Events

NEXT: NCRC Meeting February 24, 2024, 11:00am

Topic: NCRC Retina Case Conference.

Hosted by Dr. Dilraj Grewal, MD. Please find interesting cases and let us know your title before the meeting so that we can put together an agenda. (Send message via contact page). Will be at a great restaurant (Support by Scott Hascher, Alcon) in the Durham area (email notices to follow). Meeting at the Angus Barn in Raleigh.

Most recent VIDEO of a meeting: Duke AVS

A History of past meetings:

NCSEPS/NCRC meeting Asheville: September 8-10th 2023 (Past)

Live! Durham: March 23-25, 2023, Duke fAVS/AVS (Video of NCRC presentations only)

Zoom: February 26, 2022 by Raj Shah, (video in process)

Zoom: September 26, 2021 hosted by Dr. Lejla Vajzovic at the NCSEPS Meeting (No video)

Zoom: April 24, 2021 hosted by Dr. Omar Punjabi, (Past, Video on Vimeo)

Zoom: January 9, 2021 by Dr Raj Shah, MD. (Video in process)

Zoom: Sept. 19, 2020 w NCSEPS (Past, Video on Vimeo)

Zoom: Charlotte, NC, April 25th, 2020 (Past, no video)

Winston-Salem, NC, at Wake Forest, January 11, 2020 (Past, Video on Vimeo)

Asheville, NC, NCSEPS 2019 meeting, September 6-8, 2019 (Past, video on Vimeo)

Durham, NC at Duke AVS Meeting April 12-13, 2019 (Past, no Video due to AVS)

Chapel Hill, NC, at UNC January 26, 2019 (Past)

Greensboro, NC, September 21-22, 2018 with NCSEPS (Past, no video)

Charlotte, NC, April 7th, 2018 (Past)

Durham, NC at Duke. February 10, 2018 (Past)

Hot Springs, VA, September 22-24, 2017. (Past)

Winston Salem, NC at Wake Forrest May 20, 2017 (Past)

Peter Van Houten (N4PVH) is inviting you to a Zoom meeting (when not in person).

Meetings have resumed in person again. We will still use Zoom from time to time for smaller meetings.

Join Zoom Meeting (Retina Club Members)
Password: please check your email as there is a new password to get in.
Meeting ID: 699 723 8982
We are using Vimeo instead of YouTube to store and display the videos.

An email will be sent twice or three times before the meeting so if you did not get a recent announcement about the last meeting, you are not on the email list. Go to the contact page and send me your address to be included or excluded as you wish. We are looking at the future dates and will post them as soon as management decides.

See individual and corporate support for the meetings and activities: Here.

Suggestions for case presentations:

Featured Cases/Topics Here are some interesting cases. (All are welcome, Please let us know what the topic is so we can do some research on the cases to be more prepared for the discussion.).

Please try and keep the length of time down to 10-15 minutes each as we would like to have everyone be able to present their cases that they brought to the meeting. We seem to run out of time or run rather long, so keep it short and to the point please. This is about difficult cases and interesting observations as well as problem solving where the presenter may not know the answer and is asking for a consensus or ideas from the audience. Sometimes the presenter has solved the problem and done the testing and literature searches to back up his/her conclusions. It is an open forum so “it is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get.”

Now that we are on Zoom, it is a little different! We will screen share with the presenters so that they can run Powerpoint or Keynote on their computer while using Zoom. Once they are done with the presentation and answering questions, then the screen sharing goes to the next presenter. the audience can type questions on the “Chat” function to the whole group labeled “everyone” or to the speaker directly. The audience can unmute their microphone by holding their space bar and start talking when they are recognized by the speaker. Once the question is asked, then let go of the space bar and the microphone will mute again. This is important to keep the ambient noise down as all the microphones of all the audience could potentially make a real noise when combined. The Zoom meetings are recorded and the video will be available with a link on this page when they are processed.

Also: this is an informal presentation and we like to see a fun image at the beginning of you or others having fun.

Please make sure that your presentations are scrubbed of any identifying information to keep patient confidentiality. NCRC and the administrators cannot be held accountable for any unintended release of information.

Suggestions for Meeting Hosts:

The host will need to send the details of the location, date, times, parking etc… to the Administrator (PVH) so that announcements and reminders can be emailed. We usually have three email reminders to the membership prior to the meeting.  In the past we have had 20-40 people at the meetings. The host usually gets a company sales person to cover the lunch but this is up to the host to decide how to handle it. Sometimes they have a table set up in the hall to show their products as well.

If we want to “LiveStream”: For the meeting we will need a good sized conference room with a projector or large monitors and a high speed WiFi connection to be able to live stream it to YouTube. Communication with an “IT” person to look at the specifics of the connections is needed. We get about 125-500 viewers from all over the globe watching and sometimes posting questions to the presenters on line. We currently have 153 members in a 3 state area locally (ie not online) and it is growing.

As a host, you get to direct the order of the case presentations and are the “master of ceremonies” although all the coordinators help with comments and suggestions. It is an open informal forum without timers or specific rules. We usually start at 10 am to 11 am to allow people to travel a distance to get to the meeting. We break for lunch and start the meeting again. We do like shorter 5-15 minute presentations to allow as many physicians to present cases without going too far past 3 or 4 PM. We like to let the presenter finish their presentation even if it goes a little long. All cases can be presented such as surgery, medical issues, known diagnosis and unknowns that need advice or other opinions from the audience (“stumpers”). Occasionally a very rare disease is discussed in more detail to remind us all what it was but does not need to be a treaties on the subject. See the zoom comments above for when we do not meet in person.

Please feel free to call or write the administrator (contact page) with questions. There is a link at the top of the page to take you to youtube where past meetings can be viewed. We would love to have short presentations or teasers to put on this web page to entice people to come to the meeting.

Looking forward to your meeting already! PVH