Upcoming Meetings
WSPOS at International Meetings
CLADE 2025
XXIV CLADE Congress
Date: 11th – 14th February 2025
Location: Antigua, Guatemala
WSPOS 60-minute Symposium on ‘Vertical Strabismus Management’
Date: 13th February 2025, 8am-9am
Moderators
| Moderator | Country |
|---|---|
| Rita Gama | Portugal |
| Claudia Polo | Argentina |
Speakers
| Speaker | Country | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|
| Mauro Goldchmit | Brazil | What have we learnt from the oblique muscle weakening in the correction of vertical deviations |
| Rita Gama | Portugal | Is it DVD, hypertropia or hypotropia |
| Claudia Polo | Argentina | Inferior rectus resection in DVD |
| Emely Karam | USA | Skew Deviation |
APAO 2025
40th Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology Congress (APAO) in conjunction with 83rd Annual Conference of All India Ophthalmological Society (AIOS)
Date: 3rd – 6th April 2025
Location: New Delhi, India
WSPOS 90-minute Symposium
‘Video Potpourri – An Intercontinental Perspective on Strabismus & Paediatric Ophthalmology’
Date: Friday, 4th of April, 2025; 11:30 am – 1 pm IST
Moderators
| Moderator | Country |
|---|---|
| Ken Nischal | USA |
| Ramesh Kekunnaya | India |
Speakers
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| # | Speaker | Country | Specialty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parth Shah | Australia | Anterior Segment |
| 2 | Ken Nischal | USA | Anterior Segment |
| 3 | Rahul Bhola | USA | Anterior Segment |
| 4 | Srijana Adhikari | Nepal | Cataract |
| 5 | Vladimir Pfeifer | Slovenia | Cataract |
| 6 | Craig Donaldson | Australia | Strabismus |
| 7 | Yi Ning Strube | Canada | Strabismus |
| 8 | Jyoti Matalia | India | Strabismus |
| 9 | Ramesh Kekunnaya | India | Strabismus |
| 10 | Naomi Tan | UK | Strabismus |
| 11 | Rahul Bhola | USA | Strabismus |
PAAO 2025
36th Pan-American Congress of Ophthalmology
Location: Bogota, Colombia
Date: 30th May – 2nd June 2025
WSPOS 90-minute Symposium
‘Hot Topics in Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus That You Don’t Want to Miss!’
Date: 31st May 2025 (time TBC)
Moderators
| Moderator | Country |
|---|---|
| Mauro Goldchmit | Brazil |
| Luisa Moreira Hopker | Brazil |
Speakers
| # | Speaker | Country | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claudia Polo | Argentina | Re-Surgeries in Strabismus: Second Acts Are Never Good |
| 2 | José Fernando Perez Perez | Mexico | ROP Related Strabismus: Diagnostic and Treatment Options |
| 3 | Christiane Rolim De Moura | Brazil | Paediatric Glaucoma: Diagnostic Tools, Preparing for Intervention and Follow Up |
| 4 | Federico Velez | USA | Paradoxical Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus |
| 5 | Luisa Moreira Hopker | Brazil | Botulinum Toxin for Strabismus: What You Need to Know |
| 6 | Cristian Marcelo Salgado Alarcón | Chile | Red Flags in Paediatric Neuro-Ophthalmology and How to Deal with Them |
| 7 | Venkateshwar Rao B | India | Early Surgery for Congenital Esotropia |
| 8 | Mauro Goldchmit | Brazil | Human Intelligence: When a Good History Taken Helps to Reach the Diagnosis |
SOE 2025
SOE (Society of European Ophthalmology) 2025
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Date: 7th – 9th June 2025
‘Paediatric Ophthalmology on the Edge – The WSPOS Experience’
Date: Sunday, 8th June 2025
Time: 1630 – 1800 hrs
Moderators
| Moderator | Country |
|---|---|
| Manca Tekavčič Pompe | Slovenia |
| Yair Morad | Israel |
Speakers
| # | Speaker | Country | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rita Gama | Portugal | Emmetropization |
| 2 | Yair Morad | Israel | Adding Atropine to Peripheral Defocus Glasses. Why? When? Does it Work? |
| 3 | Manca Tekavčič Pompe | Slovenia | Genetic Background of High Myopia in Children |
| 4 | Alejandra Daruich-Matet | France | Gene Therapy in Pediatric Patients with RPE65-Mediated Inherited Retinal Dystrophy: What Have We Learned? |
| 5 | Omar Warda | UK | Biosimilars of Anti-VEGF Treatment in ROP |
| 6 | Meenakshi Swaminathan | India | AI in Pediatric Ophthalmology: Current Applications and Future Scope |
APSPOS 2025
Date: 29 June – 1 July, 2025
Location: Brisbane, Australia
WSPOS’s 90-minute symposium on ‘Ocular Diseases In Systemic Illness’
Date: 30th June, 2025
Time: TBC
Moderators
| Moderator | Country |
|---|---|
| Elizabeth Conner | New Zealand |
| Ken Nischal | USA / UK |
Speakers
| Name | Country | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|
| Savleen Kaur | India | Congenital Cataract As A Sign Of Systemic Disease |
| Seo Wei Leo | Singapore | The Avascular Retina |
| Meenakshi Swaminathan | India | Ocular Manifestations of Congenital Anomalies of Kidney and Urinary Tract (CAKUT) |
| Kimberley Tan | Australia | Is Optic Nerve assessment the most important part of a general Paediatric growth and development examination? |
| Elizabeth Conner | New Zealand | Keratoconus in Down’s Syndrome |
| Ken Nischal | USA / UK | Ocular Signs That Could Be Fatal If Missed |
| Parth Shah | Australia | Corneal Deposits & Systemic Disease |
MEOM 2025
Information coming soon…
