Meeting Coverage:

Vit Buckle Society Meeting

VBS: 2025

VBS President: Passing the Torch

R.V. Paul Chan, MD, MSc, MBA, and Aleksandra Rachitskaya, MD

VBS Mentorship Award 2025: Audina M. Berrocal, MD

John W. Kitchens, MD, and Audina M. Berrocal, MD

Trainee Programming at VBS

Alexis K. Warren, MD, and Ethan A. Osias, MD

Pearls From VBS Silver

Geeta A. Lalwani, MD, and Thomas A. Albini, MD

Teaching Advanced Diabetic Vitrectomy

Phoebe Lin, MD, PhD, and James Rice, MBBCh, MRCOphth, FCOphth(SA), MPH

Risk of Re-Detachment After Cataract Surgery in Myopia

Vivienne S. Hau, MD, PhD, and Chase A. Ludwig, MD, PhD

Operating at High Altitude

Shilpa Desai, MD, and Scott Oliver, MD

Intraocular Biopsy Considerations

Katherine E. Talcott, MD, and Phoebe Lin, MD, PhD

Surgical Complications: Iatrogenic Macular Hole

Nikisha Kothari, MD, and Andrew Tsai, MD

AI in Retina: Yay or Nay?

Matthew R. Starr, MD, and Esther L. Kim, MD

Managing Bacterial Endophthalmitis with Intraocular tPA

Kyle D. Kovacs, MD, and Emmanuel Y. Chang, MD, PhD

VBS: 2024

AAO 2023 Badge
Caring for ROP Patients

Jelena Potic, MD, PhD, FEBO and Simar Rajan Singh, MBBS, MS

VBS Debates: All Things Medical

Dimitra Skondra, MD, PhD and Ajay Kuriyan, MD

VBS Business: Setting Up a Solo Practice

Cassie Ludwig, MD and Courtney M. Crawford, MD, FACS

A New Approach to Infectious Endophthalmitis

Prethy Rao, MD and Raul Velez-Montoya, MD

Debating Surgical Approaches in Retina

Sonia Mehta, MD and Paul Sternberg Jr, MD

DR Surgery Pearls and Pitfalls

Sruthi Arepalli, MD and Amani A. Fawzi, MD

Let’s Talk Buckling at VBS

Lediana Goduni, MD and Daraius Shroff, MS, FRCS

International Surgical Retina at VBS: North vs South

Virgilio Morales-Canton, MD and Efrem Mandelcorn, MD, FRCSC

Surgical Scientific Papers at VBS

Ferhina S. Ali, MD, MPH and Tamer H. Mahmoud, MD, PhD

Introducing VBS Silver

Hong-Uyen Hua, MD, and Thomas Albini, MD

What’s Next: VBS 2025 (Part 1)

Geeta A. Lalwani, MD, and R.V. Paul Chan, MD, MSC, MBA, FACS

What’s Next: VBS 2025 (Part 2)

Geeta A. Lalwani, MD, and R.V. Paul Chan, MD, MSC, MBA, FACS

What the FOCUS Program is All About

Alexis Warren, MD and Basil K. Williams Jr, MD

VBS Honors the Achievements of Tarek S. Hassan, MD

Margaret M. Runner, MD and Tarek S. Hassan, MD

The 2024 Mentorship Awardee: Lejla Vajzovic, MD

Akshay S. Thomas, MD, MS, and Lejla Vajzovic, MD

VBS: 2023

New Data for Phase 2 Study of UBX1325

David Xu, MD, and Michael A. Singer, MD

2023 VBS Lifetime Mentorship Award

Aleksandra V. Rachitskaya, MD, FASRS, and Lisa C. Olmos de Koo, MD, MBA

Tackling Tough Pediatric Cases

Priya Vakharia, MD, and J. Peter Campbell, MD, MPH

International Surgery Highlights

Efrem Mandelcorn, MD, FRCSC

Discussing Wellness, VBS-Style

Kristen Nwanyanwu, MD, MBA, MHS, and Nicholas Farber, MD

K-Pro Combo Surgery

Kyle D. Kovacs, MD, and Jennifer I. Lim, MD

FOCUS on Fellows at VBS

Hong-Uyen Hua, MD, and Basil K. Williams, Jr, MD

Boosting LGBTQ Awareness in Retina

Jordan D. Deaner, MD and Vivienne Hau, MD, PhD

Working Around a PDS

Shilpa J. Desai, MD, and Gregory Lee, MD

2023 VBS Lifetime Achievement Award

Ehsan Rahimy, MD, and Allen C. Ho, MD

Debating Green Versus Blue

Ferhina S. Ali, MD, MPH, and Prethy Rao, MD, MPH

VBS: 2022

When to Add a Buckle for Retinal Detachments

Brian K. Do, MD; and Sally S. Ong, MD

Diabetic TRD is Not Your Friend

Camila V. Ventura, MD, PhD; and David Xu, MD

A Look at Retina Surgery in Haiti

Jayanth R. Sridhar, MD; Daniel C. Alter, MD, PhD

Talking Diversity With Julia A. Haller, MD

Julia A. Haller, MD; and Nika Bagheri, MD

Health Disparities in Retina, Revealed

Sabin Dang, MD; and Kristen Nwanyanwu, MD, MBA, MHS

Are You Ready to Become a Clinical Trialist?

