Welcome | Heading to the Top End | Accommodation | Registration | Gala Dinner | Invited Speakers | Program Overview | Advanced Trainee Program | Call for Abstracts | Film Festival | Sponsorship

You are invited……

AUSCRS at the Top End will be a great opportunity to disconnect from the daily grind and get away from the distractions of daily life.

As always, it will offer the chance to reconnect with friends, colleagues and international experts on the key challenges and new innovations in cataract and refractive surgery. At the same time you can lose yourself in the splendour and grandeur of the Outback.

See you in Darwin in July 2025.

Jacqui and Gerard

Why should you attend AUSCRS 2025?

Hear from our Co-Presidents, Jacqui Beltz and Gerard Sutton, when they were interviewed on Hamilton Island at the end of our 2024 Conference and asked the following questions:

• Who comes to AUSCRS meetings?

• What value do delegates take home from AUSCRS?

• What makes AUSCRS stand apart from other ophthalmology conferences around the world?

• What’s your vision for the future of AUSCRS?

DARWIN CONFERENCE CENTRE

Located on the spectacular Darwin Harbour, the world class Darwin Convention Centre is an iconic landmark in the tropical harbour city of the Northern Territory and will be the home of AUSCRS 2025.

Darwin is the gateway to the Australian Outback and is home to some of the country’s best tourism experiences and with winter temperatures in the mid 30’s, it is the perfect escape from the colder areas of Australia.

The Darwin Convention Centre is the spectacular centrepiece of the picturesque Darwin Waterfront Precinct which offers high quality accommodation, upmarket shops and eateries, stylish boutiques along with sheltered sandy beach, wave lagoon pool, pleasant walkways and lush parklands.

Unlike other capital city convention centres, Darwin’s centre is ‘boutique’ in size and AUSCRS will take over the entire centre!

July is peak time in Darwin and accommodation will become limited as we get closer to AUSCRS 2025.

To accommodate our growing attendee numbers, we are working with a number of venues to house all of our AUSCRS ‘family’. Most of the venues are within a short walk to the Convention Centre and there will be shuttle buses running to and from other venues for all AUSCRS delegates.

There are 4 x Four Star properties - (Adina and Hilton x 3 venues) and one Five Star property - (Mindil Beach Resort).

Accommodation bookings are available through the AUSCRS Registration system.

AUSCRS 2025 Accommodation Options

REGISTRATION is now open!

Earlybird DEADLINE for AUSCRS 2025 is March 23rd, 2025. Standard Fee will apply after this date.

All registrations include access to all Programs, Welcome Reception, and all Conference Morning/Afternoon Teas & Lunches.

**Rates listed below include GST.

(Please note, companies who have confirmed sponsorship for 2025 will be sent a direct link to register their Representatives).

Gala Dinner 2025

In the usual AUSCRS style, our 2025 Gala Dinner will again be one to remember….

Theme:

Disconnecting from our present and Re-connecting with our past in the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s with tributes to:

• Abba - 70’s and early 80’s 

• Beatles – 60s and 70’s

• Grease  - 70’s

• Queen -  70’s – 80’s

• Nirvana - 90’s

Tickets are $195.00 per person and includes fabulous food, fabulous wine and fabulous fun.

Bookings can be done during the registration process.

What to wear?

Think about what was worn in the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s…

Here’s some ideas to get your creative juices flowing……

Program overview…

WEDNESDAY

1200-1730

Advanced Trainee Program

1800-21.30

Welcome Reception & Official Opening of AUSCRS 2025

THURSDAY

0830-1730

Doctors’ Program
Support Staff Program

• Platinum Sponsors’ Dinner Symposia

• Free evening for
  everyone

FRIDAY

0645 - 0815

• Platinum Sponsors’ Breakfast Symposia

0830-1730

Doctors’ Program
Support Staff Program

Free evening

Presidents’ Dinner

SATURDAY

0645 - 0815

• Platinum Sponsors’ Breakfast Symposia

0830-1630

Doctors’ Program
Support Staff Program

1800-LATE

Gala Dinner

Welcome to the real world of life after training. When you step onto the escalator of ophthalmology training, you have a clear pathway of tasks, with an end goal of becoming a consultant ophthalmologist. Stepping off that escalator into the real world can be daunting. The 2025 AUSCRS Advanced Trainee Day is aimed at raising awareness for some of the hurdles you may encounter as you leave the safety of your training nest.

You will hear from UKISCRS President, David Lockington, about burning bright but not burning out. Star ng your career can mean being pulled in different directions so it’s important to consider how best to prioritise your me, and consider private versus public work commitments while still achieving your goals.

You can play the perfect game, and s ll lose. It is the same with ophthalmology where no ma er how good you are in practice, you can still come up against medicolegal concerns. We will provide you with both legal and ophthalmic insights into how you can best protect yourself from medicolegal trouble at the start of your career.

Of course, it wouldn’t be an AUSCRS advanced trainee day without plenty of opportunities to network, mingle, socialize, meet our sponsors as well as international guest speakers and participate in some amazing wet lab opportunities.

Scholarships for 2025 will include full registration fees, and accommodation for the duration the afternoon of Wednesday 16th July prior to the main opening event.

Applications are open to all ophthalmology trainees on a formal training program including fellowship year with preference given to more senior trainees, and first time attendees.

Please note: There are a limited number of positions available.

Thank you to our confirmed sponsors for our 2025 Advanced Trainee Program.

WHEN AND WHERE?

Wednesday, 16th July, 2025
1200 – 1700.

Darwin Convention Centre

CO-ORDINATOR:

Dr Ben LaHood, FRANZCO

WHAT IS INCLUDED?

• 5 nights’ accommodation in hotel room in Darwin - Tues, Wed, Thurs, Frid, Sat nights.

• Registration to the Advanced Trainee Program (Wednesday afternoon)

• Wednesday lunch with the ‘team’

• AUSCRS 2025 Welcome Reception on the Wed evening

• Registration to the full AUSCRS program (Thurs, Frid, Sat)

• Gala dinner ticket (Saturday night)

Abstract Themes for Doctors’ Program:

• Cataract Technology

• Corneal Refractive Surgery

• Phaco Technology

• Cornea

• Phakic IOLs

• Toric IOLs

• EDOF Multifocal IOLs

• Improving Refractive Outcomes

• Other

Film Guidelines  

• Your video/film must contain interesting, challenging or complicated cases that have been encountered by the presenter. New techniques or innovations are also suitable subject matter for videos. 

• Finished films must be no longer than five minutes and cannot include any voice overs.

• The presenter must discuss components of the footage live

The criteria by which the judges will assess the entries are;

Our 2025 Sponsorship Prospectus is now available.