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Pittsburgh Ophthalmology Society 57th Annual Meeting and Ophthalmic Personnel Meeting slated for March 11, 2022

The Pittsburgh Ophthalmology Society, under the leadership of President Marshall W. Stafford, M.D. is pleased to announce the 57th Annual Meeting and the 42nd Meeting for Ophthalmic Personnel, scheduled for March 11, 2022, will be in-person events. Both meetings will take place at the Omni William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, PA. We look forward to offering an engaging and robust experience for attendees and exhibitors and are committed to providing a safe, productive, and welcoming environment in which to learn and gather. Registrations for both the Annual Meeting and ophthalmic personnel meeting are being accepted at www.pghoph.org. The Society is pleased to welcome Uday Devgan, M.D., FACS as the 41st annual Harvey E. Thorpe Lecturer. Dr. Devgan is in private practice at Devgan Eye Surgery, Los Angeles; Partner, Specialty Surgical Center, Beverly Hills; and the Original Cataract Coach.

Uday Devgan, M.D., FACS—

Dr. Devgan is truly world renowned in the field of ocular surgery. He has taught surgery in 40 countries and writes teaching columns in eye surgery journals which are distributed worldwide. He has written more than 200 books, chapters, medical papers, and journal articles about techniques of cataract, lens, and LASIK surgery. These writings as well as his instructional surgical videos have helped thousands of ophthalmologists and their patients.

Participating distinguished guest faculty:

Chris Albanis, M.D.—

Comprehensive Ophthalmology and Refractive Surgery, Chief Medical Officer, Ocular Partners, Inc; President, Arbor Centers for EyeCare; Clinical Associate, The University of Chicago; Chairperson, Advocate Christ Medical Center, Department of Ophthalmology Chicago, IL. She teaches residents at The University of Chicago as a Clinical Assistant in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science. Her pleasure in teaching extends to her colleagues, which has earned her several invitations to lecture on various ocular diseases nationally and internationally. She also serves as the Chair of Ophthalmology at Advocate Christ Medical Center. Dr. Albanis serves in many leadership roles with the Illinois Society of Eye Physicians and Surgeons and the American Academy of Ophthalmology, where she advocates for the needs of doctors and patients of Illinois.

Emily Chew, M.D.—

Director of the Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications (DECA), at the National Eye Institute, the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. She is also the Chief of the Clinical Trials Branch. Dr. Chew is a medical retina specialist and has had extensive experience in designing and implementing clinical trials (of Phases 1, 2 and 3) at the NIH Clinical Center. Dr. Chew has a strong

clinical and research interest in diabetic eye disease and age-related eye diseases. She has thoroughly worked on analyzing the data from the Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) and she continues to manage and analyze data from the Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS).

José Alain-Sahel, M.D.—

Distinguished Professor and Chairman; The Eye and Ear Endowed Chair Department of Ophthalmology; Director, UPMC Eye Center University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Sahel is a clinicianscientist conducting research on vision restoration focusing on cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying retinal degeneration, and development of treatments for currently untreatable retinal diseases. He co-authored over 660 peer-reviewed articles and 40 patents. Dr. Sahel is recipient of numerous awards including the Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB) Trustee Award, Alcon Research Institute Award for Excellence in Vision Research, Grand Prix NRJNeurosciences-Institut de France, Foundation Fighting Blindness Llura Liggett Gund Award, CharpakDubousset Award, Médaille Grand Vermeil, Ville de Paris. He was elected to the: Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis, Académie des Sciences-Institut de France, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, National Academy of Technologies of France, Association of American Physicians and American Ophthalmology Society. Dr. Sahel is Honoris Causa doctorate of University of Geneva and held the Technological Innovation Chair at the Collège de France (2015-2016). He is a member of several Editorial Scientific Advisory Boards, including Science Translational Medicine.

Steven R. Sarkisian, Jr., M.D.—

Founder, and CEO of Oklahoma Eye Surgeons, PLLC. Dr. Sarkisian specializes in premium cataract surgery and glaucoma surgery, with a special interest in helping his patients be glasses-free and performing minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS). He implants premium lenses with cataract surgery and was the first in Oklahoma to implant the PanOptix trifocal lens. This is the newest premium lens, and now for the first time, we can treat distance, intermediate, and near vision, as well as astigmatism, all at the same time. He was also the first surgeon in Oklahoma to perform the iStent, iStent Inject, the Xen Gel Stent, and canaloplasty. He was the first in the U.S. to use the OMNI device and the first in the world to use the TRAB360 and VISCO360 surgical systems, the predicate devices to the OMNI.

For more information on the Annual meeting please visit the POS website at www.pghoph.org or contact Nadine Popovich, Administrator at npopovich@ acms.org or to 412.321.5030.

The 42nd Annual Meeting for Ophthalmic Personnel, presented by the Pittsburgh Ophthalmology Society (POS)

This will run concurrently with the POS Annual Meeting Friday, March 11, 2022. Application to IJCAHPO has been submitted for attendees to earn a maximum of 7 credit hours.

Course directors Pamela Rath, M.D., Avni Vyas, M.D., and Zachary Koretz, M.D. have prepared an exceptional educational offering for Ophthalmic staff. Highlights of the course include presentations on Neuro-Ophthalmology; Oculoplastics; Interpretation of Fundus/OCT Photos; MIPS; and Biomicroscopy, Angles and Pupils.

The conference provides exceptional educational opportunities for ophthalmic personnel in and around the region and continually attracts wellrespected local faculty, who present relevant and quality instruction through numerous breakout sessions.

On-line registration begins January 28, 2022, www.pghoph.org. Contact Nadine Popovich, administrator, for details and more information at npopovich@acms.org.