Congress Program

KCXL Meeting Program 2025

Find below the Program for all 3 days of the KCXL 2025 Meeting

Pre-congress
Thursday, December 11

Time	Title	Speaker
13:00	EMAGine & CSO Italia: ELZA-PACE Skills Transfer Course	Speaker provided by Industry
14:00	Oculus: KC Diagnostics Skills Transfer Course	Speaker provided by Industry
15:00	Schwind eye-tech solutions: TheraCare Skills Transfer Course	Speaker provided by Industry
16:00	Mediphacos: ICRS Skills Transfer Course	Speaker provided by Industry
17:00	Ziemer: CAIRS Skills Tranfer Course	Speaker provided by Industry

Time	Title	Speaker
13:00	The Pentacam	Speaker provided by Industry
13:30	The Pentacam OCT	Speaker provided by Industry
14:00	The CorVis	Speaker provided by Industry
14:30	The MS-39	Speaker provided by Industry
15:00	The Anterion	Speaker provided by Industry

Resident and Young Ophthalmologist Session

PANEL: Leonardo Mastropasqua, TBD
5 min presentation + 3 minutes discussion

Time	Title	Speaker	Country
16:00 – 18:00

Day 1
Friday, December 12

Time	Title
08:30	Registration

2^nd Global Consensus

10′ talk plus 5′ discussion

Chair: José Alvaro Gomes

Time	Title	Speaker	Country
09:00	Concept of the Delphi Panel	Farhad Hafezi	Switzerland
09:15	Results Part 1 – Definition/ Diagnosis/ Staging	Maria Henriquez	Peru
09:30	Results Part 2 – CXL for progression	Emilio Torres	Switzerland
09:45	Results Part 3 – Invasive visual rehabilitation	Luis Izquierdo	Peru
10:00	Results Part 4 – Keratoplasty approaches	Boris Knyazer	Israel
10:15	Results Part 5 – Elective refractive surgery	Riccardo Vinciguerra	Italy
10:30	Results Part 6 – Cataract Surgery in KC	Jorge Alio	Spain
10:45	Coffee Break

Keratoconus detection – Part 1

Current approaches

Time	Title	Speaker	Country
11:15	Scheimpflug technology	Michael Belin	USA
11:30	OCT technology	Shady Awwad	Lebanon
11:45	Discussion	All
12:00	Corneal Topography and Tomography	J. Bradley Randleman	USA
12:15	Indices to detect keratoconus	Riccardo Vinciguerra	Italy
12:30	Discussion	All
12:45	Lunch Break

Keratoconus detection – Part 2

The near future

Time	Title	Speaker	Country
13:45	Brillouin Microscopy – Part 1	J. Bradley Randleman	USA
14:00	Brillouin Microscopy – Part 2	Riccardo Vinciguerra	Italy
14:15	Discussion	All
14:30	OCT Elastography	Sabine Kling	Switzerland
14:45	Complications and Surprises	Rohit Shetty	India
15:00	Discussion	All

KCXL Recognition Award

Main auditorium

Time	Awardee
15:15	TBD

Time	Title
15:45	Coffee Break

CXL for ectasia – Part I

Current approaches

Time	Title	Speaker	Country
16:15	High-fluence epi-off protocols	Enes Aydemir	Switzerland
16:30	ELZA-PACE	Farhad Hafezi	Switzerland
16:45	Discussion	All
17:00	epi-on CXL Part 1 – Epioxa	Anders Behndig	Sweden
17:15	epi-on CXL Part 2 – ELZA approach	Emilio Torres	Switzerland
17:30	Discussion	All

CXL for ectasia – Part 2

The near future

Time	Title	Speaker	Country
17:45	Late progressive thinning after CXL	Paolo Vinciguerra	Italy
18:00	Refractive Index after CXL	Cynthia Roberts	USA
18:15	Discussion	All
18:30	The future of the sub400 protocol	Farhad Hafezi	Switzerland
18:45	Gene therapy for keratoconus	Pooja Khamar	India
19:00	Discussion	All

Time	Title
08:30	Registration

Devices – Basics

Time	Title	Speaker	Country
09:00	Basics of Corneal Topography	Stephen Klyce	USA
09:15	Basics of Corneal Tomography	Michael Belin	USA
09:30	Q&A	All
09:45	Basics of AS-OCT with Placido	Francesco Versaci	Italy
10:00	Basics of Corneal Biomechanics	Riccardo Vinciguerra	Italy
10:15	Q&A	All
10:30	Coffee Break

Devices – Clinical Application

Time	Title	Speaker	Country
11:15	Reading corneal topography and tomography	J. Bradley Randleman	USA
11:30	Reading CorVis results	Riccardo Vinciguerra	Italy
11:45	Q&A	All
12:00	Reading progression displays – Part 1	Michael Belin	USA
12:15	Reading progression displays – Part 2	Francesco Versaci	Italy
12:30	Q&A	All

CXL for ectasia for newcomers

Time	Title	Speaker	Country
13:45	The crosslinking reaction	Sabine Kling	Switzerland
14:00	The role of oxygen	Theo G. Seiler	Switzerland
14:15	Q&A	All
14:30	Epi-off Protocols explained	Cosimo Mazzotta	Italy
14:45	Epi-on Protocols explained	Emilio Torres	Switzerland
12:30	Q&A	All

KCXL Recognition Award

Time	Awardee
15:15	TBD

CXL for ectasia for newcomers – continued

Time	Title	Speaker	Country
15:45	Complications and Surprises explained	Paolo Vinciguerra	Italy
16:00	Customized CXL explained	Shady Awwad	Lebanon
16:15	Q&A	All

