Date: Wednesday, October 26th, 2022

Time: 5:30 – 7:30 pm, EST

Location: Online

There is an urgent need to stabilize the health care system – as well as growing calls for its transformation. Solutions are not in short supply. But getting from now to next depends on bold choices.

The CMA is hosting a series of events to tackle those choices, bringing together physicians with other health stakeholders for candid debate.

With federal, provincial and territorial Health Ministers set to meet in November, our first event will focus on how to pay for better health care in the short and long term, and how to ensure accountability for the results.

CMA President Dr. Alika Lafontaine will host a panel featuring:

Christy Clark, former premier of British Columbia

Christy led Canada’s third largest province from 2011 to 2017. Throughout her term, she demonstrated strong economic growth, fiscal management and job creation. Christy retired in 2017 as the longest serving female premier in Canada and the only female Canadian premier to be re-elected.

Today, Christy is a senior advisor at Bennett Jones LLP in Vancouver. She also chairs, advises, and directs several non-profit and corporate boards. In 2018, she was recognized by the Women’s Executive Network as one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women and was inducted into their Hall of Fame.

Chantal Hébert, political raconteur/columnist

Chantal is a veteran journalist whose work appears in The Toronto Star and the magazine L’Actualité. She is part of CBC The National’s weekly political panel “At Issue.” And she is the author of two books: The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day that Almost Was, with Quebec broadcaster Jean Lapierre, and French Kiss: Stephen Harper’s Blind Date.

Chantal is currently a Senior Fellow with Massey College at the University of Toronto and holds honourary degrees from a dozen Canadian universities. In 2012, she was invested as an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2019, her Parliamentary Press Gallery peers awarded her the Charles Lynch Award for long-standing coverage of national issues.

Stephen McNeil, former premier of Nova Scotia

Stephen served two terms as premier of Nova Scotia, from 2013 to 2021, before retiring from provincial politics. His government passed five consecutive balanced budgets and led the province through the COVID-19 pandemic. He also served as the dean of Canadian premiers during this time.

A former small business owner, Stephen spent 18 years as an elected official, representing the riding of Annapolis. He was leader of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party from 2007 to 2021. Stephen is currently a strategic business advisor in Halifax with law firm Cox & Palmer.

Learn more about health funding.

Join us on October 26, 2022.

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Simultaneous interpretation will be available.

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The developers’ goal was to create a free online tool that helps ophthalmologists aggregate the major online IOL calculators in one site, allowing them to get multiple results with only one data entry session.

“This will reduce typing mistakes, provide a better view, and allow users to compare results, eventually helping to get better refractive outcomes,” Dante Luis Buonsanti told EuroTimes.

The developers used a technique called web scraping. This is the sort of thing seen when using a hotel or air travel search engine. Web scraping uses bots to extract content from several websites and sends it to a single site. The user can then compare results from seven current calculators: Barrett Universal II, Cooke K6, Evo, Hill-RBF, Hoffer QST, Kane, and PEARL GDS. The site also “scraped” a comprehensive list of IOLs with optimized constants from IOL.com.

Read More Here

The ESCRS online IOL calculator is now live at iolcalculator.escrs.org.

The 14th Annual Congress on Controversies in Ophthalmology: (COPHy) taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, March 24-25, 2023.

Date: March 24- 25, 2023

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

The great success of the previous COPHy Congresses, held across Europe in Prague, Barcelona, Istanbul, Budapest, Lisbon, Sorrento, Warsaw, Madrid, Athens and Dublin as well as the enthusiastic feedback received from the most recent virtual congresses, confirmed the need for proceeding with the 14th edition of this dynamic Congresses.

COPHy in Lisbon will follow the theme of our previous congresses and will be devoted to evidence-based debates and discussions amongst session moderators, speakers and the audience, all of whom will examine and analyze the most relevant and controversial issues within the field of ophthalmology. This educational Congress will continue to discuss controversies in retina, as well as other areas of ophthalmology, such as neuro-ophthalmology and uveitis.

