WGC2025 Hula Girl
11th WORLD GLAUCOMA CONGRESS
JUNE 25 - 28, 2025 - HONOLULU, HAWAII, USA

WGC-2025 WILL START IN

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Wednesday


Wednesday 28 June 2023 08:30-09:30 CEST Room A


Asia-Pacific Glaucoma Society - Hot Topics in Glaucoma

Chair(s): SK Fang (Malaysia); Norman Aquino (Philippines);


Wednesday 28 June 2023 08:30-09:30 CEST Room B


Middle East Africa Glaucoma Society - Answers to Common Question in Glaucoma Practice

Chair(s): Amel Ouertani (Tunisia); Ahmed Abdelrahman (Egypt);


Wednesday 28 June 2023 08:30-09:30 CEST Room D


Ukrainian Glaucoma Society - Important Questions of Glaucoma in Ukraine

Chair(s): Zoya Veselovskaya (Ukraine); Valerii Serdiuk (Ukraine);


Wednesday 28 June 2023 08:30-09:30 CEST Room E


Glaucoma Section of the German Ophthalmological Society - Going from Individual Molecules into Global Virtuality in Glaucoma

Chair(s): Stephanie Joachim (Germany); Verena Prokosch (Germany);


Wednesday 28 June 2023 08:30-09:30 CEST Room F


Latin American Glaucoma Society - Challenges in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Secondary Glaucoma.

Chair(s): Guillermo Barreto Fong (Peru); Ana Maria Vasquez Garcia (Ecuador);


Wednesday 28 June 2023 08:30-09:30 CEST Room G


Bangladesh Glaucoma Society - Management of Glaucoma in 2023

Chair(s): Dr Hasan Shahid (Bangladesh); Dr. Muhammad Ziaul Karim (Bangladesh);


Wednesday 28 June 2023 08:30-09:30 CEST Room H


Joint Symposium Greek Glaucoma Society & Italian Association for the Study of Glaucoma - Management of Primary Angle Closure Disease

Chair(s): Francesco Oddone (Italy); George Mangouritsas (Greece);


Wednesday 28 June 2023 08:30-09:30 CEST Room I


Symposium of Czech Glaucoma Society

Chair(s): Marek Fichtl (Czech Republic); Karolína Skorkovská (Czech Republic);


Wednesday 28 June 2023 08:30-09:30 CEST Room J


Bolivian Glaucoma Society - Glaucoma Drainage Implants, Past, Present and Future

Chair(s): Guillermo Barreto Fong (Peru); Javier Fernando Casiraghi (Argentina);


Wednesday 28 June 2023 08:30-09:30 CEST Room K


Glaucoma Interest Group of the College of Ophthalmologists of Sri Lanka - Overcoming Challenges of Glaucoma in a Developing Country

Chair(s): Pradeepa Siriwardena (Sri Lanka);


Wednesday 28 June 2023 08:30-09:30 CEST Room L


Peruvian Glaucoma Society - Cheap and Effective Surgical Alternatives Glaucoma Treatment

Chair(s): Juan Alberto Dios (Peru); Wilde Mendoza (Peru);


Wednesday 28 June 2023 09:45-10:45 CEST Room A


European Glaucoma Society - EGS into the future

Chair(s): Luca Rossetti (Italy); Andrew Tatham (United Kingdom);


Wednesday 28 June 2023 09:45-10:45 CEST Room B


Korean Glaucoma Society - Recent Updates on Glaucoma Diagnosis and Pathogenesis

Chair(s): Chan Yun Kim (South Korea);


Wednesday 28 June 2023 09:45-10:45 CEST Room D


Brazilian Glaucoma Society Meeting

Chair(s): Roberto Galvão Filho (Brazil); Roberto Vessani (Brazil);


Wednesday 28 June 2023 09:45-10:45 CEST Room E


Chinese Glaucoma Society – World Glaucoma Congress China Symposium

Chair(s): Ningli Wang (China); Xu Yang Liu (China);


Wednesday 28 June 2023 09:45-10:45 CEST Room F


Optometric Glaucoma Society - Controversies in Glaucoma

Chair(s): Murray Fingeret (United States); Michael Chaglasian (United States);


