Subspecialty Day 2025

Friday 12th September

Copenhagen

During the 43rd Congress of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons, Copenhagen, Denmark, 12 – 16 September, 2025

Early Bird Registration Deadline: 25th June 2025

Programme Overview

Please note: This programme is preliminary and is subject to change

Programme Overview

7:30 - 8:30 am: BREAKFAST SYMPOSIUM

8:30 - 9:30 am: SESSION 1: PAEDIATRIC CATARACT

Role Name Country Title of Presentation
Moderator Darius Hildebrand Switzerland
Moderator Ramesh Kekunnaya India
Speaker Jaspreet Sukhija India Practical application of imaging in Pediatric Cataract Surgery
Speaker Vladimir Pfeifer Slovenia Optic Capture To Maintain Visual Axis For Lifetime After Congenital Cataract Operation
Speaker Luc Van Os Belgium The Bag-In-The-Lens Technique In Pediatric Cataract
Speaker Anna Lindskoog Petterson Sweden Paediatric Contact Lens Fitting After Congenital Cataract Surgery
Speaker Edward Wilson USA Making IOL Choices For Children - Design And Power
Video Presenter Darius Hildebrand Switzerland Double Optic Capture Technique

9:30 - 10:30 am: SESSION 2: OCULAR SURFACE IN CHILDREN

Role Name Country Title of Presentation
Moderator Dominique Bremond-Gignac France Dry eye disease in children:  Clinical evaluation & treatment strategies
Moderator Ken Nischal USA
Speaker Yair Morad Israel What Is New And Important In The Field Of VKC
Speaker Miriam Kolko Denmark Should We Fear Preservatives In Eyedrops For Kids?
Speaker Dominique Bremond-Gignac France TBA
Speaker Samer Hamada UK Microbial Dysbiosis in Childhood Lid Disease: Rethinking MGD and BKC Through the Microbiome Lens
Speaker Annegret Dahlmann-Noon UK A Patient-Centred Approach to Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis 
Video Presenter Ken Nischal USA Keratoconus in Children and Developmentally Delayed Adults
Video Presenter Nibaran Gangopadhyay India Tiny Ocular surface: Ocean of problems

10:30 - 11 am: COFFEE BREAK

11:00 am - 11:30 am: RAPID FIRE #1 - FREE PAPER SESSION

11:30 am - 12:30 pm: SESSION 3: UVEITIS AND GLAUCOMA

Role Name Country Title of Presentation
Moderator Sanna Leinonen Finland
Moderator Regitze Bangsgaard Denmark
Speaker Agnes Galbro Brost Denmark The Risk Of Uveitis Under And After DMARD Treatment In A Danish JIA Cohort 
Speaker Sanna Leinonen Finland JIA Uveitis And Surgeries: The Finnish National Database
Speaker Amgad Eldib USA Paediatric Glaucoma Suspects: Management And Follow-Up
Speaker Brenda Bohnsack USA Surgical Considerations And Approaches To Uveitic Glaucoma
Speaker Diana Chabané Schmidt Denmark Comparing Glaucoma Risk In Children Receiving Low-Dose And High-Dose Glucocorticoid Treatment After Cataract Surgery

12:30 - 1:30 pm: SESSION 4: PAEDIATRIC RETINA & ROP

Role Name Country Title of Presentation
Moderator Manca Tekavčič Pompe Slovenia
Moderator Aldo Vagge Italy
Speaker Manca Tekavčič Pompe Slovenia Modified Screening Criteria For Slovenian Cohort
Speaker Carina Slidsborg Denmark Lipodomic Changes In Plasma In Preterm Infants With ROP
Speaker Jens Kiilgaard Denmark Update on surgical treatment of COATS
Speaker Hajer Ahmad Al-Abaijii Denmark Visual Impairment in children born preterm in DK: Historical perspectives, current trends and advances in screening for ROP.
Speaker Maria Concepcion Guirao Navarro Spain The Use Of OCT-A In Paediatric Retina
Speaker Aldo Vagge Italy Characteristics Of Nystagmus In Retinal Dystrophy

1:30 - 2:45 pm: LUNCH SYMPOSIUM

2:45 - 3:45 pm: SESSION 5: NEURO-OPHTHALMOLOGY

Role Name Country Title of Presentation
Moderator Sarah Linea von Holstein Denmark
Moderator Cameron Parsa France
Speaker Virender Sachdeva India Acquired Nystagmus
Speaker Sarah Linea von Holstein Denmark Ophthalmic Symptoms, Clinical Signs And Diagnostic Delay In Infants Diagnosed With Brain Tumours In Denmark Between 2007 And 2017
Speaker Cameron Parsa France How blooms the morning glory optic disc anomaly.
Speaker Amgad Eldib USA When is it not Glaucoma?
Speaker Ellen Mitchell USA Current Approaches To Paediatric Optic Pathway Gliomas
Video Presenter Adeline Shona Lasrado India Congenital Disc Anomalies

3:45 - 4:30 pm: RAPID FIRE #2 - FREE PAPER SESSION

4:30 - 4:45 pm: COFFEE BREAK

4:45 - 6:15 pm: SESSION 6: VISION SCREENING & STRABISMUS

Role Name Country Title of Presentation
Moderator Seo Wei Leo Singapore
Moderator Angela Maria Fernandez Delgado Colombia
Speaker Alvit Wolf Israel Bringing Remote Visual Acuity Testing into Practice: Strengths and Limitations for Screening
Speaker Nick Duelund Denmark Vision Screening Of Greenlandic School Children: Coverage, Low Vision Prevalence, Screening And Refraction
Speaker Sara Flodin Sweden Binocular Vision Testing Before Strabismus Surgery
Video Presenter Julia Rossetto Brazil Eye on Every Child: Inclusive Strategies for Pediatric Vision Health
Speaker Luisa Moreira Hopker Brazil Clinical Pearls: Botulinum Toxin for Strabismus
Speaker Ramesh Kekunnaya India Head Tilt & Strabismus
Speaker Angela Maria Fernandez Delgado Colombia Dealing with infections in strabismus surgery
Speaker Radha Ram USA Strabismus Surgery Across Borders: Comparing perioperative care and surgical techniques in different countries
Video Presenter Seo Wei Leo Singapore Strabismus Surgery In Myopes: Tips And Tricks

5:45 - 6:15 pm: NETWORKING RECEPTION

6:15 - 8:15 pm: MYOPIA INNOVATION SESSION