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34 | EYEWORLD DAILY NEWS | APRIL 7, 2024 ASCRS ANNUAL MEETING DAILY NEWS R enato Ambró- sio Jr., MD, PhD, will present the 2024 Richard L. Lindstrom, MD, Medal Lecture. Dr. Ambrósio has a well-established international legacy of refractive surgery innovation as a world-class refractive surgeon-scien- tist. He has authored more than 500 scientific publications with more than 15,000 citations. His clinical prac- tice and surgical expertise involve elective and therapeutic refractive surgery, including custom laser vision correction, corneal rings, crosslink- ing, phakic IOLs, refractive cataract surgery, and corneal transplantation. Dr. Ambrósio's lecture will highlight the positive influence of refractive surgery on the develop- ments related to diagnostics and case examples around the world where this has been implemented for cataract surgery. The main message Dr. Chang hopes to deliver with his lecture is "to implore our most creative and tal- ented ophthalmologists, researchers, engineers, companies, and leaders to think not only in terms of more ad- vanced and expensive technology but also to be frugally innovative so that we can sustainably help the largest socioeconomic populations who have limited resources, funds, and access to ophthalmologists." and an artificial capsular bag. He has been a proponent of IOL adjustability and was the first to implant the light adjustable IOL in the U.S. Through his roles as past chief medical editor of EyeWorld and Cata- ract and Refractive Surgery Today and past chair of the AAO Annual Meet- ing Program Committee, Dr. Chang has introduced innovative formats to cataract surgical education. Finally, he has championed the need for in- novative solutions to global cataract blindness and advancing sustainabili- ty in ophthalmology. Dr. Chang's lecture will highlight the importance of "frugal innova- tion," which involves coming up with ways to deliver quality care either less expensively or by using fewer resources. He will delve into specific T his year, David F. Chang, MD, will deliver the Charles D. Kelman, MD, Innovator's Lec- ture. Dr. Chang has contributed to, pioneered, and taught many surgical strategies for complex and complicated cataract cases. He co-identified intraoperative floppy iris syndrome and the need to manage it differently from other causes of small pupils. Dr. Chang has been a clinical investigator or advisory board member for numer- ous cataract surgical technologies, ranging from refractive IOLs and sustained-release drug delivery to au- tomated and robotic surgical systems Innovator's Lecture preview management of corneal ectatic diseases. He has delved into evolv- ing paradigm shifts in diagnosing and treating keratoconus and other ectatic corneal diseases. His work has explored the evolution of keratoco- nus diagnostics, including detecting mild cases and characterizing ectasia susceptibility for enhanced preop- erative risk assessment in refractive surgery. Advanced diagnostics are also relevant for classifying and staging the disease severity and providing prognosis and follow-up. Such approaches enable individual- ized treatments, which is essential for successful patient management, along with patient education. Dr. Ambrósio has continued learning and researching multimodal refractive diagnostics throughout his career, exploring ocular wavefront, corneal topography, biomechanical assessment, and anterior segment tomography using Scheimpflug and OCT. He helped develop the Belin/ Ambrósio Enhanced Ectasia Display (BAD), combining elevation maps and pachymetric data in a compre- hensive analysis available on the Pentacam (Oculus). He contributed to the Ambrósio-Roberts-Vinciguer- ra (ARV) display that integrates Scheimpflug-based tomography and biomechanical assessment with the Corvis ST (Oculus) with the application of optimized artificial intelligence for augmented ectasia diagnosis. Lindstrom Lecture preview Read more about this year's Innovator's Lecture in the Spring 2024 issue of EyeWorld. Read more about this year's Lindstrom Lecture in the Spring 2024 issue of EyeWorld.

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