Opening Ceremony & APACRS LIM Lecture
Opening Ceremony
WELCOME BY MEDICAL DIRECTOR, SINGAPORE NATIONAL EYE CENTRE
Prof. WONG Tien Yin, Singapore
ADDRESS BY GUEST-OF-HONOUR, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, SINGAPORE
Minister Dr. Vivian BALAKRISHNAN, Singapore
OPENING ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT, ASIA-PACIFIC ASSOCIATION OF CATARACT & REFRACTIVE SURGEONS
Dr. Abhay VASAVADA, India
SNEC NAMED LECTURES
Prof. Ian CONSTABLE, Australia (Inaugural SNEC VisionSave Lecture)
Dr. Pearse KEANE, UK (SNEC 30th Anniversary Lecture)
Prof. Timothy SULLIVAN, Australia (Richard Fan Lectureship in Ophthalmology and Visual
Sciences)
Prof. Neil MILLER, USA (Distinguished Lecture)
APACRS CERTIFIED EDUCATORS (A.C.E)
Prof. CHEN WeiRong, China
Assoc. Prof. Timothy ROBERTS, Australia
Prof. ZHOU Xingtao, China
APACRS GOLD MEDAL
Dr. CHAN Wing Kwong, Singapore
APACRS LIM LECTURER
Dr. Ike. K. AHMED, Canada
APACRS LIM Lecture
Approaching Complex Cataract and Anterior Segment Reconstruction
Dr. Ike K. AHMED, Canada
2021 APACRS LIM Lecture
The APACRS LIM Lecture is the highest honor conferred by the APACRS.
This year, Iqbal Ike K. Ahmed, MD, FRCSC, Prism Eye Institute, Canada will deliver a lecture on “Approaching Complex Cataract and Anterior Segment Reconstruction” immediately following the opening ceremony on Saturday, 31 July 2021, 13:00 – 13:55hrs.
Dr Ahmed is world-renowned for his skills and has been at the leading edge of novel treatments for glaucoma, cataract and lens implant surgery. He has done pioneering work in innovative glaucoma surgery, developing and coining the term minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) as a new genre of surgical approaches and devices.