Allowing ample time for speaker-audience discussion, the Congress aims at reaching up-to-date recommendations to ongoing debates even when data remains limited, through evidence-based medicine, including expert opinion. Participants will have the opportunity to take part in this vibrant meeting which will facilitate discussions on the shared experiences and opinions of leading local and international experts.

More information here.

We are pleased to share with you the Canadian Rheumatology Association Recommendations for the Screening, Monitoring, and Treatment of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis–Associated Uveitis.
 
These Canadian JIA-associated uveitis guidelines were developed by a working group of 14 pediatric rheumatologists, 6 ophthalmologists, 2 methodologists and 3 caregiver/patient representatives using a GRADE-Adolopment approach applied to the 2019 ACR JIA-Associated Uveitis Guidelines. This streamlined method was chosen to develop Canadian guidelines considering the Canadian context, including patient preferences, cost/resource considerations, and feasibility of implementation.

The recommendation has been published as a living guideline on MAGIC authoring and publication platform (MAGICapp) and has also been published as a full manuscript in the Journal of Rheumatology.

Click here to read the CRA Recommendations for JIA-Associated Uveitis on MAGICapp

Click here to read the full manuscript published in the Journal of Rheumatology

Congratulations and thank you to the CRA Uveitis Guidelines Panel, led by Drs. Roberta Berard and Deb Levy, and supported by Guidelines Committee Chair Dr. Glen Hazlewood and methodologist Jordi Pardo Pardo. These guidelines were developed in collaboration with several ophthalmology colleagues and have been endorsed by the Canadian Ophthalmological Society Board. Special thanks as well to Dr. Arnav Agarwal for his assistance with the MAGICapp platform.

The CRA will be sharing these documents with the larger rheumatology community including disease organizations, patient groups and Canadian media outlets. We encourage you to share it with your associates and colleagues via email or social media.

All media enquiries should be forwarded directly to Ahmad Zbib at [email protected] or through the CRA’s website at https://rheum.ca/contact-us/.
 
On behalf of the CRA Board of Directors,

Ahmad M Zbib MD CPHIMS-CA
Chief Executive Officer
Canadian Rheumatology Association
Phone: 905-952-0698 EXT 8
Email: [email protected]

Title:  Walter Wright 20/20+2: Cornea, Anterior Segment and Refractive Surgery

Date:  December 2nd – 3rd

Location:  Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, ON

Guest Speakers:  Drs. Anthony J.  Aldave, James Chodosh, Sadeer B. Hannush, Carol L. Karp, Terry Kim, Christopher J. Rapuano, Elmer Tu, Stephanie Watson

This year’s Walter Wright program will showcase an exciting and relevant presentation of cornea, anterior segment and refractive surgery. Diagnostic and therapeutic tools for corneal disorders and recommendations on the diagnosis and management will be presented. We will take a closer look at infections and inflammation, keratoconus and ectasia, surgical cornea, ocular surface and limbal stem cell disease, cataract and anterior segment surgery and refractive surgery. We welcome an internationally recognized panel of speakers to share their knowledge and experience. With a combination of lectures and case presentations, this meeting promises to be a high yield, academically exciting conference. Aimed towards the comprehensive ophthalmologist, we look forward to having you join us.

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The October 2022 CJO is now available online. Here are some of the highlights: 

Resident Perspectives + visual abstract: Our amazing team of residents have summarized 6 articles with a focus on what’s most relevant to ophthalmology learners here in Canada and around the globe, including the article featured in our October visual abstract, Macular thickness fluctuation in neovascular age-related macular degeneration treated with anti-vascular endothelial growth factor.

Original research articles:

·  Canadians’ attitudes toward corneal donation: informational-motivational videos increase willingness toward corneal donation

·  Clinical outcomes of a diffractive trifocal intraocular lens with femtosecond laser, digital tracking, and intraoperative aberrometry

·  Bacillary layer detachment in acute nonpenetrating ocular trauma

·  Quantifying the cost of single-use minims and multidose bottles for eye drops in routine ophthalmic practice: a multicentre study

• Clinicopathologic analysis of conjunctivochalasis and paste-pinch-cut conjunctivoplasty for management

Research letters, photo essays, and case reports:

