Taku Wakabayashi, MD, PhD Wakabayashi Eye Clinic, Kanazawa, Japan Aichi Medical University, Aichi, Japan The pediatric session at FujiRetina 2024 moderated by Shunji Kusaka, MD and Aleksandra Rachitskaya, MD, covered important topics in the treatment of pediatric retinal diseases. Dr. Shunji Kusaka from Kindai University presented the long-term visual outcomes following lens-sparing vitrectomy (LSV) for stage 4A retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). His study included 61 eyes from 42 patients with a minimum of 4 years of follow-up after successful LSV, where best-corrected visual acuity was measur ..read more

Kanae Fukutsu, MD, PhD Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Japan Dr. Keiko Kataoka, professor Hideki Koizumi, and Dr. Adrienne Scott moderated the session on the morning of the third day of Fuji Retina 2024. Professor Yoko Ozawa from Fujita Medical Innovation Center Tokyo & Eye Center, Fujita Health University, Haneda Clinic, Japan, first talked about the imbalance of choroidal vasculature in eyes diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration (AMD). She examined the choriocapillaris using OCT angiography (OCTA) and showed ..read more

Naoto Sato, MD Suzuki Eye Group, Tokyo, Japan On Sunday afternoon, the Macular Surgery 2 session was moderated by Drs. Kazuaki Kadonosono and Thomas J. Wolfensberger. Dr. Eric Nudleman from Shiley Eye Institute, U.S.A. started with a presentation on cellular and molecular mechanisms of retinal fibrosis. First, it was emphasized that there is a clear distinction between gliosis and fibrosis. Dr. Nudleman examined fibrosis in the brain and found that it occurs due to perivascular fibroblasts. They also developed a new retinal scarring model termed as Long Oxygen Induced Retinopathy (LOIR), whic ..read more

The 47th Macula Society meeting was held last month in sunny Palm Springs, California. Investigators present their latest works at this legendary scientific meeting, and one of the highlights of the meeting are the award lectures. The Gragoudas award is bestowed upon the best original full length paper submitted by a retina fellow in a highly competitive application process. You can read about Ines Lains here, who received the award last year. The 2024 Gragoudas award recognized Giulia Corradetti, MD, of Doheny Eye Institute. We caught up with Dr. Corradetti after the meeting. How was your exp ..read more

David Fell, MD Vitreoretinal fellow Tufts/OCB Dave Brown Interviews Food and Drug Administration Director of the Division of Ophthalmology, Wiley Chambers, MD. With the audience eagerly awaiting insider discussions on the newest drug developments in ophthalmology, Dr. Brown decided to start off with a few personal questions for Dr. Chambers. After discussing the ways in which his father, an ophthalmologist, inspired him toward a career in medicine and ophthalmology, and how he stumbled into his job at the FDA when he stayed in Washington D.C. because it was a “good place to live as a single gu ..read more

Wyatt Smith, MD Weill Cornell, New York, NY Dr. Carol Shields and Dr. Lawrence Yannuzzi presented the honorary Founders Award to three distinguished guests: Dr. Susan Bressler (Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute), Dr. Alexander Bruckner (Penn Medicine Scheie Eye Institute), and Dr. Richard Rosen (New York Eye and Ear Infirmary). Dr. Susan Bressler received the Founders Award for her exceptional career dedicated to combating diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration through her involvement in several prospective trials, specifically in the areas of anti-VEGF therapy and biosimi ..read more

Luke Oh, MD Columbia University, New York, NY The “Non-neovascular AMD” section of ACRC 2024 started with three excellent talks moderated by Drs. Alexander Brucker and Srinivas Sadda. These presentations highlighted the importance of identifying structural and functional outcome measurements for dry AMD, a deep dive into whether complement is a satisfactory target for geographic atrophy (GA), and a review of the current state of drugs in development for GA. This was followed shortly afterwards by a riveting panel on “Controversies in GA management” moderated by Dr. Jason Slakter and featuring ..read more

Jonathan Noonan, MD Columbia University, New York, NY After a thought-provoking day of resident and fellow case presentations, Friday morning heralded the onset of the attending case presentations. Session 1: Tumors & OncologyModerators: David H. Abramson, MD; William F. Mieler, MD; Carol L. Shields, MD The first session of attending case presentations highlighted some diagnostic challenges in ocular oncology, as well as recommendations for investigations and management. Nitish Mehta, William Mieler and Dimosthenis Mantopoulos presented interesting cases of vitreoretinal lymphoma. A freque ..read more

Arjun Watane, MDYale Ophthalmology, New Haven, CT The Atlantic Coast Retina Club had an exciting afternoon of complex and mystery cases. A summary of selected cases are described below. The first session Retinal Vascular Disease was moderated by Alexander J. Brucker, MD, Lee M. Jampol, MD and Lawrence A. Yannuzzi, MD. Lee M. Jampol, MD presented a case of treatment naïve VHL retinal hemangioblastomas with concurrent FEVR in both eyes. The hemangiomas responded well to anti-VEGF and belzutifan, the latter of which should be considered especially in severe cases. Richard B. Rosen, MD p ..read more

Melissa Yuan, MDMass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA ACRC Trainee Session #2 The first afternoon of ACRC continued with more exciting trainee cases, moderated by Drs. Emily Chew, Itay Chowers, and Philip Ferrone. We saw several interesting cases of retinal vasculopathies. Starting off the session was Dr. Claudia Fossataro (UCLA) who shared a case with multimodal imaging of arterial occlusion complicated by CME. Important take home points were that acute and chronic CRAO can be complicated by CME and that migraine is associated with increased risk of CRAO. Dr. Michael Yu from Wills Eye showed a case o ..read more