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EW SHOW DAILY 62 Meeting Reporter Saturday, May 7, 2016 by Chiles Aedam R. Samaniego EyeWorld Asia-Pacific Senior Staff Writer opportunity "to see what goes on abroad and see things that we don't have access to" later this year follow- ing the ESCRS Congress in Copenha- gen, Denmark, Dr. Solomon said. "It's a 2-way street in terms of learning," said David Karcher, executive director, ASCRS. In 2015, he said, Richard Lewis, MD, Sacramento, California, hosted a young glaucoma specialist from South America. Dr. Lewis told Mr. Karcher that he learned more from the young ophthalmologist than she did from them. "That was an inter- esting reaction for our first year." Mr. Karcher said they would be asking all the participants to write feedback on this year's program. "We want to continue to improve this program. We think it's a great program and love to have you here." "I can say on behalf of ESCRS that from what we saw from the first year, it has been truly well received," Dr. Nuijts said. "It's also a very nice thing … to get insight into the health care system in other coun- tries, how it works, that is different from what you are used to." This insight, he said, gives participants "more value as a doctor, not only as an ophthalmologist." EW Editors' note: The doctors participat- ing in the ASCRS Young Physician Exchange Program have no financial interests related to their comments. L ast year, ASCRS and the Eu- ropean Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS) began a collaboration with the objective of "[furthering] the relationship between ASCRS and ESCRS and Thailand or other partic- ipating countries, thereby benefiting the ophthalmology community as a whole." Specifically, the ASCRS Young Physician Exchange Program aims to provide residents and fellows with the opportunity to engage with leaders in ophthalmology from the respective societies, exposing the participants to clinical and surgical practices in different parts of the world. The program provides an excit- ing opportunity for ophthalmolo- gists from outside the U.S. to see "a little bit of what American medicine is all about," said Kerry Solomon, MD, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Dr. Solomon, Edward Holland, MD, Cincinnati, Douglas Koch, MD, Houston, and Barry Lee, MD, Atlanta, will be hosting 4 young doctors for a few days following the 2016 ASCRS•ASOA Symposium & Congress. At a breakfast held in the Delta Queen Room of the Marriott Hotel, New Orleans, Drs. Koch, ASCRS welcomes participants of the Young Physician Exchange Program From left: Pablo Laso, MD, Passara Jongkhajornpong, MD, and Lukas Ricker, MD, receive a warm welcome to the ASCRS Young Physician Exchange Program from Kerry Solomon, MD, and Rudy Nuijts, MD. Leveraging your refractive practice by EyeWorld staff Lee, and Solomon, together with Rudy Nuijts, MD, Maastricht, the Netherlands, representing ESCRS, welcomed 3 of the young doctors: Passara Jongkhajornpong, MD, from Bangkok, who will be hosted by Dr. Holland; Pablo Laso, MD, a Chilean currently in practice in Barcelona, who will be hosted by Dr. Lee; and Lukas Ricker, MD, from the Netherlands, who will be hosted by Dr. Solomon. The fourth young ophthalmologist, Angela Panico, MD, from Italy, who will be hosted by Dr. Koch, was not available for the breakfast. In return, 3 young American ophthalmologists will have the CME symposium provides perspective on current and future laser vision correction market T omorrow morning, Stephen Lane, MD, and Steve Schallhorn, MD, will lead a symposium on new diagnostics and ablation profiles in laser vision correction (LVC) and their potential impact on reinvigorating the market. The program is titled "Leveraging Your Refractive Practice: Finding Success with Next Generation Diagnostics and Ablations Profiles," and the faculty includes John Kanellopoulos, MD, Ed Manche, MD, and Steven Dell, MD. Laser vision correction is seeing a resurgence of technology—from advanced wavefront-guided ablations to the newly available topography- guided systems. This symposium will cover diagnostic details, patient outcomes, and proper patient selection for these new systems. The program is part of a new ASCRS and EyeWorld initiative to provide education targeted at specific learning objectives driven from the 2015 ASCRS Clinical Survey. The expert faculty will share data and discuss how next generation diagnostics and ablation profiles will impact patient safety, efficacy, and overall outcomes for the modern refractive practice. The symposium is designed to maximize key takeaways for the intended audience: physicians who are interested in increasing their adoption of laser vision correction and are looking to maximize outcomes with new technologies now available. This EyeWorld CME Educational Symposium will take place in the Marriott Convention Center, Blaine Kern Ballroom, on Sunday morning. Registration starts at 6:00 a.m., and the program goes from 6:30–7:30 a.m. This program is supported by unrestricted grants from Alcon and Abbott Medical Optics. Onsite registration is available. EW

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