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The WGC Scientific Program
Choka Melamed Tel-Hashomer, Israel, for the Program Committee of WGC
This time, the Program Committee (Co-Chairs: D. Lam, J. Liebmann, S. Melamed and J. Schuman; Members: M. Agulto, J. Brandt, T. Dada, M. He, P. Healey, L. Herndon, C. Leung, F. Lerner, K. Martin, S. Miglior, M. Nicolela, C.Pang, P. RojanaPongpun, A. Sit, E. Tamm; Surgery Subcommittee: R. Brown, A. Crandall, T. Shaarawy, B. Shingleton with the support of E. Greve and K. Singh) have invested a lot of time and effort to make the WGC in Boston the best and most attended international glaucoma congress ever.
First, there will be 23 national and regional Glaucoma Societies who will have their satellite meetings on Wednesday morning, July 8th , 2009. Such an overwhelming participation of so many societies in response to our call is unprecedented and very encouraging. It is a solid proof that WGC has become the real 'home' for glaucoma specialists from all over the globe. The scientific program will be of the highest quality, addressing all issues our field confronts these days. The program will include:
- Didactic sessions on key important issues in glaucoma, with talks given by excellent invited speakers from all over the world.
- Free papers sessions, and free papers incorporated into didactic sessions on merit of their quality. Our scientific committee has chosen the best 30 submitted abstracts from a total of 705 submitted, and these will be presented by their authors in their appropriate sessions.
- Grand Rounds - the most interesting 5 cases have been chosen to be presented by their authors, with a thorough discussion of each case by a panel of experts representing various approaches from different parts of the world.
- Around 40 courses (free of charge) run by our faculty, covering all clinical and practical issues we all face in our daily confrontation with glaucoma.
- Surgical Video sessions, with vivid discussion of techniques, indications and novel methodologies.
- The first film festival that composes of a collection of 10 outstanding videos will be shown three times during the congress.
- All sessions will be in accordance with the quality levels of the CME providing organization
- An especially large Poster Session, representing an overwhelming number of abstracts (705 in total), submitted from 64 countries. This is double the numbers that have been submitted for the previous World Glaucoma Congresses. It is fantastic that the whole world has responded enthusiastically to the call for this 3rd World Glaucoma Congress.
More information on the scientific program may be found here
