EYE TRAUMA 2026: ASOT ANNUAL MEETING & SKILLS TRANSFER LAB
April 24-26, 2026 | Houston Methodist Institute for Technology, Innovation and Education (MITIE) | Houston, TX
2026 Preliminary Detailed Agenda
| Start Time | End Time | Event | Speaker | Talk Title |
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ASOT Disaster Control (PGY-2 through Attending Level) Wet Lab |
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| 6:30am | 7:00am | Wet Lab Registration | ||
| 6:30am | 7:00am | Wet Lab Breakfast | ||
| 7:00am | 7:30am | Faculty Orientation | Grayson Armstrong MD MPH | Faculty Wet Lab Orientation |
| 7:30am | 8:00am | Attendee Orientation | Grayson Armstrong MD MPH | Attendee Wet Lab Orientation |
| 8:00am | 12:35pm | Wet lab | ||
| 8:00am | 10:15pm | Early Faculty Wet Lab Session | ||
| 10:20am | 12:35pm | Late Faculty Wet Lab Session | ||
| ASOT Early Career (Pre-ophthalmology Medical Students through early PGY-2) Wet Lab | ||||
| 6:30am | 8:00am | Wet Lab Registration | ||
| 6:30am | 8:00am | Wet Lab Breakfast | ||
| 8:00am | 8:30am | Attendee Orientation | TBD | Attendee Wet Lab Orientation, Intro to Eye Trauma |
| 8:00am | 8:30am | Faculty Orientation | Grayson Armstrong MD MPH | Faculty Wet Lab Orientation |
| 8:30am | 12:30pm | Wet Lab | ||
| 8:30am | 10:30am | Early Faculty Wet Lab Session | ||
| 10:30am | 12:30pm | Late Faculty Wet Lab Session | ||
| LUNCH & LECTURE | ||||
| 12:30pm | 1:30pm | Lunch | ||
| 12:30pm | 1:00pm | Lecture | ||
| 12:55 PM | 1:07 PM | Principles of damage control ophthalmology | Robert A. Mazzoli, MD, FACS, COL(Ret), MC USA | Principles of damage control ophthalmology |
| 1:10 PM | 1:45 PM | Anesthesia for ophthalmic trauma | Richard Dutton, MD, MBA Chief Quality Officer for US Anesthesia Partners |
Quality anesthesia/analgesia for eye trauma |
| ASOT Subspecialty (PGY-4, Senior Residents, Fellows, and Attending Surgeons) Retina, Glaucoma, Anterior Segment Wet Lab |
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| 11:30am | 1:30pm | Wet Lab Registration | ||
| 1:00pm | 1:30pm | Attendee & Faculty Orientation | Grayson Armstrong MD MPH | Joint Attendee/Faculty Wet Lab Orientation |
| 1:30pm | 3:00pm | Wet Lab Session #1 | ||
| 3:00pm | 4:30pm | Wet Lab Session #2 (switch stations) | ||
| 2:00 PM | 4:30 PM | Moderated poster session | ||
| 6:30 PM | 9:00 PM |
Light Dinner |
Light Dinner, (lightrail to museum) | Frida Kahlo and full museum access, music |
| Start Time | End Time | Event | Speaker | Talk Title |
| 7:00 AM | 5:15 PM | Registration | ||
| 7:00 AM | 7:50 AM | Breakfast with experts | ||
| 8:00 AM | 8:03 AM | Welcome | Boonkit Purt, MD | |
| 8:05 AM | 8:25 AM | Blast injury panel discussion | Richard Blanch, FRCOphth | Epidemiology and military/civilian perspectives |
| Prem Subramanian, MD, PhD | Clinical spectrum | |||
| Tonia Rex, PhD | Mechanisms and directed therapy | |||
| 8:25 AM | 8:32 AM | Q&A | ||
| 8:35 AM | 8:42 AM | Oculoplastics | Ashok Grover, MD | Fractures – Orbital reconstruction and plating |
| 8:43 AM | 8:50 AM | Yunia Iriwati, MD | Intraorbital foreign body – diagnosis and management | |
| 8:51 AM | 8:58 AM | Craig Czyz, MD | Orbital compartment syndrome – diagnosis, treatment, and sequelae including low resource environments | |
| 8:59 AM | 9:06 AM | Q&A | ||
| 9:09 AM | 9:16 AM |
Glaucoma Moderator: Maria Charria, MD |
Won I. Kim, MD | Traumatic hyphema: medical and surgical management |
| 9:17 AM | 9:24 AM | Eileen Bowden, MD | Angle recession: A life-long risk | |
| 9:25 AM | 9:32 AM | Silvia Orengo-Nania, MD | Steroids in trauma: help or harm? | |
| 9:33 AM | 9:40 AM | Mary Qui, MD | Pressure too high: Novel surgical approachs in traumatic glaucoma | |
| 9:41 AM | 9:48 AM | Ian Conner, MD | Pressure too low: cyclodialysis | |
| 9:49 AM | 9:56 AM | Q&A | ||
