Sidra Zafar, MD Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA This year’s Charles Schepens Lecture at the American Academy of Ophthalmology Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL, was delivered by Dr. Lee Jampol.…

Cindy S. Zhao, MD Stanford Byers Eye Institute, Palo Alto, CA The 2025 J. Donald M. Gass Award was awarded to Mark W. Johnson, MD, member of the RETINA journal’s…

Ashley Zhou, Edward Lu, Theodore Bowe, Luis Acaba Berrocal Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA Celebrating innovation, mentorship, and legacy in the retina community The 2025 American Society of Retina Specialists…

Luis Acaba-Berrocal, MD Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA Dr. Connie Cepko received the ARVO 2025 Friedenwald Award in recognition of her groundbreaking research into the development and degeneration of the…

Lauren Kiryakoza, MD Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, FL Hailey Robles-Holmes, MD Georgetown/Washington Hospital Center, Columbia, MD Prashant Tailor, MD Stein Eye Institute, Los Angeles, CA VBS Mentorship Award: Celebrating…

Russel Dinh, MD Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Charlie Zhang, MD Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, FL Uveitic Macular Edema Treatment: Suprachoroidal Triamcinolone Acetonide versus Intravitreal Triamcinolone Acetonide versus Dexamethasone Intravitreal…

Rachana Haliyur, MD, PhD, a first year vitreoretinal fellow at the University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center, was awarded the prestigious Evangelos S. Gragoudas Award at the 2025 Macula Society…

Mary (Molly) Munsell Mass Eye & Ear Special Topics in Retina for 2025 In the last session of MACULA 2025, Drs. Lee Jampol and Dr. Joseph Anaya moderated presentations on…

Stephanie Zhang Richmond Woodward Mass Eye & Ear  The ocular oncology session began with a presentation on radiation retinopathy given by Dr. Arun Singh. Radiation retinopathy responds to anti-VEGF agents…

Stephanie Zhang Richmond Woodward Mass Eye & Ear  The morning of Macula 2025 continued with the retinal vascular diseases other than diabetic retinopathy session starting with Dr. Peter Campochiaro’s talk…

Edward (Ned) Lu Mass Eye & Ear The Choroidal Neovascularization session was moderated by Lucia Sobrin, MD, MPH, Akrit Sodhi, MD, and Andre Witkin, MD. Dr. Akrit Sodhi from Wilmer…

Sameen Meshkin and Moosa Zaidi Mass Eye & Ear Diabetic Macular Edema Session The Macula 2025 session on diabetic macular edema (DME) was moderated by Drs. Mira Sachdeva, Allen C…

Elham Sadeghi, University of Pittsburgh Sameen Meshkin, Mass Eye & Ear Macula 2025 started with a fantastic keynote lecture by Dr. Daniel Martin to explore the global influence of NIH…

Johnathan Bailey Maximilian Kong Columbia University Imaging Saturday morning’s Contemporary Retinal Imaging session was moderated by Dr. Christina Weng and Dr. John Miller. This eye-opening session outlined many aspects of…

Luis Acaba-Berrocal, MD Martin Calotti, MD Sidra Zafar, MD Wills Eye Hospital SESSION 7 The afternoon continued with Session 7, moderated by Dr. Jay Chhablani and Dr. Demetrios Vavvas. The…

Theodore Bowe, MD and Flavius Beca, MD Wills Eye Hospital SESSION 5 Dr. J. Fernando Arevalo and Dr. Jose Pulido moderated the fifth session on Friday at the Atlantic Coast…

Roselind Ni and Bita Momenaei Wills Eye Hospital SESSION #3 The third morning session, moderated by Dean Eliott, MD and William Mieler, MD, featured four compelling case presentations, sparking insightful discussions among the…

We are back to welcome the new year as we love to do with the Atlantic Coast Retina Club (ACRC). This legendary regional meeting is now over 40 years in…

Lindsay Kozek, MD, PhD and Melissa Yuan, MD Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston, MA The Charles L. Schepens lecture, given annually at the American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting in honor…

Eric Jung, MD Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH RETINA Editorial Board Member Dr. Anat Loewenstein, MD, MHA received Retina Society’s Award of Merit in Retina Research this year.…

