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, January 13, 2026 8:30pm EST
Registration: Click here to Register
Please join us on Tuesday, January 13th at 8:30 PM EST for the next VBS Surgical Rounds! The topic for this session will be Macular Cases. The discussion will be moderated by our VBS Surgical Rounds Team, including Drs. Archana Seethala, Royce Chen, Grant Justin, Vlad Diaconita, and John Miller. We are excited to be joined by our guest of honor, Dr. Raymond Iezzi of the Mayo Clinic, a fitting addition for this topic as he is a macular surgery guru.
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 Grant Justin (grant.a.justin@gmail.com) 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 annual meeting in April!
Tuesday February 10, 2026
Registration: TBD
Please save the date for the upcoming Medical Retina Rounds.
This will be an informal discussion of some of the most interesting medical retina cases, directed towards fellows and retina specialists in their first few years of practice.
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!