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

Programme Overview

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

Programme Overview

8:00 am - 9:00 am: SESSION 1: PAEDIATRIC CATARACT

Role Name Country Allocated Time Title of Presentation
Moderator Darius Hildebrand Switzerland
Moderator Ramesh Kekunnaya India
Speaker Jaspreet Sukhija India 8-mins Practical application of imaging in Pediatric Cataract Surgery
Speaker Vladimir Pfeifer Slovenia 8-mins Optic Capture To Maintain Visual Axis For Lifetime After Congenital Cataract Operation
Speaker Luc Van Os Belgium 8-mins The Bag-In-The-Lens Technique In Pediatric Cataract
Speaker Anna Lindskoog Petterson Sweden 8-mins Paediatric Contact Lens Fitting After Congenital Cataract Surgery
Speaker Edward Wilson USA 8-mins Making IOL Choices For Children - Design And Power
Video Presenter Darius Hildebrand Switzerland 4-mins Double Optic Capture Technique
Free Paper Presenter Elena Franco Italy 4-mins Modified two-piece mushroom keratoplasty for the treatment of Congenital Corneal Opacities
Panel Discussion:
12-mins

9:00 - 9:45 am: BREAKFAST SYMPOSIUM

9:45 am - 10:45 am: SESSION 2: OCULAR SURFACE IN CHILDREN

Role Name Country Allocated Time 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 8-mins What Is New And Important In The Field Of VKC
Speaker Miriam Kolko Denmark 8-mins Should We Fear Preservatives In Eyedrops For Kids?
Speaker Dominique Bremond-Gignac France 8-mins TBA
Speaker Samer Hamada UK 8-mins Microbial Dysbiosis in Childhood Lid Disease: Rethinking MGD and BKC Through the Microbiome Lens
Speaker Annegret Dahlmann-Noon UK 8-mins A Patient-Centred Approach to Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis 
Free Paper Presenter Annegret Dahlmann-Noon UK 4-mins Myopia-X-1: phase 2 randomised controlled trial of blue-light blind spot stimulation to reduce myopia progression in children: 6-month results
Video Presenter Nibaran Gangopadhyay India 4-mins Tiny Ocular surface: Ocean of problems
Panel Discussion:
12-mins

10:45 am - 11:45 am: SESSION 3: UVEITIS AND GLAUCOMA

Role Name Country Allocated Time Title of Presentation
Moderator Sanna Leinonen Finland
Moderator Regitze Bangsgaard Denmark
Speaker Agnes Galbro Brost Denmark 8-mins The Risk Of Uveitis Under And After DMARD Treatment In A Danish JIA Cohort 
Speaker Sanna Leinonen Finland 8-mins JIA Uveitis And Surgeries: The Finnish National Database
Speaker Amgad Eldib USA 8-mins Paediatric Glaucoma Suspects: Management And Follow-Up
Speaker Brenda Bohnsack USA 8-mins Surgical Considerations And Approaches To Uveitic Glaucoma
Speaker Diana Chabané Schmidt Denmark 8-mins Comparing Glaucoma Risk In Children Receiving Low-Dose And High-Dose Glucocorticoid Treatment After Cataract Surgery
Free Paper Presenter Nisheeta Patnaik UK 4-mins Migratory Dark without Pressure: A potential inflammatory marker in Paediatric Uveitis
Panel Discussion:
16-mins

11:45 am - 12:00 pm - BREAK

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm: Rapid Fire Free Paper Session #1

Category Name Country Allocated Time Title of Presentation
Moderator Gorka Sesma Saudi Arabia
Moderator Manca Tekavčič Pompe Slovenia
Amblyopia Lorenz Wassermann Austria 4-mins Trend of prevalence of amblyopia in Austrian conscripts born between 1965 and 2003 – a descriptive study
Glaucoma Brenda Bohnsack USA 4-mins Ologen-Augmentation of Ahmed Glaucoma Devices (OAGD) in Paediatric Glaucomas: 3-6 Year Follow-up
Nystagmus Gökhan Çelik Sweden 4-mins Evaluation of Saccadic Eye Movements and Fixation Parameters in High Myopes Using Eye-Tracking Software and Comparison with Emmetropic Individuals
Strabismus Sinem Dedeoglu Turkey 4-mins Photosensitivity in Intermittent Exotropia: The Role of Optical Aberrations, Contrast Acuity and Suppression
ROP Katrin Eerme Estonia 4-mins The short  and long-term outcomes of children treated for premature retinopathy from 2007-2023 in Northern Estonia.
Glaucoma Jesselyne Abel USA 4-mins The Importance of Measuring Intraocular Pressure in Both Primary and Restricted Gaze in Children With Ophthalmoplegia
Panel Discussion:
6-mins

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

Role Name Country Allocated Time Title of Presentation
Moderator Manca Tekavčič Pompe Slovenia
Moderator Aldo Vagge Italy
Speaker Manca Tekavčič Pompe Slovenia 8-mins Modified Screening Criteria For Slovenian Cohort
Speaker Jens Kiilgaard Denmark 8-mins Update on surgical treatment of COATS
Speaker Hajer Ahmad Al-Abaijii Denmark 8-mins Visual Impairment in children born preterm in DK: Historical perspectives, current trends and advances in screening for ROP.
Speaker Maria Concepcion Guirao Navarro Spain 8-mins The Use Of OCT-A In Paediatric Retina
Speaker Carlo Catti Italy 8-mins Characteristics Of Nystagmus In Retinal Dystrophy
Free Paper Presenter Claudia Yahalom Israel 4-mins Can Atropine eye Drops Slow Moderate to High Myopia Progression in Children with Inherited Retinal Diseases?
Panel Discussion:
16-mins

