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ASCRS empowers anterior segment surgeons to improve the vision, outcomes, and quality of life for their patients through innovative approaches to education. Explore ASCRS' library of more than 1,000 on-demand educational resources to start learning today.

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2025 ASCRS Annual Meeting On Demand

The ASCRS Annual Meeting On Demand provides registrants in the physician categories with unprecedented digital access to the 2025 ASCRS Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, CA.

  • View over 200 sessions, including main stage sessions, symposia, and instructional courses,
  • Dive into recorded presentations of over 500 papers presented within 40+ paper sessions.
  • Explore hundreds of films and posters by name or by clinical topic.
  • Catch all of the Subspecialty Day sessions you missed onsite (separate registration required).

Don't miss all the sessions you missed in Los Angeles. Learn more and start watching today!
 

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Featured 2025 On Demand Sessions

2025 ASCRS physician attendees - don't miss these featured sessions from Los Angeles!

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SYM-12 Cataract Crossover Symposium: Cataract Surgery and All the Subspecialities
April 2025
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MS-9 Phaco with the Stars: Lessons & Pearls from Phaco Superstars
April 2025
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SYM-14 Complications and Conundrums in Refractive Surgery
April 2025
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SYM-15 Advanced Cataract Surgical Techniques From A(rtificial iris) to Z(onulopathy): Helping You from your 1st To Your 50th
Cathleen M. McCabe, MD
April 2025

2025 Winning Films

View the first place winning scientific films from the 2024 Annual ASCRS Film Festival.

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Film 106704 HOA
Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth 07:55 minutes
April 2025
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Film 107084 Hypoplasia of the Ciliary Processes and Ciliary Sulcus in Marfan Syndrome
Takeshi Sugiura, MD 07:39 minutes
April 2025
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Film 107180 Whole New Way to Clean Surgical Sight
Santaro Noguchi, MD, PhD 06:42 minutes
April 2025
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Film 107288 Bleed Blue: Dye Today to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Ab-Interno Glaucoma Surgeries
Apurva Nagtode, MBBS, DNB; Swati Upadhyaya, DNB, DOMS; Rengaraj Venkatesh, MD 07:08 minutes
April 2025
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Film 107336 Small Tweaks for Big DMEK Results
Bruno Trindade, MD, PhD 07:31 minutes
April 2025
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Film 107377 The Triad of Iris Prolapse in IFIS
John Hart, MD, FACS 08:00 minutes
April 2025
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Film 107423 Wet Lab Thermal Coagulation
Yoshiaki Ieki, MD, PhD; Kosei Tomita, MD 07:50 minutes
April 2025
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Film 109900 Capsular Tension Ring Engagement with the Ciliary Sulcus in Eyes with Weak Zonules
Takahiro Shimowake, MD; Takeshi Sugiura, MD 06:20 minutes
April 2025
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Film 110674 Stratified Phacoemulsification: Unveiling the Novel Separation Technique
Tushya Om Parkash, MS 07:55 minutes
April 2025
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Film 110779 Aberrations for Dummies!
Sathya Ravilla, MS; Ashok Vardhan Sundara Varadhan, DNB, MBBS 06:49 minutes
April 2025
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Film 111460 Posterior Flap Hydration of the Clear Corneal Incision
Jiri Cendelin, MD; Veronika Hatlova, MD; Lenka Hecova, MD; Stepan Rusnak, MD; Nina Zelenayova, MD, FEBO 07:15 minutes
April 2025
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Film 111827 The Secret Is in the Chamber..!
Deepak Megur, FRCSEd 07:59 minutes
April 2025
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Film 115820 SMILE for Hyperopia: A Game-Changer!
Smita Agarwal, FRANZCO, MS, MBBS 02:00 minutes
April 2025

