We are pleased to announce and invite you to attend the 6th Annual Congress on Controversies in Ophthalmology:
Asia-Australia (COPHy AA) which will take place in Bangkok, Thailand, February 14-15, 2020.
The COPHy AA program, returning to Bangkok in 2020, again will be devoted to evidence-based debates and discussions amongst session moderators, speakers and the audience, all of whom will examine and analyze the most relevant and controversial issues raised during the course of 2019 and 2020 within the field of ophthalmology. This educational Congress will focus on Retina, but will discuss controversies in other related areas of ophthalmology, including neuro-ophthalmology, ocular imaging, and uveitis.
Topics will include the surgical and medical treatment of retinal diseases including age-related macular degeneration, diabetic macular edema, proliferative diabetic retinopathy, polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy, retinal vein occlusions, pathologic myopia, and vitreomacular interface abnormalities, as well as advances in ophthalmic imaging, hereditary retinal diseases, surgical innovations, home monitoring, and the role of deep learning (artificial intelligence) in these conditions.
List of Topics
Medical Retina
• Central serous chorioretinopathy: acute & chronic
• Choroidal Neovascular Age-related Macular degeneration
• Combination therapy
• Current imaging modalities: OCT angiography, wide field photography & OCT
• Diabetic macular edema: imaging
• Diabetic macular edema: treatment
• Genetics importance in diagnosis and management of non-neovascular AMD
• Longer acting agents
• Myopic choroidal neovascularization: diagnosis and management
• Neovascular age-related macular degeneration: Treatment of choice, 1st eye vs 2nd eye
• Pathologic Myopia
• Polypoidal vasculopathy: diagnosis & management
• Proliferative diabetic retinopathy
• Retinal vein occlusion: Frequency of treatment, First year vs. succeeding years
• Uveitis: infectious and non infectious
Surgical Retina
• Dyes in epiretinal membrane surgery
• Submacular hemorrhage: management
• Macular holes – surgical techniques and postoperative management
• Management of macular schisis in pathologic myopia
• Novel technologies
• Retinal detachment, inferior, recurrent, severe PVR (in phakic, pseudophakic eyes)
• Scleral buckle in era of vitrectomy (in phakic, pseudophakic eyes)
• Screening of the periphery in high myopia
• Vitrectomy for epiretinal membranes with good or bad visual acuity
• Vitreomacular traction
Imaging
• Adaptive optics
• DMEK/DSAEK
• Dry eye disease
• OCT angiography
• Microperimetry
• Ultrawide field imaging
Neuro-ophthalmology
• Management of isolated optic neuritis
• Management of isolated sixth cranial nerve palsy
• Orbital tumors
• Posterior optic neuropathy: Evaluation and management
• Psuedotumorcerebri including pregnancy
• Thyroid ophthalmopathy
• Treatment of traumatic optic neuropathy
• Treatment for anterior ischemic opticneuropathy