2017 Charles D. Kelman Lecture

Alan S. Crandall, MD, previews his 2017 Charles D. Kelman Lecture: Phaco at 50: The Collision of Cataract and Glaucoma (Plus). 

“This lecture will have 3 main prongs. The first is about teaching of phaco technique during the early years of phacoemulsification. (There were many practicing physicians who did not have any training during their residency years.) The second is about the use of phaco in glaucoma patients. I feel that the glaucoma surgeon should strive to be the best cataract surgeon possible, and pseudoexfoliation will be part of this discussion. The third is about the introduction of doctors in developing countries to phaco. If local surgeons are able to develop ‘centers of excellence’ that will allow them to capture paying patients who would normally leave the country (e.g., fly from Ghana to England) for cataract surgery, then they will be able to perform the procedure on 9 or so poor patients for minimal or no cost. The economics of this idea will work in almost every developing country. But the surgeons must do surgery similar to that offered in the developed countries in order to capture these paying patients.”—Dr. Crandall

When: Monday Nov. 13, 11:45 a.m.-12:10 p.m., during Spo2, Spotlight on Cataract Complications (8:15 a.m.- 12:15 p.m.), at AAO 2017. 
Where: Great Hall.

This preview was excerpted from EyeNet AAO 2017 News, a tabloid distributed at the Morial Convention Center.