Agenda

7:30-8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00-8:15 Opening Remarks
Drs. Sherif El-Defrawy, Margolin and Kohly
8:15-8:30 Keynote: Lessons from those who quit surgery prematurely
Dr. R. Kohly

8:30-8:40

Q&A

Plastics
8:50 – 9:24 Epiphora: The watery eyes patient (6min)
Dr. Harmeet Gill

Chalazions (and other bumps): The lumpy eyelid patient
(12 min)
Dr. Navdeep Nijhawan

Upper blepharoptosis diagnosis and management (6min)
Dr. Harmeet Gill

Proptosis: The bulging eyed patient (12min)
Dr. Navdeep Nijhawan

9:24 – 9:35

Q&A

Comprehensive
9:35 – 10:30 Disclose now vs later: medical error and conversations with patients (12 min)
Dr. Chryssa McAlister

PC Rupture (12 min)
Dr. Kylen McReelis

On your mark, get set and go for accuracty with toric implants (12 min)
Dr. Chryssa McAlister

Post-operative Refractive Surprises (12 min)
Dr. Kylen McReelis

Anterior Uveitis; Top 5 diagnosis (6 min)
Dr. Larissa Derzko-Dzulynsky

10:30 – 10:40

Q&A
10:40-11:00 Break

Pediatric Ophthalmology
11:00 – 11;50 Myopia (12 min)
Dr. Asim Ali

Escaping the room (in less than an hour) – functional vision loss (12 min)
Dr. Michael Wan

Ocular allergy in kids (6min)
Dr. Asim Ali

A big hammer looking for little nails – OCT in kids (12min)
Dr. Michael Wan

Blepharitis and Chalazia in kids (6min)
Dr. Asim Ali

11:50 – 12:00

Q&A

Cornea
12:00 – 12:36 Fuchs dystrophy in the cataract patient (6min)
Dr. Neera Singal

Dry eye: Disease or syndrome and why it matters (12 min)
Dr. Rookaya Mather

Pterygium management (6min)
Dr. Neera Singal

Simplex made Simple (12 min)
Dr. Rookaya Mather

12:36 – 12:45

Q&A

12:45- 1:30

Lunch 

Glaucoma
1:30-2:06 Carpe Diem: Cataracts in glaucoma patients (12 min)
Dr. Matthew Schlenker

Gonioscopy: remember to check your blind spot! (6 min)
Dr. Lawrence Weisbrod

Seeing Red: OCTs in glaucoma (6min)
Dr. Matthew Schlenker

Normal tension glaucoma: when is it necessary to treat?
(12 min)
Dr. Lawrence Weisbrod

2:06-2:15

Q&A

Retina and Uveitis
2:15 – 3:10 Intermediate uveitis: Is it all pars planitis (6min)
Dr. Larissa Derzko-Dzulynsky

OCT and macular diseases (12 min)
Dr. Efrem Mandelcorn

Peripheral retinal diseases (6min)
Dr. Rajeev Muni

Diagnoses not to miss in posterior and panuveitis (6 min)
Dr. Larissa Derzko-Dzulynsky

AMD (12 min)
Dr. Efrem Mandelcorn

Diabetic retinopathy (12 min)
Dr. Rajeev Muni
3:10-3:20 Q&A
 

Neuro-ophthalmology
3:20-4:00 NAION (6 min)
Dr. Kinda Najem

GCA – what you need to know (12 min)
Dr. Edward Margolin

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension – disease of the 22nd century (6 min)
Dr. Kinda Najem

Optic Neuritis update (12min)
Dr. Edward Margolin

4:10-4:30

Q&A, evaluations and closing remarks