with postpartum intracranial hemorrhage changed her career, her life, her entire world, and the hopeful way becoming both a doctor and a patient has taught her to view not only her own struggles, but also those of her patients. Other winners: Cataract/Implant Surgery Winner: Looking into the Shadows: Airflow dynamics in ophthalmic practice, Producer: Vaishali VASAVADA, India Runner Up: Development of a new irrigation/aspiration tip with a variable aspiration port, Producer: Oki TETSUTARO, Japan Cataract Complications/ Challenging Cases Winner: Microinvasive Surgery to Solve a Rare Ophthalmic Disease, Producer: Karl BRASSE, Netherlands Runner Up: New Surgical Technique for Secondary Intraocular Lens Implantation using Artificial Bag with Optic Capture, Producer: Seong Jae KIM, South Korea Refractive/Corneal Surgery Winner: Help Me I Am Stuck! Techniques and tips for managing retained lenticules in SMILE, Producer: Sheetal BRAR, India Runner up: Next Generation Crosslinking Calculator for Titration of Ultraviolet Energy (NXT-UVA) in Thin Keratoconic Cornea, Producer: Pooja KHAMAR, India General Interest Winner: Dark Side of the Lens, Producer: Ronald YEOH, Singapore Runner up: CSI Heidelberg: A view from inside, Producer: Gerd AUFFARTH, Germany Day 2 On Sunday, 12 June 2022, the program began with industry-led video symposiums and proceeded to the meeting’s Opening Ceremony, featuring this year’s APACRS LIM Lecture (see recap). The day’s program also featured the year’s Combined Symposium of Cataract and Refractive Societies (CSCRS, see recap), several other scientific symposia, and as usual ended with the APACRS annual meeting’s signature Top Cataract Surgery Tips competition, this year called “Taekwondo Masters.” Opening Ceremony The 34th APACRS Annual Meeting Opening Ceremony buzzed with eagerness and enthusiasm as the delegates of this year’s meeting finally came together for the first in-person meeting after three long years. The session began with a welcoming statement by Joon Young Hyon, South Korea, the KSCRS organizing committee president. “I would like to give a special thanks to the delegates who traveled to Seoul with all the restrictions of COVID-19. In this first ever in-person meeting since 2019, we have over 900 delegates who registered from over 50 countries.” Regarding the advancements in cataract and refractive surgery and being the most common procedure in Korea and worldwide, Prof. Hyon stated, “It would not be possible to figure out how many patients have benefited from these modern revolutionary procedures. So, the significance of this meeting keeps growing.” Abhay Vasavada, MS, FRCS, India, APACRS President, provided the opening address. “A new dawn is so appropriate now that we are entering a new dawn post COVID-19. We are going to see an exhibition of the skills, teaching, and academics. It’s really an extravaganza for that.” Seoul has been the capital city of many kingdoms and countries on the Korean peninsula for many thousands of years. Nowadays, Seoul is a place for tradition and modernity, and the EWAP meeting reporter banner.indd 1 27/07/2022 10:22 AM
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