2023 ASCRS ANNUAL MEETING

About this Session

Session Moderator: David F. Chang, MD, ABO
Panelists: Rosa Braga-Mele, MD, FRCSC, Deepinder K. Dhaliwal, MD, Kevin M. Miller, MD, Ronald Yeoh, FRCSEd, FRCOphth, Bruna V. Ventura, MD, PhD, Thomas Kohnen, MD, PhD

Only the most promising Navy pilots attend the TOPGUN Fighter Weapons School, located near San Diego, California. As depicted in the famous 1986 and 2022 movies, the Navy’s best TOPGUN instructors train them to become elite fighter pilots. In this 90-minute program, attendees will be transformed by TOPGUN Phaco instructors into elite cataract surgeons. Twelve international instructors will give you their best and most essential pearls that have helped each of them become a leading surgeon. The ASCRS team features some of the top residency/fellowship Phaco instructors from North America. They will compete against an international team of leading Phaco masters from ESCRS, APACRS, and LASCRS. Rather than teaching complex maneuvers, they will present practical “trade secrets” that you can incorporate in the O.R. next week. This rapid fire video session will be extremely fast paced because our attendees feel the need …. the need for speed!

Presentations in this Session

• Welcome Remarks
  David F. Chang, MD, ABO
• PCR + Vitrectomy
  Jeff Pettey, MD, MBA
• Overcoming Difficulties in Nucleus Rotation
  Abhay R. Vasavada, MS, FRCS
• Capsulorhexis Rent Management
  Julie Schallhorn, MD
• Combined pIOL Explanation and Phaco
  Rudy M. Nuijts, MD, PhD
• Astigmatism Correction Made Easy
  Mitchell P. Weikert, MD, MS, ABO
• How to avoid rotation of a Toric Intraocular Lens in High Myopes
  Claudio Orlich, MD
• IOL Choice for Irregular Corneas
  Sumitra S. Khandelwal, MD, ABO
• IOL Troubles
  Filomena J Ribeiro, MD, FEBO, PhD
• White cat w/fibrotic capsule & Zonulopathy
  Manjool M Shah, MD, ABO
• Battling the Ring
  Soon-Phaik Chee, FRCSEd, FRCOphth
• Dense Traumatic Cataract w/Zonulopathy
  Marjan Farid, MD, ABO
• Tips for IOL Exchange
  Roberto Zaldívar Sr., MD