2025 ASCRS Annual Meeting Call for Submissions
Abstracts Now Due September 3
Abstracts for instructional courses, papers, electronic posters, and films are due Tuesday, September 3.
Presenting at the 2025 ASCRS Annual Meeting, taking place April 25–28 in Los Angeles, California, gets your research or technique in front of a targeted audience of anterior segment surgeons.
Visit the Call for Submissions webpage for more information about the submission process. Review the 2025 Annual Meeting Submission Guide (PDF) for submission requirements for instructional courses, papers, posters, and films.
Catch the Latest Episode of ASCRS Grand Rounds
The latest installment of ASCRS Grand Rounds is available to watch now.
This episode covers the case of “A Different White Dot Syndrome,” presented by Asmaa Zidan, MD, with program co-chairs Soroosh Behshad, MD, and Nandini Venkateswaran, MD, and faculty Brenton Finklea, MD, Deborah Jacobs, MD, and Praneetha Thulasi, MD.
Watch the episode, which is eligible for CME, here.
Now Accepting 2025 Resident Excellence Award Nominations
The ASCRS Foundation is accepting nominations for its 2025 Resident Excellence Awards.
This award recognizes 10 exemplary residents with consideration given for performance in research, patient care, leadership, and education. Awardees receive a travel grant, 4 nights’ accommodation, complimentary meeting registration, and invitations to select leadership and social events at the 2025 ASCRS Annual Meeting.
Submit a nomination by November 8.
“ASCRS is a special meeting. It is enriching and exciting to be surrounded by leaders in our field. It is such a great blend of learning, engagement, and of course, FUN! It was my first time attending, but you can count on seeing me there from now on. I feel extremely grateful to be an ophthalmologist, and this meeting really jump started an internal excitement/motivation to keep it going! Thank you to the Foundation for considering me and supporting the Resident Excellence Award winners every year. I feel so lucky!” —Mahsaw Mansoor, MD, 2024 Resident Excellence Award recipient
‘One-of-a-Kind Course’ You Won’t Want to Miss
The ASCRS Business of Refractive Cataract Surgery Summit (BRiCS) faculty are featured in a quick-hit video promoting this new “one-of-a-kind” course that aims to help practices streamline adoption of advanced-technology IOLs into their practice.
Advanced-technology IOLs are increasingly sought after by patients, and they offer practices an opportunity for sustainable growth in an increasingly difficult financial landscape. Learn more about this intensive, in-person course* and its invaluable resource library, built on 20 years of experience in this arena.
If you want to see the longer conversation between the program directors of the ASCRS Business of Refractive Cataract Surgery Summit, click here to watch an informative webinar about this unique opportunity.
*Programming onsite—September 27–28 in Irving, Texas—at the ASCRS Business of Refractive Cataract Surgery Summit is approved for 6 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM.
A Donation to eyePAC Is an Investment in Your Future
ASCRS advocacy has been hard at work this year, fighting to stop cuts to physician payments under Medicare, rolling back prior authorization requirements for cataract surgery, and halting potentially disastrous changes to MIGS reimbursement. These are just a few examples of the government relations activities ASCRS undertakes on behalf of its members every day.
One of the secrets of success for the Society’s advocacy efforts is having a strong political action committee (PAC). eyePAC, the political action committee of ASCRS, supports candidates for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives who fight for the issues important to you and your patients. The more allies we have in Congress, the more those elected officials can help us put pressure on government agencies like CMS and the FDA, and hold hearings that focus on the issues you care about.
Donate now to strengthen the only PAC specifically focused on anterior segment surgeons.
Catch Up on These Special Member Messages
In honor of the 50th anniversary of ASCRS, member ophthalmologists from the 50 states are sending in their perspectives on the Society, sharing its impact on their career, and talking about its influence on the specialty as a whole.
Stay tuned each week through April 2025 for a new perspective.
This week’s perspectives come from two surgeons in South Dakota: Vance Thompson, MD, and John Berdahl, MD. Watch their videos here.
Important Resources
- ASCRS Business of Refractive Cataract Surgery Summit: Take your practice from good to great. September 27–28 | Irving, Texas
- ASCRS Live: In-person education and networking coming to nine cities across the U.S.
- ASCRS Annual Meeting: April 25–28, 2025 | Los Angeles, California
- CME 24/7: Your source for the latest online CME from ASCRS; member login required
- Calculators and Tools: Essential tools for your practice
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