Cornea Day at ESCRS 2025

Friday, 12 September 2025

Copenhagen (CEST)

Cataract Surgery in the Patient with Cornea Pathology

CEST Room D1

Moderators: Paolo Vinciguerra (Italy) & Beatrice Cochener-Lamard (France)

Presentations

  1. Cataract surgery in the cornea with irregular surface (Salzmann, pterygium, EBMD)

    Nandini Venkateswaran (United States)

  2. Cataract Surgery in the patient with severe ocular surface disease

    Sajjad Ahmad (United Kingdom)

  3. Cataract surgery with multifocal / EDOF IOLs after corneal surgery

    Ruth Lapid-Gortzak (Netherlands)

  4. Discussion

  5. Cataract surgery under a corneal graft (PKP, DSAEK, DMEK)

    Vito Romano (Italy)

  6. Cataract and corneal endothelial disease: sequential or triple surgery

    Björn Bachmann (Germany)

  7. Cataract surgery and IOL power calculations after (corneal) refractive surgery

    Guillaume Debellemanière (France)

  8. Cataract surgery and keratoconus

    Emilio Torres-Netto (Switzerland)

  9. Discussion

Infections and the Ocular Surface

CEST

Moderators: Beatrice Cochener-Lamard (France) & Sorcha Ni Dhubhghaill (Belgium)

Presentations

  1. Management of herpetic keratitis: Zoster Eye Disease Study

    Antoine Rousseau (France)

  2. The role of corticosteroids in the management of bacterial keratitis

    Jeniffer Rose-Nussbaumer (United States)

  3. Fungal keratitis: diagnosis, medical & surgical management (the role of confocal imaging, intrastromal injections / rose bengal PDT and timing of therapeutic keratoplasty)

    Guillermo Amescua (United States)

  4. Discussion

  5. Treatment of Acanthamoeba keratitis

    Dalia Said (United Kingdom)

  6. Demodex update — new insights and treatments

    Serge Doan (France)

  7. Discussion

  8. Chronic cicatrizing conjunctivitis: diagnosis and management

    (with an infection connection)

    Harminder Dua (United Kingdom)

  9. Limbal stem cell deficiency: diagnosis and management

    (with an infection connection)

    Emilio Pedrotti (Italy)

  10. Cancer of the ocular surface

    (with an infection connection)

    Sotiria Palioura (Greece)

  11. Discussion

New Developments and Update in Keratoplasty

CEST

Moderators: Jose Guell (Spain) & Claus Cursiefen (Germany)

Presentations

  1. Paediatric corneal transplantation

    Ken Nischal (United States)

  2. Ultra- and nano-thin DSAEK

    Massimo Busin (Italy)

  3. DMEK in challenging cases

    Lamis Baydoun (Germany)

  4. Discussion

  5. DSO/DWEK in the management of Fuchs dystrophy

    Marc Muraine (France)

  6. Corneal regeneration: stem cells, hydrogels and 3D bioprinting

    Sayan Basu (India)

  7. Discussion

  8. Management of a failed PKP: regraft or endothelial transplant?

    Claus Cursiefen (Germany)

  9. DALK techniques and indications

    Vincenzo Sarnicola (Italy)

  10. Discussion

New Developments in Keratoconus and Crosslinking

CEST

Moderators: Jesper Hjortdal (Denmark) & Nienke Visser (The Netherlands)

Presentations

  1. Update on diagnostics for detection of keratoconus

    Riccardo Vinciguerra (Italy)

  2. Visual rehabilitation in keratoconus using wavefront-guided PRK

    Jorge Luis Alio Del Barrio (Spain)

  3. Update on CXL protocols for keratoconus

    Anders Behndig (Sweden)

  4. Discussion

  5. Visual rehabilitation in keratoconus using Femto-CAIRS

    Shady Awwad (Lebanon)

  6. Biological markers for progressive keratoconus

    Pooja Khamar (India)

  7. Modelling artificial intelligence for keratoconus

    Ahmed Elsheikh

  8. CXL for infectious keratitis

    Beatrice E Frueh (Switzerland)

  9. Discussion

  10. 2nd Global Consensus on keratoconus: Introduction

    Farhad Hafezi (Switzerland)

  11. Highlights of the consensus — part 1

    Michael Belin (United States)

  12. Highlights of the consensus — part 2

    Cosimo Mazzotta (Italy)

  13. Discussion

Related ESCRS Main Symposium

Friday, 12 Sep  •  17:00–19:00 CEST Hall D1

Moderators: EuCornea President Mario Nubile (Italy) & Anders Ramlov Ivarsen (Denmark)

Managing Complications of Corneal Refractive Surgery

See the ESCRS programme page for the full agenda.

Note: Please refer to the ESCRS Online Programme for the most up-to-date details and exact timings, as schedules can be updated over time.