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This year’s Cornea Skills Transfer Course will be a small group session focusing on both classic and newer corneal and ocular imaging technologies applicable to the cornea specialist and comprehensive ophthalmologist alike. The session will include examples from multiple machines (where available) to increase the utility to individual participants. Imaging in cataract and corneal surgery has become increasingly important. With newer IOL options for cataract surgery, minimizing astigmatism, as well as excluding patients with various levels of higher order aberrations or less common ocular anatomy is important to achieve consistently good outcomes. Moreover, these technologies can be helpful in patients with postoperative visual complaints to explain their underlying etiology. With the popularity of refractive surgery, it is important to exclude patients who are more likely to have poor outcomes. With newer treatments for diseases such as keratoconus and postoperative ectasia, it is important to identify people early to halt disease progression, and further, identify those who may be candidates for combined procedures to improve vision, something previously not possible. Lastly, many existing machines have new software packages, and the utility of these will be discussed.

NOTE: This STC will consist of a small group session and will not include a wet-lab.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Analyze testing from various corneal and ocular imaging devices including topographers, tomographers, aberrometers, biometers, and anterior segment optical coherence tomographers (AS-OCTs)
• Assess preoperative/intraoperative/postoperative testing for corneal/anterior segment procedures and monitoring of disease
• Assess patient's imaging to describe which intraocular lenses (IOLs) are indicated or contraindicated in a specific patient (including aspheric, toric, multifocal, and EDOF IOLs)
• Use imaging postoperatively to identify reasons for unexplained outcomes or visual complaints
• Analyze corneal imaging including epithelial mapping, to assess for candidacy of laser refractive surgery
• Analyze corneal imaging to confirm ectasia and plan corneal-crosslinking (CXL) combined with topography-guided photorefractive keratectomy (tgPRK) or intrastromal corneal ring segments (ICRS)

CANMEDS ROLES: Medical Expert, Scholar

REGISTRATION
Advance registration is required
Registration is open to cornea specialists, comprehensive ophthalmologists, other specialist ophthalmologists, fellows, residents and medical students
Maximum number of participants: 30
Fee: $100