International Jointly Sponsored Webinar Programs
New Intercontinental Series: Cutting Across Continents
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Archived Events
Cutting Across Continents: ASRS and Africa/Middle East Joint Webinar
The February 26, 2025 installment of the Cutting Across Continents international webinar series was co-hosted by ASRS, various retina societies in Africa and the Middle East. Faculty and topics included:
Dr. Naseer Ally (South Africa): Giant Retinal Tears: A South African Case Series
Dr. Ogugua Okonkwo (Nigeria): Demographic Differences in Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachments in Nigerians
Dr. Tiliksew Teshome (Ethiopia): Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment: Clinical Presentation and Management Challenges, East African Perspective
Dr. Ehab El Rayes (Egypt): Suprachoroidal Buckling for Peripheral Breaks in Retinal Detachment
Dr. Ahmed Bedda (Egypt): Myopic Traction Maculopathy: Is There a Role for Buckles?
Dr. Nicola Ghazi (United Arab Emirates): Lamellar Macular Holes: Management Options
Cutting Across Continents: ASRS and the Pan American VR Society (Sociedad Panamericana de Retina y Vitreo)
The January 22, 2025 installment of the Cutting Across Continents international webinar series was co-hosted by ASRS and the Pan American VR Society (Sociedad Panamericana de Retina y Vitreo). Faculty and topics included:
Xi Rao, MD (Chile): A Rare Presentation is not so Rare
Guillermo Salcedo-Villanueva, MD (Mexico): Macular Indentation with Polytetrafluoroethylene
Tereza Kanadani, MD (Brasil): DME Long Term Strategy and Results
Matko Vidosevich, MD (Argentina): Extreme Cases of Diabetic Retinopathy
Juan David Arias, MD (Colombia): PRGF Membrane in Complex Macular Holes
Michael Politis, MD (Panama): From Hero to Villain: The Double-Edged Sword of Intraocular Gas
Cutting Across Continents: ASRS and Asia/Pacific Joint Webinar
The December 18, 2024 installment of the Cutting Across Continents international webinar series was co-hosted by ASRS, the Taiwan Retina Society, the Korean Retina Society, the Malaysian Society of Ophthalmology, the Singapore Society of Ophthalmology, and the Thai Retina Society. Faculty and topics included:
Dr. Eugene Yu-Chuan Kang (Taiwan) The Management of Fibrovascular Proliferation in PDR with TRD
Dr. Se Joon Woo (Korea) A new wide-field viewing 3D-microscopic system using a single lens: RetOn
Dr. Mae-Lynn Bastion (Malaysia) Nitinol stone basket for removal of glass intraocular foreign body - cross disciplinary approach to ocular trauma
Dr. Doric Wong Wen Kuan (Singapore) Lamellar macular hole associated epiretinal proliferation – a ‘flap’ for macular hole surgery
Dr. Simon Szeto (Hong Kong) Macular hole repair with no gas tamponade
Dr. Yodpong Chantarsorn (Thailand) Target refraction for patients with retinal diseases
Cutting Across Continents: ASRS and the Vitreoretinal Society of India (VRSI) Joint Webinar
The November 6, 2024 installment of the Cutting Across Continents International Webinar Series was co-hosted by ASRS and the Vitreoretinal Society of India (VRSI). Faculty and topics included:
Dr. Pramod Bhende (Concurrent Macular Hole and Retinal Detachment - How to Manage?)
