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…