GRAND PRIZE

Jackhammer or Cavitation: The Final Answer

Producer: Jaime Zacharias, MD (Chile)

CATARACT COMPLICATIONS

1st Place               

Cliff Hanger

Producer: Athiya Agarwal, MD (India)

Runner-Up           

Avoiding the Argentine Flag Sign

Producer: Mikio Inamura, MD (Japan)

CATARACT/IMPLANT SURGERY

1st Place              

What’s Beyond the Blue-Blocked Life?

Producer: H. Burkhard Dick, MD (Germany)

Runner-Up           

IFIS: Improved Flexible Intraoperative Strategy

Producer: David Allen, FRCS (United Kingdom)

IN-HOUSE PRODUCTIONS

1st Place                                               

Experimental Model for Corneal Healing in Chicken Eyes

Producer: Larisa Fabiani, MD (Spain)

Runner-Up           

Tear-Out Retrieval: A Mystery Unfolds

Producer: Brian C. Little, FRCS (United Kingdom)

INSTRUMENTS/DEVICES

1st Place               

Russian Solution to Small-Pupil Phaco and Tamsulosin Floppy-Iris Syndrome

Producer: Boris E. Malyugin, MD (Russia)

Runner-Up           

Surgeon-Directed Irrigation

Producer: John C. Hart Jr, MD (USA)

INTRAOCULAR LENSES

1st Place               

Evaluation of Blue-Blocking IOLs Including a New Photochromatic IOL

Producer: Nick Mamalis, MD (USA)

Runner-Up           

Endocapsular Equator Ring in the Human Eye

Producer: Tsutomu Hara, MD (Japan)

NEW TECHNIQUES

1st Place               

Near-Infrared Operation Microscope for Lightless Cataract Surgery

Producer: Bong-Hyun Kim, MD (Korea)

Runner-Up           

Combined Sutureless Surgery

Producer: Cheng-Jong Chang, MD, PhD (Taiwan)

QUALITY TEACHING

1st Place               

New Classification of Adult Cataract: Do You See What I See?

Producer: Robert H. Osher, MD (USA)

Runner-Up           

We Could Catch Wieger’s Ligament Without Staining

Producer: Teruyuki Miyoshi, MD (Japan)

CORNEA AND REFRACTIVE COMPLICATIONS

1st Place               

Artificial Corneal Transplants: Pearls and Pitfalls

Producer: Arun C. Gulani, MD, MS (USA)

Runner-Up           

Battle of the Bulge

Producer: Soosan Jacob, MS, FRCS (India)

CORNEA AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY

1st Place               

Femtosecond Laser-Assisted Penetrating Keratoplasty

Producer: Mike P. Holzer, MD (Germany)

Runner-Up

Artiflex: Flexible Iris-Claw pIOL for the Correction of Myopia

Producer: Milan G. Izák, MD, PhD (Slovakia)

SPECIAL INTEREST

1st Place               

Ten-Year Revolution in Cataract Surgery  and Surgical Reconstruction of Ocular Surface in Stevens-Johnson Syndrome

Producer: Hiroko Bissen-Miyajima, MD (Japan)

Runner-Up           

Mushroom Keratoplasty with Minimum Endothelial Transplantation for the Treatment of Full-Thickness Corneal Opacities

Producer: Massimo Busin, MD (Italy)