Dr. Dharmesh Kar ( Tips and tricks of PDR Vitrectomy)
Dr. Alay Banker ( ILM Removal in Terson’s Syndrome)
Dr. Daraius Shroff (The Triple S technique of HAM Grafting)
Dr. Thirumalesh (Hyalosurge Grafting for Macular Hole Surgery)
Cutting Across Continents: ASRS and EVRS Joint Webinar
The July 3, 2024 installment of the Cutting Across Continents International Webinar Series was co-hosted by ASRS and the European Vitreoretinal Society (EVRS). Faculty and topics included Carlo Carlevale, MD, Karol Wojtyla Hospital (Rome) on Carlevale IOL: Technical Principles and Surgical Techniques; Stratos Gotzaridis, MD, My Retina Athens Eye Center on Preventing Macular Folds in Retina Detachment Surgery; Hassan Mortada, MD, Cairo University on Pearls for Management of Complex Diabetic RD; Armin Wolf, MD, University of Ulm, Germany on Improving Visual Outcomes after Fovea-off RDs; Ron Adelman, MD, Yale University on Retinal Arterial Embolism; Gabriella De Salvo, MD, Southampton University presenting "You can Smile at a Crocodile: 'Bilateral idiopathic multifocal retinal pigment epithelial detachments in a miliary distribution’).
Cutting Across Continents: Joint Session with ASRS and the Pan-American Retina and Vitreous Society
This webinar was held on June 26, 2024 and featured expert international faculty who covered a variety of topics including autologous plasma as adjuvant to pars plana vitrectomy in the treatment of macular holes, pneumatic vitreolysis for vitreomacular traction syndrome, macular hole with retinal detachment in high myopic eyes, refractive retina: techniques in secondary IOLs, and limited membranectomy for tractional retinal detachment.
Joint Session on Surgical Cases With the ASRS and the Vitreoretinal Society of India
The webinar held May 22, 2024 covered surgical management of diabetic tractional retinal detachments; Fibrin Glue to successfully close retinal breaks in complex retinal detachments; endoscopy in retinal surgeries; IOFB management; dealing with difficult posterior hyaloid and PVR membrane dissection.
Cutting Across Continents Jointly Sponsored by the ASRS, Japanese Retina and Vitreous Society, Taiwan Retina Society and Korean Retina Society
On April 26, 2024, as part of the Intercontinental Series, moderators Sunir Garg, MD, FASRS, and Yodpong Chantarasorn, MD, hosted a webinar featuring lively presentations on retinal surgical management by renowned experts from Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and Hong Kong. Topics included: Tips for Encircling & Buckling, Principles and Tips for Removal of Scleral Buckles, Surgical Management for Infectious Uveitis, Transitioning Your Practice to the Novel Heads-up VRS, and Surgery for Large Ciliary Body Tumor with Ab-externo Excision.
Joint Session on Surgical Cases with the ASRS, Singapore Society of Ophthalmology, Taiwan Retina Society, and Thai Retina Society
On March 13, 2024, as part of the Intercontinental Series, moderators Sunir Garg, MD, FASRS, ASRS international affairs chair, and Yodpong Chantarasorn, MD, Asia/Pacific, ASRS international liaison, hosted a lively discussion on retinal management and treatments by renowned experts from East Asia and the United States. Topics included: diabetic vitrectomy, submacular hemorrhage management, suprachoroidal hemorrhage management, surgery for myopic traction maculopathy, and familiarizing macular buckling using common silicone elements.
Management of Diabetic Retinopathy: DME and PDR in the Middle East and Africa
The ASRS International Affairs Committee, along with the Nigerian Vitreoretinal Society and the Arab African Society of Retina Specialists, hosted 'Management of Diabetic Retinopathy: DME and PDR in the Middle East and Africa' on October 25, 2023. Listen in as experts from Africa and the Middle East discuss treatments for diabetic macular edema and proliferative diabetic retinopathy.
Fixing Challenging Retinal Detachments From Across the Western Hemisphere
This international webinar, sponsored by the ASRS in conjunction with the Mexican Retina Association, Canadian Retina Society, and Pan-American Retina & Vitreous Society, was held on May 2, 2023. The event was moderated by Sunir J. Garg, MD, FACS, FASRS. Presenters included, Nina Berrocal, MD, FASRS, Gerardo Garcia-Aguirre, MD, Lihteh Wu, MD, and Rajeev H. Muni, MD, MSC, FRCS(C), FASRS.
Highlights include discussion about pneumatic retinopexy, tips for fixing diabetic traction detachments, help for eyes in people with Stickler's syndrome, and retinal detachment repair in eyes with concurrent macular holes.