The ultimate retina debate

The Ultimate Retina Debate – SOS 2025 Retina The Ultimate Retina Debate Sat, Nov 15, 2025 15:20 – 16:00 Main Auditorium “Channel 2” Moderator Safwan Tayeb Panelist Muhammed Alajmi Program Schedule 15:20 – 15:21 Should concerns over intraocular inflammation limit the use of complement inhibitors in the treatment of dry AMD TBA 15:21 – 15:24 Pro Safwan Tayeb, USA 15:24 – 15:27 Con Abdullah A. Al-Qahtani, KSA 15:27 – 15:28 Poll 15:28 – 15:29 Should anti-VEGF replace panretinal photocoagulation as firstline therapy for proliferative DR? TBA 15:29 – 15:32 Pro Radwan Ajlan, USA 15:32 – 15:35 Con Amro Abukhashaba, KSA 15:35 – 15:36 Poll 15:36 – 15:37 Should biosimilar anti-VEGFs be widely adopted in clinical practice, or are we risking patient outcomes? TBA 15:37 – 15:40 Pro Abdullah S. Al-Qahtani, KSA 15:40 – 15:43 Con Hassan Al-Dhibi, KSA 15:43 – 15:44 Poll Back to Full Program Download Full Program

Current diagnosis and management strategies in pachychoroid spectrum of diseases

Pachychoroid Spectrum of Diseases – SOS 2025 Retina Current Diagnosis and Management Strategies in Pachychoroid Spectrum of Diseases Sat, Nov 15, 2025 15:00 – 15:20 Main Auditorium “Channel 2” Moderator Amr Alghamdi Panelist Abdullah Al Mousa Program Schedule 15:00 – 15:06 Leptochoroid versus pachychoroid: Expanding the clinical spectrum and insights from multimodal imaging Abdulrahman Albloushi, KSA 15:06 – 15:12 Pachychoroid neovasculopathy: Diagnosis and visual prognosis Magdy Moussa, Egypt 15:12 – 15:20 Discussion Back to Full Program Download Full Program

Oncology symposium

Oncology Symposium – SOS 2025 Retina Oncology Symposium Sat, Nov 15, 2025 14:10 – 14:45 Main Auditorium “Channel 2” Moderator Saad Dahmash Panelist Hany Hamza Program Schedule 14:10 – 14:20 Nevus vs. melanoma: Cracking the code of choroidal pigmented lesions Hany Hamza, Egypt 14:20 – 14:27 Iridociliary masses in pediatric age group: A diagnostic dilemma Ihab Saad Othman, Egypt 14:27 – 14:39 Retinal & choroidal vascular tumors: Everything you must know in 2025 Hany Hamza, Egypt 14:39 – 14:45 Discussion Back to Full Program Download Full Program

Extremes in surgical retina

Extremes in Surgical Retina – SOS 2025 Retina Extremes in Surgical Retina Sat, Nov 15, 2025 13:33 – 14:10 Main Auditorium “Channel 2” Moderator Amro Abukhashaba Panelist Mohammed Almalki Program Schedule 13:33 – 13:39 Therapeutic refractive vitrectomy (TRV) in symptomatic patients with clear vitreous Paulo Stanga, UK 13:39 – 13:45 Endoscopic lens sparing vitrectomy for ROP Muhammad Amjad, Pakistan 13:45 – 13:49 Discussion 13:49– 13:54 RD in retinoblastoma Marcos Rubio, KSA 13:54 – 13:59 Endoscopic vitreoretinal surgery’s impact on retinal practice at a tertiary care center Radwan Ajlan, USA 13:59 – 14:03 Prognostic factors and visual outcomes of endophthalmitis in a Tertiary Referral Center in Saudi Arabia: A 15-year analysis Almoayad Makrami, KSA 14:03 – 14:07 Outcomes of Mitomycin-C adjunct in retinal detachment repair Abdulla Shaheen, USA 14:07 – 14:10 Discussion Back to Full Program Download Full Program

Secondary IOL showdown: Choose it the best approach

Secondary IOL Showdown: Choose the Best Approach – SOS 2025 Cataract Secondary IOL Showdown: Choose the Best Approach Sat, Nov 15, 2025 13:15 – 13:33 Main Auditorium “Channel 2” Moderator Mahmoud Alrabiah Panelists Marcos Rubio, Nicola Ghazi Program Schedule 13:15 – 13:16 Poll 13:16 – 13:20 Optimizing scleral IOL fixation techniques Nicola Ghazi, UAE 13:20 – 13:24 An exclusively-posterior approach for repositioning a dislocated polymethylacrylate intraocular lens with Gore-Tex: A case series Faisal Saeed AlQahtani, KSA 13:24 – 13:28 Retrupupillary artisan IOL: VR surgeon option for 2ry IOL Ahmed Algethami, KSA 13:28 – 13:32 Yamane technique made easy Abdullah S. Al-Qahtani, KSA 13:32 – 13:33 Poll Back to Full Program Download Full Program

IRD Clinical Cases

IRD Clinical Cases – SOS 2025 Retina IRD Clinical Cases Sat, Nov 15, 2025 11:11 – 11:40 Main Auditorium “Channel 2” Moderator Basamat Almoallim Panelists Ahmad Al-Moujahed, Michel Michaelides, Saba Rashed Program Schedule 11:11 – 11:24 Case series of interesting-challenging IRDs Michel Michaelides, UK 11:24 – 11:30 The expanded phenotypic spectrum of autosomal recessive bestrophinopathy Sawsan Nowailaty, KSA 11:30 – 11:36 LCA cases in Saudi Cohort Abdullah A. Al-Qahtani, KSA 11:36 – 11:40 Discussion Back to Full Program Download Full Program

