ASRS 2017 Monday (Day 4): OCTA
The Imaging Expert Panel on Monday morning brought together some of the premier innovators in imaging, providing insights into upcoming developments in OCT Angiography. They introduced new and exciting work…
ASRS 2017 Monday (Day 4): Neovascular AMD
Day 4 of the ASRS annual meeting has provided us with even more clinically relevant information regarding neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nvAMD) and retinal detachments (RDs). Both Geoffrey Emerson and…
ASRS 2017 Sunday (Day 3): DME, Award Lectures, Posters
On Sunday morning, Drs. Lee Jampol and John Wells discussed persistent macular thickening in DRCR.net during the first NPDR session. In Protocol I, 6 monthly injections of ranibizumab was provided…
ASRS 2017 Saturday (Day 2): Transitions to Clinical Practice Course
Greetings from Boston! The 4th Transitions to Clinical Practice course at ASRS 2017 was a fun and informative meeting geared toward newly minted retina specialists and fellows in training who…
ASRS 2017 Day 2: Gene Therapy for AMD, Interview with Jeffery Heier, MD
The second day of the conference kicked off with a symposium where leaders in field (Joan Miller, Jeffrey Luttrull, Johanna Seddon, Mark Nelson, Jeffrey Heier, and Lejla Vajzovic) discussed the…
ASRS 2017 Day 1: Instructional Courses
Day one at the ASRS Annual Meeting was off to a running start, literally for me. Since the meeting started in the afternoon I started the day with a beautiful…
Lancaster Course 2017
From June 19 to August 3, ophthalmology residents and practicing ophthalmologists from over a dozen nations converged on the Colby College campus (below) in Waterville, Maine for the Lancaster Course in…
27-Gauge Precision Vitrectomy (Part 1: The Benefits)
The downsizing from 20-gauge (G) to 25G and 23G was a paradigm shift that changed the way we operate. Smaller gauges meant slower flow and flimsier instruments, but the improvements…