Day 2
Saturday, December 13

PACK-CXL

Time	Title	Speaker	Country
8:30	RF PACK-CXL for infectious keratitis	Boris Knyazer	Israel
8:45	RB PACK-CXL for infectious keratitis	Guillermo Amescua	USA
9:00	Discussion	All
9:15	Coffee Break

Invasive Visual rehabilitation I

Time	Title	Speaker	Country
9:45	Wavefront-guided surface ablation	Jorge Alio	Spain
10:00	Discussion	All
10:15	Pin-hole IOL	Emilio Pedrotti	Italy
10:30	Discussion	All
10:45	ELZA-PACE: customized cross-linking	Farhad Hafezi	Switzerland
11:00	Discussion	All
11:15	ICRS: results and long-term safety	Luis Fernandez Vega	Spain
11:30	Discussion	All

K-Map Global KC prevalence

Time	Title	Speaker	Country
11:45	Update and first results	Nikki Hafezi Emilio Torres	Switzerland Switzerland
12:00	Lunch Break

Time

Title

Speaker

Country

11:45

Update and first results

Nikki Hafezi

Emilio Torres

Switzerland

12:00

Lunch Break

Sterile corneal melting

Time	Title	Speaker	Country
13:15	New insights into CXL-resistance to stromal melting	Farhad Hafezi	Switzerland
13:30	Effect of pre-operative CXL on corneal melting and corneal neovascularisation	Gerald Schmidinger	Austria
13:45	Ex vivo CXL for high risk corneal grafts	Joseph Ciolino	USA
14:00	Discussion	All

Invasive Visual rehabilitation II

Augmenting

Time	Title	Speaker	Country
14:15	CAIRS – the journey	Soosan Jacob	India
14:30	CAIRS – from manual to FS laser	Shady Awwad	Lebanon
14:45	Discussion
15:00	CAIRS using industrially prepared segments	Aylin Klilic	Turkey
15:15	ECO-CAIRS using ultra high-fluence CXL	Farhad Hafezi	Switzerland
15:30	Discussion
15:45	Coffee Break
16:15	Group Photo

Invasive Visual rehabilitation III

Time	Title	Speaker	Country
16:30	Lenticule Augmentation – SLAK	Mario Nubile	Italy
16:45	Meniscus-Shaped Stromal Lenticule Addition Keratoplasty (MS-SLAK)	Emilio Pedrotti	Italy
17:00	Discussion	All
17:15	Bowman layer transplantation: evolving technique and results	Lamis Baydoun or Bader Khayyat
17:30	Xenia Implants for keratoconus – where do we stand?	TBD
17:45	Discussion

Free papers session

Time	Title	Country
08:30	Will be online after the review process, beginning of November




09:15	Coffee Break
09:45	Free papers session

		Turkey



12:15	Lunch Break

Step-by step Course advanced

Time	Title	Speaker	Country
13:15	Customized PRK for keratoconus	Paolo Vinciguerra, and Emilio Torres	Italy Switzerland
13:45	CAIRS	Soosan Jacob, and Shady Awwad	India Lebanon
14:15	ICRS	Olivier Prisant, and Luis Fernandes Vega	France Spain

Time

Title

Speaker

Country

13:15

Customized PRK for keratoconus

Paolo Vinciguerra, and

Emilio Torres

Italy

Switzerland

13:45

CAIRS

Soosan Jacob, and

Shady Awwad

India

Lebanon

14:15

ICRS

Olivier Prisant, and

Luis Fernandes Vega

France

Spain

Low-compliant keratoconus patients

Time	Title	Speaker	Country
14:45	Detection of KC in patients with Down syndrome	Jorge Alio	Spain
15:00	CXL in patients with Down syndrome	Nikki Hafezi	Switzerland

How to treat corneal opacities

Time	Title	Speaker	Country
15:15	Losartan	Rohit Shetty	India
15:30	Apical scar	Paolo Vinciguerra	Italy
15:45	PTK/PRK	Paolo Vinciguerra	Italy
16:00	Q&A

Cataract Surgery and Phakic lenses in KC

10′ talk plus 5′ discussion

Time	Title	Speaker	Country
16:30	IOL power calculations , choosing the right formula	Emilio Torres	Switzerland
16:45	Refractive Surprise after Toric phakic IOLs: what to do	Jorge Alio	Spain
17:00	Tips & Pearls in phacoemulsification in KC	Jorge Alio del Barrio	Spain
17:15	Customized phakic IOLs in KC	Jorge Alio	Spain
17:30	Phakic IOLs in KC: optimizing outcomes	Shady Awwad	Lebanon
17:45	Sizing in Phakic IOLs	Andrea Russo	Italy

KCXL Meeting Program 2025

Pre-congress Thursday, December 11

Sponsored by industry – not part of the CME program

Main auditorium

Sponsored by industry – not part of the CME program

Resident and Young Ophthalmologist Session

Day 1 Friday, December 12

2nd Global Consensus

Chair: José Alvaro Gomes

Keratoconus detection – Part 1

Current approaches

Keratoconus detection – Part 2

The near future

KCXL Recognition Award

Main auditorium

CXL for ectasia – Part I

Current approaches

CXL for ectasia – Part 2

The near future

Devices – Basics

Devices – Clinical Application

CXL for ectasia for newcomers

KCXL Recognition Award

CXL for ectasia for newcomers – continued

Day 2 Saturday, December 13

PACK-CXL

Invasive Visual rehabilitation I

K-Map Global KC prevalence

Sterile corneal melting

Invasive Visual rehabilitation II

Invasive Visual rehabilitation III

Free papers session

Step-by step Course advanced

Low-compliant keratoconus patients

How to treat corneal opacities

Cataract Surgery and Phakic lenses in KC

Pre-congress
Thursday, December 11

Day 1
Friday, December 12

2^nd Global Consensus

Day 2
Saturday, December 13