09.00 – 09.20

Welcome and Introduction

Kaweh Schayan
ARTEMIS Augenkliniken und MVZ, Dillenburg, Germany

09.20 – 10.00

COVID-19 pandemic (hosted by EUROCOVCAT) – friends together to combat the pandemic (10 min)

Chair: Faustino Vidal Aroca
Samsara Vision, Milano, Italy

The impact of the pandemic in ophthalmology – insights form the EUROCAVCAT (10 min)

Miguel Angel Teus
University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain

How the pandemic impacted young ophthalmologists (10 min)

Mario Damiano Toro
Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy

What have we changed and what is here
to stay with the pandemic (10 min)

Daniele Tognetto
University Eye Clinic, Trieste, Italy

10.00 – 10.40

Cornea Session
Novelties in artificial endothelial surgery
(10 min)

Chair: Ruth Lapid-Gortzak
Academic Medical Centre University of Amsterdam, Department of Ophthalmology, Netherlands

Do we really need CXL to stabilize keratoconus (10 min)

Damien Gatinel
Fondation Rothschild, Paris, France

Evolving techniques of DMEK (10 min)

Ozlem Evren Kemer
University of Health Sciences, Ankara City Hospital, Turkey

Corneal dystrophies – IOL solutions for visual rehabilitation (10 min)

Georg Gerten
ARTEMIS Augenklinik am Neumarkt, Cologne, Germany

10.40 – 11.00

Digital Healthcare
“The times are a-changin”

Bruce Allan
Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK

11.00 – 11.30

Coffee Break | Industrial Show

11.30 – 12.30

Refractive Session
Presbyopia treatment – IOL optic design and laser ablation profile (20 min)

Chair: Damien Gatinel
Fondation Rothschild, Paris, France

Femto-LASIK: Gold standard in LVC?
(10 min)

Montserrat García González
Clinic Novovísion, Madrid, Spain

Dual optics – Presbyopia correction with additive and phakic IOLs
(10 min)

Suphi Taneri
Zentrum für Refraktive Chirurgie, Münster, Germany

RLE in non-presbyopic hyperopic eyes
(10 min)

Omid Kermani
ARTEMIS Augenklinik am Neumarkt, Cologne, Germany

Peculiarities of refractive surgery under martial law (10 min)

Tania Manoilo
Novy Zir Eye Clinics, Kyiv, Ukraine

12.30 – 13.30

Cataract & Refractive Video Session
Complicated cases

Chairs: Daniele Tognetto, Burkhard Dick
Panel Discussion TBA

13.30 – 14.30

Lunch Break | Industrial Show

14.30 – 15.30

Retina Session
Recent developments in medical retina
(15 min)

Chair: Heinrich Heimann
Royal University Hospital Liverpool, UK

Management of anterior/posterior
segment co-morbidities (10 min)

Ozana Moraru
Oculus Eye Clinic, Bucharest, Romania

Severe ocular trauma – difficult cases to manage (10 min)

Robert Rejdak
Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

Surgical management of late-stage AMD
(10 min)

Mario Damiano Toro
Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Current controversies in medical and surgical retina (15 min)

Panel discussion

15.30 – 16.00

The Debate:
Controversies in Eye Surgery

Chair: Omid Kermani
ARTEMIS Augenklinik am Neumarkt, Cologne, Germany

Immediately sequential bilateral cataract surgery (10 min)

Miguel Angel Teus
University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain

Panel Discussion

Burkhard Dick, Robert Rejdak, Daniele Tognetto, Ozlem Kemer, Kaweh Schayan

16.00 – 16.40

Glaucoma Session
Ocular biomechanics and glaucoma

(10 min)

Chair: Miguel Angel Teus Guezala
University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain

The known unknowns of distal outflow
(10 min)

Nils Loewen
ARTEMIS Augen- und Laserzentrum, Frankfurt, Germany

Ab interno MIGs (10 min)

Anselm Jünemann
Viselle Augenzentren, Erlangen, Germany

Disruptive technology in glaucoma
surgery (10 min)

Burkhard Dick
Knappschaftskrankenhaus University Eye Clinic, Bochum, Germany

16.40 – 17.00

Neuro-Ophthalmology Session
Diagnosis and classification of optic
neuritis – New classification

Robert Rejdak
Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland