Submit Your Application to Join the YES Clinical Committee
Are you interested in joining the ASCRS Young Eye Surgeons (YES) Clinical Committee? Applications are now open!
The ASCRS YES Clinical Committee was established to serve as a source of timely information and education to residents, fellows, and surgeons in their first 5 years in practice. The YES Clinical Committee’s role is to generate special programming at the ASCRS Annual Meeting, ASCRS small meetings, virtual programming, and to contribute to membership engagement.
As a YES Clinical Committee member, you would be expected to participate in a variety of activities, such as webinars, roundtables, wet lab faculty, selecting best papers and posters, YES Connect EyeWorld quarterly articles, and as faculty at the Annual Meeting and smaller meetings. If chosen, the term appointment is 3 years.
For questions about the YES Clinical Committee or application process, please contact Nicole Hanson-Emerson at [email protected]. Applications are open through July 1.
Access the 2026 ASCRS Annual Meeting On Demand and Share Your Experience
2026 ASCRS Annual Meeting attendees can now access ASCRS On Demand, a post-meeting resource that captures hundreds of sessions from the Main Stage, Symposia, Instructional Courses, Papers, Films, Posters, and more.
Additionally, you can take this time to claim your meeting credits. If you attended the meeting, please complete the Online Evaluation & Credit Claim by May 18, 2026, to provide valuable feedback on the meeting and receive your credit.
We’ve also put together a short survey focused on all YES programming from the Annual Meeting. This evaluation is separate from the Annual Meeting evaluation and lets us dive a bit deeper, so we can continue to level up YES programming year after year. Your feedback makes a big difference and helps shape what YES looks like moving forward. Thanks for being an essential part of the YES community—we can’t wait to hear your thoughts!
Hotel Reservations Open for the 2027 ASCRS Annual Meeting
Reserve your preferred hotel for the 2027 ASCRS Annual Meeting, April 2–5, 2027, in San Diego, California. Hotel blocks with discounted rates are now open for reservations through onPeak, the official hotel vendor of the meeting.
View hotel options and rates, and book through onPeak to secure your stay at an official 2027 ASCRS Annual Meeting hotel.
Registration for the 2027 ASCRS Annual Meeting will open in fall 2026. Check this page for more details about the 2027 ASCRS Annual Meeting and to put your name on the early information “Hear It Here First” list.
ASCRS Live! on Tour in 2026
Don’t miss your opportunity to engage and network with ASCRS year-round with ASCRS Live! We still have eight tour stops remaining across the country this year!
This regional dinner tour gives you an intimate, front-row experience to practical, peer-to-peer insights on refractive cataract surgery. From preop planning to IOL selection to case examples to achieving postop satisfaction, this program delivers actionable pearls from leading experts—including faculty from your own region.
- Earn CME credit
- Access bonus webinars on MIGS, refractive surgery, and more
- Complimentary gourmet dinner
- Connect with peers and ASCRS faculty
Whether you’re an ASCRS member or exploring what our community offers, this is your chance to learn, connect, and tune up your cataract surgery skills.
Look out for these eight remaining cities on the ASCRS Live! tour:
- Omaha, Nebraska
- Chicago, Illinois
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Detroit, Michigan
- Tucson, Arizona
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- New York, New York
- Birmingham, Alabama
Take Advantage of These Educational Opportunities with ASCRS
- 'Closing the Gap’ webinar series: Several webinars in the “Closing the Gap” series, developed based on data from the ASCRS Clinical Survey, are now available. The first focuses on “Edge Cases – Managing Irregular Astigmatism.” Those completing this activity will earn 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. The second webinar in the series focuses on “Finishing the Job – Enhancements Following Lenticular Refractive Surgery.” Those completing this activity will earn 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. The third webinar focuses on “Getting Started with Refractive Cataract Surgery and How to Talk to Your Patients.” Those completing this activity will earn 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. A retina-focused webinar in the series, Review of Members’ 2025 Clinical Survey and Best Retina Related Practices, reviews the results of the ASCRS Clinical Survey and is tailored to the respondents’ clinical practices with regard to involvement of vitreoretinal colleagues. Those completing this activity will earn 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. A non-CME webinar in the series, Excimer in the Finishing Role: Therapeutic Regularization and Refractive Refinement, also focuses on refractive surgery. A glaucoma-focused webinar in the series, Modern Glaucoma Intervention: Laser, Drug Delivery, MIGS, and Incisional Surgery, features glaucoma experts discussing these four key pillars. Those completing this activity will earn 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
- ASCRS Grand Rounds: The latest episode of ASCRS Grand Rounds is now available. Click here to see the most recent episode, presented by University of Michigan. This episode features a case of “Intra-op Surprise: A Shaky Situation,” involving a patient with a history of uveitis who was found to have significant zonular loss during the surgery. The case was presented by Shariq Hashmi, MD. A second case involved discussion of the development of postoperative malignant glaucoma and how to manage it and was presented by Nathan Shenkute, MD. Alex Knezevic, MD, and Eric Weinlander, MD, chaired the session, with moderator Manjool Shah, MD, and panelists Charlie Frank, MD, and Angela Verkade, MD.
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