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 - 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 - 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 pm: SESSION 3: UVEITIS AND GLAUCOMA

Role Name Country Allocated Time Title of Presentation
Moderator Sanna Leinonen Finland 8-mins
Moderator Regitze Bangsgaard Denmark 8-mins
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 am - 12:30 am: 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

12:30 - 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 Modified Screening Criteria For Slovenian Cohort
Speaker Jens Kiilgaard Denmark 8-mins 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 8-mins The Use Of OCT-A In Paediatric Retina
Speaker Aldo Vagge 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 - 2:40 pm: LUNCH SYMPOSIUM

2:40 - 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 - 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

4:25 - 4:40 pm: BREAK

4:45 - 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?

6:15 - 7:00 pm: NETWORKING RECEPTION

7:00 - 9:00 pm: MYOPIA INNOVATION SESSION