2026 Meeting Schedule
This schedule will be updated as information becomes available and will include presentation author and title information after abstracts are accepted. The information below is current as of April 12, 2026.
FRIDAY, April 24, 2026
6:00–8:30 PM – Welcome Reception
Delta Hotel – Capitol Room
SATURDAY, April 25, 2026
Virginia War Memorial
7:15 / 7:30 / 7:45 AM – Shuttle Service (Delta Hotel → Virginia War Memorial)
7:20–8:00 AM – Breakfast
8:00–8:05 AM
Christopher Blodi
Welcome to the Meeting
8:05–8:10 AM
Christopher Leffler, Mary Daly
Welcome to Richmond
8:11–8:26 AM
Curtis Margo, Lynn E. Harman
Foster Kennedy, State-Sanctioned Euthanasia, and the Role of Eponyms
8:27–8:37 AM
Zara Ahmed, Esther Kang, Eric Wan, Kishan Avaiya, Alice T. Gasch
Dr. Thomas D. Duane: Shaping Modern Ophthalmology Through Education, Research, and
Leadership
18:38–8:53 AM
Frances Meier-Gibbons
The Recent Developments of Ophthalmology in Colombia and Its Famous
Ophthalmologists
8:54–8:59 AM – Discussion
8:59–9:09 AM
Ata Salabati, Christopher T. Leffler
Zarrin-Dast and the Three Methods of Cataract Surgery
9:10–9:20 AM
Carolyn May, Christopher T. Leffler
Matters of the Angle: Otto Barkan (1887–1958) and the Definition of Open-Angle Glaucoma
9:21–9:36 AM
Mohammad Javed Ali
Three Stories Intertwined with Lacrimal History
9:37–9:52 AM
Christopher Blodi, Danny H.-Kauffmann Jokl
Jay Galst, MD (1950–2020) and the Medals of the Cogan Ophthalmic History Society
9:53–9:58 AM – Discussion
9:58–10:23 AM – BREAK
210:23–10:28 AM
George Bartley
Introduction to the Snyder Lecture
10:29–11:24 AM
John Bullock
Snyder Lecture: Ocular-Related Iatrogenic Disorders
11:25–11:40 AM
Sarah Yoest, Alan Letson, and Sayoko Moroi
A Brief History of Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Central Ohio
11:41–11:56 AM
Stephen G. Schwartz, Christopher T. Leffler, Peter Allen, and Andrzej Grzybowski
Fanny Kaplan and the Attempted Assassination of Vladimir Lenin
11:57 AM–12:02 PM – Discussion
LUNCH — 12:02–1:02 PM
1:02–1:12 PM
Hadi Joud, Curtis Margo
Cataract Surgery and the History of Patenting Surgical Procedures
1:13–1:23 PM
Trevor Lin, Lynn E. Harman, and Curtis E. Margo
Exploring Innovation in Intraocular Lens Through Patents (1950–2000)
31:24–1:34 PM
Evan Mason, Trevor Lin, and Curtis E. Margo
Trends in Intraocular Lens Innovation (1972–2000)
1:35–1:50 PM
George Bartley
My Dinner with Jack (Mustardé)
1:51–1:56 PM – Discussion
1:56–2:06 PM
Shalini Shah, Giselle Ricur, Ricardo D. Wainsztein, Christopher T. Leffler, and Stephen G.
Schwartz.