Latest ASCRS Grand Rounds

Grand Rounds
ASCRS Grand Rounds – Episode 2
Soroosh Behshad, MD; Nandini Venkateswaran, MD; William Wiley, MD; Samir Melki, MD; Nicole Fram, MD; Michael Snyder, MD 56:15 minutes
December 2024
Grand Rounds
ASCRS Grand Rounds – A Different White Dot Syndrome
Soroosh Behshad, MD; Nandini Venkateswaran, MD; Brenton Finklea, MD; Deborah Jacobs, MD; Praneetha Thulasi, MD; Asmaa Zidan, MD 33:46 minutes
August 2024
Grand Rounds
ASCRS Grand Rounds Presented by Yale Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Soroosh Behshad, MD; Nandini Venkateswaran, MD; Ninani Kombo, MD; Ji Liu, MD; Zeba Syed, MD; Yvonne Wang, MD; Despoina Theotoka, MD; Arjun Watane, MD 1:13:15 minutes
December 2023
Grand Rounds
ASCRS Grand Rounds Presented by Tulane University School of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology
Nikhil Dhall, MD; Itika Garg, MD; Lauren Lim, MD; Rebecca Metzinger, MD; Ze Zhang, MD 1:19:47 minutes
October 2023

Your Source for CME Credit

ASCRS offers a variety of CME activities throughout the year so that you can tailor the experience to your needs and schedule. Explore our live and online opportunities to earn all the AMA PRA Category 1™ credits you require, while enhancing your clinical knowledge and surgical skills. 

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ASCRS Preoperative OSD Algorithm

Recently updated!
The ASCRS Preoperative OSD Algorithm, developed by the ASCRS Cornea Clinical Committee, provides surgeons in busy surgical practices with an easy-to-use framework for diagnosing and treating OSD. With this tool, surgeons can address OSD as part of the process for evaluating presurgical patients.

Learn more about the algorithm and download both the algorithm and preoperative OSD questionnaire today.
 

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Ophthalmology Quicksand Chronicles Podcast: Latest Episodes

Podcast
Ophthalmology Quicksand Chronicles Season 4, Episode #3
Nicole Fram, MD; Elizabeth Yeu, MD; Mitch Shultz, MD
December 2024
Podcast
Ophthalmology Quicksand Chronicles Season 4, Episode #2
Nicole Fram, MD; Elizabeth Yeu, MD; Sumitra Khandelwal, MD
September 2024
Podcast
Ophthalmology Quicksand Chronicles Season 4, Episode #1
Nicole Fram, MD; Elizabeth Yeu, MD; Sam Garg, MD
June 2024
Podcast
Ophthalmology Quicksand Chronicles Season 3, Episode #6
Nicole Fram, MD; Elizabeth Yeu, MD; Samuel Masket, MD
December 2023

Everything in ophthalmology happens through ASCRS. It is the perfect place to collaborate with colleagues and industry, learn new techniques and skills, and stay at the forefront of our medical specialty.
2023 ASCRS Annual Meeting Evaluation

Latest YES Connect Webinars

The YES Clinical Committee hosts monthly YES Connect Webinars on non-clinical topics that are relevant specifically to the YES audience.
View the latest YES Connect webinars below. 

Webinar
Introduction to Finance: Basic Stock Market & Financial Planning
Andrew Johnson, MD; Casey Nickels; Erik Bergvin 54:30 minutes
April 2025
Webinar
How to Get Involved in Ophthalmology Research and Development
Austin Nakatsuka, MD; Mailk Kahook, MD; Barbara Wirostko, MD; Robert Chang 1:08:24 minutes
February 2025
Webinar
Decision-making for pre-op: How to plan routine and complex refractive cataract surgery
Eric Weinlander, MD; Kourtney Houser, MD; Kamran Riaz, MD; Ryan Smith, MD; Austin Nakatsuka, MD 1:12:38 minutes
December 2024
Webinar
Speak with Confidence and Command the Stage: A Physician's Public Speaking Webinar
Emily Schehlein, MD; Dagny Zhu, MD; John Berdahl, MD; Rob Melendez, MD; Paul Singh, MD; Lorraine Provencher, MD 53:57 minutes
October 2024
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Explore Clinical Education Resources

Explore all of ASCRS's available educational formats, listed to the right, to find the resource perfect for your needs.
 

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Understanding the Power of EQ’s Role in Growing Your Practice
The webinar will discuss effectively setting expectations, discussing risks and benefits, and postoperative patient satisfaction.
Complex Presbyopia IOLs
This webinar will provide case examples of how faculty have handled challenging cases on all types of presbyopia.
A Challenging Day in the OR: Tough Choices in IOL Selection
In this webinar, moderators and faculty have assembled several challenging OR cases covering topics on IOL selection.
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