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Program

Below is the preliminary program for APGC 2024. 

The congress program is scheduled in GMT+8, Manila time zone. To check the program times in your location please use this handy convertor. 

Speakers and topics will be updated here as they are confirmed – please be sure to check back regularly. 

Day 1 - Friday 24 May
0830-1000
Symposium 1:
Optimising medical therapy


Chair: Catherine Liu, Hlaing May Than and Margarita Lat-Luna

Considerations for 1st choice drug
Manchima Makornwattana

When to switch and when to add
Catherine Liu

Preservative-free medications: Does it really matter?
Anton Hommer

Fixed-combination medications
Widya Artini Ikke Sumantri

Q&A
Symposium 2:
Grand rounds


Chairs: Hannah Pia De Guzman, Ronnie George, Benjamin Xu, Mimiwati Zahari and Leon Au
Course 1: Rescuing a failing filter

Chair: Jose Ma. Martinez and Atsuya Miki

Worldwide success rates of trabeculectomy
Jose Ma. Martinez

Management of early trabeculectomy failure
Norlina Ramli

Resuscitating Late Bleb Failures
Amit Porwal

Bleb revision for overhanging and cystic blebs
Sirisha Senthil

Top ten tips for creating a long-lasting filter
Nilo Vincent Florcruz

Summary & Q&A
Course 2: Automated perimetry

Chair: Do Tan

How to properly instruct a patient who will undergo automated perimetry examination
Benjamin Abela

Which perimetry test strategy for which patient?
Virna Asrory

Artifacts and pitfalls in perimetry examination
Christine Siguan-Bell

Automated perimetry interpration
Jemaima Che Hamzah

Differentiating glaucomatous from non-glaucomatous visual field defects
Noel Chan

Monitoring for visual field progression
Bryan Ang

Summary & Q&A
1000-1030
Morning tea
1030-1200
Plenary session 1

Chair: SK Fang, Clement Tham and Norman Aquino

Opening Ceremony

Award lectures - more information coming soon!
1200-1320
Lunch
1200-1320
Lunch symposium
Lunch symposium
1320-1450
Symposium 3: Glaucoma therapies: what's new and what's on the horizon?

Chairs: Makoto Aihara and John Mark De Leon

Nitric oxide donating PGA (Latanoprostene bunod)
Shan Lin

EP2 receptor agonist
Makoto Aihara

Rho kinase inhibitor +/- PGA
Sanjay Asrani

Sustained glaucoma medication delivery sytems
Tina Wong

A novel cost-effective glaucoma implant with drug eluting properties
Andrew White

Non-viral gene therapy in glaucoma - Translation to clinical trials
Cynthia Yu-Wai-Man

Neuroprotection: Where are we now?
Keith Martin

Q&A
Symposium 4: Risk factors for glaucoma

Chair: Do Tan, Chan Yun Kim and Cynthia Verzosa

Risk factors for primary open angle glaucoma and normal tension glaucoma
Chan Yun Kim

How does exfoliation increase the risk of glaucoma?
Mineo Ozaki

Risk factors for PACG
Clement Tham

Genetic risk factors
Ryan Collantes

Lifestyle associated risk factors
Liza Sharmini Ahmad Tajuddin

Risk of blindness from glaucoma
Ronnie George

Q&A
Course 3: Glaucoma drainage device instructional course

Chair: Victor Koh and Joseph Anthony Tumbocon and Leon Au

Ahmed glaucoma valve and Baerveldt impants
Joseph Anthony Tumbocon

Paul glaucoma implant
Victor Koh

Virna glaucoma implant
Virna Asrory

Anterior chamber tube shunt to an encircling band (ACTSEB)
Jose Ma. Martinez

Summary & Q&A
Course 4: Gonioscopy, anterior segment OCT and ultrasound biomicroscopy

Chair: Cecilia Aquino, Benjamin Xu and Margarita Lat-Luna

Gonioscopy and Goniophotography: Technique, pearls and cases
Nazrul Islam

AS-OCT: Overview of the technology and Use in Clinical Practice
Christopher Leung

AS-OCT: Clinical Cases and Interpretation of Results
Benjamin Xu

UBM: Overview of the technology and use in clinical practice
Margarita Lat-Luna

UBM: Clinical Cases and Interpretation of Results
Cecilia Aquino

Summary & Q&A
1450-1510
Break
1520-1600
Industry symposium 1
Industry symposium 2
Industry symposium 3
Industry symposium 4
1600-1730
Symposium 5: Complications in glaucoma surgery

