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by Lauren Lipuma EyeWorld Contributing Writer
aboard the International Space Sta-
tion—but confessed he started out
as a simple kid who had problems
doing his schoolwork.
"When I was a kid, growing up,
I was a really bad student," he said.
"My path was not the easy path. It
was the hard path."
Growing up during the height
of the Apollo missions, Captain Kel-
ly said going to space was always on
his mind, but he never thought he
could actually do it. But he got his
first lesson in working toward a goal
when he was as a teenager, and his
mother decided to pursue a career as
a police officer.
N
o goal is insurmountable
if you have a plan, take
risks, work as a team and
challenge the status quo.
That was the message
Captain Scott Kelly delivered to
attendees during Sunday's ASCRS
Lecture on Science, Medicine and
Technology, "The sky is not the lim-
it: Lessons from a year in space."
Captain Kelly reflected on his
success as a Navy pilot and then as
an astronaut with NASA during his
moving and inspiring talk. As an
astronaut, Captain Kelly has traveled
more than 143 million miles and
spent more than 500 cumulative
days in space—including a full year
Captain Scott Kelly describes his journey, becoming a fighter pilot and astronaut for NASA.
by Liz Hillman EyeWorld Staff Writer
"Charlie knew there had to be
a better way," Dr. Holland added.
Though it would take multiple failed
attempts to figure out how to break
the lens and remove it through a
small incision, a trip to the dentist's
office gave Dr. Kelman the idea for
phacoemulsification cataract sur-
gery. Even after the first phaco, there
was considerable pushback and slow
adoption, Dr. Holland said.
The Sunday Summit honored
phaco with a video on the history
of the technique and its legacy, and
included a discussion among some
of the early phacoemulsification
pioneers and presentations of tech-
Honoring phaco's past and
looking forward to cataract
surgery's future
T
he second half of the
Sunday Summit General
Session after the ASCRS Lec-
ture on Science, Medicine
and Technology honored
the 50th anniversary of the first
phacoemulsification on a human
patient by Charles Kelman, MD.
In 1967, the preferred cataract
surgery technique was intracapsular
cataract extraction with loops, a
large incision, and a lengthy recov-
ery, said Edward Holland, MD,
Cincinnati.
Dr. Dodick recalls being at Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital in 1967 when the first
phaco surgery took place, even though he didn't see the operation.
Phaco's 50th takes the stage at Sunday Summit
Taking risks, testing the status quo
essential to achieving goals
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