Inherited retinal diseases updates

Inherited Retinal Diseases Updates – SOS 2025 Retina Inherited Retinal Diseases Updates Sat, Nov 15, 2025 10:20 – 11:11 Main Auditorium “Channel 2” Moderator Abdullah A. Al-Qahtani Panelist Sawsan Nowailaty Program Schedule 10:20 – 10:27 AIPL1-LCA – Journey to an approved genetic medicine Michel Michaelides, UK 10:27 – 10:34 Optogenetic Therapies for Inherited Retinal Degeneration Rajendra Apte, USA 10:34 – 10:41 Breaking genetic boundaries: Avantgarde’s innovative dual AAV strategies to deliver large genes for inherited retinal diseases Paulo Stanga, UK 10:41 – 10:45 Genotype and phenotype characterization of inherited retinal dystrophies in Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia Jinan Alhamad, KSA 10:45 – 10:49 Discussion 10:49 – 10:55 Update on genetic medicine trials in IRDs Michel Michaelides, UK 10:55 – 11:01 Update on vision restoration trials in IRDs Ahmad Al-Moujahed, USA 11:01 – 11:07 Update on pharmacological trials in IRDs Michel Michaelides, UK 11:07 – 11:11 Discussion Back to Full Program Download Full Program

Advanced utility of AI in retinal imaging

Advanced Utility of AI in Retinal Imaging – SOS 2025 Retina Advanced utility of AI in retinal imaging Sat, Nov 15, 2025 09:32 – 10:00 Main Auditorium “Channel 2” Moderator Radwan Ajlan Panelist Nicola Ghazi Program Schedule 09:32 – 09:39 Non-invasive retinal imaging in alzheimers and other brain neurodegenerative diseases Rajendra Apte, USA 09:39 – 09:46 The relationship between cognitive function and macular OCT in healthy individuals Adel Alakeely, KSA 09:46 – 09:53 AI in OCT: Pathological detection and retinal layers analysis Magdy Moussa, Egypt 09:53 – 10:00 Discussion Back to Full Program Download Full Program

Angiogenesis, Biomarkers, and Imaging in Diabetic Retinal Disease

Angiogenesis, Biomarkers, and Imaging in Diabetic Retinal Disease – SOS 2025 Retina Angiogenesis, Biomarkers, and Imaging in Diabetic Retinal Disease Sat, Nov 15, 2025 08:30 – 09:32 Main Auditorium “Channel 2” Moderator Ismael Bantan Panelist Essam Alharthi Program Schedule 08:30 – 08:37 A key role of the PGC-1α/ERR-α pathway in regulation of angiogenic factors in proliferative diabetic retinopathy Ahmed Mohamed Abu El-Asrar, KSA 08:37 – 08:44 Utilization of optical coherence tomography angiography in diabetic retinopathy Abdulrahman Albloushi, KSA 08:44 – 08:51 Correlation between OCT-angiography and multifocal electroretinogram in patients with poor visual acuity after resolution of diabetic macular edema Marwa Abdelshafy Tabl, Egypt 08:51 – 08:58 FFA OCTA versus single-scan UWF OCTA in retinal vasculopathies Paulo Stanga, UK 08:58 – 09:05 Discussion 09:05 – 09:12 Effect of panretinal photocoagulation on retinal oxygen metabolism and ocular blood flow in diabetic retinopathy Ahmed Mohamed Abu El-Asrar, KSA 09:12 – 09:19 Utilities associated with diabetic retinopathy in a sample from Saudi Arabia Lojain Azizalrahman, KSA 09:19 – 09:26 A novel effect of microaneurysms and retinal cysts on capillary perfusion in diabetic macular edema: A multimodal imaging study Bilal Haj Najeeb, Austria 09:26 – 09:32 Discussion Back to Full Program Download Full Program

Controversies in detachments

Controversies in Detachments – SOS 2025 Retina Controversies in Detachments Fri, Nov 14, 2025 16:16 – 17:10 Al Ula “Hall B” Moderator Muhammed Alajmi Panelists Hany Hamza, Rajendra Apte, Saleh Alshehri, Yahya Alzahrani Program Schedule 16:16 – 16:20 Methotrexate in PVR prevention: A new hope or just hype? Hany Hamza, Egypt 16:20 – 16:25 Discussion 16:25 – 16:29 Previtrectomy pneumatic retinopexy: Worthwhile strategy or unnecessary step? Adnan Alawami, KSA 16:29 – 16:34 Discussion 16:34 – 16:38 GRT detachment and scleral buckle Yahya Alzahrani, KSA 16:38 – 16:43 Discussion 16:43 – 16:47 Management of traumatic submacular hemorrhage Rajendra Apte, USA 16:47 – 16:52 Discussion 16:52 – 16:56 Transconjunctival choroidal drainage: When it works, and when it doesn’t Muhammed Alajmi, Kuwait 16:56 – 17:01 Discussion 17:01 – 17:05 Retinal detachment in the young: Scleral buckle or vitrectomy in a vitrectomy era Saleh Alshehri, KSA 17:05– 17:10 Discussion Back to Full Program Download Full Program