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Ho Chi Minh City: UBM AI + ICLguru Workshop and Symposium
18 December 2025
Today, Surgeons at Saigon Eye Hospital participated in valuable UBM AI + ICLguru training and discussion with experts from Sonomed Escalon and Dr. Sukanda Swasdibutra. Participants discussed their integration of the cutting-edge technology into their practices and had the opportunity to receive new insights from live demonstrations of ICLguru Pro.
Experience the Precision of AI in ICL Selection with UBM AI + ICLguru
16 December 2025
Join us for the UBM AI + ICLguru Workshop and Symposium in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, hosted by Saigon Eye Hospital, part of the Medical Saigon Group (MSG) — one of the leading eye care networks in the region.
Workshop Topic: Learn and Experience the Accuracy of UBM AI + ICLguru
📅 Thursday, December 18, 2025
⏰ 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM
📍 Saigon Eye Hospital
355–365 Ngo Gia Tu Street, Ward 3, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The symposium will feature international experts, including specialists from Sonomed Escalon, as well as Dr. Sukanda Swasdibutra, Senior Refractive Surgeon and LASIK/ICL Specialist from Thailand, who will share her clinical experience and insights.
We look forward to a day of learning, discussion, and collaboration with the ophthalmology community.
Wet Lab Training in Chiclayo, Peru
10 December 2025
As part of NORSURC 2025, we conducted a hands-on wet lab training for six doctors at Clínica Vidava in Chiclayo, under the guidance of Dr. Enrique Pfeiffer. The training was conducted using the VuMax HD ultrasound system from Sonomed Escalon.
Participants worked with UBM and explored the capabilities of UBM AI, developed to work seamlessly with ICL Guru. The Sonomed Escalon system features Eye Tracking, Align Assist, and Auto Capture AI, enabling automatic eye alignment, high-quality image capture, and highly accurate calculations for ICL vault prediction.
Doctors honed their practical skills and deepened their understanding of advanced ophthalmic technologies, improving diagnostic precision and patient care. This hands-on approach helps drive innovation and advances ophthalmic education across the region.
Special Presentation at NORSURC 2025
9 December 2025
Enrique Pfeiffer, M.D., Chief Medical Officer at Sonomed Escalon, delivered a special presentation: “UBM AI & ICLguru Pro: Image Capture and ICL Vault Prediction” at the NORSURC 2025 International Ophthalmological Course, one of the key academic events in the region focused on scientific updates and professional knowledge exchange in ophthalmology. Dr. Pfeiffer highlighted our advanced UBM AI and ICLguru technology: the only UBM system featuring Eye Tracking, Align Assist, and Auto Capture AI, ensuring the highest-quality images for the most accurate calculations.
Sonomed Escalon at the XXIII Annual Meeting of the Glaucoma Society
8 December 2025
At the annual congress dedicated to the latest approaches and technologies in glaucoma diagnostics and management, Sonomed Escalon and our official partner, Stormoff, presented the portable ultrasound system VuPad, designed for comprehensive and efficient ophthalmic assessment, including ICL sizing through UBM AI + ICLguru.
Dr. Devy Mandagi on ICLguru at Hai Yen Eye Care Hospital Symposium
30 November 2025
Dr. Mandagi presented at the Hai Yen Eye Care Hospital symposium in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, where he was one of the few international speakers invited. Dr. Mandagi shared the latest advancements in ICL technology and highlighted the benefits of using ICLguru, including how the system accurately predicts both the lens vault and the resultant angle for each available ICL size, ensuring a precise fit and optimal outcomes.
59th TOA Conference in Antalya
18 November 2025
Nearly 2500 ophthalmologists from across the world met at the 59th National Congress of the Turkish Ophthalmological Association (TOA) in Antalya. We were pleased to participate together with our partner Medisa, presenting the Sonomed Escalon VuPad ultrasound platform. A key highlight was a productive ultrasound training session with the Medisa sales team. We appreciate the warm welcome and the chance to connect with colleagues and partners from across Türkiye.
Zaldivar ICL Advanced Immersive Course: Wrap-Up
13 November 2025
The 2025 Zaldivar ICL Advanced Immersive Course has come to a close! This intensive training prepared ICL surgeons from around the world to succeed using UBM AI and ICLguru.
Zaldivar ICL Advanced Immersive Course: Mastering ICL
10 November 2025
The 2025 Zaldivar ICL Advanced Immersive Course provided great insights, discussion, live demonstration, and hands-on surgery with guidance from Roberto and Roger Zaldivar. Follow-up from the first day’s surgeries showed highly accurate UBM AI + ICLguru sizing predictions, great acuity results, and broad smiles on patient faces.
