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14 Sunday, April 21, 2013 Friday March 25, 2011 EW SHOW DAILY ASCRS News Today Shuttle routes 2013 Official Hotel Shuttle Routes Routes Hotels Pickup Location *PARK 55 WYNDHAM Hotel Nikko *HILTON SAN FRANCISCO Serrano Hotel Hotel Monaco Travel Time to Convention Center: 12 minutes CURBSIDE LOBBY ENTRANCE At Park 55 TAYLOR STREET ENTRANCE At Hilton At Hilton 2-YELLOW *HOTEL TRITON ON SUTTER *GRAND HYATT Marriott Union Square Travel Time to Convention Center: 12 minutes AT CORNER OF GRANT LOBBY ENTRANCE At Grand Hyatt Hotel 3-BLUE *CLIFT HOTEL TAYLOR STREET *WESTIN ST FRANCIS Sir Francis Drake Larkspur JW Marriott Villa Florence Handlery Hotel Prescott Hotel *PALACE HOTEL Travel Time to Convention Center: 15 minutes AT GEARY POST STREET ENTRANCE At Westin St. Francis At Westin St. Francis At Westin St. Francis At Westin St. Francis At Westin St. Francis At Westin St. Francis LOBBY ENTRANCE 4-GREEN ON MISSION, WEST OF 8TH LOBBY ENTRANCE At Stanford Court ACROSS STOCKTON ON CALIFORNIA ACROSS CALIFORNIA AT MONTGOMERY 1-RED *HOLIDAY INN CIVIC CENTER *STANFORD COURT RENAISSANCE Fairmont San Francisco *RITZ CARLTON SAN FRANCISCO *OMNI HOTEL SAN FRANCISCO Travel Time to Convention Center: 15 minutes Hotels in walking distance of Convention Center Courtyard Downtown San Francisco Marriott Hotel Palomar St Regis Hotel Four Seasons W San Francisco Hotel Intercontinental *Denotes official shuttle stop. Also serves as pickup location for other hotels listed, as indicated. Hands-on practice the highlight of Skills Transfer Sessions by Vanessa Caceres EyeWorld Contributing Writer S urgeons can learn a lot from attending clinical sessions at meetings, but it's hard to beat the value of hands-on practice. Attendees at the Skills Transfer Sessions get valuable hands-on practice with surgical techniques. This year's Skills Transfer Sessions include • Advanced Phaco • Anterior Vitrectomy • Limbal Relaxing Incisions/Peripheral Corneal Relaxing Incisions • Iris Suture • Extracapsular Cataract Extraction/ Small Incision Sutureless Cataract Surgery "The main value of a skills transfer course is that it moves didactic learning one step closer to clinical practice," said Kevin M. Miller, MD, Los Angeles. Dr. Miller will be the course instructor for one of the sessions on advanced phaco. "There is a significant distance between didactic learning and clinical practice as many practitioners are fearful to try new techniques." In addition to the course instructors, each course will feature a number of faculty who can help students as they practice the various surgical techniques that they are taught. This helps provide individualized support. "The Skills Transfer Sessions provide a chance to practice in a controlled setting with someone who has experience," said Jason Jones, MD, Sioux City, Iowa, who is leading another advanced phaco course. "There's lot of one-on-one interaction about how things are done. We can address the issues the attendees want to address." Dr. Jones said that the Skills Transfer Sessions are a hallmark of the ASCRS annual meeting. Each Skills Transfer Session requires a separate registration fee of $320 each. Some of the Skills Transfer Sessions have prerequisite courses. EW continued from page 13 Session: 1-H CORNEA—Surgical Techniques and Technology Two-Year Results of Ultrathin DSAEK With Microkeratome Double-Pass Technique Paolo Santorum, MD Coauthors: Silvana A. Madi, MD, Jacqueline Beltz, MBBS, FRANZCO, Vincenzo Scorcia, MD, Massimo Busin, MD* Session: 1-I INTRAOCULAR SURGERY— Presbyopia-Correcting IOLs Capsule Bag Opacification With New Silicone-Oil-Filled Accommodating IOL Anne M. Floyd, MD, MS Coauthors: Erica T. Liu, MD, Shannon L. Stallings, MD, Caleb K. Morris, Liliana Werner, MD, PhD,* Nick Mamalis, MD* Session: 1-J KERATOREFRACTIVE—Imaging Use of Point Spread Function in Refractive Exams Alison Gordon, MD Coauthor: Kris A. Morrill Session: 1-K INTRAOCULAR SURGERY— Phakic IOLs Phakic Implant for Cosmetic Treatment of Leukocoria Fernando C. Trindade, MD, PhD Coauthors: Bruno C. Trindade, MD, Claudio C. Trindade, MD Session: 1-L RETINA Predictive Value of Area of Peripheral Retinal Nonperfusion on Treatment Response in Central and Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion Colin S. Tan, MD EW