Michael Yu, MD Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA Several awards were presented at the ASRS Award Ceremony to honor ASRS member contributions to teaching, research, and clinical care within the…

Blake Fortes, MD Stein Eye Institute, UCLA, Los Angles, CA Session 1 The 10th Annual Pacific Retina Club Retina Update kicked off with a session on artificial intelligence, basic science,…

Timothy T. Xu, MD Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN The 2024 Friedenwald award was awarded to Dr. Anand Swaroop, Ph.D., who is a Senior Investigator and Chief of Neurobiology, Neurodegeneration, and…

Asad Durrani, MD Prashanth Iyer, MD Linnet Rodriguez, MD Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA The 14th session, “What if it’s the Demogorgon?!” focused on complications and was moderated by Paula…

Harry Levine, MD, University of Michigan Melissa Yuan, MD, Mass Eye and Ear Dr. Tarek S. Hassan was introduced by Dr. Aristhomenis Thanos and Dr. Margaret Runner for the 2024…

Bita Momenaei, MD, Wills Eye Hospital Jovi C Y Wong, MD, University of Toronto The lively Friday afternoon Medical Retina Debates were aptly captioned “If we are both going crazy,…

Jia Xu, MD Lindsay Kozek, MD Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA The prestigious VBS Mentorship Award was conferred upon Dr. Lejla Vajzovic, MD, FASRS, by Drs. Avni Finn and…

Chloe Y. Li, MD, MA Columbia University/New York Presbyterian The second-ever “North vs South” debates at Vit Buckle Society featured four retina surgeons from Canada and four from Mexico. Topics…

Taku Wakabayashi, MD, PhD Wakabayashi Eye Clinic, Kanazawa, Japan Aichi Medical University, Aichi, Japan The pediatric session at FujiRetina 2024 moderated by Shunji Kusaka, MD and Aleksandra Rachitskaya, MD, covered…

Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MD RETINA Roundup Editor in Chief FujiRetina is Japan’s preeminent international retina meeting. Fuji refers to Mount Fuji, a stunning mountain that is a sacred and inspirational symbol…

Wyatt Smith, MD Weill Cornell, New York, NY Dr. Carol Shields and Dr. Lawrence Yannuzzi presented the honorary Founders Award to three distinguished guests: Dr. Susan Bressler (Johns Hopkins Wilmer…

Arjun Watane, MD Yale Ophthalmology, New Haven, CT The Atlantic Coast Retina Club had an exciting afternoon of complex and mystery cases. A summary of selected cases are described below.…

Melissa Yuan, MD Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA ACRC Trainee Session #2 The first afternoon of ACRC continued with more exciting trainee cases, moderated by Drs. Emily Chew, Itay…

Da Meng, MD PhD Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA ACRC Trainee Session 1 Session 1 of the trainee mystery cases started with Dr. Rolika Bansal, an oncology fellow from…

The annual Atlantic Coast Retina Club/Macula meeting is a perennial favorite among ophthalmology residents, fellows and retina specialists across the country. The meeting was founded in the 1970s as a…

Emanuele Crincoli, MD, FEBO Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli An advanced instructional course on the impact of digital innovations on retinal care was held in Floretina 2023 meeting in Rome. The…

Clara Rizzo, MD Ophthalmic Unit, Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy Alexander J. Brucker, K. Bailey Freund, Anat Loewestein, Stanislao Rizzo and Sandrine Zweifel…

Raphael Kilian MD Department of Ophthalmology, Ospedali Privati Forlì “Villa Igea,” Forlì, Italy The 2023 BRUNO LUMBROSO, MD LECTURESHIP award went to Professor Giovanni Staurenghi, Chairman of the Department of…

Emanuele Crincoli Stanislao Rizzo Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS Catholic University, Rome, Italy The 11th FLORetina-ICOOR Congress took place from November 30th to December 3rd at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel…

Flavius Beca, MD Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, FL Retina Subday 2 offered fascinating talks on artificial intelligence (AI). The AI session concluded with Dr Raymond lezzi, MD, discussing the…

Linnet Rodriguez, MD Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA The Charles L Schepens lecture started with the introduction of the 16th recipient, Dr. Emily Y. Chew. The topic was Macular Telangiectasia…

