CATARACT & REFRACTIVE SYMPOSIUM

Clinical Outcomes and Beyond:
Optimising the Patient Experience
Saturday 23 - Sunday 24 March 2024
Hyatt Regency Sydney

Agenda

Saturday 23 March 2024
11:30	Lunch & Arrivals
Session 1– Combined Session with Vitreoretinal Symposium		Prof. Andrew Chang A/Prof. Smita Agarwal
12:30	The now and the near future for cataract surgery and what to do with AI?	A/Prof. Michael Lawless
	Management of ERM & cataract: From indication to IOL selection	Dr Vivek Pandya
	Investing in the Future: Personal, Professional and Corporate Responsibility	Panel
13:30	Break
Session 2: PC-IOLs as a Standard of Care		Dr David Gunn
13:35	Global Insights to drive local awareness: Actions from cataract patient survey	Dr Armand Borovik
	The senior trainee experience with AT-IOLs: Do we need to do better?	Dr Ben LaHood
	From toric to PC-IOLs - Paving the way for PC-IOLs in the public	A/Prof. Chameen Samarawickrama
	Why bother with presbyopia correcting IOLs with our private patients?	A/Prof. Rob Paul
	Patient and surgeon opportunities for improved presbyopia correction outcomes with new IOL and surgical technologies	Dr David Lubeck
	Panel discussion
15:20	Break
Session 3: Pre-Operative Patient Management		Dr Ben LaHood
15:45	The Psychology of Seeing Clearly: Unpacking Patient Decision Making	Dr. Paul Harrison
	Tell me how you present your patient with IOL options?	A/Prof. Smita Agarwal Dr David Lubeck Dr Ravi Singh
	Angle Alpha and Kappa: Why should we care?	Dr Lana Del Porto (virtual)
	The Team Approach to Patient Education and Consent Management	Justine Ong Dr Tanya Trinh
	Choosing the right intraocular lens for patients with AMD
	Maximising refractive outcomes with swept-source OCT biometry and interconnected surgical workflows	Dr David Lubeck
	How to select an IOL when the cornea is optically imperfect	A/Prof. Michael Lawless
	Panel discussion
18:00	Networking Break
Dinner		Dr Tanya Trinh
19:00	Clareon® Vivity® launch	Dr Armand Borovik Dr David Lubeck A/Prof. Michael Lawless Dr Alex Tan

Sunday 24 March 2024
Session 4 - Intra-Operative Management		A/Prof. Smita Agarwal
08:00	"PhysIOP" Phacoemulsification	Dr David Lubeck
	MY Early Experience with Operating at Low IOP	A/Prof. Smita Agarwal
	Same-Day Bilateral Sequential Intraocular Surgery	Dr Justin Sherwin
	CAIRS for corneal ectasia: Progress and future developments	Dr David Gunn
	Ngenuity NextGeneration	Dr Rahul Chakrabarti
	Panel discussion
09:40	Break
Session 5 - Post-Operative Management		Dr David Lubeck
10:05	How to fix refractive errors: Lens vs laser solutions
	The Management of refractive surprises: Patients & Practice considerations	Dr Andrew Apel
	Refractive assessment post IOL surgery: Useful strategies for Multifocal and EDOF lenses	Grahame Tindall
	Team approach to post-discharge patient management	Dr Tanya Trinh
	Measures of success: Is it fair to equate it to achieving 6/6?	A/Prof. Smita Agarwal
	The impact of patient journey on their satisfaction - how do you aim for satisfaction in your practice and with your professional colleagues	A/Prof. Smita Agarwal Dr Andrew Apel Dr Jacqui Beltz Grahame Tindall Dr Tanya Trinh
	Steering committee panel discussion	A/Prof. Smita Agarwal Dr David Gunn Dr Ben LaHood
12:15	Close of session
12:15	Lunch
12:30	Departures Commence

International Keynote Speaker

Dr. David Lubeck

David Lubeck MD is a cataract, corneal, refractive and advanced anterior segment surgeon who has practiced in Chicago for 30 years. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary, Chicago. Dr Lubeck is compelled by the methodology and psychology of surgical learning and practice development. His primary focus is to make current surgical technologies, principles, techniques, and instrumentation accessible to physicians at all levels of experience and practices of all sizes. Curricula that he has developed have been integrated into surgical teaching programs in several countries.

Confirmed Speakers

We are pleased to share the list of distinguished speakers below who will be presenting at FOCUS 2024, with additional speakers yet to be announced.

A/Prof. Smita Agarwal MBBS, MS (Ophthalmology), Grad Dip in Refractive Surgery (USyd); FRANZCO Wollongong Eye Specialists University of Wollongong Biography available here	Dr Andrew Apel MSSB (QLD), FRANZCO The Eye Health Centre, Brisbane Biography available here	Dr Jacqueline Beltz BMedSci, MBBS(Hons), FRANZCO Eye Survey Associates Biography available here
Dr Armand Borovik MBBS FRANZCO Southern Ophthalmology Biography available here	Dr Rahul Chakrabarti MBBS (Hons), BMedSc (Hons), MD, MSurgED (Hons), FRANZCO Essendon Eye Clinic Biography available here	Dr Lana Del Porto PHYSIO MB,BS, (Honours), FRANZCO Cheltenham Eye Centre, The Private Eye Clinic, Eyes First Springvale
Dr David Gunn MBBS (Hons I), BSc, CertLRS, FRANZCO Queensland Eye Institute Biography available here	Dr Paul Harrison PhD, MAM, GAICD MBA MBA Program Director, Deakin University Professor of Consumer Behaviour and Marketing, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Biography available here	A/Prof. Michael Lawless MBBS FRANZCO FRACS Vision Eye Institute Biography available here
Dr Ben LaHood MBChB, PGDipOph, FRANZCO Adelaide Eye & Laser Centre University of Adelaide Biography available here	Justine Ong BSci, MOrth Mosman Eye Centre Biography available here	A/Prof. Rob Paul MBBS (WA) FRANZCO UWA (Allied Health) WA Laser Eye Centre Biography available here
A/Prof. Chameen Samarawickrama BSc(Med) MBBS, PhD, FRANZCO Nexus Eye Care Biography available here	Dr Justin Sherwin BMedSc(Hons) MBBS(Hons) MPhil MChir PhD(Cantab) PgDipCRS (Dist) FRANZCO Peninsula Eye Centre Biography available here	Dr Ravi Singh MBBS (Syd) FRANZCO Hunter Laser Vision
Dr Alex Tan BMedSc (Hons), MBBS (Hons), FRANZCO Vision Eye Institute Biography available here	Grahame Tindall Optometrist Vision Eye Institute	Dr Tanya Trinh BAppSc MBBS FRANZCO FWCRSVS Mosman Eye Centre Biography available here

Program Steering Committee

A/Prof. Smita Agarwal
MBBS, MS (Ophthalmology), Grad Dip in Refractive Surgery (USyd); FRANZCO
Wollongong Eye Specialists
University of Wollongong

Dr David Gunn
MBBS (Hons I), BSc, CertLRS, FRANZCO
Queensland Eye Institute

Dr Ben LaHood
MBChB, PGDipOph, FRANZCO
Adelaide Eye & Laser Centre
University of Adelaide

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