Chair: Ying Han, Virna Asrory and Rainier Covar

Managing bleb leaks
Noel Chan

Overfiltration post glaucoma surgery
Michael Coote

Choroidal effusion
Mohd Aziz Husni

Malignant glaucoma
Colin Clement

Suprachoroidal hemorrhage
Amit Porwal

Overhanging and failing blebs
Paul Healey

Bleb related infections
Sirisha Senthil

Q&A
Symposium 6: Glaucoma with coexisting ocular comorbidity

Chair: Maria Imelda Veloso, Victor Koh, Nazrul Islam

Glaucoma post corneal surgery: mechanisms & management
Graham Lee

Elevated IOP post- vitreo-retinal surgery: Mechanisms and management
Vijaya Lingnam

Managing uveitic glaucoma
Da Wen Lu

Elevated IOP in orbit related diseases and conditions with elevated episcleral venous pressure
Maria Imelda Veloso

Glaucoma surgery in ICE syndrome
Surinder Pandav

Trab vs Tube in neovascular and uveitic glaucoma
Victor Koh

Pars plana vitrectomy and pars plana tube insertion
Do Tan

Q&A
Course 5: Lasers in glaucoma

Chair: Leonard Yip, David Wen Wei Woo and Grace Grozman

Laser iridotomy and laser peripheral iridoplasty
John Mark De Leon

Selective laser trabeculoplasty
David Woon Wen Wei

Transcleral cyclophotocoagulation
Maya Suwando Louhenapessy

Micropulse cyclophotocoagulation
Cecilia Aquino

Summary & Q&A
Free paper 1
Day 2 - Saturday 25 May
0830-1000
Symposium 7: Glaucoma progression

Chairs: Ki Ho Park, Sanjay Asrani and Joseph Anthony Tumbocon

Monitoring for structural progression
Ki Ho Park

Monitoring for functional progression
Visanee Tantisevi

Structure and function relationship in progression
Felipe Medeiros

Statistical progression vs. clinically relevant progression
Sanjay Asrani

Monitoring progression in advanced glaucoma
Frances Meir-Gibbons

Q&A
Symposium 8: Asia Pacific Glaucoma Guidelines, 4th edition launch

Chairs: Christopher Leung, Tina Wong and Tin Aung

Course 6: MIGS video instructional course

Chairs: Robert Ang, Nathan Kerr

Other cutting options for trabecular bypass: Goniooscopy assisted transluminal trabculecotomy (GATT), Bent ab interno needle goniectomy (BANG)
Surinder Pandav

Hydrus microstent
Leonard Yip

Xen gel stent
Poemen Chan

Preserflo mciroshunt
Nathan Kerr

Summary & Q&A
Free paper 2: Film Festival
1000-1030
Morning tea
1030-1200
Plenary session 2
MIGS controversies


Chairs: Robert Ang, Chelvin Sng

Evolution of MIGS: An unmet need
Robert Ang

Trabecular bypass: Devices are better
Shamira Perera

Trabecular bypass: BANG and GATT are better
Xiulan Zhang

Standalone trabecular bypass MIGS should be performed
Colin Clement

Standalone trabecular bypass MIGS should NOT be performed
Leon Au

Medically uncontrolled moderate glaucoma: Subconjunctival MIGS8 mins
Keith Barton

MIGS for angle closure glaucoma: What's the evidence?
Chelvin Sng

Q&A
1200-1320
Lunch
1320-1450
Symposium 9: Hot topics in glaucoma management

Chairs: Clement Tham, Hannah de Guzman and Vijaya Lingnam

First-line treatment in newly diagnosed POAG: Medications
Anton Hommer

First-line treatment in newly diagnosed POAG: SLT
Jonathan Crowston

Debate Summary: First-line treatment in Newly diagnosed POAG: Medications vs. SLT
Vijaya Lingnam

Escalating treatment in eyes with OCT-RNFL progression alone without visual field deterioration: NO
Vijaya Lingnam

Debate Summary: Escalating treatment in eyes with OCT-RNFL progression alone without visual field deterioration
Clement Tham

Inadequate IOP reduction post-trab: Needling
Leonard Yip

Debate summary: Inadequate IOP reduction post-trab: needling vs medications
Hannah de Guzman