Wednesday 28 June 2023 09:45-10:45 CEST Room G


Glaucoma Society of the Turkish Ophthalmology Association - Recent Advances in Glaucoma

Chair(s): Kivanc Gungor (Turkey); Tekin Yasar (Turkey);


Wednesday 28 June 2023 09:45-10:45 CEST Room H


Joint symposium of the Austrian and Swiss Glaucoma Society

Chair(s): Tony Hommer (Austria); Frances Meier-Gibbons (Switzerland);


Wednesday 28 June 2023 09:45-10:45 CEST Room J


Philippine Glaucoma Society - Celebrating 25 Years of Achievement

Chair(s): Zagala-Meriales Dr Ma Zita (Philippines);


Wednesday 28 June 2023 09:45-10:45 CEST Room K


Glaucoma Chapter of the Peruvian Society of Ophthalmology - Achieving the Iop target

Chair(s): Melissa Zapata (Colombia); Ricardo Manuel Ugarte Basurto (Peru);


Wednesday 28 June 2023 09:45-10:45 CEST Room L


Saudi Glaucoma Group - Refractory Glaucoma-My Preferred Strategy

Chair(s): Ali Al Beshri (Saudi Arabia);


Wednesday 28 June 2023 11:00-11:30 CEST Auditorium


OPENING CEREMONY

Chair(s): Pietro Polidori (Italy);


Wednesday 28 June 2023 11:30-11:55 CEST Auditorium


Laureate Award Lecture

Chair(s): Neeru Gupta (Canada); Robert Weinreb (United States);


Wednesday 28 June 2023 12:00-13:00 CEST Auditorium


Presidential Symposium

Chair(s): Neeru Gupta (Canada); Anja Tuulonen (Finland);


Wednesday 28 June 2023 14:30-15:30 CEST Auditorium


General Assembly

Chair(s): TBA TBA;


Wednesday 28 June 2023 15:30-17:00 CEST Auditorium


Hot Debates in Glaucoma Surgery

Chair(s): Shan Lin (United States); Stefano Gandolfi (Italy); Tanuj Dada (India);


Wednesday 28 June 2023 15:30-17:00 CEST Room A


Angle Closure

Chair(s): David Friedman (United States); Mingguang He (Australia); Winnie Nolan (United Kingdom);


Wednesday 28 June 2023 15:30-17:00 CEST Room B


Glaucoma and the Ocular Surface

Chair(s): Christophe Baudouin (France); Miriam Kolko (Denmark);


 

Thursday


Thursday 29 June 2023 08:30-10:00 CEST Auditorium


WGC 10th Anniversary Symposium

Chair(s): Kaweh Mansouri (Switzerland); Arthur Sit (United States);


Thursday 29 June 2023 10:30-12:00 CEST Auditorium


When in Rome...Do as the Experts do (Video-assisted skills transfer)

Chair(s): Vital Costa (Brazil); SK Fang (Malaysia); Francesco Oddone (Italy);


Thursday 29 June 2023 10:30-12:00 CEST Room A


AI for Eyes

Chair(s): Felipe Medeiros (United States); Leopold Schmetterer (Singapore); Xiulan Zhang (China);


Thursday 29 June 2023 10:30-12:00 CEST Room B


Glaucoma treatment beyond IOP

Chair(s): Robert Casson (Australia); Jonathan Crowston (Singapore);


Thursday 29 June 2023 13:30-15:00 CEST Room A


Aqueous humor dynamics and IOP

Chair(s): Megumi Honjo (Japan); Michael S. Kook (South Korea); Arthur Sit (United States);


Thursday 29 June 2023 13:30-15:00 CEST Auditorium


Clinical Debates

Chair(s): Min Hee Suh (South Korea); Fabian Lerner (Argentina); Robert Weinreb (United States);


Thursday 29 June 2023 13:30-15:00 CEST Room B


All Roads Lead to Glaucoma (Early Pathology in Glaucoma and its Detection)

Chair(s): Neeru Gupta (Canada); Leonard Levin (Canada); Toru Nakazawa (Japan);


Thursday 29 June 2023 13:30-15:00 CEST Room G


Africa Symposium

Chair(s): Neeru Gupta (Canada); Sola Olawoye (Nigeria);


