28th Annual Washington Retina Symposium

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The Retina Group of Washington and MedStar Washington Hospital Center is pleased to announce the 28th Annual Washington Retina Symposium.

Your registration fee includes meeting materials, continental breakfast, lunch and validated parking in adjacent self-parking garages.

MedStar Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 4.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.

Onsite registration will be available for an additional $25.

Refund Requests will be granted up to 7 days prior to event.

Hotel Information:

TENTATIVE AGENDA

7:30 Registration / Breakfast

7:58 Aziz A. Khanifar, MD-Welcome and Introduction

8:00 Josh D. Levinson, MD Suprachoroidal Triamcinolone for Macular Edema in Retinal Vein Occlusion

L.Edward Perraut Lecture

8:10 Gil Kliman, MD Perspectives from an Ophthalmologist Venture Capitalist

8:40 Questions for Perraut Speaker

8:50 Brian K. Do, MD Updates on Treatment Paradigms in Uveitis

William S. Gilbert Lecture

9:00 Michael Trese, MD ROP. How We Got Where We Are Today: The Essentials and Back Story

9:30 Questions for Gilbert Speaker

9:40 Sundeep K. Kasi, MD Surgical Retina Panel

9:55 Laryssa Huryn, MD Therapeutic Strategies for Inherited Retinal Degenerations

10:10 Break – Resident Poster Contest

10:35 Alex Melamud, MD, MS Innovations in Macular Hole Repair

10:45 Michael M. Lai, MD, PhD Update on Clinical Trials at RGW

A. Raymond Pilkerton Lecture

10:50 Mark Humayun, MD, PhD Advanced Implants for Retinal Diseases

11:20 Questions for Pilkerton Speaker

11:30 Jordana G. Fein, MD Medical Retina Panel

Manfred Von Fricken Lecture

11:45 Gary Wörtz, MD Hidden in Plain Sight: The Space Race to the Future of Ophthalmic Innovation

12:30 Questions for Von Fricken Speaker

12:40 Lunch & Announcement of Resident Poster Winner

1:35 Adjourn