Q&A
Symposium 10: Challenging situations and modifications in glaucoma drainage implantation

Chairs: Ikke Widya Sumantri, Seng Kheong Fang and Nilo Vincent Florcruz

Alternative sites of tube insertion
Michael Coote

Decreasing the risk of hypertensive phase in Ahmed glaucoma valve implantation
Ying Han

Techniques and devices that can adjust flow in tube surgery
Leon Au

2nd glaucoma drainage device implantation: Why, Where and How?
Sheng Lim

Managing complications of tube surgery
Keith Barton

Q&A
Course 7: Structural examination of the optic nerve head, retinal nerve fiber layer and ganglion cell complex

Chairs: Kyung Rim Sung, Cynthia Yu-Mai-Man and Raquel Quino

Decoding the optic disc
Naris Kitnarong

Review of OCT technology
Leopold Schmetterer

OCT RNFL and optic nerve head interpretation
Bernardo Soares

OCT progression analysis
Christopher Leung

Interpreting OCTA results
Kyung Rim Sung

Summary & Q&A
Course 8: Averting disaster in glaucoma surgery: From my personal video collection

Chair: Shamira Perera, Xiulan Zhang and Rainier Covar

TBC
Bryan Ang

TBC
Tomasz Zarnowski

TBC
Shamira Perera
1450-1510
Afternoon tea
1520-1600
Industry symposium 1
Industry symposium 2
Industry symposium 3
Industry symposium 4
1600-1730
Symposium 11: Imaging in glaucoma

Chairs: Christopher Leung, Chan Yun Kim and John Mark De Leon

Anterior segment imaging of the iridocorneal angle
Shan Lin

Utility of Anterior segment OCT in the assessment of filtration blebs
Cynthia Yu-Mai-Man

OCT-ONH/RNFL - identifying artifacts and pitfalls in interpretation
Sanjay Asrani

Macular ganglion cell complex analysis: What additional information can it provide and when is it more beneficial to perform?
Christopher Leung

How to make sense of RNFL & macular ganglion cell complex discordance
Felipe Medeiros

Imaging the optic nerve head in myopic eyes
Hitomi Saito

OCT angiography -Where are we now and where is it headed?
Ki Ho Park

Q&A
Symposium 12: The United Nations of Soft Eyes

Chairs: Tina Wong, Norlina Ramli and Visanee Tantisevi

Hypotony post trabeculetomy: Part 1
Rainier Covar

Hypotony post trabeculectomy: Part 2
Tina Wong

Hypotony post tube surgery
Keith Barton

Hypotony post cyclodiode and uveitis
Vijaya Lingam

Hypotony post viitreo-retinal surgery
Shamira Perera

Hypotony post trauma
Graham Lee

Q&A
Course 9: Trabeculectomy: Tips and Pearls

Chairs: Jose Ma. Martinez, Surinder Pandav

50-year Evolution of Trabeculectomy
Patricia Khu

Basic techniques and variations in Trabeculectomy
Surinder Pandav

Summary & Q&A
Course 10: Childhood glaucoma

Chair: Ching Lin Ho, Carlo Rubio

Tips and pearls for monitoring childhood glaucoma patients
Joseph Panarelli

Glaucoma Surgical Pearls in Children
Ching Lin Ho

The Genetics of Primary Congenital Glaucoma: Clinical Practice Implications
Ryan Collantes

Summary & Q&A
1730-1830
Pre-congress dinner
Cocktails at exhibition hall
1900-2200
Congress dinner (RSVP required)
Sponsored by Philippine Academy of Ophthalmology (PAO)
Day 3 - Sunday 26 May
0830-1000
Symposium 13: Artificial intelligence: where are we now, where are we headed and what does it mean to us?