Thursday 29 June 2023 15:30-16:30 CEST Room A


Lasers and Surgery for Primary Angle Closure Disease

Chair(s): Mingguang He (Australia); Monisha Nongpiur (Singapore);


Thursday 29 June 2023 15:30-16:30 CEST Room B


Challenges in High Myopic Glaucomatous Eyes

Chair(s): Ki Ho Park (South Korea); Jost Jonas (Germany);


Thursday 29 June 2023 15:30-16:30 CEST Room D


Glaucoma in Young Patients

Chair(s): Christiane Rolim (Brazil); Nischal Ken (United States);


Thursday 29 June 2023 15:30-16:30 CEST Room E


Risk Factors

Chair(s): Francesco Oddone (Italy); Franz Grus (Germany);


Thursday 29 June 2023 15:30-16:30 CEST Room G


My Clinic is Too Full (collaborative care)

Chair(s): Verena Prokosch (Germany); Diya Yang (China);


Thursday 29 June 2023 15:30-16:30 CEST Expo Hall - Rapid Fire area


Rapid Fire - Session 1

Chair(s): Joe Panarelli (United States); Keith Barton (United Kingdom);


Thursday 29 June 2023 16:45-17:45 CEST Room B


Optimizing Trabeculectomy Outcomes and Rescue Operations

Chair(s): Franz Grehn (Germany); Mimiwati Zahari (Malaysia);


Thursday 29 June 2023 16:45-17:45 CEST Room C


Is It Better Not to Know? (practical genetics)

Chair(s): Alon Harris (United States); Steven S. Mansberger (United States);


Thursday 29 June 2023 16:45-17:45 CEST Room D


The Frugal Ophthalmologist (Cost-effective Care)

Chair(s): Anja Tuulonen (Finland); Simon Skalicky (Australia);


Thursday 29 June 2023 16:45-17:45 CEST Room E


Peculiarities in Glaucoma Care

Chair(s): Louis Pasquale (United States); Nkiru Kizor-akaraiwe (Nigeria);


Thursday 29 June 2023 16:45-17:45 CEST Room G


Biomechanics

Chair(s): Crawford Downs (United States); Michael Girard (Singapore);


 

Friday


Friday 30 June 2023 08:30-10:00 CEST Auditorium


Cataract Surgery in the Glaucoma Patient

Chair(s): Doug Rhee (United States); Franz Grehn (Germany);


Friday 30 June 2023 10:30-12:00 CEST Auditorium


Dante's Inferno: How to Save the Day? (Surgical Nightmares)

Chair(s): Fabian Lerner (Argentina); Shlomo Melamed (Israel); Sola Olawoye (Nigeria);


Friday 30 June 2023 10:30-12:00 CEST Room A


Glaucoma Progression

Chair(s): Xinghuai Sun (China); David Garway-Heath (United Kingdom); Gabor Hollo (Hungary);


Friday 30 June 2023 10:30-12:00 CEST Room B


Risk Factors Debate

Chair(s): Arthur Sit (United States); Thasarat Vajaranant (United States); Ningli Wang (China);


Friday 30 June 2023 13:30-15:00 CEST Auditorium


Decision-making in Glaucoma Surgery

Chair(s): Eytan Blumenthal (Israel); Ingeborg Stalmans (Belgium); Lingam Vijaya (India);


Friday 30 June 2023 13:30-15:00 CEST Room A


Imaging in Glaucoma: from Basics to Advanced

Chair(s): Jeffrey Liebmann (United States); Hams Lemij (Netherlands); Linda Zangwill (United States);


Friday 30 June 2023 13:30-15:00 CEST Room B


Personalized Medicine (incl. multiomics)

Chair(s): Irene Copati (Argentina); Carlo Traverso (Italy); George Cioffi (United States);


Friday 30 June 2023 13:30-15:00 CEST Room C


Associate Advisory Board Symposium

Chair(s): Benjamin Xu (United States); Ziad Khoueir (Lebanon); Luis Abegao Pinto (Portugal);


Friday 30 June 2023 15:30-16:30 CEST Auditorium


Glaucoma Surgery: New Techniques on the Horizon

Chair(s): Juan Jose Mura (Chile); Thomas Grippo (Argentina);


