State of the Art Refractive & Cataract Surgery
2026 Programme
Keratoconus & Corneal Ectasia
What’s New + The Cataract & Refractive Surgery Interface
Faculty Chairs: Seema Anand and Sid Goel
| What has actually changed in practice? | Stephen Kaye |
| Corneal Rehabilitation Pathways | Hatch Mukherjee |
| Cataract in Ectasia | Tom Flynn |
| Refractive Surgery in Ectasia-prone Eyes | Samer Hamada |
| The Cataract + Ectasia Reality Check | Faculty Panel |
Hot Topics & Controversies in Cataract Surgery
Faculty Chair: Milind Pande
| Dropless Cataract Surgery | Romesh Angunawela |
| Immediate Sequential Bilateral Cataract Surgery | Ruth Lapid |
| FLACS: Clinically Relevant or Expensive Theatre? | Antoine Brézin |
| Green Cataract Surgery | Victor Hu |
| MIGS + Cataract Surgery: Best Practice or Overuse? | Neeru Vallabh |
Bijayananda Patnaik Memorial Lecture
Milind Pande
Perfect Surgery, Unhappy Patient
Refractive Reality Clinic
Faculty Chairs: Artemis Matsou and Supriya Sriganesh
| LASIK | Samer Hamada |
| SMILE | Supriya Sriganesh |
| PHAKIC | Artemis Matsou |
| The Unhappy Patient Diagnostic Framework | Sid Goel |
| Case Court: What Would You Do Next? | Faculty Panel |
Surgical Wisdom
Cataract Surgery in Special Eyes
Faculty Chairs: Abdallah Ellabban and Pei-Fen Lin
- The ever-popular video symposium
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