In this episode John A. Hovanesian, MD, FACS, and Jim Mazzo are live from SightLine at the ASCRS meeting with guests Nicole R. Fram, MD, Kerry D. Solomon, MD, Vance Thompson, MD, and Steve Speares.

• Welcome to the Eyeluminaries podcast 00:02
• Review of episode 32 00:55
• Intro of Nicole Fram, MD 01:16
• Tell us why the MAHRVELS team is likely to be the leading fundraisers and why you picked your character for the team to portray (The Scarlet Witch)? 02:24
• Meeting about complications from cataract surgery, what do you think is the next big phase on how we’re going to handle complications with technology? 04:05
• Psychology of managing patients/conveying care 05:42
• What advice do you give to people who are starting their career? 06:50
• Intro of Kerry Solomon, MD 09:30
• What do we often get wrong with cataract surgery and what do we often get right? 10:25
• How do you stay an entrepreneur and a leading physician? 11:55
• What is Operation Sight? How did you create it? 14:19
• Where will keratorefractive surgery and lens-based surgery be in 5 or 10 years? 18:30
• Intro of Vance Thompson, MD 21:24
• What’s it like to be ASCRS president? 21:59
• What is BRiCS and why is it important? 23:54
• You’ve created a culture; can you talk about that culture you’ve created at your institute? 29:30
• Tell us about your winery! 33:28
• Intro of Steve Speares 36:45
• ASCRS just wrapped up. Your idea of creating a SightLine with a business approach, what did you do and what was the idea? 38:00
• As you look back and you look ahead, what changes do you hope to make? What do you hope your legacy will be at ACSRS? 40:57
• Can you expand more on how Washington, DC and Trump administration will impact your society/group? 44:19
• Richard Lindstrom in ASCRS hall of fame, tell us your own perspective and a good story 46:29
• Preview of episode 34 52:09
• Give us your feedback 52:40
• Thanks for listening 52:56

Nicole Fram, MD, is an adjunct assistant professor at the John A. Moran Eye Institute at the University of Utah. She is also the secretary for ASCRS, is a member of the Cataract Clinical Committee, and leads the Ophthalmology Quicksand Chronicles podcast with co-host Elizabeth Yeu, MD.

John A. Hovanesian, MD, FACS, is a faculty member at the UCLA Jules Stein Eye Institute and in private practice at Harvard Eye Associates in Laguna Hills, California.

Jim Mazzo is an ophthalmic industry veteran with over 40 years as CEO/chairman of both public and private companies, including Allergan, Avellino Labs, Carl Zeiss, Neurotech Pharmaceuticals and AMO. Additionally, he is an advisor for Bain Capital and CVC Capital Partners and sits on numerous industry boards such as MDMA.

Kerry Solomon, MD, is internationally renowned for LASIK and refractive cataract surgery. He is the co-founder of Operation Sight. He is the former chairman of the ASCRS FDA Committee.

Steve Speares, MD, is the executive director at ASCRS.

Vance Thompson, MD, is the founder of Vance Thompson Vision and director of refractive surgery in Sioux Falls, SD. He serves as a professor of ophthalmology at the Sanford School of Medicine at the University of South Dakota. Thompson is the immediate past president of ASCRS.

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Disclosures: Hovanesian consults widely in the ophthalmic field. Mazzo reports being an advisor for Anivive Lifesciences, Avellino Labs, Bain Capital, CVC Capital and Zeiss; executive chairman of Neurotech, Preceyes BV and TearLab; and sits on the board of Crystilex, Centricity Vision, IanTech, Lensgen and Visus. Healio could not confirm relevant financial disclosures for Fram, Speares, Solomon, and Thompson at the time of publication.