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From the WGA Executive Office
Professor Robert D. Fechtner, Executive Vice President
We wish to thank everyone who helped to make the World Glaucoma Week 2016 a true success. This global awareness event always is a major undertaking for the WGA and it would have not happened without our strong support base throughout the world. Every act, regardless of its size, brings us a step closer to our core vision: creating awareness about glaucoma and mobilizing people to take a stand against this eye disorder by getting their eyes checked!
With that being said, the WGA welcomes everyone to participate in next year’s World Glaucoma Week #WGW2017, March 12–18, 2017. So please keep an eye out!
In addition, I want to take the opportunity to thank our loyal advertisers. It is clear that the uniqueness of the International Glaucoma Review is acknowledged by the glaucoma industry members.
In sight of the release of IGR 17-3, I am pleased to announce that this issue will be circulated right before the start of the European Glaucoma Congress 2016 in Prague, upcoming June. This special edition will include some extra material which will make a stop at our WGA booth in Prague worth your while!
More closely to date, the 10th Consensus Meeting on Diagnosis of Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma will be held on April 30, 2016 (preceding ARVO Seattle) with as WGA Consensus Initiative Chair: Professor Robert N. Weinreb, MD.
The program will entail the following sessions and co-leaders:
| 1. Structure | Chris Leung, Linda Zangwill, Tae-Woo Kim |
| 2. Function | Ted Garway-Heath, Gustavo De Moraes, Aiko Iwase |
| 3. Structure/Function | Felipe Medeiros, Gustavo De Moraes, Ki Ho Park |
| 4. Risk Assessment (Ocular) | Felipe Medeiros, Jamie Brandt, Mingguang He |
| 5. Risk Assessment (Systemic) | Jeffrey Liebmann, Janey Wiggs, Fotis Topouzis |
| 6. Screening | Jeffrey Liebmann, David Friedman, Jost Jonas, Tanuj Dada |
The program can be found via the WGA website: www.worldglaucoma.org/consensus-10. If you are interested in attending the Consensus meeting as an observer, please send an email to the WGA Executive Office: info@worldglaucoma.org.
Please enjoy this IGR and let me know your thoughts regarding our efforts in this and all WGA initiatives. You can reach me at (fechtner@worldglaucoma.com). You can also contact our WGA Executive Office (info@worldglaucoma.org) if you need any information or have questions on IGR or WGA related matters. I look forward to hearing from you.
