EyeWorld Asia-Pacific June 2016 Issue

June 2016 66 EWAP NEWS & OPINION Winners of the 2016 ASCRS Film Festival Award. Shin Yamane, MD, from Japan was the Grand Prize producer. Many award-winning videos were made by producers from the Asia-Paci c region. 1aTU )oOored (VeTUT of UIe "4$34•"40" Symposium & Congress include: Philippe Sourdille, MD (2015) Marcelo Ventura, MD, PhD (2015) Philip Hessburg, MD (2014) Keiki Mehta, MD (2014) Jeo Ho Kim, MD (2013) Harold Stein, MD (2013) Bo Philipson, MD, PhD (2012) John Darin, MD (2012) Ulf Stenevi, MD (2011) Gavin Herbert (2011) Paul Honan, MD (2010) Emanuel Rosen, FRCS, FRCOphth (2010) Miguel Angelo Padilha, MD (2009) Patrick Ian Condon, MB (2009) John Shepherd, MD, FACS (2008) Karl Jacobi, MD (2008) Eric Arnott, MD (2007) Jared Emery, MD (2007) H. Dunbar Hoskins Jr., MD (2006) Thomas Mazzocco, MD (2006) Richard Kratz, MD (2005) Malcolm McCannel, MD (2004) *nEeY Uo "EWeSUJTeST Alcon Page : 2 www.alcon.com OCULUS Optikgeräte Page: 23 www.oculus.de Moria Page: 45 www.moria-surgical.com Rayner Page 19 www.rayner.com Zeiss Page 5 www.zeiss.com/relex-smile Ziemer Page 68 www.femtoldv.com ACS Page 28 , 36 www.asiacorneasociety.org ASCRS Page 67 www.ascrs.org APACRS Page 7, 8, 31 , 53 www.apacrs.org AUSCRS 2016 Page 12 www.auscrs2016.org.au Cornea Society Page: 48 Corneacongress.org/2020 EyeWorld Page: 24 , 39, 52 , 58 www.eyeworld.org Asia-Paci c highlights - from page 65 event, Dr. Ventura won the Cataract IOL Gymnastics event, and Dr. Tchah won the Freestyle event. The judges chose the second and third place teams, with the team from Europe/the Middle East taking home the bronze and the team from the Asia-Pacific taking the silver. Based on audience votes, the North American team came in first and took home gold. Japanese Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery president Honored Guest at 2016 ASCRS•ASOA Symposium & Congress Symposium & Congress. At the ASCRS Opening General Session, she was honored for her contributions to ophthalmology. Dr. Bissen-Miyajima is department chair and professor of ophthalmology at Tokyo Dental College Suidobashi Hospital, Tokyo. She specializes in cataract and refractive surgery. Over her 20-year career, she has built a reputation as a skillful surgeon, well known around the globe as a major investigator for multifocal intraocular lenses and for leading the way in femtosecond laser- assisted cataract surgery. Dr. Bissen-Miyajima is a regular reviewer for several prestigious medical journals and holds memberships in many professional medical associations including the Japanese Ophthalmological Society, American Academy of Ophthalmology, and European Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons, among others. She is president of the Japanese Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, past president and 2013 Medal Awardee of the International Intraocular Implant Club, and she was the 2011 APACRS Lim Lecturer. EWAP Editors’ note: Dr. Barrett has financial interests with Alcon (Fort Worth, Texas), Bausch + Lomb (Bridgewater, New Jersey), Haag Streit (Koniz, Switzerland), and Microsurgical Technology (MST, Redmond, Washington). Dr. Raviv has financial interests with Abbott Medical Optics (Abbott Park, Illinois), Alcon, Bausch + Lomb, Glaukos (Laguna Hills, California), and Ocular Therapeutix (Bedford, Massachusetts). Dr. Malyugin has financial interests with Alcon, Carl Zeiss Meditec (Jena, Germany), and MST. There are no other relevant financial interests related to these reports. Hiroko Bissen-Miyajima, MD, PhD , Tokyo, was an Honored 'uests at this year s !S#RS•!S/!