Conference Organising Committee

• Nicoline Schalij-Delfos, MD, PhD, LUMC, Leiden
• Angela Arends-Tjiam, MD, PhD, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam
• Arlette van Sorge, MD, PhD, Royal Visio, Amsterdam
• Elke Kraal-Biezen, MD, AUMC, Amsterdam
• Mo Al Baaj, MD, LUMC, Leiden

EPOS board

• G. Darius Hildebrand, FRCS FRCOphth, FEBO, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, President
• Erika Maka, MD, Semmelweis University, Secretary
• Christina Gerth-Kahlert, MD, University Hospital Zürich, Treasurer
• Catherine Cassiman, MD, UZ Leuven
• Asimina Mataftsi, MD, PhD, MRCOphth, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
• Matthieu P. Robert, MD, PhD, Necker-Enfants Malades University Hospital
• Manca Tekavcic Pompe, MD, PhD, University Eye Clinic, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Thursday, 9 October 2025

Time                  Programme
18:00 - 20:00   Registration & welcome reception

Friday, 10 October 2025

Time                  Programme
08:00 - 08:45   Registration
08:30 - 08:45   Opening ceremony
08:45 - 10:30   Team- and network with the geneticist (metabolic, genetics, syndrome, retina)
10:30 - 11:15   Coffee break, poster viewing & exhibition
11:15 - 12:45   Team- and network for children with craniofacial or orbital diseases
12:45 - 14:00   Lunch, poster viewing & exhibition
14:00 - 15:15   Jubilee session: Lectures of Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients
15:15 - 16:00   Coffee break, poster viewing & exhibition
16:00 - 17:00   Team- and network with neurology (paediatric brain tumors)
17:00 - 18:00   Team- and network for allergic and inflammatory disorders (allergology, immunology 
                           rheumatology)
18:00                Concluding Remarks / End of first day scientific programme
19:00 - 23:00   Golden jubilee gala dinner (upon registration)

Saturday, 11 October 2025

Time                  Programme
08:00 - 08:30   Registration
08:30 - 10:30   Team- and network with neonatology & panel discussion 'The best way to treat and follow                               up on ROP'
10:30 - 11:15   Coffee break, poster viewing & exhibition
11:15 - 12:30   Team- and network in rehabilitation for the visually impaired
12:30 - 13:00   Assembly of EPOS Members
13:00 - 14:00   Lunch, poster viewing & exhibition
14:00 - 15:15   Paediatric ophthalmolgy never works Eye-lone (teamwork with other subspecialists
                           Ophthalmolgy - surgery)
15:15 - 16:00   Coffeebreak, poster viewing & exhibition
16:00 - 16:45   Team- and network for diagnostics (from imaging to diagnosis)
16:45 - 17:00   Award and closing ceremony

 Please contact the organizer for further information.