2025 Creative Awards: Poster, Film and Image Award Winners
Congratulations to all of the 2025 Creative Award recipients!
Please enjoy perusing this page to view and access award-winning content from our Top 10 Poster Award winners, Film Festival winners and Photo Contest winners.
2025 Top 10 Poster Award Winners
Jacob Lifton, MD
USC Roski Eye Institute
Ultra-Widefield Fluorescein Angiography Findings in Patients With Retinitis Pigmentosa
Kayne McCarthy, MD, MPH
California Pacific Medical Center/West Coast Retina
Visual Outcomes and Complications Following Pars Plana Vitrectomy for Retained Lens
Fragments: IRIS (Intelligent Research in Sight) Registry Analysis
Thanks to this year's Poster Award Selection Committee: Co-chairs: Drs. Rehan Hussain and Jessica Lee. Committee members: Drs. Sruthi Arepalli, Avnish Deobhakta, Jose Echegaray, Jerome Giovinazzo, Nimesh Patel, Brittany Powell, Nathan Scott, Ethan Sobol, Katherine Talcott, Matthew Weider, Sarwar Zahid, and Ellie Xiao-Yi Zhou.
2025 Film Festival Winners
Best of Show:
Back to the Future of Vision: A Journey Through Time to Restore Sight After Trauma
Martin Charles, MD
Submacular Dance of Doom
Bibhuti P. Kashyap, MD, FACS, DNB, FRCSEd, FRCS (GLASGOW), FICO
Welcome to Blood City of Retina
Hossein Nazari, MD, PhD
Essential Tips and Tricks for Performing Vitrectomy in Patients Who Have Had Anterior-Segment Surgery
Murat Oncel, MD, FASRS
'Out to Lunch'
Flavio A. Rezende, MD, PhD
The Cursed Child
Aditya S. Kelkar, MS, FRCS, FASRS, FRCOphth
Retinal Double Bubble: Subretinal PFCL Migration Without a Visible Retinal Break!
Pallavi Priya, MS
The Fibrin Glue Voyages: Exploring the Unknown in Retinal Surgery
Mudit Tyagi, MS, FASRS
A Novel Quick-Set Temporary Keratoprosthesis (TKP)
Christopher D. Riemann, MD
The Excalibur Technique
Gustavo M. Hüning, MD, MBA, FASRS
2025 Photo Competition Winners
 Best of Show and 1st Place in “Places” City in the Clouds Zofia Anna Nawrocka (vel Michalewska), MD, PhD |
 Finalist in “Places” Fall in the Dolomites Gaurav K. Shah, MD |
 Finalist in “Places” Machu Picchu Theinchai Pasurakul, MD |
 1st Place in “Art” When Sparks Fly Barton L. Blackorby, MD |
 Finalist in “Art” Serpiginous Smoke and Fire Wei Gui, MD |
 Finalist in “Art” Underwater Aerialist John T. Thompson, MD |
 1st Place in “People” Quiet Morning at Lake Tahoe Annie Chan, MD |
 Finalist in “People” Kite4fun Zofia Anna Nawrocka (vel Michalewska), MD, PhD |
 Finalist in “People” Take It Away Hasenin Al-khersan, MD |
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 1st Place in “Nature” Medusa's Gaze William Carrera, MD, MS |
 Finalist in “Nature” Awaiting Zofia Anna Nawrocka (vel Michalewska), MD, PhD |
 Finalist in “Nature” Verdant Cataract Wei Gui, MD |