1:30 pm - 2:40 pm: LUNCH SYMPOSIUM

2:40 pm - 3:40 pm: SESSION 5: NEURO-OPHTHALMOLOGY

Role Name Country Allocated Time Title of Presentation
Moderator Sarah Linea von Holstein Denmark
Moderator Cameron Parsa France
Speaker Virender Sachdeva India 8-mins Acquired Nystagmus
Speaker Sarah Linea von Holstein Denmark 8-mins Ophthalmic Symptoms, Clinical Signs And Diagnostic Delay In Infants Diagnosed With Brain Tumours In Denmark Between 2007 And 2017
Speaker Cameron Parsa France 8-mins How blooms the morning glory optic disc anomaly.
Speaker Amgad Eldib USA 8-mins When is it not Glaucoma?
Speaker Ellen Mitchell USA 8-mins Current Approaches To Paediatric Optic Pathway Gliomas
Video Presenter Adeline Shona Lasrado India 4-mins Congenital Disc Anomalies
Free Paper Presenter Adeline Shona Lasrado India 4-mins Clinical profile, management and outcomes of pediatric ocular myasthenia
Panel Discussion:
12-mins

3:40 pm - 4:25 pm: Rapid Fire Free Paper Session #2

Category Name Country Allocated Time Title Of The Presentation
Moderator Seo Wei Leo Singapore NA
Moderator Ken Nischal USA NA
The Eye In Systemic Disease Giulia Marchione France 4-mins WAGR Syndrome - a retrospective phenotype-genotype study
Myopia Harsha Saxena India 4-mins Revolutionizing Myopia Screening with Artificial Intelligence and Digital Retinoscopy: The Future of Simple and Effective Screening
Myopia Annegret Dahlmann-Noor UK 4-mins CHAMP-UK: a phase 3 randomised controlled trial of 0.01% atropine for myopia in the UK
Myopia Sónia Campos Portugal 4-mins DIMS lenses and or atropine or none?
Anterior Segment Muna Al Ajmi Oman 4-mins Customized CXL versus non customized CXL in paediatric age group
Anterior Segment Edoardo Villani Italy 4-mins European Delphi on paediatric dry eye
The Eye In Systemic Disease Sevil Karaman Erdur Türkiye 4-mins Evaluation of Ocular Surface in Children with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Using the MYAH Device
Anterior Segment Debapriya Chatterjee India 4-mins Outcomes of corneal collagen cross linking in vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC) with keratoconus in paediatric age group- a hospital based study
Panel Discussion:
13-mins

4:25 pm - 4:45 pm: BREAK

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

Role Name Country Allocated Time Title of Presentation
Moderator Seo Wei Leo Singapore
Moderator Angela Maria Fernandez Delgado Colombia
Speaker Alvit Wolf Israel 8-mins Bringing Remote Visual Acuity Testing into Practice: Strengths and Limitations for Screening
Speaker Nick Duelund Denmark 8-mins Vision Screening Of Greenlandic School Children: Coverage, Low Vision Prevalence, Screening And Refraction
Speaker Sara Flodin Sweden 8-mins Binocular Vision Testing Before Strabismus Surgery
Video Presenter Julia Rossetto Brazil 4-mins Eye on Every Child: Inclusive Strategies for Pediatric Vision Health
Speaker Luisa Moreira Hopker Brazil 8-mins Clinical Pearls: Botulinum Toxin for Strabismus
Speaker Ramesh Kekunnaya India 8-mins Head Tilt & Strabismus
Speaker Angela Maria Fernandez Delgado Colombia 8-mins Dealing with infections in strabismus surgery
Speaker Radha Ram USA 8-mins Beyond Alignment: Rethinking the Strabismus Patient’s Experience in the Modern World
Free Paper Presenter Siddharth Madan India 4-mins Intraocular pressure fluctuations following Intravitreal Anti VEGF injection in infants with Retinopathy of prematurity
Free Paper Presenter Ka Wai Leung UK 4-mins Is the Red Reflex Really Red? Identifying the Need to Decolonise and Reform Fundal Reflex Teaching for Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Children
Panel Discussion:
22-mins

6:15 - 7:00 pm: Rapid Fire Free Paper Session #3

Category Name Country Allocated Time Title Of The Presentation
Myopia Sónia Campos Portugal DIMS lenses and or atropine or none?
Myopia Annegret Dahlmann-Noor UK Myopia-X-1: phase 2 randomised controlled trial of blue-light blind spot stimulation to reduce myopia progression in children: 6-month results
Myopia Harsha Saxena India Revolutionizing Myopia Screening with Artificial Intelligence and Digital Retinoscopy: The Future of Simple and Effective Screening
Myopia Annegret Dahlmann-Noor UK CHAMP-UK: a phase 3 randomised controlled trial of 0.01% atropine for myopia in the UK
Myopia Claudia Yahalom Israel Can Atropine eye Drops Slow Moderate to High Myopia Progression in Children with Inherited Retinal Diseases?

NETWORKING RECEPTION

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm: MYOPIA Innovation Summit

Time Role Title of Presentation
7:00pm Opening Remarks
7:10pm Panel #1
  • Review of the key needs and barriers for optical treatments
  • Latest developments in design improvements, efficacy, and patient outcomes
  • Predicted future developments in the coming decade
7:40pm Panel #2
  • Review of the key needs and barriers for pharma and light treatments
  • Impact of variable concentration atropine and alternative drugs on patient outcomes
  • How various wavelengths and intensities of light could impact myopia progression, results and safety considerations
  • Predicted future developments in the coming decade
8:10pm Panel #3
  • Presentations and discussion on emerging technologies
  • Market trends presentation and panel discussion
  • Review of future directions for the industry and major barriers to be addressed
8:55pm Conclusion Remarks and Wrap-up