan Shaikh, MD, Rishabh Date, MD, Zaina Al-Mohtaseb, MD, and Mitchell Weikert, MD SPECIAL FEATURE Monthly Pulse survey 46 DEPARTMENTS Meetings calendar 75 Index to advertisers 76 July 2018 E Y E W O R L D E D I T O R S Chief medical editor: Eric Donnenfeld, MD Cataract editor: Rosa Braga-Mele, MD Cornea editor: Clara Chan, MD Glaucoma editor: Nathan Radcliffe, MD Refractive editor: Vance Thompson, MD CATARACT Kendall Donaldson, MD Nicole Fram, MD Susan MacDonald, MD Kevin Miller, MD Tal Raviv, MD Jonathan Rubenstein, MD Steven Safran, MD Richard Tipperman, MD Mitchell Weikert, MD Elizabeth Yeu, MD CORNEA Vincent de Luise, MD John Hovanesian, MD Bennie Jeng, MD Barry Lee, MD Bryan Lee, MD GLAUCOMA Reay Brown, MD Steven Gedde, MD Linda Huang, MD Robert Noecker, MD Valerie Trubnik, MD Dana Wallace, MD REFRACTIVE John Berdahl, MD Y. Ralph Chu, MD Thomas Clinch, MD Neel Desai, MD Lance Kugler, MD Louis Probst, MD Blake Williamson, MD Roger Zaldivar, MD INTERNATIONAL Graham Barrett, MD Maria Jose Cosentino, MD Oliver Findl, MD Michael Knorz, MD Boris Malyugin, MD Ronald Yeoh, MD Roberto Zaldivar, MD E Y E W O R L D E D I T O R I A L B O A R D A S C R S E X E C U T I V E C O M M I T T E E A S C R S G O V E R N I N G B O A R D Thomas Samuelson, MD, President Bonnie Henderson, MD, Immediate Past President Kerry Solomon, MD, Past President Nick Mamalis, MD, Vice President/President Elect Terry Kim, MD, Treasurer Richard Hoffman, MD, Secretary Eric Donnenfeld, MD, Chief Medical Editor, EyeWorld Edward Holland, MD, Chair, Program Committee David Chang, MD, Chair, ASCRS Foundation, International Initiatives Richard Lindstrom, MD, Member at Large Rosa Braga-Mele, MD Chair, Education Committee Warren Hill, MD Member at Large Kevin Miller, MD Chair, Cataract Clinical Committee Francis Mah, MD Chair, Cornea Clinical Committee Nick Mamalis, MD Editor, Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery James Mazzo ASCRS Public Trustee William Myers, MD Chair, EyeConnect Committee Stephen Lane, MD, Chair, ASCRS Foundation, Domestic Initiatives Douglas Rhee, MD Chair, Glaucoma Clinical Committee John Vukich, MD Chair, Refractive Surgery Clinical Committee Steve Charles, MD Chair, Retina Clinical Committee Parag Parekh, MD, Chair, Government Relations Committee Sumit Garg, MD Chair, Young Eye Surgeons Clinical Committee 34 36 51