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 February 10, 2026
8:30pm EST
Registration: Zoom Webinar
Medical Rounds offer an engaging, informal deep dive into some of the most fascinating medical retina cases—designed especially for fellows and early-career retina specialists looking to sharpen their clinical insight and decision-making. Our moderators will be Drs. Yewlin Chee, Matt McKay and Tedi Begaj.
We are inviting videos from fellows-in-training. Join us as a presenter for this Medical Rounds session! Please submit a PowerPoint-based presentation featuring a compelling retina case, including case history, clinical presentation, relevant imaging and/or labs, treatment (if applicable), and clinical course—depending on the current stage of the case. Unresolved or “mystery” cases are also encouraged! Teaching slides are not required. Presentations should aim for 12 slides or less, in 8 minutes, with two minutes of discussion. The cases will be reviewed and about five (5) presentations will be selected for this session.
Please send your presentation to Dr. Yewlin Chee (yewlin.chee@gmail.com) and Dr. Matt McKay (kmmckay@mgb.org). The deadline for submission is Sunday, February, 1, 2026 11:59p ET.
We look forward to seeing you at VBS Medical Rounds!
Wednesday February 18, 2026
8:30pm EST
Registration: Zoom Webinar
This webinar is sponsored by 4D Molecular Therapeutics (4DMT), taking place on Wednesday, February 18th, 2026 at 8:30 PM EST!
Join us for a lively and interactive Journal Club webinar, exploring cutting-edge innovations in neovascular AMD and diabetic retinopathy care! The discussion will be moderated by our VBS Journal Club Team: Drs. Kyle Kovacs, Matt Starr, Jay Sridhar, and Kat Talcott.
We look forward to seeing you at our VBS Journal Club!
Tuesday, March 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. The winning fellow video for the VBS Surgical Rounds series this year will be automatically entered into our VBS Fellows Foray session at the annual meeting in April!
We look forward to seeing you at VBS Surgical Rounds!
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!