ASCRS / ESCRS Courses.
ASCRS 2025
The IPC will be presenting Optimized IOL Power Selection at ASCRS on Sunday, April 27th from 3:30pm to 5:00pm in Room 515A. The following topics will be presented:
IPC Intro & IOL Formulas - Kenneth Hoffer, MD (USA)
Optical Biometers - John Shammas, MD (USA)
The Short and Long Eye - Thomas Olsen, MD (Denmark)
Post-Refractive Surgery Eyes - Filomena Ribeiro, MD, PhD, FEBO (Portugal)
Toric IOLs- Giacomo Savini, MD (Italy)
Top 5 Pearls for Complex IOL Calculations - Graham Barrett, MD (Australia)
ESCRS 2024
At the annual meeting of the ESCRS, in Barcelona, the IPC organized its instructional course (IOL Power Calculation by the IOL Power Club) on Monday September 9th. Dr. Olsen had a presentation dealing with "Corneal Power and Axial Length Measurements", Dr. Savini showed the "Classification of Formulas", Dr. Yeo talked about "Toric IOLs Calculations", Dr. Aramberri about "Post-Refractive Surgery IOL Calculation, Dr. Fam about "The short and Long Eyes" and, finally, the president of ESCRS, Prof. Ribeiro, about "IOL Power in Keratoconus Eyes". As usual, a large number of ophthalmologists attended the course.
ASCRS 2024
This year ASCRS celebrated it's 50 year Anniversary in Boston and honored a few of the people who helped make it what it is today. One of those people is our very own Dr. Kenneth Hoffer, who started the organization in 1974. During our conference, he was able to give us his story of how ASCRS was started.
On Sunday April 7th, the IOL Power Club organized its course at the annual meeting of the ASCRS in Boston. The title was “IOL Power Club Course: Optimized IOL Power Selection”. Dr. Hoffer introduced the course and gave an overview of currently available IOL formulas for unoperated eyes. Dr. Shammas presented an update on optical biometers and Dr. Olsen provided the best evidence for calculation in short and long eyes. Dr. Ribeiro discussed the issue of IOL power calculation in post-LASIK eyes and Dr. Savini in toric eyes; finally Dr. Aramberri presented some unusual cases. As usual, many ophthalmologists attended the course.
ESCRS 2023
The IPC is incredibly grateful to ESCRS, which gave us the opportunity to organize 2 courses during the same meeting.
We presented the following courses in Vienna, Austria this September:
BASIC COURSE ON IOL POWER CALCULATION BY THE IOL POWER CLUB
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Measuring and Calculating the Corneal Power - Giacomo Savini, MD (Italy)
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Axial Length Measurement by US and Optical Biometry - Thomas Olsen, MD (Denmark)
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IOL Position: Estimation, Measurement and Stability - Nino Hirschall, MD (Austria)
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Calculation Methods: Vergence, Raytracing and AI - Jaime Aramberri Agesta, MD (Spain)
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Current IOL Power Formulas - Fam Han Bor, MD (Singapore)
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Update on the Optical Biometers and Corneal Tomographers - Tiago Ferreira, MD (Portugal)
ADVANCED COURSE ON IOL POWER CALCULATION BY THE IPC
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Predicting the IOL Position: ELP vs Physical IOL Position - Thomas Olsen, MD (Denmark)
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Toric IOL Calculations - Tun Kuan Yeo, MD (Singapore)
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IOL Constant Optimization - Achim Langenbucher, PhD (Germany)
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Post-Refractive Surgery Eyes - Giacomo Savini, MD (Italy)
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Complicated Cases - Jaime Aramberri Agesta, MD (Spain)
ASCRS 2023
The IPC Executive Committee organized the usual course on IOL power calculation at the 2023 ASCRS meeting in San Diego, CA USA this May.
Updates on IOL formulas, optical biometers, IOL power calculation in short and long eyes, in eyes with previous refractive surgery and in eyes requiring toric IOLs were provided to participants.
2022 Course Announcement.
The IPC Executive Committee organized the usual course on IOL power calculation at the 2022 ASCRS meeting in Washington, D.C. USA and the 2022 ESCRS meeting in Milan, Italia.
Updates on IOL formulas, optical biometers, IOL power calculation in short and long eyes, in eyes with previous refractive surgery and in eyes requiring toric IOLs were provided to participants.
ASCRS 2022
IOL Power Club Course: Optimized IOL Power Selection, (IC-326) c Jaime Aramberri, Kenneth J Hoffer, Thomas Olsen, Giacomo Savini, John Shammas, American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery Annual Symposium, Washington, D.C, April 25, 2022.
ESCRS 2022
IOL Power Calculation update by the IOL Power Course, (#IC-42) (2 hrs) c Jaime Aramberri, Kenneth J Hoffer, Thomas Olsen, John Shammas, Giacomo Savini, 40th Congress of the ESCRS, European Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery, Paris, France, September 18, 2022
ASCRS 2021
IOL Power Club Course, (IC-311) (15 mins), c David L Cooke, Kenneth J Hoffer, John H Shammas, ASCRS Symposium and Congress, American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery, Las Vegas, NV, July 26, 2021.
ESCRS 2021
No instructional courses due to COVID.
ASCRS 2019
IOL Power Club Course: Optimized IOL Power Selection, c Jaime Aramberri, Han Bor Fam, Kenneth J Hoffer, Thomas Olsen, Giacomo Savini, John Shammas, American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery Annual Symposium, San Diego, CA, May 4, 2019.
ESCRS 2019
IOL Power Calculation update by the IOL Power Course, (#IC-42) (2 hrs) c Jaime Aramberri, Han Bor Fam, Tiago Ferreira, Thomas Olsen, Filomena Ribeiro, Giacomo Savini, XXXVII Congress of the ESCRS, European Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery, Paris, France, September 15, 2019
ASCRS 2018
IOL Power Club Course on Lens Calculation, (IC-424) c Jaime Aramberri, Kenneth J Hoffer, Thomas Olsen, Giacomo Savini, John Shammas, American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery Annual Symposium, Washington, D.C., April 17, 2018.
ESCRS 2018
IOL Power Calculation update by the IOL Power Club, (#IC-46) (2 hrs) c Jaime Aramberri, Wolfgang Haigis, Thomas Olsen, Giacomo Savini, John Shammas, XXXVI Congress of the ESCRS, European Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery, Vienna, Austria, September 23, 2018
ASCRS 2017
IOL Power Club Course on IOL Power Calculation, c Jaime Aramberri, [Wolfgang Haigis], Han Bor Fam, Kenneth J Hoffer, Thomas Olsen, Giacomo Savini, American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery Annual Symposium, Los Angeles, CA, May 8, 2017
ESCRS 2017
Unable to attend due to the IPC Meeting.
ASCRS 2016
IOL Power Club Course on IOL Power Calculation, c Jaime Aramberri, Wolfgang Haigis, Kenneth J Hoffer, Thomas Olsen, Giacomo Savini, American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery Annual Symposium, New Orleans, LA, May 7, 2016
ESCRS 2016
IOL Power Club IOL Power Calculation Course, (#IC-74) (2 hrs) c Jaime Aramberri, Wolfgang Haigis, Thomas Olsen, Giacomo Savini, XXXIV Congress of the ESCRS, European Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery, Copenhagen, DENMARK, September 12, 2016
ESCRS 2015
IOL Power Club Course IC-35, XXXIII Congress of the ESCRS, European Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery, Barcelona, SPAIN, September 6, 2015