Friday 30 June 2023 15:30-16:30 CEST Room A


Patient Safety

Chair(s): Ivan Goldberg (Australia); Angelo Tanna (United States);


Friday 30 June 2023 15:30-16:30 CEST Room B


Big Data

Chair(s): M. Roy Wilson (United States); Alessandro Jammal (United States);


Friday 30 June 2023 15:30-16:30 CEST Room C


Glaucoma Drainage Devices: Surgical Caveats

Chair(s): Ricardo Palleta (Brazil); George Puthuran (India);


Friday 30 June 2023 15:30-16:30 CEST Room D


Cell-based Strategies for Vision Restoration

Chair(s): Nils Loewen (Germany); Keith Martin (Australia);


Friday 30 June 2023 15:30-16:30 CEST Room E


Don't Fiddle while Rome Burns (Advanced Glaucoma Management)

Chair(s): Joe Panarelli (United States); Jesus Jimenez Roman (Mexico);


Friday 30 June 2023 15:30-16:30 CEST Room F


Functional Testing in Glaucoma: from Daily Practice to the Latest Research

Chair(s): Giovanni Montesano (United Kingdom); Ivan M. Tavares (Brazil);


Friday 30 June 2023 16:45-17:45 CEST Room A


Surgery for Congenital Glaucoma

Chair(s): Alana Grajewski (United States); Sushmita Kaushik (India);


Friday 30 June 2023 15:30-17:30 CEST Room G


Workshop 3D Optic Disc course

Chair(s): Hams Lemij (Netherlands);


Friday 30 June 2023 15:30-17:30 CEST Room H


Workshop on Gonioscopy

Chair(s): Victor Cvintal (Brazil); Tanuj Dada (India); Stefano Gandolfi (Italy);


Friday 30 June 2023 16:45-17:45 CEST Room B


MIGS & Lasers: Complications and Rescue

Chair(s): Chelvin Sng (Singapore); Ike Ahmed (Canada); Paul Chew (Singapore);


Friday 30 June 2023 16:45-17:45 CEST Room C


Screening and AI

Chair(s): David Friedman (United States); Siamak Yousefi (United States);


Friday 30 June 2023 16:45-17:45 CEST Room D


Neuroprotection: from Bench to Bedside

Chair(s): Eduardo M. Normando (United States); Toru Nakazawa (Japan);


Friday 30 June 2023 16:45-17:45 CEST Room E


Normal Tension Glaucoma

Chair(s): Tetsuya Yamamoto (Japan); Maria Francesca Cordeiro (United Kingdom);


Friday 30 June 2023 16:45-17:45 CEST Room F


Evidence-based Surgery for Secondary Glaucoma

Chair(s): Alfonso Anton (Spain); Roberto Carassa (Italy);


Friday 30 June 2023 16:45-17:45 CEST Expo Hall - Rapid Fire area


Rapid Fire - Session 2

Chair(s): Joseph Anthony Tumbocon (Philippines); M. Roy Wilson (United States);


 

Saturday


Saturday 01 July 2023 07:30-08:30 CEST Room A


International Society of Glaucoma Surgery - Preventing and Managing Complications of Glaucoma Surgery

Chair(s): Tarek Shaarawy (Switzerland); Michael Coote (Australia);


Saturday 01 July 2023 07:30-08:30 CEST Room B


Japan Glaucoma Society - New Topics for Glaucoma Diagnosis and Treatment from Japan

Chair(s): Makoto Aihara (Japan); Masaki Tanito (Japan);


Saturday 01 July 2023 07:30-08:30 CEST Room C


Glaucoma Society of India - India's Gift to the World of Glaucoma

Chair(s): Manav Deep Singh (India); Barun Nayak (India); Ramanjit Sihota (India);


Saturday 01 July 2023 07:30-08:30 CEST Room D


Pan American Glaucoma Society - Approach to the Patient with Angle-closure Glaucoma

Chair(s): Jesus Jimenez Roman (Mexico); Vital Costa (Brazil);


Saturday 01 July 2023 07:30-08:30 CEST Room E


Malaysian Glaucoma Society - Outcomes of Glaucoma Surgeries in Malaysia - Old is Gold but is New Diamond?

