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Dr. Cionni passes on the ASCRS presidency to Dr. Solomon.
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by Ellen Stodola EyeWorld Senior Staff Writer
Transfer sessions and the ASCRS
Film Festival.
"Each year we strive to make
our meeting better," Dr. Holland
said. Two new features of this year's
meeting are the Poster Pavilion and
the YES Connect Lounge. There will
also be live poster presentations by
some of the authors this year.
Following Dr. Holland's address,
Robert Cionni, MD, Salt Lake City,
the outgoing president of ASCRS,
and Kerry Solomon, MD, Mount
Pleasant, South Carolina, the incom-
ing president of ASCRS, both spoke.
T
he ASCRS Opening Gen-
eral Session, which took
place on Saturday morning,
began with a welcome from
Edward Holland, MD,
Cincinnati, the chair of the ASCRS
Program Committee. This 42nd
annual congress has 6,000 attendees
from more than 100 countries who
have traveled for what looks to be
our best meeting ever, he said. In the
next few days, attendees will be able
to take advantage of 1,500 papers,
posters, and symposia, Dr. Holland
said. There are also a number of
special sessions, including Skills
by Ellen Stodola EyeWorld Senior Staff Writer
Sunday, May 8, 2016
Government relations session focuses
on "fourth branch" of government
Opening General Session kicks
off ASCRS annual meeting
T
his year's ASCRS•ASOA
Joint Government Relations
General Session speaker was
Professor Jonathan Turley,
JD, the Shapiro Chair for
Public Interest Law, George Wash-
ington University Law School. His
talk, "The Rise of the 'Fourth Branch
of Government,'" delved into how
the regulatory power of the fourth
branch (regulatory bodies, which
Professor Turley has dubbed the
fourth branch of government)
affects health care and other in-
dustries, as well as the increase in
regulatory burdens on physicians
over the past several years.
"We are living in what you
might call interesting times," Profes-
sor Turley said. We have a system of
government carefully calibrated by
people like James Madison to be a
balance of 3 branches, he added.
Professor Turley, in doing
research into James Madison, was
intrigued by his concept of govern-
ment and the way he viewed the 3
branches in a Newtonian fashion
as locked in an orbit. That is the
separation of powers, the concept of
3 equal branches, he said. It's often
mistakenly viewed as a doctrine to
protect the branches, but separation
Professor Turley discusses the "fourth branch" of government in his lecture.
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