ASRS is an international, state-or-the-art event offering something for everyone: scientific papers, posters, panel discussions on controversial issues and techniques, award lectures, a Retina Case Conference, the 25th Annual Film Festival, international symposia, and subspecialty review courses.

Did you miss the 2023 European Society of Ophthalmology congress? Don't worry – you can catch up with our video coverage.

Antimicrobial resistance is resistance to multiple classes of antibiotics, which makes it extremely challenging to treat infections caused by such organisms.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is going to be highly instrumental in patient care in all medical specialties and will be highly relevant in eye care.

Ophthalmology Times Europe© is proud to cover the European Society of Ophthalmology 2023. We spoke to SOE presenter Panayiota Founti, PhD, FEBO, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon & Training Director, Glaucoma Service Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK.

Dr Ala Moshiri provides an overview of current treatment options for diabetic macular oedema.

Ala Moshiri, MD, PhD, provides an overview of current treatment options for diabetic macular edema.

Jorge L. Alió, MD, PhD, FEBOphth, shared his pearls situations in which a patient presents with a cataract and corneal opacity at the European Society of Ophthalmology Conference, Prague.

Nicholas Volpe, MD shares insights from his talk titled "Optic Neuropathy Versus Maculopathy" at the European Society of Ophthalmology Congress being held in Prague.

Dr Christiana Dinah discusses her SOE presentation, "Geographic Atrophy: A Mixed Method Study."

Paracentral acute middle maculopathy can develop after excessive intake of caffeine and alcohol according to Obadah Moushmoush, MD.

Omnigen® may be an alternative treatment option for patients with a persistent corneal epithelial defect. The product provides a convenient and effective treatment that can be administered in an outpatient setting.

SOE holds a special place in its heart for the up-and-coming young ophthalmologists and is providing them a number of opportunities to hone their skills and establish professional contacts at this meeting.

The European Society of Ophthalmology (SOE) 2023 Congress will convene from June 15 to 17 in Prague, Czech Republic.

Ronald Zambrano, lab supervisor for the advanced Ophthalmic Imaging Lab at NYU Langone, talks about lamina cribrosa pressure and predicting structural glaucoma progression at this year's ARVO meeting.

Japanese investigators have found an ocular biomarker of cardiovascular diseases.

Dr Edmund Arthur shares his research on the early detection of diabetic retinopathy in underserved communities at this year's ARVO meeting.

Dr T.Y. Alvin Liu talks about predictive AI and its uses in ophthalmology and screening of the eyes at this year's ARVO meeting.

Dr Carl Danzig, MD, FASRS, spoke at this year's ARVO meeting on the post hoc analysis for the GATHER trials regarding vision loss and patients receiving ACP 2/mg versus sham.

Dr Caroline Baumal talks about Apellis' presentations focusing on visual function, imaging and artificial intelligence at this year's ARVO meeting.

Dr Deborah Ferrington talks about her ARVO presentation on using human donor tissue to identify the mechanism responsible for the death of the retinal pigment epithelium.

The programme includes thousands of poster and paper presentations by up-and-coming vision scientists and world leaders in their respective subspecialties.

The host city of New Orleans, Louisiana, US, is replete with old world charm and ambiance and can satisfy any sightseeing, gastronomic and musical appetites.

The various aspects of home monitoring for patients with age-related macular degeneration are discussed in this point/counterpoint by Prof. Rufino Silva, University of Coimbra / Coimbra Hospital and University Centre, Portugal, and Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Robert P. Finger, PhD, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Bonn, Germany, during the 14th annual Congress on Controversies in Ophthalmology in Lisbon, Portugal.

Pedro Fonseca, MD, Coimbra Hospital and University Centre, Portugal, and Andrew G. Lee, MD, Blanton Eye Institute, Houston Methodist, Texas, United States, discuss the various pros and cons of offering teprotumumab for all patients with thyroid eye disease.

In a keynote lecture at the 14th Annual Congress on Controversies in Ophthalmology in Lisbon, Hendrik Scholl, MD, co-founder and director of the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel, discussed its mission to unravel the mysteries of vision and human eye disease.

Angela Carneiro, MD, PhD, discusses her position on a discussion titled Presence of Macular Neovascularization on OCTA is Predictive of Subsequent Exudation with David Hutton, Executive Editor, Ophthalmology Times®.

Session moderators, speakers and audience members all will examine and analyse the most relevant and controversial issues within the field of ophthalmology.

David S. Boyer, MD, presented data from the PHOTON study examining the safety and efficacy of high-dose aflibercept for treatment of diabetic macular edema at the 2023 Angiogenesis, Exudation, and Degeneration conference.

The Keralink Trial was the first randomized clinical trial that tested the hypothesis that corneal cross-linking (CXL) might decrease keratoconus progression in children compared with the use of spectacles or contact lenses.