Chair(s): SK Fang (Malaysia); Mimiwati Zahari (Malaysia);


Saturday 01 July 2023 07:30-08:30 CEST Room G


Glaucoma Society of Chile - Glaucoma Surgery Tips

Chair(s): Andrés Gerhard (Chile);


Saturday 01 July 2023 07:30-08:30 CEST Room I


Bulgarian Glaucoma Society - Glaucoma - One Word, Thousand Aspects

Chair(s): Marin Atanasov (Bulgaria); Natalija Petkova (Bulgaria);


Saturday 01 July 2023 07:30-08:30 CEST Room K


Glaucoma Section of the Polish Ophthalmological Society - Different Aspects of Glaucoma - from Rare thought Interesting to Common and Crucial Issues

Chair(s): Bozena Romanowska-Dixon (Poland); Jacek P. Szaflik (Poland);


Saturday 01 July 2023 07:30-08:30 CEST Room L


Glaucoma Society of the Taiwan Academy of Ophthalmology - Challenges and Unmet Needs: from Diagnosis to Therapy of Glaucoma

Chair(s): Da Wen Lu (Taiwan); Henry Shen-Lih Chen (Taiwan);


Saturday 01 July 2023 08:30-10:00 CEST Auditorium


How to (re)organize Glaucoma Treatment Strategies?

Chair(s): Andrew Tatham (United Kingdom); Lisandro Massanori Sakata (Brazil); Omnia Hamam (United Arab Emirates);


Saturday 01 July 2023 10:30-11:30 CEST Room A


American Glaucoma Society - Best of the 2023 Annual Meeting

Chair(s): Kuldev Singh (United States); Qi Cui (United States);


Saturday 01 July 2023 10:30-11:30 CEST Room B


Glaucoma Association of Singapore - Recent Trends in Glaucoma Management in Singapore: Rising to Meet New Challenges

Chair(s): Leonard Yip (Singapore); Shamira Perera (Singapore);


Saturday 01 July 2023 10:30-11:30 CEST Room C


French Glaucoma Society - Glaucoma Surgery in Complex Situations

Chair(s): Florent Aptel (France); Antoine Labbé (France);


Saturday 01 July 2023 10:30-11:30 CEST Room D


Childhood Glaucoma Research Network - What is Going on in the World of Pediatric Glaucoma?

Chair(s): Alana Grajewski (United States); Jamie Brandt (United States);


Saturday 01 July 2023 10:30-11:30 CEST Room E


Indonesian Glaucoma Society - A simple GDD to Overcome Glaucoma in Indonesia

Chair(s): Novanita Satolom (Indonesia); Emma Rusmayani (Indonesia);


Saturday 01 July 2023 10:30-11:30 CEST Room G


Portuguese Glaucoma Group - What is Coming and What I wish was Coming in Glaucoma

Chair(s): Teresa Gomes (Portugal); Pedro Faria (Portugal);


Saturday 01 July 2023 10:30-11:30 CEST Room I


Glaucoma Society of Ecuador - "Challenges in the Management of Cataract Surgery in Glaucoma Patients"

Chair(s): Andrés Díaz Carrasco (Ecuador); Hector Forero (Colombia);


Saturday 01 July 2023 10:30-11:30 CEST Room J


Algerian Glaucoma Society - “What are the strategies of screening in under-medicalized areas in Algeria?”

Chair(s): Jalal Aberkane (Algeria);


Saturday 01 July 2023 10:30-11:30 CEST Room K


Egyptian Society for the Glaucomas - Addressing the Angle in Pediatric and Adult Glaucoma

Chair(s): Ahmad Khalil (Egypt);


Saturday 01 July 2023 10:30-11:30 CEST Room L


Romanian Glaucoma Society - "State of the Art Glaucoma Surgery"

Chair(s): Alina POPA-CHERECHEANU (Romania); Leopold Schmetterer (Singapore);


Saturday 01 July 2023 11:45-13:15 CEST Auditorium


Grand Rounds

Chair(s): Ingeborg Stalmans (Belgium); Vital Costa (Brazil); Frances Meier-Gibbons (Switzerland);


Saturday 01 July 2023 11:45-13:15 CEST Room A


How can I convince...?

Chair(s): Pradeep Ramulu (United States); Remo Susanna Jr. (Brazil); Kaweh Mansouri (Switzerland);