Sandra Hoyek, MD Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Dr. Sabin Dang, MD, addressed the repercussions of insurance prior authorization (PA) for intravitreal anti-VEGF within the field of retina. He and…

Dr. Andrei Szigiato was honored with the Retina Society Fellowship Research award for his work at the Cole Eye Institute on comparing half-dose versus full-dose fluorescein for ultra-wide field fundus…

Dr. Jong Park was awarded the Raymond Margherio Fellowship Award for his work entitled Surgical Management of Full Thickness Macular Holes in Macular Telangiectasia Type 2, A Global Multicenter Study.…

Prachi Dave and Ritesh Narula Centre for Sight Eye Hospital The endophthalmitis session at DRM 2023 aptly focused on how the endophthalmitis spectrum is changing in India and how one…

Aashraya Karpe, MS Shroff Eye Centre, New Delhi The Prove Your Point session at the Delhi Retina Meet showcased the latest innovations and techniques. Retina surgeons presented their new ideas…

RETINA Roundup is excited to announce that we will start coverage of international conferences, in addition to our usual US-based meetings. Our first in-depth international meeting coverage brings us to…

Emily Cole, MD, MPH Kellogg Eye Center, University of Michigan Ann Harbor, MI The Women in Retina luncheon was one of three events put on by Women in Retina as…

Viet Chau, MD Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Miami, FL Several awards were presented this year to recognize leaders in the field of retina who have made a remarkable impact. The…

Terry Hsieh, MD, PhD University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA Drs. Amani Fawzi and Jose Pulido moderated the medical case conference and added a high yield pearl at the end…

Kristine Wang Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University Philadelphia, PA Dr. Budd Tucker was awarded the 2023 Cogan Award and delivered the final award lecture at this year’s ARVO…

Luis Acaba-Berrocal MD Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary, UIC Chicago, IL Session 13: Wellness Family Feud Game Show “Now, I See the Funny Side. Now, I’m Always Smiling!” Moderator: Nicholas…

Tavish Nanda MD Tufts University / Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston Boston, MA Medicolegal Disaster Cases “Some Men Just Want to Watch the World Burn” As a part of the Vit-Buckle…

Lauren Kiryakoza, MD Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Miami, FL A Real-Life Retina Iron-Man: Dr. Allen C. Ho, Vit-Buckle Society Lifetime Achievement Award Saturday afternoon, Dr. Ehsan Rahimy introduced one of…

Jonathan Lin, MD Massachusetts Eye and Ear Boston, MA The Basic Science session of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Macula Society moderated by Drs. Mary Elizabeth Hartnett and Paul…

Inês Laíns, MD, PhD Massachusetts Eye and Ear Boston, MA Dr. Inês Laíns was awarded the prestigious Evangelos S. Gragoudas Award at the 2023 Macula. Society Meeting in Miami, Florida…

Hana A. Mansour, MD Wills Eye Hospital Philadelphia, PA At Atlantic Coast Retina Club, a number a of excellent trainee cases from fellows across the country were presented. Here we…

Saghar Bagheri, MD, PhD Massachusetts Eye and Ear Boston, MA Session C of the second day of the Atlantic Coast Retinal Club Meeting on February 3, 2023, was moderated by…

Ahmad Al Moujahed, MD, PhD, MPH Massachusetts Eye and Ear Boston, MA The last session of ACRC 2023 was titled “Advances in VR Surgery”. First, Dr. Netan Choudhry from Vitreous…

David Doobin, MD, PhD Massachusetts Eye and Ear Boston, MA The Atlantic Coast Retina Club 2023 meeting continued for a second day on February 2nd with a great day of…

Jared T. Sokol, MD, MBA Massachusetts Eye and Ear Boston, MA Day 2 of the Atlantic Coast Retina Club was filled with fascinating mystery cases presented by leading retina faculty.…

Linnet Rodriguez, MD Wills Eye Hospital Philadelphia, PA Herein we review a fantastic Session D on Saturday of the Atlantic Coast Retina Club, moderated by David M. Wu, MD and…

Linnet Rodriguez, MD Wills Eye Hospital Philadelphia, PA The Friday session was punctuated by the Trainee Award Presentations. Congratulations to all of the resident and fellow presenters who shared many…

