Experts of Our Hospital Returned from the 5th Asia Cornea Society Biennial Scientific Meeting with Honor

The Asia Cornea Society Biennial Scientific Meeting is the largest and the most authoritative meeting in keratopathy in Asia and one of the most influential events in this field in the world. The opening of the 5th Asia Cornea Society Biennial Scientific Meeting was held, after elaborate preparations, on December 9, 2016, at Sheraton Grande Walkerhill, Gwangjin gu, Seoul, South Korea. More than 1,000 well-known experts in corneal diseases around the world were invited to the meeting and leading scholars in keratopathy gathered here for academic exchanges, sharing the latest research outcomes and achievements.

Academician Lixin XIE, Prof. Weiyun SHI, Prof. Hua GAO and associate professor Suxia LI were invited to the meeting.

As the honorary president of the Asia Cornea Society Biennial Scientific Meeting, Academician XIE served as a moderator and delivered speeches. As one of the invited speakers, Prof. SHI delivered two speeches titled “Femtosecond Laser-assisted Deep Lamellar Keratoplasty for Advanced Keratoconus” and “A Refractory Case of Corneal Ulcer” and hosted the Basic Corneal Research and Imaging Section. As one of the invited speakers, Prof. GAO presented “Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty in the Treatment of Infectious Keratitis” in the Corneal Infection Section. Associate professor LI also delivered an excellent speech.

The Chinese experts have transmitted the authoritative voice from the Chinese ophthalmology to the world. The wonderful speeches delivered by the experts of our institution have won high praise from the experts all over the world. Chinese experts are playing an increasingly important role in this field.

This is another huge academic activity that our experts were invited to after Prof. SHI was invited by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) to deliver speeches on the development and clinical application of bioengineered cornea in the Ether Dome of Bulfinch Building at MGH.

The 6th Asia Cornea Society Biennial Scientific Meeting will be held in Qingdao in 2018. As the organizer, Shandong Eye Institute (Hospital) is actively preparing for the meeting. At the conference dinner, Prof. SHI, the co-chair, and Academician XIE delivered speeches, inviting the ophthalmologists all over the world to Qingdao.