ATPO

At ACE, ATPO will offer several unique opportunities for attendees. ATPO members receive a reduced pricing for course registration. Events include:

• ATPO Keynote Address – I. Howard Fine, MD
• Grand Rounds
• Scientific Sessions
• Written/Practical Review Sessions

"State-of-the-Art Lens Surgery" - I. Howard Fine, MD

ATPO is pleased to announce “State-of-the-Art Lens Surgery” featuring I. Howard Fine, MD, as the 2009 Keynote Address, which will be held during the Scientific Sessions in San Francisco on Saturday, October 24, 2009.

Dr. Fine did his undergraduate training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his medical and ophthalmology training at Boston University Medical Center. Specializing in cataract/IOL and refractive surgery, he has been in private practice for 39 years in Eugene, Oregon. Dr. Fine is a Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, and a co-founder of the Oregon Eye Surgery Center.

As a leader in organized medicine and ophthalmology, Dr. Fine has held local, state, national, and international leadership positions. He served as the president of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery in 2001, and is currently the president of the International Intraocular Implant Club. Elected by his peers, Dr. Fine is among the cataract surgeons for inclusion in all editions of “Best Doctors in America^®” from 1992 to 2008, and is listed in the first edition of Marquis’ “Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare.” He received the prestigious Innovator’s Award, given annually by the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, and the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s Senior Honor Award. He was honored with the Baylor/Welsh Cataract and Refractive Surgery Congress Maumenee Award, the United Kingdom and Ireland Societies for Cataract and Refractive Surgery Rayner Medal, the Brazilian Phaco Club Award, the Boston University School of Medicine Distinguished Alumnus Award, the Oregon Health and Sciences University Meritorious Achievement Award, the Golden Orchid Award from the National Healthcare Group in Singapore, and the Ophthalmologist of the Millennium Award from the International Academy for Advances in Ophthalmology in Mumbai, India. In 1999, he was named one of the 25 Most Influential Ophthalmologists of the 20th Century by a vote of 16,000 ophthalmologists worldwide, polled by the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. In 2005, Dr. Fine gave the inaugural lecture in honor of his mentor and friend, Charles D. Kelman, MD, at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and received the Strampelli Medal from the Italian Society of Ophthalmology and Italian Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery for innovative work in development of cataract surgery techniques. Dr. Fine has been a visiting professor at 31 medical schools in the United States and abroad, and has delivered 21 named lectureships.

Dr. Fine has designed instruments and implants, and has innovated many surgical procedures including cortical cleaving hydrodissection, chip and flip, crack and flip, and choo-choo chop and flip phacoemulsification techniques, and the temporal self-sealing clear corneal incision. He has contributed numerous publications to refereed medical journals and the medical press, written chapters and edited in textbooks and surgical atlases, and has lectured and taught extensively throughout the world.