Anand Gopal, MD Wills Eye Hospital Philadelphia, PA The afternoon continued with Session D, which offered a series of stimulating and challenging trainee cases. Asad Durrani, a first-year vitreoretinal fellow…

The arctic blast brought blistering temperatures to Boston this weekend, but that did not stop the Atlantic Coast Retina Club from delivering 3 days of the highest level of academic…

Welcome to New York City! The American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS) 2022 annual meeting kicks off today in New York City. Wednesday afternoon features exciting case presentations, and the…

Archana A Nair, MD MS Vitreoretinal Fellow Vanderbilt Eye Institute The 2022 ARVO meeting featured a wide array of groundbreaking ophthalmic research and innovation. This meeting was extra special as…

Talisa E. de Carlo, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow University of Colorado The highlight of yet another terrific Pacific Retina Club meeting was the Alexander R. Irvine Lecture: “OCT – Past,…

Sruthi Arepalli, MD Tennessee Retina The 10th annual Vit-Buckle Society meeting in Las Vegas featured a dazzling array of both medical and surgical retina cases with a sprinkling of valuable…

Avni P. Finn MD, MBA Eric Nudleman, MD, PhD Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MD (Photo Credits: Julia Haller, MD) The American Academy of Ophthalmology presented the 2021 Laureate Award to Dr. Michael T.…

Danny A. Mammo MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic 2021 Pyron Award – Cynthia Toth Dr. Carl Awh presented the 2021 Gertrude D. Pyron award to Dr.…

Hadi Kaakour Vitreoretinal Surgical Fellow Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic At the 2021 ASRS meeting in San Antonio, Texas, the first day of sessions has been off to a wonderful…

Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MDWills Eye Hospital Welcome to San Antonio! Our team at RETINA Roundup was busy last weekend in Chicago at Retina Society. In unusual fashion, the Retina Society and…

Jason Miller, MD, PhD Assistant Professor University of Michigan Health Kellogg Eye Center Congratulations to Dr. Miller from the University of Michigan Health Kellogg Eye Center, who is the 2021…

Rebecca Russ Soares, MD, MPH Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Mid Atlantic Retina at Wills Eye Hospital Congratulations to Dr. Soares from Wills Eye Hospital, who is the 2021 recipient of the Retina…

Sneha Padidam MD Vitreoretinal surgical fellow Retina Group of Washington, Washington, D.C. Dr. Helena Feenstra of the of Leiden University Medical Center presented the results of the SPECTRA trial. The…

Sophie Cai, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Duke Eye Center, Durham, NC Another exciting presentation was given by Dr. Brandon Busbee of Tennessee Retina. Dr. Busbee reported the results of the…

Sophie Cai, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Duke Eye Center, Durham, NC One of the highlights of today’s session was Dr. Clement Chan’s presentation of the results of the multicenter DRCR…

Matthew R. Starr, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA Dr. Raj Maturi of the Midwest Eye Institute, presented for the first time, the results of the DRCR…

Avni P. Finn, MD, MBA Northern California Retina Vitreous Associates Mountain View, CA The Vit-Buckle Society 2021 Meeting: The Force Awakens, Episode 1 took place on April 14th. This was…

Kenneth Fan, MD Ophthalmology Resident Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Hasenin Al-Khersan, MD Ophthalmology Resident Bascom Palmer Eye Institute This was the final session of the 2019 Angiogenesis meeting. Thank you…

Kenneth Fan, MD Ophthalmology Resident Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Hasenin Al-Khersan, MD Ophthalmology Resident Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Session V of the Angiogenesis meeting focused on macular neovascularization, diabetes, and…

Jose J. Echegaray, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Nathan Scott, MD MPP Ophthalmology Resident Bascom Palmer Eye Institute The fourth session of the conference, Macular Neovascularization: Imaging…

Jose J. Echegaray, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Nathan Scott, MD MPP Ophthalmology Resident Bascom Palmer Eye Institute The High Risk Non-Exudative AMD session kickstarted with an…

Nimesh Patel, MD Vitreoretinal Fellow Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Nicole Topilow, MD Ophthalmology Resident Bascom Palmer Eye Institute The second session began with Dr. Emmett T. Cunningham, Jr discussing the…

