Chennai: IIRSI 2022, the 37th Intraocular Implant and Refractive Surgery Convention was inaugurated by State health Minister Ma Subramanian in Chennai on Saturday. This is considered India’s biggest platform for treating preventive blindness, intraocular lens (IOL) implantation, and refractive eye surgery. This two-day annual convention of IIRSI, an association of ophthalmologists in India, has attracted the participation of over 2500 ophthalmologists from across the country, and over 200 expert speakers and participants from abroad.
Prof. Dr Mahipal S Sachdev, Dr. Lalit Verma, Chairman, All India Ophthalmological Society (AIOS) Scientific Committee, Dr. Namrata Sharma, Professor of Ophthalmology at AIIMS Delhi, and Dr. Ragini Parekh, President, Intraocular Implant and Refractive Society of India (IIRSI), and Prof. Amar Agarwal, Secretary General – IIRSI were among the dignitaries present at the inaugural session.
The convention will host sessions on ‘Path Forward In Cataract and Refractive Surgery’, ophthalmic advances, ophthalmic surgery, Yo-ophthalmology, among others. There will be live surgical telecast sessions from Dr. Agarwal’s Eye Hospital; symposiums on subjects such as anterior segment, and challenging cases – besides, a special session of Indian Society of Cornea and Kerato Refractive Surgeons.
The convention will also feature foreign faculty lectures, sessions for young ophthalmologists, hands-on Wet Lab courses, ophthalmic premier league competition, court martial in ophthalmology, IIRSI film festival award show, IFFA, and IIRSI photography competition. IIRSI 2022 will witness distribution of awards to expert ophthalmologists from India and abroad.
