Scientific Program
Registration desk will be open at Nomikos Conference Centre from Sunday, 6.00 p.m.
Welcome reception will be held at Nomikos Conference Centre on Sunday, at 8.00 p.m.
Gala Dinner will be held in Santo Winnery on Tuesdy, at 8.30 p.m. A visit in the Winery will take place at 7.30 p.m.
The duration for all presentations will be 10 min strictly
(8 min talk, 2 min for discussion)
| Monday, 3 July | ||
| Day 1 . First session. Medical Retina. Moderators: I. Pallikaris - J. Christoforidis | ||
| 9.00 | Welcome | |
| 9.10 | Dean Cestari | CRAO and BRAO. When Does the Retinologist have to Worry about a Stroke? |
| 9.20 | Constantin Pournaras | OCT angiography features of macular surgical pathologies. |
| 9.30 | Thomas Friberg | Adaptive Optics imaging in a Retina Practice |
| 9.40 | John Christoforidis | Intravitreal pharmacokinetic and systemic biodistribution properties of 124I labeled bevacizumab, ranibizumab and aflibercept with PET/CT imaging in a non-human primate model |
| 9.50 | Demetrios Vavvas | Is there NLRP3 in RPE. Implications for AMD. |
| 10.00 | Emmanoul Lazaridis | Stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) in wet AMD: Basic principles and case presentations |
| 10.10 | Panagiotis Masaoutis | Stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) in wet AMD: INTREPID Study |
| 10.20 | Georgios Kambougeris | Stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) in wet AMD: Real life data |
| 10.30-11.00 | Break | |
| Day 1. Second session. Surgical Retina. Moderators: C. Pournaras - I. Kim | ||
| 11.00 | Jean-Antoine Pournaras | Retinal detachment in advanced retinoblastoma |
| 11.10 | Elliott Sohn | Posteriorly Inserted Vitreous Base (PIVB): Clinical Features and Outcomes |
| 11.20 | Akito Hirakata | Vitrectomy for macular retinoschisis associated with glaucomatous optic neuropathy in eye with normal intraocular pressure: a case report |
| 11.30 | Hamzah Khalaf | Choroidal Hemorrhage and Effusion Drainage From the Pars Plana Using the Choroidal Hematoma Depressor |
| 11.40 | Kam Balaggan | Pneumatic Displacement for Severe Submacular Haemorrhages in the Setting of a Fast Track Referral Pathway |
| 11.50 | Dean Eliott | Multiple Intravitreal Methotrexate Injections for the Prevention of Proliferative Vitreoretinopathy |
| 12.00 | Referano Agustiawan | Phacoemulsification combined with Pars Plana Vitrectomy and Internal Limiting Membrane Peeling for Diabetic Macular edema |
| 12.10 | Yewlin Chee | Perforating eye injury with intracranial extension of foreign body |
| 12.20 | David Chow | 3D Surgery with the NGenuity system - is enhanced stereopsis fact or fiction? |
| 12.30 | Rob Mittra |
Comparison of techniques for repair of phakic and pseudophakic Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment (RRD) |
| 12.40 | end of day 1 | |
| Tuesday, 4 July | ||
| Day 2. First session. Medical Retina. Moderators: D. Eliott - P. Carvounis | ||
| 9.00 | Thanos Papakostas | Genetic Risk Factors for Radiation Vasculopathy |
| 9.10 | John Niffenegger | Bilateral Diffuse Melanocytic Proliferation Simulating Neovascular Age Related Macular Degeneration in a patient with Stage 4 Papillary Renal-Cell Cancer and MET gene mutation |
| 9.20 | Mykola Umanets | Bimanual endoresection of uveal melanoma using high-frequency electric welding of biological tissues |
| 9.30 | Ivana Kim | Long-term follow-up of a 24-month study of ranibizumab for the prevention of radiation vasculopathy |
| 9.40 | Evangelos Gragoudas | Proton Beam Therapy for Patients with Local Recurrence of Uveal Melanoma |
| 9.50 | Umur Kayabasi | Diagnosing Chiasmal Tumors by SD- OCT |
| 10.00 | George Bontzos | Estimation of morphological characteristics in asymmetrical myopic posterior staphyloma using optical coherence tomography |
| 10.10 | Miltiadis Tsilimbaris | Ηybrid optical and photoacoustic imaging of the ciliary body |
| 10.20 | Iordanis Chatziaggelides | TIMELINE: A new educational tool to present the evolution of various retinal diseases through computer generated images (CGI). |
| 10.30-11.00 | Break | |
| Day 2. Second session. Medical/Surgical Retina. Moderators: E. Gragoudas - D. Skondra | ||
| 11.00 | Mrinali Gupta | Ocular outcomes of cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis treated with adoptive immunotherapy with intravenous CMV-specific cytotoxic T-lymphocytes |
| 11.10 | Pauline Merrill | Efficacy and Safety Results From the SAKURA Program: Two Phase III Studies of Intravitreal Sirolimus Every Other Month for Non-infectious Uveitis of the Posterior Segment |
| 11.20 | Chris Kalogeropoulos | Retinal Vein occlusion: algorithms for the optimization of management in real life |
| 11.30 | Petros Carvounis | Visual Acuity And Macular Anatomy Following Pars Plana Vitrectomy With Membrane Peel For Idiopathic Epiretinal Membrane In The Elderly |
| 11.40 | Aristomenis Thanos | Three port sutureless posterior chamber intraocular lens intrascleral fixation; a novel approach. |
| 11.50 | Marc Levy | The Implantable Miniature Telescope (IMT) New Developments: The US and UK Experience |
| 12.00 | Spyridon Charisis | Vitrectomy, peel, laser and steroids for macular edema |
| 12.10 | Mark Humayun | Advanced Retinal Implants |
| 12.20 | Joseph Rizzo | What Are Reasonable Expectations for Visual Prostheses ? |
| 12.30 | end of day 2 | |
| Wednesday, 5 July | ||
| Day 3. First session. Medical Retina. Moderators: T. Friberg - JA Pournaras | ||
| 9.00 | Georgios Trichonas | 67 y/o male with acute vision loss |
| 9.10 | Dimitra Skondra | Second Opinion for "CSR" |
| 9.20 | Giarmoukakis Thanasis | Paracentral Acute Middle Maculopathy (PAMM) in a 15-year old teenager. A case report. |
| 9.30 | George Kontadakis | Intravitreal ocriplasmin for vitreomacular traction and macular hole: a spectral-domain optical coherence tomography prospective study. |
| 9.40 | Eleftherios Agorogiannis | Treatment outcomes in Caucasians with polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy |
| 9.50 | Stella Blazaki | Nanotechnology Approaches for Ocular Delivery |
| 10.00-10.30 | Break | |
| Day 3. Second session. Medical Retina. Moderators: M. Tsilimbaris - D. Vavvas | ||
| 10.30 | Sotirios Plainis | Reading performance: can we improve inter-individual variability? |
| 10.40 | Manos Ktistakis | A new method, based on eye movement analysis to evaluate reading performance in patients with AMD |
| 10.50 | Aggeliki Gleni | Development of standardized IReST texts in Greek for evaluation of reading performance |
| 11.00 | Petros Chatzakis | Discomfort glare detection made portable |
| 11.10 | Larissa Ioannidi | The anti-microbial effect of photodynamic therapy using verteporfin and LED in S.aureus |
| 11.20 | Closing remarks | |
| 11.30 | End of meeting | |
