The ELZA team were well represented at the CXL Experts’ Meeting 2023, held last weekend at the Mövenpick Hotel, Zurich Airport.
Prof. Farhad Hafezi, Dr. Emilio Torres-Netto e Léonard Kollros were all involved in giving presentations and courses at this conference that contains the world’s leading CXL expert. All three gave important presentations at the congress.
Here was their schedule:
Pre-Congress, December 7,
EMAGine / CSO Italia / Mediconsult company course:
- 15:15 – 15:45: Farhad Hafezi, “Office-based epi-on CXL for corneal ectasia at the slit lamp, including a live surgical demonstration.”
- 16:45 – 17:00: Emilio Torres, “PACE, 2nd generation customized CXL.”
- 17:00 – 17:15: Farhad Hafezi, “CXL applications for infectious keratitis.”
- 17:30: Farhad Hafezi explores “P.A.C.E. in combination with the AMARIS.”
- 18:00: Léonard Kollros covers “Contact lenses in corneas with Kmax over 100 D.”
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18:00: Léonard Kollros, “Contact lenses in corneas with Kmax over 100 D.”
Day 1, December 8, CXL for Ectasia – The Protocols:
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10:45: Emilio Torres, “Epi-on protocols.”
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11:00: Farhad Hafezi, “Customized CXL.”
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11:30: Léonard Kollros, case discussion.
CXL for Infectious Keratitis – PACK-CXL
- 10:00: Farhad Hafezi, “Combining RF and RB PACK-CXL for infectious keratitis.”
- 11:20: Emilio Torres, “Sunlight CXL in rabbits.”
Rapid Fire 1:
- 12:05: Farhad Hafezi, “Central toxic keratopathy after epi-off corneal cross-linking.”
The meeting, organized by the Light for Sight Foundation, was a great success, with over 140 participants from 34 countries attending. The meeting involved three days of courses, lectures, rapid fire research presentations and poster sessions, and enabled the leading figures of the field to share their knowledge with the delegates present, and to network, generate new ideas, and to push the field forward. The ELZA Institute is proud to have been a leading part of this process. We are looking forward to the meeting in 2024, which will be the 20th annual meeting of CXL experts!
