Schedule at Glance
October 24th to 27th
Written language: English
Spoken language: Spanish and/or English
Registration
Registration Desk
Mystery cases
Registration Desk
Coordinators: Lihteh Wu, Fernando Arevalo
Speakers: Rodrigo Meirelles, Gustavo Barreto, Marcelo Casella, Luma Al-Attar, Vinicius Bergamo, Rosina Negrin, Jeannette Dominguez, Jose J Echegaray Andrés Emanuelli, Andrea Cárdenas ,Miriam Flores Contreras, Luis Escaf, Marcelo Ventura
Opening Reception
TBD
Registration
Registration Desk
Industry Exhibits
Exhibit Hall
Scientific E-Posters Viewing- TBD
E-Posters Room
Breakfast vs 'Breakfast Symposium'
TBD
Supported by an Educational Grant-TBA
Surgery session I · Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment Panel (Scleral Buckle complications, PVR Management, Prophylactic buckles, funnel detachments)
Main Room
Coordinator: Andres Bastien
Speakers: Jose Antonio Roca, Patricia Fernandez, Luis Escaf, Diego Rodriguez, Olivia Kiappe, Linda Cernichiaro, Irene Lopez
Clinical session I · Retinal Vascular Occlusions
Main Room
Coordinator: Jose A Roca
Speakers: Sergio Rojas, Gaby Lopezcarasa, Eduardo Novais, Raquel Goldhardt, Vanessa Cruz
Coffee Break / Poster viewing
Exhibit Hall
Surgery session II · Macular surgery panel (Large Macular holes, optic disc pit maculopathy, Digital filtering)
Main Room
Coordinator: Marcelo Zas
Speakers: Jose Manuel Del Cid, Eduardo Zans, Patricia Kakizaki, Flavio Rezende, Denise Marinho
Clinical session II · Uveitis
Main Room
Coordinator: Thomas Albini, Andrea Arriola
Speakers: Rubens Belfort, Eduardo Uchiyama, Heloisa Nascimento, Gabriel Andrade, Pablo Baquero, Ayumi Kawakami, Stephanie Llop
Lunch Break
TBD
Clinical session III · Neovascular Age Macular Degeneration
Main Room
Coordinator: Francisco Rodriguez, Michel Farah
Speakers: Daniela Ferrara, Beatriz Takahashi, Jose Dalma, Gerardo Ledesma-Gil, Xi Rao
Surgery session III · Surgical Debates (Subretinal Hem: antivegf vs surgery; PVR methotrexate Yes or No; Pneumatic vs PPV for primary uncomplicated RDs)
Main Room
Coordinator: Jorge Fortun, Luis Haddock
Speakers: Luis Escaf, Alejandro Lavaque, Eleonora Lavaque,Susana Cura, Ivan Sepúlveda, RV Paul Chan,Mariano Rodriguez Maqueda
Coffee Break / Poster viewing
Exhibit Hall
Surgical Session IV · Diabetic Retinopathy Surgery (Instrumentation, bimanual, combined cataract surgery, etc)
Main Room
Coordinator: Virgilio Morales-Canton, Olivia Valdivieso
Speakers: Andrea Cárdenas, Mariano Irós, Mayelinne García, Carlos Penaranda, Nelson Sabrosa
Lecture & Award
Main Room
GLADAOF: Virgilio Morales's inteview by Gerardo Garcia
Surgical cases and videos-Alezzandrini Award and Berrocal Award
Main Room
Coordinator: Audina Berrocal
Registration
Registration Desk
Industry Exhibits
Exhibit Hall
Scientific E-Posters Viewing- TBD
E-Posters Room
Breakfast vs 'Breakfast Symposium'
TBD
Supported by an Educational Grant-TBA
Surgical Session V · IOL fixation complications (Sutured, fixed, goretex, polypropylene)
Main Room
Coordinators: Gabriela LopezCarasa, Luis Haddock
Speakers: Munir Escaf, , Carla Perez Montaño, Ricardo Leitao Guerra, Juan Ignacio Bianchi, Felipe Lucato
Clinical Session IV · Inherited Retinal Diseases
Main Room
Coordinators: Carlos Mendoza
Speakers: Huber Vasconcelos, Caio Regatieri, Ramiro Maldonado, Jesse Sengillo, Sandra Montezuma, Aaron Nagiel, Laura Echandi
Coffee Break / Poster viewing
Exhibit Hall
Clinical Session V · Diabetic Macular Edema and Diabetic Retinopathy
Main Room
Coordinator: Fernando Arevalo
Speakers: Arturo Alezzandrini, Yazmin Baez, Denise Pardini, Luiz Roisman
Clinical Session VI · Oncology
Main Room
Coordinator: Miguel Materin, Timothy Murray
Speakers: Miguel Burnier, David Ancona, Deivy Cruzado, Maura Di Nicola, Basil Williams, Carolina Gentile, Efren Gonzalez, Vidal Soberon, Victor Villegas, Adriana Fandino
Lunch Break
TBD
Clinical Session VI · Multimodal Imaging
Main Room
Coordinator: Jans Fromow-Guerra
Speakers: Francisco Rodriguez, Abel Ramirez, Claudia Acosta, Carolina Sardi, Gustavo Melo
Surgery Session VII · Clinical and Medical Complications
Main Room
Coordinator: Mauricio Maia, Jose Dalma
Speakers: Matko Vidosevich, Hugo Ocampo, Felipe Morera, Jorge Rocha, Mitzy Torres, Ezequiel Rosendi, Juliana Prazeres
Coffee Break / Poster viewing
Exhibit Hall
Surgical Session · Pediatric Retina
Main Room
Coordinator: Camila Ventura
Speaker: Rosina Negrin, Dhariana Acón, Andres Kychenthal, Enrique Ariza, Natasha Cruz, Paulina Ramirez , Maria Paula Fernandez ,Franco Benvenuto
Surgical Session VIII · Retina Outside the box (Session for unconventional techniques and problem solving ideas)
Main Room
Coordinator: Nassim Abreu, Maria Berrocal
Speaker: Abel Ramirez, Joaquin Sosa, Hugo Ocampo, Aleksandra Rachitskaya, Sergio Rojas
Lecture & Award · FOUNDERS: MARIA HORTENCIA BERROCAL's interview by Jorge Fortun
Main Room
Closing Event
TBD
Registration
Registration Desk
Industry Exhibits
Exhibit Hall
Scientific E-Posters Viewing- TBD
E-Posters Room
Breakfast vs 'Breakfast Symposium'
TBD
Supported by an Educational Grant-TBA
Surgical Session IX · Surgical complications (Subfoveal PFO, PDR bleeding and impossible membranes, Gene therapy, ERM and ILM peeling, Buckling)
Main Room
Coordinators: Mario Saravia, Jorge Calzada
Speakers: Hugo Quiroz, Kim Kayat, David Lozano-Rechy, Ricardo Leitao Guerra, Moises Enghelberg
Surgical Session X · My Cementary of Cases
Main Room
Clinical Session · Dry Age Macular Degeneration
Main Room
Coordinators: Nicolas Yannuzzi, Robert Avery
Surgical Session XI · Debated Surgical approach (PPV for Floaters: yes or no; Buckle with chandelier: yes or no; Early PPV for PDR: yes or no; ERMs)
Main Room
Coordinators: Gerardo Garcia
Speakers: Andres Lasave, Munir Escaf, Arnaldo Bordon, Sheila Garcia Santana
Final Remarks
Main Room