BSOS, TIOC & ESCRS Academy Joint Meeting 

19-20 December, 2020

Time Zone – Tbilisi, Georgia. Tbilisi is 3 hours ahead of CET

19th December

Tbilisi local Time

Title

11:00 – 11:30

Welcome Speech – Merab Dvali, Mahmut Kaskaloglu, Zaza Khotenashvili

11:30 – 12:00

COVID-19 & Eye 

12:00 – 13:30

Keratoconus Symposium 

(Moderator - Merab Dvali, MD)

Oculoplastic & Strabismology Symposium (Moderator – Zaza Khotenashvili, MD)

12:00 – 12:20

Miltos Balidis (Greece) - Current concepts in KC Diagnosis

Sameera Irfan(Pakistan) – Binocularity, its relevance to Strabismus!!

12:25 – 12:45

Cristina Nicula (Romania) - Corneal Collagen Cross-Linking

Ala Paduca (Moldova) – Can Horizontal Rectus Muscle Resection in Strabismus Surgery Affect Proprioreception 

12:50 – 13:10

Rajesh Fogla (India) - DALK

Imran Jarullazada (Azerbaijan) - Blepharoptosis diagnosis and management

13:10 – 13:30

Q & A - Panel Discussion

Q & A - Panel Discussion

13:30 – 13:40

Sponsor’s Clinical Presentation (New Hospitals) 

Oleg Golovachovi – Book Presentation - Collagenoplasty in Ophthalmology

13:40 – 13:55

Sponsor’s Clinical Presentation (Akhali Mzera) 

13:55 – 14:20

Break

14:20 – 14:30

Sponsor’s Clinical Presentation (Kavita) 

Ia Vardanashvili – Complex Treatment of Chronic Blepharitis

14:30 – 14:40

Sponsor’s Clinical Presentation (Santen)

14:40 – 16:10

Medical & Surgical Cornea Symposium (Moderator – Bella Sirbiladze, MD)

Glaucoma Symposium 

(Moderator - Oleg Golovachovi, MD)

14:40 – 15:00

Petja Vassileva (Bulgaria) – Infectious Keratitis - Challenges in Diagnosis and Management

Oksana Vitovska (Ukraine) – Myths and Reality of Glaucoma Control

15:05 – 15:25

Baha Toygar (Turkey) – Current Trends in Corneal Refractive Surgery

Vytautas Jasinskas(Lithuania) - Role of Ahmed Valve in refractory glaucoma surgery.

15:30 – 15:50

Tarek Katamish (Egypt) – DMEK

Ike Ahmed(Canada) – The Place and Best Practice of Bleb Surgery

15:50 – 16:10

Q & A - Panel Discussion

Q & A - Panel Discussion

16:10 – 16:20

Break

16:20 – 16:30

Sponsor’s Clinical Presentation (Bayer)

Shalva Skhirtladze – Optimizing Outcomes for Patients with nAMD and DME: CRTs and Real Life Practice

16:30 – 18:00

Age-Related Lens Dysfunction Surgery Symposium (Moderator - Giorgi Petriashvili, MD)

Medical & Surgical Retina Symposium (Moderator - Giorgi Chichua, MD)

16:30 – 16:50

Mahmut Kaskaloglu(Turkey, Ambassador) - Patient Selection and Management for Multifocal Intraocular Lenses 

Athanasios Nikolakopoulos(Greece) – Macula Hole Surgery a Step by Step (Video Presentation)

16:55 – 17:15

Gangolf Sauder (Germany) – Nano Laser in Cataract Surgery

Mahmoud Soliman(Egypt) - Diabetic Vitrectomy; Intraoperative and postoperative complications

17:20 – 17:40

Nadezhda Bobrova(Ukraine, Ambassador) – Surgical Technique for Congenital Cataracts and Lens Abnormalities

Suleyman Kaynak(Tukey) - Controversies in cataract surgery in diabetic macular edema cases.