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Upcoming EVO ICL Masterclass – Zurich December 6–7
29 October 2025
Expert speakers Dr. Arthur Hammer, Dr. Andrea Russo, Dr. Roger Zaldivar, and Dr. Brendan Cummings are leading this advanced surgical workshop in Zurich, Switzerland to share their experiences. Attend for two days of learning, insights, and exchange with leading ICL surgeons to increase your confidence in ICL procedures and expand your practice.
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UBM AI + ICLguru at AAO 2025: Improving ICL Outcomes
21 October 2025
Eva Kim, MD and Arjan Hura, MD presented on Sonomed Escalon UBM AI + ICLguru at this year's AAO conference in Orlando, FL. Attendees packed the booth to hear their crucial insights on how using the technology has made an incredible impact on their ICL surgeries with unparalleled sizing accuracy, efficient workflow, expansion of patient eligibility, and improved surgeon and patient confidence.
New Training Video Available
13 October 2025
We are pleased to release a new video that provides a great overview of the UBM AI + ICLguru process, including patient prep, scanning using UBM AI, uploading to the REVAI platform, and performing ICLguru calculations. UBM scan alignment is covered explaining proper technique, UBM AI real-time feedback, and pearls of wisdom for consistently obtaining well-aligned scans. A great training tool for reference and for introducing new staff to UBM AI + ICLguru.
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Attracting More Patients
9 October 2025
Of course, some of the primary reasons you probably use UBM AI + ICLguru is optimizing surgical outcomes, including maximizing patient safety, improving surgeon and patient confidence, and maximizing practice efficiency. Discussing the benefits of the technology during pre-op consultation with ICL patients helps give them confidence in the procedure and can also be used to help give a patient a more comprehensive understanding of the benefits and risks of ICL when deciding upon potential refractive options. Beyond your current patients, practices can prospectively communicate their use of UBM AI + ICLguru, the investment in patient care that represents, and the benefits in surgical outcomes to attract patients to their practice. In the near future, Sonomed Escalon will launch a page on The Hub dedicated to strategies, methods, and resources to help your practice do just that. We’d love to hear how your practice already makes such efforts and what Sonomed Escalon can do to support you.
Keynote Address on ICL Sizing
7 October 2025
Sonomed Escalon UBM ICL + ICLguru user Devy Mandagi has been invited by STAAR Surgical to deliver the keynote address on ICL sizing at the Insight for Sight conference to be held at Hai Yen Eye Care in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (https://haiyeneyecare.com/) on 29 November 2025. Dr. Mandagi will present challenges faced by surgeons in ICL sizing and discuss the different ICL sizing methods currently available. He will present his results using UBM AI + ICLguru, demonstrating its clear place as the standard of care and its ability to expand the pool of patients eligible for ICL due to its predictive accuracy.
Speakers Corner at AAO 2025:
Selecting the Right ICL Size
3 October 2025
Interested in interacting live with other surgeons using UBM AI + ICLguru? You are invited to Sonomed Escalon Booth 1571 at AAO 2025 to hear Eva Kim MD and Arjan Hura MD speak about the significant impact UBM AI + ICLguru has made in their surgical planning, patient consultation, and results. We look forward to seeing you in Orlando!
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Prospective Patient Education
30 September 2025
UBM AI + ICLguru user Brendan Cummings MD posted an excellent patient education blog on Wellington Eye Clinic’s Facebook page for those considering vision correction but not sure if LASIK or ICL is right for them (and likely in some cases to introduce ICL as a potential option). In the article, he talks about how both treatments can give freedom from glasses and contacts but they work in different ways and may suit different eyes, prescriptions, and lifestyles. He also describes the patient experience, including undergoing advanced diagnostics to thoroughly assess their eyes before making any recommendations. Explaining the process of evaluation can both prepare a patient for what to expect and give them confidence that the best options will be presented and that the chosen option will have the best outcomes.
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Driving Continual Improvement
25 September 2025
Just as post-op follow-up is a crucial part of ICL surgery to assess lens placement and patient visual acuity, safety, and comfort, also of critical importance is entering post-op results into the REVAI ICLguru interface. The sophisticated deep-learning AI model developed by ICLguru can only be put to good use with post-op data fed in by its users. Doing so drives further refinement of the algorithms leading to even greater degrees of accuracy. Please do your part to help ICLguru help you help your patients by entering post-op results.
