FAIRFAX -- Richard Mackool, MD, the Director of The Mackool Eye Institute, will deliver the Charles D. Kelman Innovator’s Lecture at the 2013 Annual ASCRS-ASOA Symposium and Congress in San Francisco.

Mackool, the innovator behind many cataract surgical techniques and instruments currently used today, will present this year’s lecture, titled “Humans, Happiness, and the Wonder of New.”

FAIRFAX -- President Barack Obama has awarded ASCRS Member and LASIK eye surgery inventor Gholam Peyman, MD, the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honor bestowed on an American innovator.

Peyman, a professor of Optical Sciences and Engineering at the University of Arizona College of Medicine –Phoenix, is among 12 researchers to receive the honor.

FAIRFAX -- Ten lucky ophthalmology residents can win a free trip to the 2013 American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Symposium in San Francisco, California.

The ASCRS Foundation is offering ten $1,000 awards to exemplary residents. The categories for consideration include research, patient care, leadership and education.

The 2013 Resident Excellence Award winners will receive:

·       A $1,000 grant to fund travel to the ASCRS Annual Symposium, April 20-23, 2013, in San Francisco, California

Eric D. Donnenfeld, MD, a well-respected refractive cataract surgery pioneer and LASIK eye surgeon, will deliver the incoming president’s addresson April 20th at the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Symposium and Congress in San Francisco.

Dr. Donnenfeld, who currently serves as the association’s vice president, will assume his new role at the April 19-23 meeting. He replaces outgoing president David F. Chang, MD, becoming the 28th leader of the association.  Dr. Donnenfeld’s address will take place during the ASCRS Opening General Session from 10AM-12Noon.