OVERVIEW

6th Duke Retina Fellows Advanced Vitreous Surgery (fAVS) Course: Virtual Edition Session 2 is organized by Medical Conference Planners International (MCPI) and will be held on Oct 08, 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 second session of the three-session series, and the focus is on retina practice pearls during COVID-19.

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

Topics include:
• Drugs: What is New in the Neovascular AMD and DME Pipeline
• What New Drugs are in the Uveitis Pipeline
• Contract Negotiations
• Mitigating your Medicolegal Risk
• COVID-19 Panel: Practice Patterns, Job Openings, Economics and Research
• Surgical Retina Panel: Surgical Techniques Including Pediatric and Fellow Cases

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:
• Durga S. Borkar, MD
• Xi Chen, MD, PhD
• Sharon J. Fekrat, MD
• Sunir J. Garg, MD
• Dilraj S. Grewal, MD
• Nancy M. Holekamp, MD
• Glenn J. Jaffe, MD
• Eric A. Postel, MD
• Cynthia A. Toth, MD
• Lejla Vajzovic, MD
• Scott D. Walter, MD, MSc