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ASCRS This Week November 20 2024

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.

 

 

Register for ASCRS 2025 | Advancing Innovation in Anterior Segment Surgery

Registration is now open for the 2025 ASCRS Annual Meeting, taking place in Los Angeles, California, April 25–28, 2025. Attendees of this meeting will leave 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, the ASCRS Annual Meeting is *the* meeting to attend in 2025!

Tier 1, early bird pricing—the best value for the meeting—is available now. 

 

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 Mark Hollingshead, MD, of Idaho. Watch his video here.

 

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