Only the most promising Navy pilots attended the TOPGUN Fighter Weapons School, located in San Diego, California. As depicted in the famous 1986 movie, the Navy’s best TOPGUN instructors trained them to become elite fighter pilots. In this 2-hour program, attendees will be transformed by TOPGUN phaco instructors into elite cataract surgeons. Sixteen international instructors will give you their best and most essential pearls that have helped each of them become a leading surgeon. Rather than teaching complex maneuvers, they will present practical “trade secrets” that you can incorporate in the O.R. next week. The coveted TOPGUN award will go to the instructors who present the best phaco teaching cases, as voted by the audience. Real life retired US Navy TOPGUN pilot Stephen Schallhorn, MD will present the award.
This rapid-fire video session will be extremely fast paced because our attendees feel the need …. the need for speed!
Session moderator
David F. Chang, MD
Dr. Chang has been regularly voted by his peers into the national edition of Best Doctors in America and is listed by Beckers Review as one of the top 39 ophthalmologists in the United States. He has maintained his private practice in Los Altos and developed and founded the Peninsula Eye Surgery Center, which opened in 2005.
session panelists
Ehud I. Assia, MD
Ehud Assia, MD became the Director of the Department of Ophthalmology at the Meir Medical Center, Kfar-Saba in 1994. Dr Assia is Full Professor at the Tel-Aviv University; and was the Director of the Department of Ophthalmology of the Sackler School of Medicine between 1998-2002.
Hiroko Bissen-Miyajima, MD, PhD
Hiroko Bissen-Miyajima, MD, PhD, is professor and chairman of the Ophthalmology Department at Tokyo Dental College in Tokyo, Japan.
Dr. Bissen-Miyajima completed her residency training at Keio University School of Medicine and her fellowship training at University of Bonn in Bonn, Germany. She received her Doctor of Medicine Degree at both Keio University and University of Bonn.
Virgilio Centurión, MD
Dr. Virgilio Centurion from Brazil was one of the early phaco pioneers in Latin America. A consummate teacher, he published 11 books on cataract and refractive surgery. He has donated his time to numerous editorial committees and served as president of the Latin American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons.
Beatrice Cochener, MD, PhD
Beatrice Cochener-Lamard is the President of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons and Professor and Chairman of the ophthalmology department at the University Hospital of Brest, France. Her main fields of interest are anterior segment, refractive surgery and corneal surgery. In 2013, she was awarded the Legion of Honor, a French distinction of high merit.
María José Cosentino, MD
Maria Jose Cosentino, MD is the Board Director of the Latin American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (LASCRS/ALACCSA-R), and is the Medical Director Instituto de la Vision in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Bonnie An Henderson, MD, ABO
Dr. Henderson is an internationally-recognized expert in cataract and refractive surgery, specializing in complicated anterior segment surgery. She served as the President of ASCRS from 2017-2018 and is a Clinical Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Henderson is the Associate Editor for the Journal of Refractive Surgery, has served as the associate editor of Eyeworld and on the editorial board of Eyenet Magazine.
Nick Mamalis, MD
Nick Mamalis, MD, specializes in comprehensive ophthalmology including cataract and other anterior ocular surgeries at the John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Dr. Mamalis also practices at the Moran’s Midvalley Eye Center in Murray, and Redwood Health Center in West Valley.
Abhay R. Vasavada, MS, FRCS
Dr. Abhay Vasavada is the Research Director for the Iladevi Cataract & IOL Research Centre and the Clinical Director and Principal Trainer for the Phacoemulsification Program: National and International of the Raghudeep Eye Clinic in India.