17:40 – 18:00

Q & A - Panel Discussion

Q & A - Panel Discussion

20th December

Time

Title

Time

Title

10:30 – 12:00

ESCRS Academy 

(Moderator – Mikheil Omiadze, MD)

10:30 – 12:00

Free Paper Symposium 1

(Moderator – Nana Tsintsadze, MD) 

10:30 – 10:50

Miltos Balidis - Save the epithelium! New concepts in Cornea collagen cross linking

10:30 – 10:37

Nino Kobakhidze – Vector Planning vs Topography Modified Refraction for Astigmatic Laser Vision Correction – Preliminary Results

10:40 – 10:47

Mariya Taneva - Varicella Zoster Virus- the sleeping danger targeting the eye

10:50 – 10:57

Svetlana Tronina - Сlinical course and surgical treatment of orbital dermoid cysts in children

10:55 – 11:15

Bekir Sitki Aslan – Refractive Cataract Surgery. Presbyopia Correcting IOLs

11:00 – 11:07

Mariam Golovachova – Management of Keratoconus, 3 years results

11:10 – 11:17

Lale Geribeyoglu - MEİBOMİAN GLAND DYSFUNCTİON AND DEMODEX İNFESTATION EVALUATION IN PATIENTS WITH DRY EYE SYMPTOMS

11:20 – 11:27

Medea Gobejishvili – Meibomian Gland Dysfunction

11:20 – 11:40

Vladimir Pfeifer -IOL Implantation in Eyes Without Capsular Support

11:30 – 11:37

Bilgehan Asena - Amniotic Membrane Transplantation in Ocular Surface Disorders

11:40 – 11:47

Natalia Palarie - Platelet Rich Growth Factor in thetreatment of complex corneal disorders

11:40 – 12:00

Q & A - Panel Discussion

11:50 – 11:57

Mehmet Ozbas - Conjunctival Autograft Technique with Fibrin Adhesive in Pterygium Surgery

12:00 – 12:20

Sponsor’s Clinical Presentation (J & J)

Dr. Jose Manuel Diez del Corral - Eyhance

12:20 – 12:30

Sponsor’s Clinical Presentation (Claus Marsh)

Marika Tsertsvadze - Cornea. Distrophy vs degeneration

12:30 – 13:00

Break

13:00 – 16:00

Invited Speakers’ Lectures (Part 1)

(Moderator – Nino Tkhelidze, MD)

13:00 – 16:00

Free Paper Symposium 2

(Moderator – Iva Beradze, MD) 

13:00 – 13:20

Ivan Tanev – Canal of Schlemm – Information on Demand

13:00 – 13:07

Ömer Takeş - Visual and refractive outcomes in toric intraocular lens implantation

13:10 – 13:17

Giorgi Mekvabishvili – Trend of Presbyopic IOLs

13:20 – 13:27

Nutsa Pargalava - Phacoemulsification with coexisting  corneal  vascularisation  and  opacities

13:25 – 13:45

Norbert Koerber - Canaloplasty ab interno and ab externo - techniques and results

13:30 – 13:37

Grigor Kamushadze - Comparison of sutured versus sutureless scleral-fixated IOLS

13:40 – 13:47

Hamidu Hamisi GOBEKA - OPTIMIZING IMAGE QUALITY WITH EYEMAX MONO LENS IN DRY AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION

13:50 – 14:10

Artashes Zilfyan – SLT in Pseudophakic Eyes

13:50 – 13:57

Onise Tsertsvadze – Comparison of Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic IOLs

14:00 – 14:10

Shevchyk Vasyl - Does the systems of anterior chamber stabilization and IOP control are helpful during routine cataract phacoemulsification?

14:10 – 14:20

Sponsor’s Clinical Presentation (GMP)

Zurab Zurabashvili – GM PHARMA (GMP) -  20 years of success

14:20 – 14:30

Sponsor’s Clinical Presentation (Saffarma) 

Lela Nemsadze – The Role Preservatives in Glaucoma Treatment

14:30 – 16:00

Invited Speakers’ Lectures (Part 2)

(Moderator – Nikoloz Labauri)

 

Free Paper Symposium 3

(Moderator – Nino Tavberidze, MD) 

14:30 – 14:50

Tatsiana Imshanetskaya – Our Experience in the Surgical Treatment of Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment in the COVID-19

14:30 – 14:37

Shalva Skhirtladze - Foldable Capsular Vitreous Body: Surgical solution for prephthisis eye

