Saturday 27 May
Note: This programme is subject to change
Free Paper Session
8.00 – 9.30 | AXA Auditorium
8.00: Christopher Liu UK
Keynote: An update on management of persistent epithelial defects and or glaucoma in keratoplasty
Instructional Course: Suturing
8.30 – 9.30 | Room 1 (Level -1)
Harminder Dua UK
Dalia Said UK
Opening Ceremony & Medal Lecture
9.30 – 10.15 | AXA Auditorium
Beatrice Cochener-Lamard FRANCE
Opening Remarks
George Kymionis GREECE
EuCornea Medal Lecture: Combined surgical techniques for the management of corneal and IOL complications
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Instructional Course: DALK
10.45 – 11.45 | Room 1 (Level -1)
Vincenzo Sarnicola ITALY
Alberto Villarubia SPAIN
Global Symposium:
Keratoconus Management Around the World
(EuCornea, Cornea Society, Asia Cornea & Pan Cornea)
10.45 – 12.45 | AXA Auditorium
Moderators: Beatrice Cochener-Lamard FRANCE, George Kymionis GREECE & Mario Nubile ITALY
Part 1: Diagnosis of Corneal Ectasia
10.45: Pierre Fournie, FRANCE (EUCORNEA)
The global impact of corneal ectatic disorders: lifetime economic burden of
10.55: José Alvaro Pereira Gomes, BRAZIL (PANCORNEA)
Definition and differential diagnosis (keratoconus vs other corneal ectasias) (10 min)
11.05: Shizuka Koh, JAPAN (ASIA CORNEA SOCIETY)
Current and upcoming technologies for keratoconus diagnosis: what should be used?
11.15: Michael Belin, USA (CORNEA SOCIETY)
Ectasia progression: risk factors, definition, and follow-up
11.25: Panel Interactive Discussion
Part 2: Treatment Algorithm of Corneal Ectasia
11.45: Carina Koppen, BELGIUM (EUCORNEA)
Conservative non-surgical management: from spectacles to new generation contact lenses
11.55: Maria Henriquez, USA (CORNEA SOCIETY)
The role of Corneal Cross Linking: when and how
12.05: Luis Izquierdo, PERU (PANCORNEA)
Corneal Re-shaping technique: types and role in the surgical management
12.15: Rajesh Fogla, INDIA (ASIA CORNEA SOCIETY)
Keratoplasty: indications and techniques
12.25: Panel Interactive Discussion
YO & Senior Hot Topic: Reconstruction of Ocular Surface
14.00 – 14.45 | AXA Auditorium
Miriam Barbany SPAIN
Jesper Hjortdal DENMARK
Maria Fideliz de la Paz SPAIN
Maria Phylactou GREECE
Instructional Course: Common Corneal Procedures
14.45 – 15.45 | Room 1 (Level -1)
Harminder Dua UK
Dalia Said UK
Free Paper Session
14.45 – 16.15 | AXA Auditorium
14.45: Bruce Allan UK
Keynote: PTK
Instructional Course: Imaging
16.45 - 17.45 | Room 1 (Level -1)
Beatrice Cochener-Lamard FRANCE
Sebastian Siebelmann GERMANY
Symposium:
Lamellar Grafts & Alternatives
16.45 – 18.15 | AXA Auditorium
Moderators: Jose Guell SPAIN, Claus Cursiefen GERMANY
16.45: Antonia Howaldt GERMANY
Pentacam-based detection of fibrillar layer to customize DM-stripping in DMEK
16.57: Juan Alvarez de Toledo SPAIN
Avoiding inverted grafts in DMEK: intraoperative strategies
17.09: Arie Marcovich ISRAEL
Endoart: how it was invented and where it may be useful
17.21: Rajesh Fogla INDIA
How to get a successful DALK in front of posterior layers limitations
17.33: Mert Mestanoglu TURKEY
Update on fish-scale based biocornea
17.45: Discussion
18.15: End of session