Why COPHy AA?

• To promote excellence in the field of ophthalmology
• To provide an effective forum for discussing and debating unsolved regional issues by allowing ample time for speakers/audience discussion
• To promulgate ethics and standards of practice and treatment in the Asian-Australian region
• To bridge gaps between expansion of basic science and information, and their consolidation into clinical practice
• To make it possible for the industry to meet with outstanding regional experts in the field, and to
• To update regional participants on pressing clinical and technological questions today

• Controversial topics
• Debates and discussions on unresolved controversies
• Cohesive and integrative sessions
• World renowned speakers
• Audience/speaker discussions
• Continuing Medical Education (CME)approved program

Medical Retina
• Central serous chorioretinopathy: acute & chronic
• Choroidal Neovascular Age-related Macular degeneration
• Combination therapy
• Current imaging modalities: OCT angiography, wide field photography & OCT
• Diabetic macular edema: imaging
• Diabetic macular edema: treatment
• Genetics importance in diagnosis and management of non-neovascular AMD
• Longer acting agents
• Myopic choroidal neovascularization: diagnosis and management
• Neovascular age-related macular degeneration: Treatment of choice, 1st eye vs 2nd eye
• Pathologic Myopia
• Polypoidal vasculopathy: diagnosis & management
• Proliferative diabetic retinopathy
• Retinal vein occlusion: Frequency of treatment, First year vs. succeeding years
• Uveitis: infectious and non infectious

Surgical Retina
• Dyes in epiretinal membrane surgery
• Submacular hemorrhage: management
• Macular holes – surgical techniques and postoperative management
• Management of macular schisis in pathologic myopia
• Novel technologies
• Retinal detachment, inferior, recurrent, severe PVR (in phakic, pseudophakic eyes)
• Scleral buckle in era of vitrectomy (in phakic, pseudophakic eyes)
• Screening of the periphery in high myopia
• Vitrectomy for epiretinal membranes with good or bad visual acuity
• Vitreomacular traction

Imaging
• Adaptive optics
• DMEK/DSAEK
• Dry eye disease
• OCT angiography
• Microperimetry
• Ultrawide field imaging

Neuro-ophthalmology
• Management of isolated optic neuritis
• Management of isolated sixth cranial nerve palsy
• Orbital tumors
• Posterior optic neuropathy: Evaluation and management
• Psuedotumorcerebri including pregnancy
• Thyroid ophthalmopathy
• Treatment of traumatic optic neuropathy
• Treatment for anterior ischemic opticneuropathy