The 2025 program built on its evolving reputation as a multispecialty educational forum that successfully integrates ophthalmology and optometry, premium CME content, and a family-friendly format to foster professional growth without sacrificing work–life balance.
Family-friendly format empowers continuing education.
At the EnVision Summit 2025, medical students were given awards for best poster presentation. In exclusive interviews, they spoke with Ophthalmology Times about their award-winning posters and research.
At the EnVision Summit 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Poonam Misra, MD, and Alcina Lidder, MD, gave advice on managing glaucoma in patients with other ocular co-morbidities such as myopia and those who have undergone corneal transplantation.
At the Envision Summit 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Amy Zhang, MD, discussed the importance of ergonomics in the operating room.
At the EnVision Summit 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Tania Tai, Lucy Shen, and Shivani Kamat all gave insight into complications they have seen while performing glaucoma surgery.
At the Envision Summit 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Sara Wester, MD, discussed the Women Leaders in Eye Health session at the conference and the donation from Orbis that supported the session.
Bonnie Henderson, MD, founder and program director of the EnVision Summit, talked with Ophthalmology Times about the evolution of the conference and how it brings optometrists and ophthalmologists together to learn, discuss shared problems, and facilitate co-management in a family-friendly environment.
At the Envision Summit 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Kristen Nwanyanwu, MD, MBA, MHS, joined by her children, discussed her talk on eradicating TRD and the family-friendly environment of the conference.
At the Envision Summit 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, retina program chairs Geeta Lalwani, MD, and Majda Hadziahmetovic, MD, discussed Hadziahmetovic's presentation on deep learning models of neovascular AMD as well as their time at the conference.
At the Envision Summit 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Mike Farkas, MD, discussed gene therapy research for retinal degenerations that sidetracks the current "status quo" therapies of AAV-based replacement and CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing.
At the Envision Summit 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Kelly Donovan, MD, talked about her graduate research on the earliest phase of diabetic retinopathy, and trying to understand how hyperglycemia translates into disease.
At the Envision Summit 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Oleg Alekseev, MD, PhD, talked about difficulties in diagnosing inherited retinal degenerations due to mutations in over 300 different genes.
At the Envision Summit 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Ollya Fromal, MD, gave advice on how retina specialists can manage add-ons in their busy retina clinics.
At the Envision Summit 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Giulia Corradetti, MD discussed AI applications in the identification and prediction of OCT structural biomarkers in intermediate AMD.
At the Envision Summit 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Sharon Fekrat, MD, FACS, FASRS talked about multi-modal retinal and choroidal imaging to diagnose and identify neurodegenerative diseases using machine learning.
At the Envision Summit 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Rachel Simpson, MD, talked about new developments in glaucoma treatment and really how to tailor glaucoma treatment to the patient.
At the Envision Summit 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Angela Zhu, MD, offered advice on cataract surgery for all ages, focusing on pediatrics.
At the Envision Summit 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Sherrol Reynolds, OD, FAAO, participated in a discussion on patient-centered care and the newest treatment strategies in neovascular AMD and DME.
At the Envision Summit 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Ashley Wallace Tucker, OD, FAAO, FSLS, gave insight into advancements in keratoconus management and the importance of early detection as well as tips and advice on fitting scleral contact lens
At the Envision Summit 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Lana Rifkin, MD, gave clinicians advice on how, and when it may be most appropriate to use the new G2211 code.
At the Envision Summit 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Arjan Hura, MD, talked about EVO ICL surgery, its benefits, and how every ophthalmologist has the ability and training to conduct the surgery even if they aren't aware.
At the Envision Summit 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Nita Valikodath, MD, MS, gave insight into a challenging case of a 14-year-old boy who had trauma-related retinal detachment in his right eye, where a further macula-on retinal detachment with retinal dialysis was found in the left.
At the Envision Summit 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Deepak Sambhara, MD, gave insight into the 96-week post hoc fluid outcomes analysis of patients who participated in the phase 3 clinical trial PULSAR.
At the Envision Summit 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Carol Karp, MD, discussed new research presented by her fellows at the meeting on AI for the diagnosis of ocular surface tumors as well as a new "tear biopsy" for the detection of cancer.
At the Envision Summit 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Brittany Simmons, MD, discussed periorbital injuries and how they can affect the soft tissue and bones around the eye and gives insight into how clinicians should best go about treating it.
At the Envision Summit 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Jessica Steen, OD, FAAO talked with glaucoma surgeons on the importance of comanaging patients throughout their lifetime.
Laxmi Devisetty, MD, and Eva Kim, MD, look ahead at upcoming sessions focusing on geographic atrophy and refractive and cataract surgery at the Envision Summit 2025.
Sonia H. Yoo, MD, a cornea, cataract, and refractive surgery specialist and a member of the planning committee for the EnVision Summit, highlights a session focused on the latest advancements in lens implant technologies, refractive procedures, and imaging innovations. The summit will be held from February 14 to 17, 2025, at the Caribe Hilton San Juan in Puerto Rico.