| 9:59 AM | 10:39 AM | Posters, Break, and Exhibits | ||
| 10:39 AM | 10:46 AM |
Retina Moderator: Touka Banaee, MD |
Amin Kherani, MD | Traumatic RD-Surgical Techniques and Outcomes |
| 10:47 AM | 10:54 AM | Sami Udaywat, MD | Intraocular Foreign Body -diagnosis, classification, removal | |
| 10:55 AM | 11:02 AM | Yewlin Chee, MD | Suprachoroidal Hemorrhage Drainage-When and How | |
| 11:03 AM | 11:10 AM | Christopher Riemann, MD | PVR-Risk factors and Prevention Strategies: Intravitreal Methotrexate Study | |
| 11:11 AM | 11:18 AM | Q&A | ||
| 11:21 AM | 12:31 PM | Lunch, Posters, and Exhibits (and Joint Ocular Trauma Group Meeting) |
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| 12:36 PM | 12:40 PM | Introduction of the Ferenc Kuhn Award | Ferenc Kuhn, MD | |
| 12:41 PM | 12:56 PM | Ferenc Kuhn Award Lecture | Arne Viestenz, MD | Endothelial downgrowth |
| 1:01 PM | 1:08 PM |
Pediatrics Moderator: Marguerite Weinert, MD |
Asim Ali, MD, FRCSC | Cornea |
| 1:09 PM | 1:16 PM | Marguerite Weinert MD | Strabismus | |
| 1:17 PM | 1:24 PM | Sandra Montezuma, MD | Retina | |
| 1:25 PM | 1:32 PM | Zeynep Aktas, MD | Glaucoma | |
| 1:33 PM | 1:40 PM | Q&A | ||
| 1:43 PM | 2:43 PM | Affogatos and Ice Cream, Posters, Exhibits, and Telemedicine demos | ||
| 2:48 PM | 2:52 PM | Introduction of La Piana-Mazzoli Award | ||
| 2:53 PM | 3:08 PM | La Piana-Mazzoli Award | Colonel Igor Khramov & Major Andrii Kovalov, Military Ophthalmologist, Ukrainian Armed Forces | At the Edge of Possibilities: What Is a Satisfactory Outcome of Surgical Treatment of Severe Combined Combat Eye Trauma? |
| 3:13 PM | 3:20 PM |
Ocular trauma free paper session Moderator: Derek Mai, MD |
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| 3:23 PM | 3:30 PM | |||
| 3:33 PM | 3:40 PM | |||
| 3:43 PM | 3:50 PM | |||
| 3:53 PM | 3:57 PM | Introduction of Keynote | Amy Coburn, MD | |
| 3:58 PM | 4:38 PM | American Academy of Ophthalmology Presidential Keynote | Christopher Rapuano, MD President, American Academy of Ophthalmology |
Panelists: Jim Auran, MD Avery Nathens, MD, Jen Yu, MD, Grayson Armstrong, MD |
| 5:11 PM | 8:41 PM | Conference Reception | Awards at Reception Navy Veteran Lonnie Bedwell Presentation |
Catering III 6550 Bertner Ave 6th Floor, Houston, TX 77030 |
| Start Time | End Time | Event | Speaker | Talk Title |
| 7:00 AM | 8:55 AM | Breakfast and Posters | Pan-American/Video Case Based Learning | Breakout: Global Ophthalmology, Military, Adapting to Traumatic Vision Loss (Reading, Hair, Makeup, and Sports) |
| 9:00 AM | 9:07 AM |
Cornea Moderator: Ahmad Kheirkhah |
Sushank A Bhalerao, MD | Management of Complex Corneal Wounds |
| 9:08 AM | 9:15 AM | Morgan Fredell, MD | Traumatic LASIK flap dislocation | |
| 9:16 AM | 9:23 AM | Iris | Matthew Wade, MD | Iris: reposit, repair or resect |
| 9:24 AM | 9:31 AM | Michael Snyder, MD | Aritificial Iris | |
| 9:32 AM | 9:39 AM | Q&A | ||
| 9:42 AM | 9:49 AM | Lens | Fasika Woreta, MD | Lensectomy for Traumatic Cataracts: indications, timing, technique: Anterior Segment perspective |
| 9:50 AM | 9:57 AM | Juan Carlos Martinez Camarillo, MD | Lens management in ocular trauma: the vitreoretinal perspective | |
| 9:58 AM | 10:12 AM | Burns | James Zhao, MD | Periocular Burn management: dermal matrices, skin substitutes, and reconstruction |
| 10:13 AM | 10:27 AM | Mohammad Soleimani MD, FICO | Corneal burns: limbal stem cells and strategies for ocular surface reconstitution | |
| 10:28 AM | 10:35 AM | Q&A | ||
| 10:38 AM | 11:03 AM |
Pro-Con Debates Moderator: Hossein Nazari, MD, PhD |
Jose Romero, MD, Bartlett Hayes, MD | Exogenous Endophthalmitis: Prevention and Treatment |
| 11:08 AM | 11:33 AM | Hua Yan, MD, Lloyd Williams, MD | Duty vs Futility: Traumatic Disorganized Eye | |
| 11:38 AM | 11:48 AM | Awards and Closing Remarks | ||