· Severe ophthalmic involvement in granulomatosis with polyangiitis resistant to cyclophosphamide [photo essay]

· Multimodal imaging in perifoveal unilateral retinal pigment epithelium dysgenesis [photo essay]

· Ultra-wide-field retinal imaging in tetralogy of Fallot before and after cardiac surgery [case report]

· Superior limbic keratoconjunctivitis following ptosis repair [case report]

·Intraocular pressure fluctuations in a professional woodwind musician with advanced glaucoma [correspondence]

Follow the CJO on social media:

Twitter: @CanJOphth

Instagram: @cjo_jco

Facebook: CanJOphth

October 2022

Canadian Ophthalmological Society (COS) Joint Position Statement on Biosimilar Drugs

Biosimilar biologic drugs (biosimilars*) were introduced in the Canadian market in 2009. The first ophthalmic biosimilar for intravitreal injection is expected to be launched in Canada in the late fall of 2022. With this launch, it is expected that use of biosimilars across Canada will rapidly increase.

Read the full position statement here

The third issue of the 2022 Video Journal of Cataract, Refractive, & Glaucoma Surgery is out!  It is an intense educational journey into the technique that is changing the management of complicated cataract surgery developed by Dr. Shin Yamane from Japan.  The hour long issue teaches the viewing ophthalmologist the technique and many modifications of Intrascleral Haptic Fixation, an innovative approach when the capsule has been damage or is absent.  The VJCRGS is in its 38th year of providing the highest quality of education to anterior segment surgeons around the world.  With a new issue every quarter, the Journal is a free benefit for being a member of COS allowing access to all 38 years of content. 

Table of Contents

Volume 38, Issue , 3, 2022Intrascleral Haptic Fixation

(Modifications of the Yamane Technique)

I-Fixation Technique……………………………….. Drs. Jobu Sugita, Kohei Ichikawa, Yusuke Matsuzaki,

Toshihiko Ohta, Akira Murakami, Japan Haptic Tucking Scleral Fixation    Drs. Rohan Mehra, Naveen Naik, Pooja Khamar, India

Transconjunctival Intrascleral IOL Fixation with

Double Needle Technique………………………………………………………. Dr. Shin Yamane, Japan

10 Tips for Learning Yamane……………. Drs. Mehdi Shajari, Thomas Kreutzer, Wolfgang J. Mayer,

Thomas Kohnen, Siegfried Priglinger, Germany Shortening the Learning Curve Drs. Maria Jesus Quiroz, Jorge Armentia, Ana Matheu,

Pablo Marti, Emilio Segovia, Alejandra Herranz, Paula Burgos, Spain Learn from Our Mistakes………… Drs. Brian Kim, Zaina Al-Mohtaseb, Ashraf Armia,

Marjan Farid, Soosan Jacob, Naveen Rao, USA, India, Egypt Flattened Flange……………………………………………………… Dr. Fikret Ucar, Turkey

Trocar Assisted………………………………………………………………………… Dr. Sherif Gamal Edlin, Egypt

Iris Hook…………………………………………………………………………………………… Dr. Amit Mishra, India

Flexible Tubing……………………………………………………………………………….. Dr. Ertugrul Can, Turkey

Forceps-Needle……………………………………………… Drs. Michael Amon, Clemens Bernhart, Austria

27g Blunt and 30g Ultrathin Needles with Flaps and Tunnels…………………….. Drs. Kazuya Morino,

Masayuki Akimoto, Japan Visconeedling for IOL Capture        Drs. Carlos M Menna Barreto, Roberta K Menna Barreto,

Pedro K Menna Barreto, Vicente M Menna Barreto, Brazil Challenging Case…………………………………………………………. Dr. Fikret Ucar, Turkey

Yamane plus Artificial Iris……………………………. Drs. Wolfgang J. Mayer, Daniel R. Muth, Germany

Click here to watch the latest issue:

The Non-Hospital Surgical Centres (NHSC) Principles is a distilled set of advocacy principles developed by the Canadian Ophthalmological Society. This document is based on feedback from a COS Workshop on NHSC held in September 2021, and from member and stakeholder surveys undertaken during the spring of 2022.

To view the full document please click here: