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12 | 2025 ASCRS PREVIEW PROGRAM ASCRS PROGRAM MAIN STAGE FRIDAY 4:00–5:00 p.m. Friday Main Stage Opening Session This Main Stage event features interviews with the incoming and outgoing ASCRS President, ASCRS Hall of Fame Ceremony, and presentation of the Cornelius D. Binkhorst, MD, Lecture and Medal, given by Ronald Yeoh, MD Moderator: Thomas Samuelson, MD SATURDAY, APRIL 26 8:30–9:30 a.m. Get H.I.P. (High Impact Pearls) – Cornea This symposium will feature leading corneal surgeons discussing high impact pearls, with short, video-based presentations and panel discussions. Join your fellow audience members to vote on your favorite pearls! Moderator: Brandon Ayres, MD, and Marjan Farid, MD 10:30–11:30 a.m. Saturday Main Stage This Main Stage event features the Charles D. Kelman, MD, Innovator's Lecture given by Damien Gatinel, MD, and other presentations focused on innovation in ophthalmology. Moderator: Manjool Shah, MD 1:00–2:00 p.m. X-Rounds: Refractive Cataract Surgery to the Max This fast-paced session will feature the latest and greatest in refractive cataract surgery. Leading surgeons will discuss new and future advances in cataract surgery, improving outcomes, refractive IOLs, and case management. The panel will facilitate discussion on current refractive cataract issues that today's ophthalmologists are facing. Moderator: Eric Donnenfeld, MD 3:00–4:00 p.m. Get H.I.P. (High Impact Pearls) – Refractive This symposium will feature leading refractive surgeons discussing high impact pearls, with short, video-based presentations and panel discussions. Join your fellow audience members to vote on your favorite pearls! Moderators: Daniel Chang, MD, and William Wiley, MD SUNDAY, APRIL 27 8:30–9:30 a.m. Get H.I.P. (High Impact Pearls) – Glaucoma This symposium will feature leading glaucoma surgeons discussing high impact pearls, with short, video-based presentations and panel discussions. Join your fellow audience members to vote on your favorite pearls! Moderators: Nathan Radcliffe, MD, and Manjool Shah, MD 10:30–11:30 a.m. Sunday Main Stage This Main Stage event includes guest speaker William Flanary, MD (aka Dr. Glaucomflecken), discussing important topics in Advocacy and the ASCRS Richard L. Lindstrom, MD, Lecture given by Reza Dana, MD. Moderator: Marjan Farid, MD 1:00–2:00 p.m. Get H.I.P. (High Impact Pearls) – Cataract This symposium will feature leading cataract surgeons discussing high impact pearls, with short, video-based presentations and panel discussions. Join your fellow audience members to vote on your favorite pearls! Moderator: Richard Tipperman, MD 2:30–4:00 p.m. Dancing Phaco With the Stars: Lessons & Pearls from Phaco Superstars Dancing with the Stars is a popular Hollywood television show in which an amateur and a professional dancer team up to compete before a live audience and a critical panel of judges. In Phaco with the Stars, six anterior segment fellows will present a complex phaco or IOL case that was managed with the advice and guidance of his or her fellowship director. The audience will hear these expert pearls and watch the fellow perform surgery on the challenging case. Two panelist/judges will critique the case management and surgical technique. Moderator: David Chang, MD 5:15–7:00 p.m. 43rd Annual ASCRS Film Festival Ceremony and Reception Winning films are announced and showcased at the ASCRS Annual Meeting during the 43rd Annual ASCRS Film Festival Ceremony and Reception. Award-winning films are celebrated for their innovation and educational value throughout the year. Film Festival Chair: Denise Visco, MD

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