Steve Charles delivers 2018 Charles D. Kelman Innovator’s Lecture at ASCRS

Steve Charles
WASHINGTON — Steve Charles, MD, delivered the 2018 Charles D. Kelman Innovator’s Lecture at the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery annual meeting and stressed the importance of collaboration, technological advances and the evolutionary nature of the development process.
Charles has transformed the field, having invented a significant number of the associated techniques and devices used by vitreoretinal surgeons worldwide. He has conducted more than 38,000 procedures, lectured in 50 countries and operated in 25 countries, said Ann Kelman, wife of the