This is the last ASCRS This Week email until January 8. ASCRS wishes you a Happy Holidays!
New Webinar Provides a Comprehensive Overview of OCT
The ASCRS Retina Clinical Committee is pleased to present a new webinar: Optical Coherence Tomography: A Comprehensive Review.
This webinar provides an in-depth exploration of OCT, covering its historical evolution, foundational principles, and advancements in technology. Participants will learn systematic approaches to OCT interpretation, including both quantitative and qualitative analyses, key artifacts, and their implications.
It also reviews clinical insights into vitreoretinal disorders, choroidal diseases, and other pathologies, offering practical knowledge to enhance diagnostic precision.
Watch the hour-long presentation, featuring faculty Ghassan Ghorayeb, MD, and Lisa Olmos de Koo, MD.
Register Now for ASCRS 2025 for the Best Value
Tier 1, early bird pricing—the best value for the 2025 ASCRS Annual Meeting—is available now. The meeting, taking place in Los Angeles, California, April 25–28, 2025, will provide attendees with:
- Enhanced clinical knowledge and surgical skills
- Expanded business acumen and professional connections
- Knowledge of the latest innovations
- Unscripted interactions—influential, organic conversations
With comprehensive, physician-designed education dedicated to anterior segment surgery and focused connection with like-minded individuals, this is *the* meeting to attend in 2025! Register now.
Help Educate by Sharing Your Case Videos
There are still opportunities to get involved with the 2025 ASCRS Annual Meeting. Several sessions have a special call for submissions for specific case videos. Submitting your videos can help educate your colleagues in various topics.
There are opportunities within:
- ASCRS Get H.I.P.: There are four new sessions in the areas of cataract, cornea, glaucoma, and refractive that will focus on “High Impact Pearls (H.I.P.).” ASCRS is asking members to submit brief, short-form videos (between 30–90 seconds) for inclusion in these sessions. Several videos will be selected per session for presentation on stage and will be followed by panel discussion.
- Complicated and Challenging Cases in Cataract Surgery Video Symposium: This symposium, sponsored by the ASCRS Cataract Clinical Committee, is searching for case videos that involve any aspect of phaco, femtosecond cataract surgery, and/or IOLs.
- Retina for the Anterior Segment Surgeon: The Retina Clinical Committee is looking for case videos that involve retina or vitreous and that are relevant to the anterior segment surgeon.
- Reay of Hope Video Session at Glaucoma Day: The Glaucoma Clinical Committee is in search of case videos that involve complicated cases, with an interesting teaching point, in the glaucoma space.
- Good to Great Surgeon: Working Through Complications Video YES Symposium: This symposium, sponsored by the YES Clinical Committee, is an opportunity for young eye surgeons to share unusual or challenging video cases from their practice.
Submissions are due January 17. Learn more.
Make an End-of-Year Investment
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 Bradley Sifrig, MD, of North Carolina. Watch his video here.
Important Resources
- ASCRS Live!: In-person education and networking coming to ten 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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