Preliminary Program


  • Registration/Badge collecting
  • Special Feature Talk
  • Welcome Reception


Session 1: The Cutting Edge—Surgical Innovations In Glaucoma
  • 2.1 The Latest MIGS Targeting the Meshwork (iStent, Hydrus)
  • 2.2 Expanding and Opening the Canal (GATT, OMNI, iTrack, Tanito hook, KDB, etc)
  • 2.3 New and Improved Tubes and Trabs
  • 2.4 Minimally Invasive Bleb Surgeries (PreserFlo, XEN, etc)—Better than Trab?
  • 2.5 In Development: Future MIGS in the Pipeline
  • 2.6 Suprachoroidal Shunts (iSTAR MINIject, AlloFlo, Ciliatech)
  • 2.7 Panel + Q&A
Session 2: New Medications and Those on the Horizon
  • 2.8 Omidenepag—PGA efficacy without the cosmetic/orbital effects?
  • 2.9 Rhopressa—Targeting the Disease Site in Glaucoma?
  • 2.10 Episcleral Venous Pressure—Relieving the Pressure Downstream (or Dropping the Floor on IOP)
  • 2.11 Coming Soon—The New Pharma Targets
  • 2.12 Panel + Q&A
Session 3: Advances in Laser Technology for Glaucoma
  • 2.13 DSLT—Is It a Real Game Changer in the Clinic?
  • 2.14 Cyclophotocoagulation— Is this MIGS Plus?
  • 2.15 Perspectives on When and Where Laser Applies to Angle Closure?
  • 2.16 Excimer Laser Trabeculostomy—Better than Other MIGS?
  • 2.17 Panel + Q&A
Session 4: Diagnostics
  • 2.18 Enhanced Glaucoma Detection with Cutting Edge OCT Technologies
  • 2.19 High Resolution ASOCT and Anterior Segment Imaging
  • 2.20 Next Generation VF Algorithms
  • 2.21 Virtual Reality Perimetry and New Goggles
  • 2.22 Artificial Intelligence in Detecting and Tracking Glaucoma
  • 2.23 Do we need home IOP monitoring in glaucoma care?
  • 2.23 Panel + Q&A


Session 5: Beyond IOP—How Can We Provide Help to the Optic Nerve
  • 3.1 Neuroprotection – What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why the Gaps Persist
  • 3.2 Pie in the Sky – Breakthrough Technologies and Unconventional Therapeutic Targets
  • 3.3 Stem Cells for Glaucoma—How Can We Get Through the Roadblocks?
  • 3.4 Alternative Approaches to Fixing the IOP and Nerve
  • 3.5 NAD precursors — What Form and How Much
  • 3.6 Electrify the Optic Nerve? – Bioengineering Approaches to Energize Optic Nerve Regeneration and Protection
  • 3.7 How to Design Neuroprotection Trials?
  • 3.8 Panel + Q&A
Session 6: Fresh from the Industry
  • (Talks to be announced)

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