The highly anticipated VBS Academic Calendar for 2025-26 has arrived!
This year’s calendar is filled with engaging medical rounds, dynamic surgical discussions, and, of course, our Annual Meeting 2026 in Las Vegas. Be sure to save the dates and start preparing your cases for submission! Selected cases will be featured at these sessions.
All sessions are hosted online via Zoom and are open to all VBS members and guests. We especially encourage fellows and residents to participate, and we invite faculty to share these educational opportunities with all trainnees. As each meeting approaches, Zoom links and submission guidelines will be shared. Please sign up for VBS membership to receive email updates and other important perks.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
8:30pm EST
Registration: Zoom Webinar Registration
This session will focus on Surgical Diabetics and will be moderated by the VBS Surgical Rounds team, including Drs. Royce Chen, Vlad Diaconita, Grant Justin, John Miller, and Archana Seethala. We are also honored to welcome our guest of honor, Yannek Liederman, of Duke University School of Medicine, who will join the discussion.
We are looking for video submissions from fellows in training and junior faculty, so if you have a cool video to share, please submit it via the below instructions! This is meant to be a core surgical techniques meeting designed for discussion relevant to fellows in training. Please do share videos of all types, not just film festival worthy clips. We all can learn from each other’s successes and failures.
Video Submission Instructions: If you would like to submit a video, please submit a brief powerpoint (clinical history and exam findings, no teaching slides required) and an edited surgical video (3 minutes or less) to Dr. John Miller <John_Miller@meei.harvard.edu> via Box (https://vit-
VBS Rounds Format: This online meeting is intended to be an active and informal discussion of retina surgical concepts geared specifically towards fellows and attendings in early stages of practice. For each session, we will present 5-6 surgical videos from a larger pool of submitted videos, followed by an excellent panel discussion. At the end of the session, attendees will vote on the top video. The winning fellow video for the VBS Surgical Rounds series this year, will be automatically entered into our VBS Fellows Foray session at the next annual meeting (2027)!
Sunday, May 10, 2026
Registration: TBD
This online meeting is intended to be an active and informal discussion of retina surgical concepts geared specifically towards fellows and attendings in early stages of practice. For each session, we will present 5-6 surgical videos from a larger pool of submitted videos, followed by an excellent panel discussion. At the end of the session, attendees will vote on the top video.
We look forward to seeing you at VBS Surgical Rounds!