Immediately Sequential Bilateral Cataract Surgery (ISBCS)

Dr. Arshinoff MD FRCSC graduated from Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, Texas, and completed his ophthalmic training at The University of Toronto, Canada, where he is Professor at the Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences. His areas of research interest include ophthalmic viscosurgical devices and related surgical techniques, phacoemulsification machine design, immediately sequential bilateral cataract surgery, endophthalmitis prophylaxis, and medical outreach programs. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery and has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications and 38 medical textbook chapters. Dr. Arshinoff is the designer of the OMA-CNIB (Ontario Medical Association - Canadian National Institute for the Blind) Mobile Medical Eye Care Unit (MMECU) and is the medical director of this program to the North of Ontario, Canada. He is the Founding President of the Toronto Ophthalmological Society, the Eye Foundation of Canada, and the International Society of Bilateral Cataract Surgeons (iSBCS) and is a Past President of the International Intra-ocular Implant Club, the parent society of the American, European and all other Societies of Cataract and Refractive Surgery globally. Professor Charles Claoué was Senior Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at Queen’s Hospital, BHR University Hospitals NHS Trust, and is currently in independent private practice in London. He worked in the NHS from 1981 and specialises in advanced cataract surgery, intraocular lens design, corneal transplantation, corneal (Femto-LASIK) and lens refractive surgery (including PRELEX). In 2017 he founded EYE-LAW CHAMBERS to improve standards in medicolegal ophthalmology. He is the only ophthalmologist in the United Kingdom who has been a Clinical Lead for Organ Donation. Professor Claoué trained at the University of Cambridge, St.Thomas’ Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital, and holds academic links to the Universities of London, Pretoria, Ulster and the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has been Secretary to both UKISCRS and the British Society for Refractive Surgery. He is Liveryman Guardant of the Society of Apothecaries Guild, and Freeman of The City of London. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed articles as well as book chapters and edited an early text-book on refractive surgery. He is a council member of The Academy of Experts and a member of the International Intraocular Implant Club. Amongst his many achievements, he was the first surgeon to describe PRELEX (PREsbyopic Lens EXchange). He was a founding member of the International Society of Bilateral Surgeons (iSBCS) as an early protagonist of ISBCS. Outside of medicine, his interests include classic cars, history and farming. Björn Johansson, MD PhD, Fellow of European Board of Ophthalmology, Associate professor and senior staff member at the Department of Ophthalmology, Linköping University Hospital, Sweden, studied medicine at the universities of Uppsala and Linköping. Ophthalmogical and surgical training took place in Linköping. Since 1990 he has performed 15000+ cataract operations. For more than 15 years he has been trainer for new cataract surgeons at Linköping University Hospital. After defending his thesis in the field of electrophysiology, focus in research has been cataract surgery outcomes and Immediate Sequential Bilateral Cataract Surgery, ISBCS, which he started to perform in 1999. In around 50% of regular cataract cases he plans ISBCS. Previously secretary of the Swedish Ophthalmological Society he serves in the society’s specialist exam work group and also co-authors the national Swedish curriculum for education of new cataract surgeons. He is member of the American, European and Scandinavian Societies for Cataract & Refractive Surgeons, the International Intra-Ocular Implant Club and the International Society for Bilateral Cataract & Refractive Surgeons. Doctor in Ophthalmology from the Complutense University of Madrid, outstanding cum laude with the doctoral thesis on corneal refractive surgery, CEO of the Pérez Silguero ophthalmology clinic in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, Head of the ophthalmology service at the San José Hospital in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Reviewer of the archives of the Canarian Society of Ophthalmology, and of the Archives of the Spanish Society of Ophthalmology. Specialized in corneal refractive surgery, and multifocal intraocular lenses, specialist in corneal tomography, developer of surgical material, specialist in oculoplasty (fellow in Mexico, Hospital for the Blind), pediatric ophthalmologist and glaucomatologist. Dr. Susan Ruyu Qi holds a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree from Université de Montréal and is finishing her final years of residency training in ophthalmology at Université Laval, Quebec, Canada. In residency, her research interest focused on Immediately Sequential Bilateral Cataract Surgery (ISBCS), Topography-guided LASIK outcomes, and the clinical trial of a novel retinal oximetry device. Passionate about innovation in medicine, artificial intelligence, and entrepreneurship, she obtained a Master of Science in Clinical Informatics Management (MCiM) at Stanford University in California. Having grown up in Montreal, Canada, and China, she is fully fluent in English, French and Mandarin Chinese. Mike Yuan Chen immigrated to Canada from China as a middle school student and worked hard academically as he has always been highly motivated to become a physician. He graduated with an honours bachelor’s degree in medical sciences (BMSc) from Western University in Ontario, Canada. He next met Dr. Arshinoff (senior chief author/editor) at his office in 2018, where he subsequently worked as an ophthalmic assistant/technician for close to three years to save and prepare himself for medical school. He contributed to several projects related to bilateral simultaneous postoperative endophthalmitis, which led to 3 peer-reviewed publications. He now studies at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington DC, with a special interest in ophthalmology as a future career. Dr. Mélanie Hébert MD MSc is an ophthalmology resident at Université Laval, Québec, Canada. She obtained her medical degree and master’s degree in biomedical sciences concurrently at the Université de Montréal. She was awarded the FRQS Master’s Training for Medical Students and CIHR Canada Graduate Scholarships for her research. She has wide-ranging research interests in every ophthalmology subspecialty, including immediately sequential bilateral cataract surgery (ISBCS), surgical outcomes, and public health. She publishes many peer-reviewed articles, conducts peer reviews for numerous journals, and presents in local to international conferences. Dr. Hébert is also an avid classical pianist and chamber musician who competed internationally and performs in fundraising concerts.

1. The History of Cataract Surgery from ancient times to ISBCS 2. Why did we not always do ISBCS? (What had to be overcome?) 3. The logic behind bilateral cataract surgery 4. The argument for and against ISBCS 5. ISBCS in children 6. The carbon footprints of ISBCS and DSBCS 7. The risk of bilateral endophthalmitis and IC antibiotics 8. Ophthalmic Viscosurgical Devices for ISBCS 9. Biometry for ISBCS 10. IOL Power Selection in 2022 – Best Practices for ISBCS and DSBCS 11. ISBCS and presbyopia correcting IOLs 12. Inclusions and Exclusions for ISBCS 13. Ethics surrounding ISBCS 14. Medico-legal Aspects of ISBCS 15. ISBCS and money 16. The Evolution of Bilateral Cataract Surgery - Global perspective 17. "Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come." Why was ISBCS resisted and how was this overcome? 18. The International Society of Bilateral Cataract Surgeons 19. Anesthesia for ISBCS 20. ISBCS - the patient's perspective 21. Is ISBCS appropriate for MSICS? 22. FLACS and ISBCS 23. The COVID-19 pandemic and the uptake of ISBCS 24. ISBCS: What we have learned, and how has it advanced ophthalmology? 25. The future and limitations of ISBCS