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ESCRS officially opens in Amsterdam
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AMSTERDAM — Kicking off the official welcome to the XIX Congress of the ESCRS, being held here Sept. 1-5, José Cunha-Vaz, MD, Ph.D., current president of the Society, reflected on the leaders who had been so influential during their presidencies, and then named his successor. Dutch ophthalmologist Ulf Stenevi, MD, will begin his presidency next year.
Keynote speaker Raymond Applegate, OD, Ph.D., spoke about refractive technologies and high-order aberrations. The idea behind wavefront, he said, was to remove aberrations without increasing errors. Some of the issues with wavefront are healing time and biomechanical errors.
"How good is good enough in refractive surgery?" he asked the audience.
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Refractive surgical results of 20/10 or better "is not realistic," said Prof. Applegate. But if surgeons believe "20/25 is good enough for postop best corrected visual acuity, refractive surgery can meet those demands," he added.
During the Ridley Medal Lecture, Emanuel Rosen, MD, told attendees that "IOLs paved the way" for surgeons to be able to move toward refractive surgery. He spoke kindly of his friend and colleague, Sir Harold Ridley, who passed away earlier this year.
This year, the recipient of the Kiewiet de Jonge award was Dutch ophthalmologist Jan Hendrik Pameyer.