Get to Know Your YES Clinical Committee Member:
Mariam Hamid, MD
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If you weren’t an ophthalmologist or even a doctor, what career would you like to try? Graphic design What do you look forward to most at the ASCRS Annual Meeting? I've been to multiple medical conferences in the past as an attendee, but this time I'm looking forward to being a part of the YES Clinical Committee to help shape the content at the next ASCRS meeting! What place is on your travel wish list? London What’s your go-to movie theater snack? A classic buttered popcorn and Slurpee |
Why did you go into ophthalmology? I loved my surgery rotation as a medical student—I felt that surgeons could profoundly impact people's lives in such a short amount of time. The duality of ophthalmology surgeries being a technical skill that you could keep refining upon every repetition but also having each surgical case have a little nuance/challenge was intriguing to me.
Cozy Up with New Webinars!
ASCRS clinical committees and educational teams have been hard at work putting together new content in recent months. Check out some of these new opportunities:
- Decision-making for pre-op: How to plan routine and complex refractive cataract surgery: In this YES Connect Webinar from the YES Clinical Committee, faculty discuss how to turn challenging cataract cases into refractive surgery wins.
- ASCRS Grand Rounds: This episode of ASCRS Grand Rounds covers two interesting cases: one involving cataract surgery in a patient with keratoconus and another involving cosmetic iris implants.
- Optical Coherence Tomography: A Comprehensive Review: From the Retina Clinical Committee, go in-depth on optical coherence tomography (OCT) in this webinar, covering its historical evolution, foundational principles, and advancements in technology.
- ASCRS Live! Roundtable: A new roundtable webinar with ASCRS Live! faculty centers around the preoperative IOL discussion and selection, the various advanced IOL technologies available, astigmatism management, and postop considerations for concerned or dissatisfied patients.
Due Soon! Submit Videos for the Annual Meeting
The YES Clinical Committee is in search of case videos for the Good to Great Surgeon: Working Through Complications Video Symposium, taking place at the 2025 ASCRS Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, California, April 25–28.
Submissions are due January 17.
The Good to Great Surgeon: Complicated and Challenging Cases Video Symposium session, which will take place April 26 from 8:00–9:30 a.m., is an interactive video symposium where presenters, including current residents and fellows, showcase difficult cases and complications that occur in the OR. A panel of surgeons then provides guidance for these complicated cases. Each of the cases will be followed by didactic video pearls concerning complex cases.
Click here for more information, submission instructions, and other video case submission opportunities. Contact Sheela Patel ([email protected]) with any questions.
Register for the Annual Meeting
Registration for the 2025 ASCRS Annual Meeting, April 25–28 in Los Angeles, California, is now open!
Registration is complimentary for residents and U.S. fellows and is discounted for U.S. surgeons in their first 5 years of practice. In recent years, ASCRS has greatly expanded YES specific-offerings at the Annual Meeting. You won’t want to miss it!
Sign up for Skills Transfer Labs
YES Skills Transfer Labs will take place Friday, April 25. Be sure to sign up for a lab or two or three or more as part of your ASCRS Annual Meeting registration.
Featured hands-on opportunities include Phaco Lab, MIGS Lab, DALK Lab, DMEK/DSAEK Lab, Yamane lab, and a new Refractive lab. There will also be practice rooms during the meeting that are phaco focused for those who are registered for labs (faculty will be on hand).
Take Advantage of These Educational Opportunities with ASCRS
- YES Connect Webinars: In “Decision-making for pre-op: How to plan routine and complex refractive cataract surgery,” Kourtney Houser, MD, Kamran Riaz, MD, Ryan Smith, MD, Austin Nakatsuka, MD, and Eric Weinlander, MD, discuss how to turn challenging cataract surgical cases into refractive surgery wins.
- Ophthalmology Quicksand Chronicles—Eureka Moments Podcast: Hosts Nicole Fram, MD, and Elizabeth Yeu, MD, welcomed guest Mitch Shultz, MD, in the latest episode of their popular ASCRS podcast. Watch the episode.
- ASCRS Grand Rounds: The latest episode of Grand Rounds covers cataract surgery in a patient with keratoconus and a case involving cosmetic iris implants.
Helpful Links and Resources
- ASCRS YES Membership
- ASCRS YES Education
- ASCRS Clinical Education
- ASCRS Online Tools
- ASOA Career Hub
- Official YES Hashtag: #ASCRSYES
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