7th WGA Global Consensus Meeting on Medical Therapy in Glaucoma

Broward Convention
Grand Ball room D&F
Fort Lauderdale, USA, May 1, 2010, 10 AM – 6 PM

Scientific Program

WGA Consensus Initiative Chair: Robert N. Weinreb
Co-chairs: Makoto Araie, Ivan Goldberg, Jeff Liebmann, Clive Migdal and Remo Susanna
08.30 - 10.00 Registration & Coffee
10.00 - 10.10 Opening Robert N. Weinreb, WGA Consensus Initiative Chair
10.10 - 10.45 Section 1: Who should be treated?
    Section leaders: Felipe Medeiros, Kuldev Singh and Remo Susanna Participants: Rupert Bourne, Bruce Prum, Anne Coleman,
Tanuj Dada, Murray Fingeret, Christopher Girkin, Fabian Lerner, Euginio Maul, Stefano Miglior, Sameh Mosaed, Kouros Nouri-Mahdavi, Augusto Paranhos, Rajul Parikh, Lisandro Sakata, Anurag Shrivastava, Ravi Thomas and Fotis Topouzis
10.45 - 11.20 Section 2: Treatment goals
    Section leaders: Augusto Azuaro-Blanco, Mingguang He, Jeff Liebmann and Kuldev Singh
Participants: Oscar Albis, Sanjay Asrani, Tin Aung,
Eytan Blumenthal, Michael Boland Rupert Bourne, Alain Bron,
Anne Coleman, Karim Damji, Sunil Deokule, Robert Fechtner,
Robert Feldman, David Friedman, Chris Girkin, Franz Grehn,
Daniel Grigera, Paul Healey, Gabor Hollo, Michel Iester, Henry Jampel, Kenji Kashiwagi, Michael Kass, L. Jay Katz, Anthony King, Anastasios Konstas, Jimmy Lai, Dennis Lam, Shlomo Melamed, Gustavo de Moreas, Rajul Parikh, Harry Quigley, Nathan Radcliffe, Sushma Rai, Prin RojanaPongpun, Tarek Shaarawy, Gail Schwartz, Janet Serle, Kuldev Singh, Ravi Thomas, Fotis Topouzis,
Anja Tuulonen, Rohit Varma, Lingling Wu, Tetsuya Yamamoto and Thierry Zeyen
11.20 - 11.50 Section 3: Drugs
    Section leaders: Makoto Araie, Neeru Gupta, Megumi Honjo, Norbert Pfeiffer and Arthur Sit
Participants: Makoto Aihara, Albert Alm, Abbott Clark, Philipe Denis, Franz Grehn, Ian Grierson, Tomomi Higashide, Gabor Hollo,
Malik Kahook, Paul Kaufman, Changwon Kee, John Liu,
Sayoko Moroi, Anthony Realini, Leopold Schmetterer, Joel Schuman, Stephen Schwartz, Hidenobu Tanihara, Hagen Thieme,
Atsuo Tomidokoro, Carol Toris, Allison Ungar, Gadi Vollstein and Takeshi Yoshitomi
11.50 - 12.10 Coffee / Tea break
12.10 - 12.45 Section 4: Selection of drugs
    Section leaders: Christopher Girkin, Ivan Goldberg, Fabian Lerner, Tarek Shaarawy and Carlo Traverso
Participants: James Brandt, Francesca Cordeiro, Tanuj Dada,
Stefano Gandolfi, Anton Hommer, John Liu, Rajul Parikh,
Patricio Schlottmann, Jovina See, Arthur Sit, Ivan Tavares and
Lori Ventura
12.45 - 13.10 Section 5: Medical treatments of other types of open angle glaucomas
    Section leaders: Paul Healey, Kenji Kashiwagi and Remo Susanna
Participants: Keith Barton, David Broadway, Anne Coleman,
Rainer Covar, Helen Danesh-Meyer, Daniel Grigera, Ching Lin Ho, Masaru Inatani, Fabian Lerner, Peter McCluskey, Rodolfo Perez Grossmann, Robert Ritch, Kuldev Singh and Fotis Topouzis
13.10 - 14.10 Lunch break
14.10 - 14.35 Section 6: Drug delivery
    Section leaders: Ivan Goldberg, David Greenfield and Kenji Kashiwagi
Assistant Section leaders: David Friedman and Jost Jonas Participants: Norman Aquino, Ramesh Ayyala, Robert Casson, Jonathan Crowston, Seng Kheon Fang, Ronnie George, Neeru Gupta, Daniel Grigera, Masanori Hangai, Sek-Tien Hoh, Malik Kahook,
Paul Kaufman, Shan Lin, Ronit Nesher, Ki Ho Park, Sung Chul Park, Nathan Radcliffe, Kazuhisa Sugiyama, Remo Sussana,
Clement Tham, Carol Toris, and Ningli Wang
14.35 - 15.00 Section 7: Health Economics
    Section leaders: Anne Coleman, Ronnie George and Clive Migdal Participants: Alfonso Anton, Augusto Azuaro-Blanco, Steven Kymes, Paul Lee, Grant McLaren, Renato de Natale, James Tsai, Ravi Thomas and Anja Tuulonen
15.00 - 15.25 Section 8: Non-pharmaceutical medications and approaches
    Section leaders: Makoto Araie, Robert Ritch and Clement Tham
Participants: Makoto Aihara, Josef Flammer, Sandra Fernando,
Aiko Iwase, Michael Kook, Simon Law, Manelli Mozaffaraieh,
Robert Nussenblatt, Vincenzo Parisi, Nathan Radcliffe, Douglas Rhee, Kwok-fai So, Lori Ventura and He Wei 
15.25 - 15.40 Coffee / Tea break
15.40 - 16.15 Section 9: Neuroprotection
    Section leaders: Jonathan Crowston, Clive Migdal and Tina Wong
Participants: Rob Casson, Francesca Cordeiro, Helen Danesh-Meyer, Stefano Gandolfi, Jonathan Kipnis, Ted Krupin, Len Levin,
Stuart Lipton, Keith Martin, Carlo Nucci, Neville Osborne,
Leopold Schmetterer, Michal Schwartz, Ingeborg Stalmans,
Ian Trounce and Manuel Vidal-Sanz
16.15 - 16.45 Section 10: Unmet needs
    Section leaders: Chris Leung, Jeff Liebmann and Keith Martin
Participants: Luciana Alencar, Tin Aung, Eytan Blumenthal,
David Broadway, G. Chandra Sekhar, Jonathan Crowston,
Ted Garway-Heath, David Greenfield, Franz Grus, Neeru Gupta,
Alon Harris, Peng Khaw, Michael Kook, Dexter Leung,
Hani Levkovitch-Verbin Richard Lewis, Stuart McKinnon,
Felipe Medeiros, James Morgan, Harry Quigley, Robert Ritch,
Peter Shah, Arthur Sit, George Spaeth, Ingeborg Stalmans,
Ningli Wang, Tony Wells and Tina Wong
16.45 - 17.25 Coffee / Tea break
17.25 - 18.00 Consensus Statement Presentation
    Consensus Development Panel
Chair: Robert N. Weinreb
Members: Makoto Araie, Augusto Azuaro-Blanco, Jonathan Crowston, Ivan Goldberg, David Greenfield, Jeff Liebmann, Clive Migdal and
Remo Susanna



Colleagues interested in the subject are welcome to attend the meeting. Please register in advance with Mariska van der Veen at vanderveen@worldglaucoma.org or during the meeting..