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International Glaucoma Symposium | Lisbon
- Pavilhão de Portugal, Lisbon
Glaucoma Care in Transition: Diagnosis, Data and Digital Surgery
Following the successful 2nd edition beginning of this year, we are pleased to announce the 3rd IGS in cooperation with the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon University.
Leading experts in glaucoma will come together in Lisbon to explore the latest developments, challenges, and future perspectives in glaucoma care.
January 30, 2027 | Lisbon
9:30 AM – 6:00 PM
Course Director: Prof. Dr. Luís Abegão Pinto
Venue
Pavilhão de Portugal
Cais Português, 1990-221 Lisbon/Portugal
©Universidade de Lisboa
Agenda
08:45 - Welcome
Luis Abegão Pinto, Stephan Schulz
Glaucoma Essentials: From Disc to Data
Moderators: Luis Abegão Pinto, Ingeborg Stalmans
- 09:00 - Look Again: Clinical Pearls from the Optic Disc
Alina Popa Cherecheanu - 09:15 - OCT Unlocked: What Every Clinician Needs to Know About Glaucoma
Marta Pazos - 09:30 - No More Blind Spots: Visual Fields Made Practical
Giovanni Montesano - 09:45 - Round table: Merging Structure-function in daily practice
All speakers - 10:00 - COFFEE BREAK
Measuring What Matters: Rethinking Endpoints in Glaucoma
Moderators: Marta Pazos, Benjamin Xu
- 10:30 - Beyond Pressure: What Should a Glaucoma Trials Really Measure?
Gauti Johannesson - 10:45 - Prove It: The Regulatory Challenge of Glaucoma Endpoints
tbc - 11:00 - Tomorrow’s Endpoint: What Will Success Look Like in Glaucoma?
Leopold Schmetterer - 11:15 - Panel discussion: The Endpoint Challenge: What Would We Choose Today (and tomorrow)?
All speakers - 11:30 - COFFEE BREAK
Find It Before It Matters: The Future of Glaucoma Screening
Moderators: Giovanni Montesano, Gauti Johannesson
- 12:00 - From Opportunistic to Targeted: Making AI-Based Glaucoma Screening Work in Clinical Practice
Ingeborg Stalmans - 12:15 - Can Imaging-Based Screening Be Cost-Effective?
Luis Abegão Pinto - 12:30 - One Plus One Is Three? Combining Imaging, Genetics and AI
Anthony Khawaja - 12:45 - The Proof Is in the (Pudding) Screening: Designing the Study That Could Change Practice
Interactive lecture/panel - 13:00 - LUNCH
KEYNOTE LECTURE
Moderador: Luis Abegão Pinto
- 14:30 - Who Pays, Who Saves? The Economics of AI in Healthcare
What ophthalmology can learn from the wider healthcare revolution
Leopold Schmetterer
Glaucoma Unboxed: New Ways to See, Treat and Monitor
Moderators: Alina Popa Cherecheanu, Leopold Schmetterer
- 15:00 - The FOREVER Study: A Long-Term View on Glaucoma and Eye Health
Miriam Kolko - 15:15 - From Gonioscopy to OCT: Rethinking the Angle
Benjamin Xu - 15:30 - Go with the Flow: Imaging-Guided MIGS
Andrew Tatham - 15:45 - Visual Fields Without Walls: Is Home Perimetry the Future?
Nathanael Häner - 16:00 - COFFEE BREAK
Heads Up! Is the Digital OR Ready for Glaucoma?
Moderators: Miriam Kolko, Andrew Tatham
- 16:30 - Game Changer or Gadget? The Case for the Digital Microscope
tbc - 16:45 - The Augmented Surgeon: What Comes After the Digital Microscope?
Interactive lecture/panel - 17:00 - Closing Remarks – IGS 2027
Luis Abegão Pinto, Stephan Schulz, Ingeborg Stalmans
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Course director
Luís Abegão Pinto is Head of the Glaucoma Clinic at the Department of Ophthalmology of Hospital Santa Maria, Portugal's largest hospital, and Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon. He has served on the Executive Board of the European Glaucoma Society (EGS) since 2018 and is currently President of the Society.
Within the EGS, he has contributed to several strategic initiatives, including the Programme Planning Committee, Global Outreach activities and educational programmes. He currently co-chairs the Surgical Innovation Task Force and co-edited the EGS Guide on Surgical Innovation, while also contributing to the development and dissemination of the Society's clinical guidance and educational resources.