Nimesh Patel, MD Vitreoretinal Fellow Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Nicole Topilow, MD Ophthalmology Resident Bascom Palmer Eye Institute The Mandarin Oriental hotel provided a grand setting for the annual meeting.…

Tomasz Stryjewski, Cindy Ung, Jay Wang First Year Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellows Massachusetts Eye and Ear Atlantic Coast Retina Club (ACRC) 2019 formally began on Friday January 11, 2019 at the…

Lauren Wright, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Boston University The 2018 AAO Sub-Specialty day highlighted an exciting assortment of hot topics in the field of Pediatric Retina. On day one of…

Rithwick Rajagopal, MD, PhD Washington University School of Medicine Symptomatic floaters are a common source for frustration for both patients and vitreoretinal surgeons. As care providers, we are committed to…

Yoshihiro Yonekawa Mass Eye & Ear / Boston Children’s RETINA Roundup Co-Editor We hope everyone is gearing up for the 2018 American Academy of Ophthalmology annual meeting in Chicago. Lots…

Jonathan Prenner, MD NJ Retina RETINA Roundup Editor The Retina Society program committee reserved a number of superb presentations for the closing half-day of what has been an outstanding scientific…

Karen Jeng-Miller, MD, MPH Ophthalmology Resident Mass Eye & Ear This year, the 2018 Charles L. Schepens Lectureship was awarded to Dr. Paul Sternberg, G.W. Hale Professor and Chair of…

Thomas J. Wubben, MD, PhD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Kellogg Eye Center / University of Michigan Congratulations to Dr. Wubben from Kellogg Eye Center, who is the 2018 recipient of the…

Nimesh Patel, MD Vitreo-retinal fellow Bascom Palmer Eye Institute This session was full of interesting presentations. Dr. Neiraj Jain started by sharing a series of 6 patients with a novel…

Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MEEI/Boston Children’s Eric Nudleman, UCSD Jonathan Prenner, NJ Retina RETINA Roundup Editors Welcome to the 51st Annual Meeting of the Retina Society. We are in San Francisco at…

ASRS 2018: Women in Retina (WinR): How to Succeed in Different Practice Environments, From Academia to Private Practice. July 23, 2018. Course Organizer: Audina Berrocal, MD Faculty: Lisa Olmos de…

Durga Borkar, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Wills Eye Hospital The session kicked off with Dr. Sengul Ozdek describing the long term anatomical and functional results of surgery for retinal detachment…

Marianeli Rodriguez, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Mass Eye & Ear, Harvard Medical School Dr. Geeta Lalwani first discussed the 2-year pooled outcomes from various randomized trials of anti-VEGF treatment for diabetic…

James Lin, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Dr. Shaileen Parikh started the discussion this morning describing the clinical and OCT findings in chronic solar retinopathy, which is…

Zachary Bodnar, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Byers Eye Institute, Stanford University The instrumentation symposium was moderated by Carl Awh, MD and Raymond Iezzi, MD. Kevin Blinder, MD presented initial experiences…

Amirfarbod Yazdanyar, MD, PhD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow UC Davis The retinal vascular disease session on Monday morning was interactive and informative. The symposium was moderated by Drs. Alay Banker and…

Edward Wood, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow ARC/Beaumont Following opening comments by Timothy Murray, MD, MBA, the neovascular AMD symposium kicked off an exciting series of symposiums. The section moderated by…

Nikisha Kothari, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow UCLA Jules Stein Eye Institute Dr. Timothy Murray, the Program Chair of ASRS, started the morning with a discussion on the results comparing trans-scleral…

Kareem Moussa, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Mass Eye & Ear / Harvard Medical School   The surgical symposium wrapped up Sunday’s morning session. The symposium started with Murat Oncel, MD discussing the…

Peter H. Tang, M.D., Ph.D. Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Byers Eye Institute, Stanford This afternoon, we had a lively and informative discussion regarding techniques for surgical fixation of intraocular lenses. It…

Mingyi Huang, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA Wiley A. Chambers II, MD was awarded the 2018 American Society of Retina Specialists Founders Award. The award was presented…

