Author name: Niall Slowey

World Retina Day provides a platform for international collaboration among clinicians and researchers in the field. That concept was clearly on display at the American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS) World Retina Day session on Saturday afternoon where an international group of renowned retina specialists provided updates on cutting edge treatments. 

The 24th EURETINA Congress may be coming to an end, but delegates are reminded that EURETINA offers a variety of year-round resources for all your educational needs.

Presentations given during session included some providing information with direct clinical application for the management of patients with diabetic eye disease and others with potential future implications.

Delegates attending the session on non-neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) on Saturday morning heard information that has important relevance for researchers and clinicians as treatments for geographic atrophy (GA) have become available and others are emerging.

Delegates attending the Saturday morning keynote lecture on diversity heard a talk that was scientific but differed from the talks that are typically heard at Euretina, said Prof Anat Loewenstein as she invited Baroness Susan Greenfield to the podium to speak about the intriguing subject of the neuroscience of individuality. 

This interactive session sought opinions from the panel of experts on a series of complex cases.

Dr Roy Schwartz (Moorfields Eye Hospital, United Kingdom) presented a sneak peak at the results of research funded by the inaugural Retinal Medicine Clinical Research grant (originally awarded in 2020) during a free paper session at the Euretina Congress on Friday.

Delegates filling the auditorium on Friday morning for the RETINAWS session were rewarded with a valuable learning experience as top surgeons from around the world presented and discussed surgical videos showcasing complex and challenging vitreoretinal surgery, rare situations, and unique surgical techniques.