Chairs: Michael Girard, Ningli Wang and Carlo Rubio

Topic - TBA
Leopold Schmetterer

Topic - TBA
Michael Girard

Surgical navigation of ab interno trabeculotomy based on deep learning
Xiulan Zhang

Topic - TBA
Felipe Medeiros

Topic - TBA
Jithin Yohannan

Topic - TBA
Robert Chang

Q&A
Symposium 14: Expanded options in glaucoma intervention: case-based conversations

Chair: Robert Ang, Colin Clement

40 y/o newly diagnosed early POAG patient who does not want topical medications. What are the options?
Mimiwat Zahari

50 y/o patient with POAG with IOP of 23 mmHg on maximum tolerated medications. What are the options?
Leon Au

60 y/o patient with PACG post LPI with controlled IOP with 2 medications and early cataract. What are the options?
Jose Maria Martinez

70 y/o pseudophakic patient with advanced-stage POAG on maximum medical medical therapy with glaucomatous progression . What are the options?
Nathan Kerr

Course: Strategies, innovations and resources in teaching glaucoma

Chair: Margarita Lat-Luna and Raquel Quino
Free paper 3
1000-1030
Morning tea
1030-1200
Plenary session 3
Primary angle closure disease: what we have learned and how to manage


Chair: Ningli Wang, Margarita Lat-Luna and Tin Aung

Anterior segment OCT findings in the Asian Americans
Shan Lin

What did we learn from Analis & ZAP trials. How do we apply it in our practice?
Tin Aung

Risk stratification of primary angle closure suspects (PACS)
Benjamin Xu

When to do phaco vs phaco+trab in PACG
Clement Tham

How to deal with refractory PACG patients
Paul Healey

Q&A
1200-1320
Lunch
1200-1320
Lunch symposium
Lunch symposium
1320-1450
Symposium 15: Hot topics in surgical management: what to do next?

Chair: Paul Healey, Patricia Khu and Paul Chew

What's next if a trabeculectomy fails? Trab revision
Nazrul Islam

What's next if a trabeculectomy fails? Repeat trab
Edgar Leuenberger

What's next if a trabeculectomy fails? Tube
Seng Kheong Fang

Debate Summary : What's next if a trabeculectomy fails? Revise, repeat or tube
Patricia Khu

What's next after a tube fails? Plate capsule excision / revision
Astrianda Suryono

What's next after a tube fails? 2nd tube
Ying Han

What's next after a tube fails? cyclophotocoagulation
Paul Chew

Debate Summary: What's next after a tube fails? Revice vs 2nd tube or CPC
Paul Healey

Q&A
Symposium 16: Glaucoma and myopia

Chair: Da Wen Lu, Norman Aquino and Hitomi Saito

Epidemiology and genetics of glaucoma in myopia
Da Wen Lu

Effect of Myopia on Progression of POAG
Kyung Rim Sung

Glaucoma and myopia: diagnostic dilemmas I
Nilo Vincent Florcruz

Glaucoma and myopia: Diagnostic dilemmas II
Atsuya Miki

Q&A
Course 12: Correlating structure and function

Chair: Ki Ho Park, Christine Sigaun-Bell

Structure - function relationship in glaucoma
Ki Ho Park

How to proceed when there is structure-function discordance
Maria Hannah Pia De Guzman

Which test is more important in the early, moderate and advanced stage of glaucoma
Chan Yun Kim

Summary & Q&A
Free paper 4
1450-1520
Afternoon tea
1520-1650
Symposium 17: Understanding glaucoma from a different perspective

Chair: Michael Girard, Ningli Wang and John Mark De Leon

CSF pressure and glaucoma
Ningli Wang

AI and Engineering tools to describe the structural and biomechanical phenotype of glaucoma
Michael Girard

ONH biomechanics during accommodation
Xiaofei Wang

Iris Biomechanics
Satish Panda

Exercise, diet, & Immunology
Jonathan Crowston

Q&A
Symposium 18: Glaucoma and cataract

Chair: Shamira Perera, Cesar Perez

Pre-operative considerations in patients with co-existing glaucoma and cataract
Carlo Rubio

Phaco+trab
Jemaima Che Hamzah

Phaco & goniosynechiolysis
Jimmy Lai

Phaco in a post-trab eye
Bryan Ang

Potential surgical challenges in eyes with cataract and angle closure
Shamira Perera

Difficult cataract surgery in glaucoma
Poemen Chan

Which IOL's to use in glaucoma patients
Rainier Covar

Q&A
Course 13: Angle closure disease management

Chair: Astrianda Suryono, Do Tan and Catherina Nasol

LI and LPI indications and techniques
Maya Suwandono Louhenapessy

Trabeculectomy Pearls in Angle Closure Glaucoma
Astrianda Suryono

Cataract Extraction in Angle Closure Eyes
Do Tan

Combined phaco + trab in angle closure glaucoma: tips and tricks
Catherina Nasol

Summary & Q&A
Free paper 5
1650-1710
Closing Ceremony

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