A committee of iSBCS has been working on “Suggestions for safe ISBCS” for over 1 year. The final version was reviewed and voted on for acceptance by the membership at our 2nd annual meeting in Barcelona, Spain on Sept. 14, 2009, and it has now (Nov. 5, 2009) been written up and formatted.2009-11-04-final-posted-isbcs-sbcs-suggestions2

A presentation on SBCS and iSBCS will be given at the CarlZeiss Meditech booth on Monday April 6, 2009, 11:00 - 11:30 AM, by Steve Arshinoff MD FRCSC, President iSBCS. All are welcome.

September 12-15, 2009: ESCRS Barcelona. First ESCRS SBCS course to be presented by members of iSBCS. It will be presented on Monday 14th September 2009 from 08.00 - 10.00 AM.

1. Presentation: “SBCS & iSBCS” by Steve Arshinoff MD.  Zeiss booth. Monday April 6, 2009 11 AM - noon.
2. Presentation: “SBCS” by Charles Claoue MD, at Rayner Symposium - Sunday April 5, 6:30 AM.

The inagural meeting was held  at the  ESCRS annual meeting (European Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons) on Sept. 13, 2008 - sponsored by Carl Zeiss - Meditech.

iSBCS founded Sept. 1, 2008.
Founding president: Steve A Arshinoff MD
Founding vice president: Charles Claoue MD
Founding secretary-treasurer: John Bolger MD
Founding Mission Statement:
iSBCS exists to promote education, mutual cooperation, and progress in simultaneous bilateral cataract surgery. Our goal is to explore and implement better methods to rapidly and effectively regain human vision lost with ageing due to presbyopia [...]