Sharing Experiences at IOA 2025
20 September 2025
Devy Mandagi MD delivered a presentation about ICL surgery and the use of Sonomed Escalon UBM AI + ICLguru during a Triastri Speakers Corner event at the IOA 2025 Congress in Bandung, Indonesia on 4 September 2025. Following the 40-minute talk, he performed a live demonstration of a UBM AI exam. Interestingly, Dr. Mandagi compared sizing recommendations obtained from UBM AI + ICLguru against the Casia2 sizing calculator, with both exams being performed on one of his patients during the IOA itself. ICLguru recommended a 12.1 mm ICL size while the Casia2 recommended 12.6 mm. Dr. Mandagi implanted the 12.1 mm lens and was rewarded for his confidence in UBM AI + ICLguru with excellent results as predicted; the 12.6 mm size would have resulted in excessive vault.
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Thank You for a Great ESCRS 2025!
15 September 2025
Thank you to all physicians, distributor partners, speakers, meeting organizers, and industry partners for a great meeting at ESCRS2025 in Copenhagen! The Sonomed Escalon team is very appreciative to have shared the latest innovations in ophthalmic ultrasound, including the extraordinary results being achieved by UBM AI + ICLguru.
Thanks for an Informative ESCRS 2025 Sonomed Escalon Speakers Corner
14 September 2025
A distinguished panel presented their experiences and insights on using UBM AI + ICLguru at the ESCRS 2025 Sonomed Escalon Booth Speakers Corner:
Roger Zaldivar MD spoke about the latest advancements in predictive accuracy and rotational stability assessment now introduced with ICLguru Pro.
Devy Mandagi MD discussed specific cases, including one patient where ICL implantation had been previously ruled out due to shallow ACDs, but with UBM AI + ICLguru identifying a suitable lens size and the confidence of the predicted accuracy, patient and surgeon decided to proceed with implantation with great success.
Brendan Cummings MD talked about Wellington Eye Clinic’s experiences with vastly improved accuracy leading to increased confidence in recommending ICLs and a doubling of their ICL implant cases year-over-year since implementing UBM AI + ICLguru.
Robert Ang MD presented comparative analysis of different sizing methods over more than 100 cases, showing UBM AI + ICLguru vastly superior and immediately driving his explant rate to zero.
Thank you to all the speakers for sharing and helping to advance knowledge and gain acceptance of UBM AI + ICLguru as the standard of care for ICL sizing.
Advanced Phakic IOL Training:
An Immersive Course at ESCRS 2025
10 September 2025
You are invited to join leading ICL surgeons for an immersive course on phakic IOLs covering the history of ICLs, determining the right candidates for ICLs, discussion of safe lens vaults, mastering UBM imaging and using ICLguru for determining optimal lens sizing, and management of edge cases, including those with challenging corneas. Moderated by Carlos Gordillo MD, with additional speakers including Roberto Zaldivar MD, Roger Zaldivar MD, and Enrique Pfeiffer MD.
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Speakers Corner at ESCRS 2025:
Selecting the Right Lens Size
6 September 2025
You are invited to join existing UBM AI + ICLguru users at ESCRS on Saturday and Sunday at the Sonomed Escalon Speakers Corner at the Sonomed Escalon ESCRS Booth B5.516. Scheduled to speak include Roger Zaldivar MD, Devy Mandagi MD, Brendan Cummings MD, and Robert Ang MD.
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Zaldivar Immersive ICL Course
28 August 2025
The Zaldivar Institute has announced the dates of this year's ICL Immersive Course on November 6,7, and 8th in Mendoza, Argentina. This course features simulated experience stations, with each designed to help you in different relevant areas of the technology on a day-to-day basis. Candidates will learn how to perform Implementation and integration to the medical practice.
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Auto-Populate Measurement Data
19 August 2025
The VuMAX HD and VuPad UBM systems have the ability to automatically measure several parameters when using the UBM AI Eye Tracking tool. The measurement data for angle-to-angle (ATA), aRise, and anterior chamber depth (ACD) is included with imaging files when they are auto-uploaded to ICLguru.
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Introducing ICLguru PRO
12 August 2025
With its deep learning algorithms, ICLguru is always improving and we are excited to announce that ICLguru is introducing the next iteration of reporting – ICLguru Pro.
All existing ICLguru users on the Revai platform will be provided ICLguru Pro reports for the next 3 months starting later this week. The reports are now two pages for each eye that provides additional information and predictive results, including probability of lens stability (risk of lens rotation) and recommended lens size based on vault and stability predictions.
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ICLguru Results Published
10 August 2025
The accuracy of ICLguru is unprecedented. A recent study of over 300 EVO ICL patients showed that the majority of patients had less than a 100 micron difference between the predicted and actual post-surgical lens vault and no cases requiring explant and resizing. The results truly represent the next generation in lens sizing leading ICLguru to quickly become the standard of care for leading surgeons.
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