14:40 – 14:47

Ana Vachiberidze - Papillomacular bundle spearing vs conventional ILM peeling for medium size idiophatic macular holes: A Comparative Study

14:50 – 14:57

Mykhailo Gavura - Reoperation in traumatic retinal surgery

14:55 – 15:15

Robert Rejdak - Surgical management of severe ocular trauma complications - role of the vitreoretinal surgeon

15:00 – 15:07

Merve Inanc - The Quantitative Evaluation of Retinal Layers After Resolution of Subretinal Fluid  in Acute Central Serous Chorioretinopathy

15:10 – 15:17

Mehmet Murat Uzel - Early Effect of Vitamin D Deficiency on Anti-Vegf Treatment of Macular Edema Secondary to Central Retinal Vein Occlusion

15:20 – 15:40

Ahmad Nassef – "Neurophthalmology what and why"

15:20 – 15:27 

Shota Tadumadze - Congenital X-Linked Retinoschisis. Diagnosis and Management

15:30 – 15:37

Malinouskaya Inna - The retinal pigment epithelium tears: to treat or not to treat?

15:40 – 16:00

Q & A - Panel Discussion

15:40 – 15:47

Süleyman Korhan - Running treatment in acute central serous chorioretinopathy

16:00 – 16:30

Break

16:30 – 18:00

Free Paper Symposium 4

(Moderator – Nino Kobakhidze, MD)

16:30 – 18:00

Free Paper Symposium 5

(Moderator – Nino Karanadze, MD) 

16:30 – 16:37

Petya Manolova - Acute angle closure glaucoma attack after  general anesthesia

16:30 – 16:37

Cristina Scerbatiuc - Photophobia treatment in patients with migraine

16:40 – 16:47

Atılım Armağan Demirtaş - The Magnitude and Mean Diurnal Fluctuations in the Peripapillary and Parafoveal Vessel Density in Glaucomatous Eyes: Comparison Between Exfoliative Glaucoma and Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma

16:40 – 16:47

Tea Abramia – What Lies Beneath the Mask

16:50 – 16:57

Nana Gaprindashvili - SLT

16:50 – 16:57

Teona Tchanukvadze – Cryopreserved Amniotic Membrane Transplantation Methods (Own results) 

17:00 – 17:07

Ibrahim Tuncer - Comparison of the Effect of Brimonidine on Pupil Size in Glaucoma Patients and Healthy Subjects

17:00 – 17:07

Alexander Zabolotniy – Organization of planned ophthalmic surgical care in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic

17:10 – 17:17

Pastukh I. - Anti-VEGF drugs usage in complex treatment of neovascular glaucoma in patients with diabetic retinopathy

17:10 – 17:17

Kazim Hilmi Or -Coming soon?: Intraocular implants with metamaterials, especially graphene

17:20 – 17:27

Lana Datuashvili - Art of Strabismus Surgery (Surgical tips for Young Ophthalmologists/Clinical Case)

17:20 – 17:27

Serdar Ozates - Effect of Laser Energy and Photocoagulated Retinal Area on Refractive Error in Patients with Type 1 Retinopathy of Prematurity

17:30 – 17:37

Mehmet Gökhan Aslan - EVALUATION OF ANTERIOR SEGMENT PARAMETERS IN PSEUDOEXFOLIATION SYNDROME

17:30 – 17:37

Bulent Kose - Long term results of scleroplasty surgery in high myopic patients

17:40 – 17:47

Hasan Kiziltoprak - The Effect Of Inferior Oblique Muscle Z-Myotomy on Patients with Primary Inferior Oblique Overaction

17:40 – 17:47

Zurab Glonti - Meningioma and Ophthalmologist

17:50 – 17:57

Burcu Dirim - THE EFFECT OF LATERAL CANTHAL SLING PERFORMED IN THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF INVOLUTIONAL ENTROPION OF THE LOWER EYELID ON SURGICAL OUTCOME

17:50 – 17:57

Onur Gokmen - Relationship Between OSDI, Tear Break Up Time, Schirmer Test, And Pterygium Grades In Pterygium Patients

18:00 – 18:30

Closing Remarks