Lekha Mukkamala, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow University of California, Davis The second half of the morning on non-neovascular AMD kicked off with discussion of the Chroma and Spectri studies. Although…

Sarwar Zahid, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow University of Illinois Chicago The Surgical Case Conference was a tour de force of complex surgical cases and surgical techniques presented by surgeons at…

Yoshihiro Yonekawa RETINA Roundup Co-Editor Instructional courses on Friday afternoon kicked off the 36th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Retina Specialists in Vancouver, BC. Course topics ranged from…

Yoshihiro Yonekawa Eric Nudleman Jonathan Prenner RETINA Roundup Editors Retina specialists from throughout the world are arriving this week in Vancouver, Canada, for the 36th Annual Meeting of the American…

Zujaja Tauqeer, DPhil 4th Year Medical Student Harvard Medical School The penultimate award lecture of this year’s ARVO conference in Honolulu was given by James Fujimoto, PhD, the Elihu Thomson…

Edward Wood, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Associated Retinal Consultants / William Beaumont Hospital Jennifer Doudna, PhD gave a rousing talk to a standing-room only crowd for the ARVO/Alcon keynote lecture…

Welcome to the RETINA Roundup coverage of ARVO 2018 in Honolulu, Hawaii. During this conference, we will feature award lectures by giants in the field who have revolutionized how we…

Brian Do, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow USC Roski Eye Institute One of the most exciting presentations during VBS VI was a somewhat impromptu, first-of-its-kind video from none other than Dr.…

Rehan M. Hussain, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery fellow Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Session 6 of the VBS 6th annual meeting was a special Retinaws session. A panel of vitreoretinal surgeons shared…

Neepa Shah, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Weill Cornell Medical College The complications session at VBS was one of the highlights of the meeting. Moderated by Andrew Schimel from Miami, multiple…

Dr. Linda Alejandra Cernichiaro Espinosa Asociación para Evitar la Ceguera en México, I.A.P. What would the world be without diversity? Race, culture and gender are amongst the most relevant differences…

Natalia Fijalkowski Callaway, MD, MS Ophthalmology Resident Bascom Palmer Eye Institute High noon at VBS: the Retina Calienta fighters entered the ring to heat up the room. Round 1, Maria…

Prethy Rao, MD, MPH Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Associated Retinal Consultants/William Beaumont Hospital Macular hole Classification: What’s in a Name? This year’s lifetime mentorship lecture was awarded to Jay Duker, MD…

Akshay Thomas, MD Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Duke Eye Center The 7th session of the 6th annual VBS meeting was titled, “Surgical Adventures, Bridging the Gap.” The session was moderated by…

Nicolas Yannuzzi Ophthalmology Resident Bascom Palmer Eye Institute A panel of Tim Murray, MIchael Klufas, and Jorge Fortun moderated the live surgery session. Justin Townsend from Bascom Palmer tackled the…

Nemo Patel, MD Ophthalmology Resident Bascom Palmer Eye Institute The Fellows’ Foray has become one of the favorite traditions of the meeting, where fellows showcase their best surgical videos that…

Yoshihiro Yonekawa Mass Eye & Ear / Boston Children’s RETINA Roundup Editor Welcome to the RETINA Roundup coverage of the 2018 annual Vit-Buckle Society (VBS) meeting. The VBS meetings have…

Kathrine Talcott, Ferhina Ali, Christopher Aderman Second Year Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellows Wills Eye Hospital Saturday January 14th was the 2018 Macula meeting, the third and final day of the Atlantic Coast…

Nitish Mehta Ophthalmology Resident, New York University Xinxiao Gao Research Fellow, Wills Eye Hospital Anthony Obeid Research Fellow, Wills Eye Hospital We continue our coverage of ACRC Day 1. With…

Yoshihiro Yonekawa Mass Eye and Ear / Boston Children’s RETINA Roundup Editor Happy 2018 from the RETINA Roundup team! We hope everyone enjoyed the holiday season and bringing in the…

Women in Retina: a profile of Zelia M. Correa, MD, PhD Interviewed by Nika Bagheri, MD What is your story? How did you become a retinal surgeon, ocular oncologist, and…