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MAY 16, 2020| EYEWORLD DAILY NEWS | 13 DAILY NEWS ASCRS VIRTUAL ANNUAL MEETING The Film Festival will include a snippet of the win- ning videos, and if at that time viewers want to watch the full video, the digital nature of the streamed ceremony allows them to click to the full video. Dr. Tauber said the ceremony will also feature a tribute to the doctors who have died from COVID-19 and a tribute to Spencer Thornton, MD, Tune in to the virtual 2020 ASCRS Film Festival 6:30–7:45 p.m. ET today who died in October 2019. Dr. Thornton founded the ASCRS Film Festival in 1982 and at the 2019 Film Festival was awarded the first ASCRS Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Tauber said last week that a memory came up on his social media of the 35th ASCRS Film Festival in Los An- geles. It caused him to reflect on how different this year will be. "Everyone will be in their home with their families, and maybe that's a good thing," he said. This ASCRS Film Festival, from its inception, encapsu- lates what it is like in 2020, Dr. Tauber said. "We continued. It wasn't the end of the world. We did the Film Festival. … I hope viewers get a sense of the show did go on." Here's a look at last year's ASCRS Film Festival winners Grand Prize Intraoperative Aqueous Misdirection Syndrome: The New Risk Factor for PC Rupture During Phacoemulsification Boris Malyugin, MD, PhD Cataract/Implant Surgery Winner Phacoemulsification in Corneal Opacities: A Novel Approach to Restore Sight to the Surgeon Rushad Shroff, MD Runner-up Couching Ashar Agarwal, MBBS Glaucoma Surgery Winner Walking on the Moon: A MIGS Perspective for the Cataract Surgeon Jonathan Lake, MD Runner-up MIGS Performed at the Slit Lamp: Ab Externo (Closed Conjunctiva) Implantation of a Gel Microstent Sebastien Gagne, MD Instruments & Devices/IOLs Winner A Critical Analysis of CTR Insertion and a Novel Injection System to Reduce CTR Complications Timothy Page, MD Runner-up Pursuit of Exothermic Phenomena During Phacoemulsification Using Egg Albumen Makoto Kishimoto, MD In-House Production Winner Double Needle Intra Scleral Artificial Iris Fixation Vladimir Pfeifer, MD Runner-up Colors: Corneal Pigmentation Procedure Luis Izquierdo, MD Special Interest Winner Posture Perfect: Ergonomics for the Ophthalmic Surgeon Samaresh Srivastava, MD Runner-up Ocular Masquerades Amar Agarwal, FRCS New Producer/ Young Physician Winner Repair of Iris Dialysis By Riveting with Double-Flanged Polypropylene Sutures Mami Kusaka, MD Runner-up MIGS: The Learning Curve Daniela Alvarez-Ascencio, MD Quality Teaching Winner Creation and Evaluation of Complication Models Using Slit Side View Cataract Surgery Hisaharu Suzuki, MD Runner-up Sculpting the Pupil: Three "Subtractive" Iris Techniques Samantha Schockman, MD New Techniques Winner Pupillary Zone Sparing Partial Corneal Epithelium Debridement for C3R Tushya Parkash, MS Runner-up Back Flow Hydrodissection Atsushi Hirota, MD Cataract Complications Best of the Best Winner IOL Injection Issues(!) Ronald Yeoh, MD Runner-up Unexpected Corneal Endothelial Damage in FLACS Yoichiro Masuda, MD Refractive/Cornea Surgery Best of the Best Winner The DMEK Kite Chandra Bala, PhD Runner-up Boost That SMILE: Enhancing the "Wow" Factor with Small Incision Lenticule Extraction Sheetal Brar, MD

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