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9:00AM
Exhibit Hall Opens
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9:15AM – 9:30AM
CGS Business Meeting Update
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9:30AM – 10:45AM
Session 1- Updating Medical Therapeutics of Glaucoma
Moderators: Toby Chan, Jing Wang
LIGHT Trial of Laser Treatment for Glaucoma
Gus Gazzard, MBBChir, MA, MD, FRCOphth
Micropulse Trans-scleral Cyclophotocoagulation
Chelvin C.A. Sng, BA, MBBChir, MA, MMed, FRCSEd
New findings on Disc Heamorrhage
Jibran Mohamed-Noriega, MD, PhD (Candidate)
IOP Sensor Technologies: The Next Frontier
Ike Ahmed, MD, FRCS(C)
Discussion
Panelists: Marcelo Nicolela, Paul Rafuse, Karim Damji, Darana Yuen, Catherine Birt
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10:45AM – 11:00AM Break/Exhibit Hall
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11:00AM – 12:00PM
Session 2 – MIGS Access: A Canadian and International Perspective
Moderator: Hady Saheb
MIGS Access Canada
Hady Saheb, MD, MPH
MIGS Access: A Canadian Perspective
Panelists: James Taylor, Bryce Ford, Ike Ahmed, Cindy Hutnik, Marcelo Nicolela
Moderator: Hady Saheb
MIGS Access: An International Perspective
Panelists: Nathan Kerr, Jibran Mohamed-Noriega, Keith Barton, Gus Gazzard, Chelvin Sng
Moderator: Hady Saheb
MIGS Discussion
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12:00PM – 12:45PM Break/Exhibit Hall
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12:45AM – 2:15PM
Session 3 – Improving Glaucoma Surgery Outcomes
Moderators: Paul Harasymowycz, Jing Wang
Evolution of Tube Surgery
Keith Barton, MD, FRCP, FRCS
MIGS – Preserflo Microshunt Clinical Data – Preserflo versus Trabeculectomy Study
Joseph F Panarelli, MD
Canadian Experience with the Preserflo Microshunt: Retrospective Cohort
Matt Schlenker, MD
What’s on the HORIZION: Trabecular Bypass
Jeb Ong, MD
Update on Surgical Management of Paediatric Glaucoma – Paediatric Glaucoma Surgery: Pearls and Pitfalls
Joseph F Panarelli, MD
Learning Trabeculotomy 360 for Paediatric Glaucoma: Moorfields Experience
Jibran Mohamed-Noriega, MD, PhD (Candidate)
Big Data on Glaucoma Surgery – International Glaucoma Surgery Registry
Nathan Kerr, BHB, MBChB, MD, FRANZCO
Discussion
Panelists: Patrick Hamel, Delan Jinapriya, Mazen Choulakian, Andy Crichton
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2:15PM – 2:30PM
Conclusion
Overall Meeting Objectives
At the end of the program, participants will be able to:
Session 1 – Updating Medical Therapeutics of Glaucoma
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
Session 2 – MIGS Access: A Canadian and International Perspective
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
Session 3 – Improving Glaucoma Surgery Outcomes
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
Keith Barton, MD, FRCP, FRCS
Consultant Ophthalmologist
Moorfields Eye Hospital
UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London United Kingdom
Editor-in-Chief, British Journal of Ophthalmology
Mr. Barton pioneered in aqueous shunt surgery in the United Kingdom. He received a number of awards for his achievement in the field of ophthalmic surgery and has been voted twice by The Ophthalmologist magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in Ophthalmology. His prospective study titled “Corneal endothelial cell loss in eyes implanted with Baerveldt Glaucoma Implant” was rewarded the 2020 Best Paper at the American Glaucoma Society.
He is actively involved in surgical teaching, patient education and charitable projects. He has produced patient information on aqueous shunt implantation and trabeculectomy that are available online in several languages and which have been awarded the NHS Information Standard in the UK. He also has established an online resource migs.org to help patients and clinicians navigate the proliferation of new glaucoma surgical devices as well as an internet-based International Registry of Glaucoma Surgery, in order to collect outcome information on all types of glaucoma surgery from around the world.
Gus Gazzard, MBBChir, MA, MD, FRCOphth
Director of Glaucoma Service
Moorfields Eye Hospital
Professor in Ophthalmology
University College of London (UCL) London
Professor Gazzard graduated from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University. He has been a consultant at Moorfields Eye Hospital since 2009 and is currently Director of Glaucoma Service.
Gus is the recipient of the prestigious, competitively awarded “NHS National Silver Merit Award” and is both organiser and lecturer at The Moorfields International Glaucoma Symposium (MIGS). He is the Chief Investigator of the LiGHT Trial of Laser Treatment for Glaucoma (NIHR funded multi-centre £2 million clinical trial.)
Nathan Kerr, BHB, MBChB, MD, FRANZCO
Consultant Ophthalmologist
Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital
Melbourne, Australia
Dr Nathan Kerr is a fellowship-trained glaucoma subspecialist in Melbourne, Australia. He completed a glaucoma fellowship at Moorfields Eye Hospital. Dr Kerr has a special interest in the surgical management of glaucoma and the use of minimally invasive glaucoma surgery. He serves as a Glaucoma Section Editor for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology and is a Principal Investigator at the Centre for Eye Research Australia.
Jibran Mohamed-Noriega, MD, PhD (Candidate)
Assistant Professor
Department of Ophthalmology
Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon (UANL)
Monterey, Mexico
PhD (Candidate), University College London, United Kingdom
Dr. Mohamed-Noriega is a glaucoma specialist and assistant professor working at UANL. He graduated with honours from the Faculty of Medicine of (UANL). He completed his fellowship training in paediatric glaucoma at Moorfields Eye Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. He is a PhD candidate at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology in London under the supervision of Professor David F. Gareway Heath. His PhD thesis is on pathogenesis of disc haemorrhage.
Joseph F. Panarelli, MD
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Chief, Division of Glaucoma Services
Glaucoma Fellowship Director
Department of Ophthalmology
NYU Langone Eye Center
Joseph F. Panarelli, MD specializes in the treatment of adult and pediatric glaucoma. Dr. Panarelli received his undergraduate and medical education from Georgetown University. He then completed his ophthalmology residency at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and glaucoma fellowship at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. Dr. Panarelli was one of the principal investigators of Preserflo versus Trabeculectomy study.
Chelvin C.A. Sng, MBBChir, MA, FRCSEd
Senior Consultant, National University Hospital
Associate Professor, National University of Singapore
Convenor of the Asia-Pacific Glaucoma Society – Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery (APGS-MIGS Interest Group)
Dr. Sng graduated from Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge University with triple First Class Honours and Distinctions. As a recipient of the Academic Medicine and Development Award, she completed her glaucoma fellowship at Moorfields Eye Hospital. Dr. Sng has a special interest in the use of glaucoma drainage devices, and is amongst the first surgeons in Asia to be accredited in the use of several novel micro-invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) devices. She is also the co-inventor of the Paul Glaucoma Implant, which has attained CE mark and is currently undergoing commercialization.
Accreditation Statement
The Canadian Glaucoma Society 2020 Virtual Meeting is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1), as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and was approved by the Canadian Ophthalmological Society. Physicians may claim a maximum of 3.75 hours.
Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the learning activity.
