The 78th Annual Congress of Japan Clinical Ophthalmology

Program

Invited Lecture

Invited Lecture 1Saturday, November 16, 2024 10:30~11:30 Room 1

Rapid Progression in Glaucoma: Identifying and Managing High-Risk Patients

Chair : Nobuyuki Shoji (Kitasato University)
Speaker : Felipe A Medeiros (Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami School of Medicine)

Symposium

Symposium 10 Friday, November 15, 2024 14:30~16:10 Room 1

Pathways towards improving the prognosis of intractable eye disease

Organizers : Taiji Sakamoto (Kagoshima University)
Chie Sotozono (Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine)
Speakers : Victor L. Perez (University of Miami, USA)
Role of Immunity and Inflammation in Eye Diseases: Key to Developing New Therapies
  Hideki Fukuoka (Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine)
Ocular Cicatricial Pemphigoid: Recent Advances in Management and Outcomes
  Hanako Ikeda (Kyoto University)
Retinitis Pigmentosa
  Kaoru Fujinami (Tokyo Medical Center)
Macular dystrophy
  Akiko Yamagami (Inoue Eye Hospital)
Toward Improving the Prognosis of Lebel Hereditary Optic Neuropathy

International Session

International Session 1 Thursday, November 14, 2024 11:00~12:20 Room 5

Basic research

Organizers : Sajjad  Ahmad (Moorfields Eye Hospital, UK)
Takefumi Yamaguchi (Tokyo Dental College Ichikawa General Hospital)
Koji Kitazawa (Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine)
Speakers : Arkasubhra Ghosh (Narayana Nethralaya Foundation, India)
Gene augmentation strategies for treatment of corneal conditions
  Sajjad  Ahmad (Moorfields Eye Hospital, UK)
Extracellular vesicles and the cornea
  Friedrich Kruse (Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
Insulin eye drops for non-healing corneal ulcers: Mechanism and side effects
  Yuzuru Sasamoto (Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, USA)
Corneal epithelial stem cells, transit amplifying cells and their differentiation
  Chiea Chuen  KHOR (Laboratory of Complex Disease Genetics, Singapore)
The Genetic Architecture of Glaucoma

International Session 2 Thursday, November 14, 2024 14:00~15:20 Room 5

Cornea Clinics Part 1: Inflammatory ocular surface diseases

Organizers : Victor L. Perez (University of Miami, USA)
Satoru Yamagami (Nihon University Itabashi Hospital)
Tomohiko Usui (International University of Health and Welfare Narita Hospital)
Speakers : Vilavun Puangsricharern (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
Atypical keratitis in Asia: How to diagnose and manage
  Yuta Ueno (Tsukuba University)
AI-based diagnostic support for keratitis and other disorders
  Rantna Sitompul (University of Indonesia, Indonesia)
Systemic Immunosuppressant Uses for severe ocular surface disorders
  Charles Bouchard (Loyola University Medical Center, USA)
Management of Acute Stevens Johnson Syndrome in the US
  Chie Sotozono (Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine)
Strategic treatment of Stevens Johnson Syndrome in Japan

International Session 3 Thursday, November 14, 2024 15:40~17:00 Room 5

Cornea Clinics Part 2: Surgical therapy -present and future-

Organizers : W. Barry Lee (Eye Consultants of Atlanta, USA)
Shigeto Shimmura (Fujita Health University)
Yoshinori Oie (Osaka University)
Speakers : W. Barry Lee (Eye Consultants of Atlanta, USA)
[Keynote Lecture]
DLEK to endothelial cell injections in the US
  Friedrich Kruse (Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
Long-term results of DMEK transplantation. What we have learned in 20 years
  Shin Hatou (Keio University)
Development of cell therapy for bullous keratopathy using iPS cells
  Vilavun Puangsricharern (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
Amniotic membrane graft: current indications
  Tsutomu Inatomi (National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology)
Advances in Corneal/Ocular Surface Therapy