Refractive Course9:00 – 10:30Hall 3 (Mamouniah) Road to Optimizing Corneal Refractive Surgery Results Moderator Moderator Engy Mostafa, Egypt 9:00 – 9:15 Ocular surface disorders and refractive surgery Islam Saad El Saman, Egypt 9:15 – 9:30 General considerations for refractive surgery Shahira Rashad, Egypt 9:30 – 9:45 What is beyond laser ablation? Hossam Ziada, Egypt 9:45…
Refractive Course9:30 – 11:00Hall 2 (Montazah 3,4) Corneal Crosslinking Updates in 2026 Moderator Moderator Hany Helaly, Egypt 9:30 – 9:45 A new milestone in KC management .. my early experience Zakaria Hassanin, Egypt 9:45 – 9:55 CXL in thin corneas Ihab M. Othman, Egypt 9:55 – 10:05 PACK-CXL for infectious keratitis Ramy Awad Elbassiouny, Egypt…
Refractive Course10:30 – 12:00Hall 2 (Montazah 3,4) Basics of KLEx Surgery:Principles and Surgical Techniques Moderator Moderator Ayman Abdelrahman, Egypt 10:30 – 10:40 Facing your first FemtoSMILE challenges.. Amr Al-Amin, Egypt 10:40 – 10:50 Different KELx TTT with different machines Moataz Wessam, Egypt 10:50 – 11:00 SMILE vs femto LASIK: Evolution or revolution? Ayman Abdelrahman, Egypt…
Refractive Session11:30 – 13:00Hall A (Al Saraya 1) Refractive Symposium 1 Lenticule Extraction Today Chairpersons & Moderator Chairpersons Mohamed Hosny, Egypt Mohamed Shafik, Egypt Osama Ibrahim, Egypt Osamah Hasan Alhasani, Iraq Safwan Al Bayati, UAE Moderator Medhat Shawky, Egypt 11:30 – 11:36 Introduction Medhat Shawky, Egypt 11:36 – 11:50 CLEAR: Outcomes of my last patch…
Refractive Surgery in Abnormal Cornea Panelist Ahmed Tawfik Ahmed Tawfik Ahmed Tawfik Moderator Amr Said, Egypt Session Details 16:00 – 16:15 Your tools in keratoconus management Amr Said, Egypt → 16:15 – 16:30 Breaking barriers: Apporach to lens surgery in irregular astigmatism Sayed Abbas, Egypt → 16:30 – 16:45 Refractive surgery after keraoplasty Ashraf Borai,…
Novel Approach in Management of Keratoconus Panelist Ahmed Tawfik Ahmed Tawfik Ahmed Tawfik Moderator Mohammed Iqbal Hafez, Egypt Session Details 14:00 – 14:15 Challenges in pediatric keratoconus Ahmed Saeed, Egypt → 14:15 – 14:30 Modern ICRS strategies in keratoconus management. Abdelrahman Elsebaey, Egypt → 14:30 – 14:45 Role of tissue augmentation for managemnt of advanced…
Keynote Lecture: Additive Procedures for Keratoconus in 2025 Moderator Mohamed Shafik, Egypt Panelist Cosimo Mazotta, Italy Mohamed Hosny, Egypt Mohamed Shafik, Egypt Session Details 16:00 – 16:30 Additive procedures for keratoconus in 2025 Ahmed El Massry, Egypt → Download PDF Previous: Retina Symposium: Retina Across the Middle East: Bridging Borders Back to full program Next:…
Basics of LASIK Surgery Panelist Ahmed Tawfik Ahmed Tawfik Ahmed Tawfik Moderator Mortada Ahmed Abozaid, Egypt Session Details 10:30 – 10:42 Corneal biomechanics and history of Lasik surgery Mortada Ahmed Abozaid, Egypt → 10:42 – 10:54 Corneal topography and tomography Ahmed Anwar, Egypt → 10:54 – 11:06 Selection of patients Ahmed Saeed, Egypt → 11:06…
Understanding Keratorefractive Lenticule Extraction Surgery (KLEX) Panelist Ahmed Tawfik Ahmed Tawfik Ahmed Tawfik Moderator Ahmed Ghoneim, Egypt Jonathan Edward Moore, UK Session Details 14:00 – 14:10 Learning smile? – how to avoid mistakes Jonathan Edward Moore, UK → 14:10 – 14:20 Evidence based guidelines for keratorefractive lenticular extraction surgery Ahmed El Massry, Egypt → 14:20…
Keynote Lecture: Ray-Tracing Guided Excimer laser Customized Ablations Plus Pachymetry-Guided ACXL Corneal Remodeling in Keratoconuse and post-LASIK Ectasia Chairperson Adel Alei Eldin, Egypt Adel Ellayeh, Egypt Hatem Marey, Egypt Mohamed El-Sada, Egypt Nihal Shakankiri, Egypt Moderator Mohamed Shafik, Egypt Session Details 14:30 – 15:00 Ray-tracing guided excimer laser customized ablations plus pachymetry-guided ACXL corneal remodeling…