BMC Virtual Spring Symposium About to Begin

Bryn Mawr Communications’ virtual educational initiative, the BMC Virtual Spring Symposium, will begin today at 5 pm ET and run to 8:30 pm ET, and will resume tomorrow, May 30, from 10:00 am to 1:35 pm ET.

More than 2,000 people have registered for the symposium. For more information on the BMC Virtual Spring Symposium or to register for complimentary admission, visit bmcvirtual.com.

The symposium is designed to enable discussion, engagement, and live Q&A for members of the vision community while the traditional meeting schedule remains compromised due to COVID-19. BMC’s Virtual Spring Symposium will feature presentations from and discussions among more than 40 of the world’s top ophthalmologists.

“The COVID-19 crisis has had a disruptive and major impact on all aspects of the ophthalmology field. One of the needs we identified early on was to keep the field connected and informed,” said David Cox, president and co-founder of BMC.

Below is a list of some featured sessions.

Open for Business: What Practice Looks Like 1 Month In

• Host: Steven J. Dell, MD
• Participants: Stephen G. Slade, MD, FACS; John F. Doane, MD; Jeffrey Whitman, MD

Cataract & Refractive Surgery: From Routine to Complex

• Host: Zaina Al-Mohtaseb, MD 
• Participants: Uday Devgan, MD, MBA; Thomas Oetting, MD; Ashvin Agarwal, MD; Brandon Ayres, MD; Cathleen McCabe, MD

Interventional Glaucoma Case Reviews

• Host: Iqbal Ike K. Ahmed, MD, FRCSC 
• Participants: Arsham Sheybani, MD; Sahar Bedrood, MD, PhD; Nathan Radcliffe, MD; Lorraine Provencher, MD; I. Paul Singh, MD

Optimizing Surgical Outcomes

• Host: Robert J. Weinstock, MD
• Participants: Stephen Slade, MD; Mitchell Weikert, MD; Kendall Donaldson, MD

Saturday, May 30

Shifting the Perspective: Presbyopia and Patient Needs in the Modern Age*

*This symposium is exclusive to health care professionals; upon registration, a separate link and password will be provided.

AECOS Global Perspectives Panel

• Host: Sheraz Daya, MD, FACP, FACS, FRCS(Ed), FRCOphth
• Participants: Arthur B. Cummings, MB ChB, FCS(SA), MMed(Ophth), FRCS(Edin); Florian Kretz, MD, FEBO; Jod Mehta, MD, FRCS(Ed); Erik Mertens, MD, FEBOphth; Francesco Carones, MD

Practice Rebuild

• Panel: Reopening the Business
• Host: Bruce Maller
• Participants: Y. Ralph Chu, MD; Mark Kontos, MD; George O. Waring IV, MD; Lisa Nijm, MD, JD; Vance Thompson, MD, FACS

• Panel: Resuming Clinical & Surgical Practice
  Hosts: Gary Wörtz, MD, and William F. Wiley, MD
  Participants: Steve Arshinoff, MD; Maria Scott, MD; Lance Kugler, MD; and Ehsan Sadri, MD, FACS, FAAO

Case Files in Cornea 

• Host: Deepinder Dhaliwal, MD
• Participants: William B. Trattler, MD; Karolinne Rocha, MD, PhD; Mark Milner, MD; Marjan Farid, MD; Audrey Talley Rostov, MD

Telemedicine: Keys to Success

• Host: Blake Williamson, MD, MPH
• Participants: Roger Zaldivar, MD, MBA; Nikola Ragusa, MD; Neda Shamie, MD; David Goldman, MD