OVERVIEW

6th Duke Retina Fellows Advanced Vitreous Surgery (fAVS) Course: Virtual Edition Session 1 is organized by Medical Conference Planners International (MCPI) and will be held on Sep 24, 2020.

Course Description:
The Duke fAVS Course: Virtual Edition is a three-part educational series for all surgical retina, medical retina, and uveitis fellows. This is the first session of the three-session series, and the focus is on How to Maximize Your Fellowship Experience.

For the program and more information, visit the Duke Eye Center website.

Topics include:
• Lessons Learned from Two Decades of Training Fellows
• Clinical Trial Insights: Interpreting Clinical Trial Design, Outcomes
• Drugs: What is New in the Dry AMD Pipeline
• Idea to Product: Partnering with Basic Scientists
• Industry Devices: What is New in the Pipeline
• What is New in Ocular Oncology in 2020
• Medical Retina and Uveitis Cases Panel

6th Duke fAVS Program Highlights:
• New devices in the vitreoretinal surgery pipeline
• New drugs in the medical retina and uveitis pipeline
• Ocular oncology and retinal degenerations update
• How to collaborate with industry and get involved in trials
• Interpreting clinical trial design and outcomes
• The device development lifecycle
• Surgical and Medical retina interesting case panel
• Fellow-presented cases and surgical videos
• How to achieve academic success in ophthalmology
• Real-world retina: job search in the COVID-19 era, lawsuits, contract negotiations
• Academia vs private practice vs private equity jobs vs managed care organization job
• Life after fellowship

Faculty:
• Yousef Aldairy, MD
• Michael J. Allingham, MD
• Durga S. Borkar, MD
• Xi Chen, MD, PhD
• Dilraj S. Grewal, MD
• Majda Hadziahmetovic, MD
• James T. Handa, MD
• Glenn J. Jaffe, MD
• Eleonora M. Lad, MD, PhD
• Miguel A. Materin, MD
• Priyatham S. Mettu, MD
• Stefanie G. Schuman, MD
• Daniel M. Schwartz, MD
• Lejla Vajzovic, MD
• Charles C. Wykoff, MD, PhD