Basil K. Williams Jr, MD; and Nancy M. Holekamp, MD

The Life and Times of Caroline R. Baumal, MD

Nicholas Farber, MD; and Caroline R. Baumal, MD

PVR Surgery Pearls

Mrinali Gupta, MD; Emmanuel Y. Chang, MD, PhD, FACS

Proliferative Sickle Cell Retinopathy Pro Tips

Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MD; and Adrienne W. Scott, MD

Beware of Drug Complications Post-Cataract Surgery

Avni P. Finn, MD, MBA; and Ashkan M. Abbey, MD

VBS: 2019

Looking Deeper on OCT

Brandon Lujan, MD, Charles C. Wykoff, MD, PhD, FACS

Employing New Surgical Techniques

Geeta A. Lalwani, MD, Vaidehi Dedania, MD

Is Chandelier Buckling Right for You?

Dilraj S. Grewal, MD, Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MD

A New Scleral Depressor

Andrew Schimel, MD, Bozho Todorich, MD, PhD

Staffing Fellows for the Young Attending

Anthony Joseph, MD, Jayanth Sridhar, MD

Will Informatics Make Better Surgeons?

Pravin Dugel, MD, R. Ross Lakhanpal, MD

A Challenging IOL Dislocation

Murtaza Adam, MD, Royce Chen, MD

Diabetic Vitrectomy Techniques

Michael A. Klufas, MD, Thomas A. Albini, MD

VBS: 2018

Managing Endophthalmitis Post Intravitreal Injection

David Almeida, MD, MBA, PhD, Thomas A. Albini, MD

27-Gauge Talk

Charles C. Wykoff, MD, PhD, Yoshiro Yonekawa, MD

Giant Retina Rock & Roll

Athanasios Papakostas, MD, R. Ross Lakhanpal, MD

Tips for Successful Retinal Implant Surgery

Aleksandra Rachitskaya, MD, Geeta A. Lalwani, MD

Now Is the Time to Embrace DAVS

Charles C. Wykoff, MD, PhD, Rishi Singh, MD

A First Time for Everything: Gene Therapy Pearls

Audina M. Berrocal MD, Geeta A. Lalwani, MD

Pro Tips for Macular Holes

R. Ross Lakhanpal, MD, Robert A. Sisk, MD

Treat the Patient, Not the Test

Geeta A. Lalwani, MD, Jay S. Duker, MD

OCT of the Peripheral Retina

Geeta A. Lalwani, MD, Netan Choudhry, MD, FRCS(C)

Retinal Implants: An Area of Growth and Excitement

Mark S. Humayun, MD, PhD, R. Ross Lakhanpal, MD

VBS: 2017

Tips for Successful Buckling

Lisa C. Olmos de Koo, MD, MBA

ILM Texas Taco

James Major Jr., MD

iOCT for Argus II Surgery

Aleksandra Rachitskaya, MD

PFO Marbles

Chirag Jhaveri, MD

Lens Exchange for IOLs

Derek Kunimoto, MD, JD

VBS: 2016

Take What the Anatomy Gives You

Jonathan L. Prenner, MD, Richard S. Kaiser, MD

Expert Panel: Surgical Complications

Andrew Schimel, MD, Anton Orlin, MD

Maximizing Macular Surgery

Anton Orlin, MD, Robert A. Sisk, MD

Improving Retinal Detachment Outcomes

Anton Orlin, MD, Paul Hahn, MD, PhD

Challenging Cases of Retinal Detachment

Aleksandra Rachitskaya, MD, David R.P. Almeida, MD, PhD, MBA

Unexplained Vision Loss After Silicone Oil Removal

Aleksandra Rachitskaya, MD, Lihteh Wu, MD

VBS: 2015

Scleral Fixation with Gore-Tex and an Akreos IOL

Andrew Moshfeghi, MD, Rahul Khurana, MD

The 2015 Revised Guidelines for Intravitreal Injection

Charles C. Wykoff, MD, PhD, Harry Flynn MD

Valved Cannulae in RD

Charles Mango, MD, Paul Hahn, MD, PhD

Trauma and Intraocular Foreign Bodies

Aleksandra Rachitskaya, MD, Andrew Moshfeghi, MD

Chandelier Buckles. Initial Experience.

Charles Mango, MD, Tamer Mahmoud, MD, PhD

27-Gauge: Gimmick or Game Changer?

Charles Mango, MD, Ted Leng, MD