37th APACRS Annual Meeting Final Program

2025 APACRS LIM LECTURE

The APACRS LIM Lecture is the highest award of the society. Since 1991, outstanding ophthalmologists who have made extraordinary contributions to the development of cataract and refractive surgery have been invited to deliver this lecture at the Opening Ceremony of the APACRS annual meeting.

Thomas Kohnen is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology, Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany, also Visiting Professor of Ophthalmology at the Cullen Eye Institute, Baylor College of Medicine in Houston/ USA, and at the Medical University of Silesia, Katowice/Poland. Clinically, he is specialized in cataract, intraocular lenses (IOLs), refractive and cornea surgery as well as treatment of glaucoma and retinal problems. His research focuses on IOLs, laser technology and cataract, refractive (in particular now myopia and presbyopia) and corneal surgery. Prof. Kohnen is Editor of the JCRS, Associate Editor of “Die Ophthalmologie” and “Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde”, Ad Hoc Associate Editor of AJO, Editorial Board member of Graefe’s Archive. He is (co-)author of more than 600 publications, (co-) promotor of 101 PhD students and gave more than 500 invited lectures. He is Treasurer of the ESCRS (2017-2024), Treasurer and Past President of the German Ophthalmological Society (DOG), Past President of the German Speaking Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (DGII) and Past President of the International Intraocular Implant Club (IIIC). Prof. Kohnen is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the AAO Lifetime Achievement Honor Award in 2019, the silver (2014) and platinum medal (2019) of the German Ophthalmic Surgery (DOC), the scientific award of the German Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery (DGII) in 2022. He gave the Gold Medal of the AUSCRS in 2018, the SASCRS Kritzinger Safari Award in 2022 and the Haigis Memorial Lecture at the Intraocular Power Club (IPC) in 2024. Friday, 22 August 2025 • 10:45 – 12:15hrs Convention Hall 2, Mahatma Mandir Convention and Exhibition Centre (MMCEC), Ahmedabad, India BRIDGING LASER AND LENS EXTRACTION - THE EVOLUTION OF PHAKIC IOLS Phakic IOLs (PIOL) were developed in the 1970/80 and appeared on the market as iris fixated (Worst/Fechner, 1986), anterior chamber angle-supported (Baikoff, 1987) and ciliary sulcus fixated (Fyodorov, 1993) options. A tremendous growth of myopia and presbyopia has been noticed by surgeons worldwide. PIOLs were then necessitated as a method to correct high myopia, later astigmatism and more recently to lower refractive errors. Presbyopia correction is among the latest applications of PIOLs. In ciliary sulcus fixated IOL, sizing is a particularly important part of IOL calculation. Prof Thomas Kohnen will share his experience with 3,000 PIOLs of all types he has implanted and explanted and will also provide peer-reviewed data over the last 20 years.

Thomas KOHNEN Germany

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