Tele-ophthalmology: Past, Present, and Future
2:07–2:17 PM
Raziyeh Mahmoudzadeh
The History of Autofluorescence Imaging Development
2:18–2:33 PM
Mary Daly, Yonwook J. Kim, Abhishek R. Payal
Tears as Tactics: An Ophthalmic History of Tear Gas
2:34–2:39 PM – Discussion
2:39–3:04 PM – BREAK
3:04–3:14 PM
Talia Korobkin, Eric L. Wan, Chau Nguyen, Kiah McSwain, Sonia Catalina Francone, Brian
Do, Alice Wendy True Gasch
Disney History for the Ophthalmologist
43:15–3:30 PM
James Ravin
Rudolph Leopold, MD
3:31–3:46 PM
Tracy Ravin
Arthur Hahnloser: Swiss Ophthalmologist and Art Collector
3:47–3:52 PM – Discussion
3:52–4:02 PM
Sadie Pichelmann, Christopher Blodi
Pioneering Women in Academic Retina
4:03–4:18 PM
Barbara Arnold, Mildred Olivier
Women in Ophthalmology – Over Four Decades of Vibrant Growth
4:19–4:29 PM
Eric L. Wan, Sophie Gorup, Thomas C. Dunn, and Alice T. Gasch
Chernobyl 1986 to 2026: What Can Ophthalmology Learn from the Biggest Nuclear
Disaster?
4:30–4:45 PM
Norman Medow
Ocular Eponymy Associated with Hyperthyroidism
4:46–4:51 PM – Discussion
EVENING PROGRAM – Civil War Museum (Tredegar)
5:00–6:30 PM – Shuttle Service
(Virginia War Memorial ↔ Delta Hotel ↔ Civil War Museum)
(5 PM Va War Memorial (VWM)>5:15 Delta Hotel>5:30 VWM>5:45 Delta>6 PM Civil War Museum
Tredegar(CWMT)>6:15 PM Delta>6:30 PM CWMT)
6:00–6:30 PM – Arrival & Drinks
6:30–9:30 PM – Dinner
7:30–7:40 PM
Eric Lien, Christopher T. Leffler, and Stephen G. Schwartz
Jefferson Davis and His Ophthalmologists
7:45–7:55 PM
Manisha Reddy, Christopher T. Leffler
Enucleation for Sympathetic Ophthalmia in the U.S. Civil War
Shuttle Service 8:40 PM Civil War Museum>9:00 PM Delta Hotel>9:20 PM Civil War Museum>9:40
PM Delta Hotel
SUNDAY, April 26, 2026
Virginia War Memorial
7:15 / 7:30 / 7:45 AM – Shuttle Service (Delta Hotel → Virginia War Memorial)
7:20–8:00 AM – Breakfast
7:45–7:59 AM – Business Meeting
8:00–8:15 AM
Yannis Paulus
History and Evolution of Retinal Laser Therapies
8:16–8:26 AM
Du Cheng, Christopher T. Leffler
The Invention of the Silicone Intraocular Lens in China in 1978
8:27–8:37 AM
Arslon Humayun, Andrea I. Copland, Pradeep Y. Ramulu
Aida de Acosta Root Breckinridge: The Catalyst Behind 100 Years of Wilmer
8:38–8:53 AM
Surbhi Bansal
The Political Eye: Ophthalmic Trauma as Statecraft in the Timurid-Mughal Dynasty
8:54–8:59 AM – Discussion
8:59–9:09 AM
Mariela M. Rosas Gonzalez, Christopher T. Leffler, Victor M. Villegas, Stephen G. Schwartz,
and Eduardo C. Alfonso
Forging Ophthalmology in Puerto Rico
79:10–9:20 AM
Nina Yang, Peter Le
The Evolution of Vitreous Humor
9:21–9:36 AM
Vadrevu K. Raju, Leela V. Raju, and Swapnika Y
From Retrolental Fibroplasia to Retinopathy of Prematurity: History Prevention and
Continuing Global Mission
9:37–9:52 AM
George Sanborn
St. John Ophthalmic Hospital
9:53–9:58 AM – Discussion
9:58–10:23 AM – BREAK
10:23–10:33 AM
Mariam Samuel, Mohammad Javed Ali
Five Genius, Arrogant, and Pompous Lacrimal Surgeons
10:34–10:44 AM
Sophie Gorup, Eric L. Wan, Kishan Avaiya, Alice Wendy True Gasch
History of Aniridia: A Window Into Ocular Genetics
10:45–11:00 AM
Edward De Sutter
Waardenburg, von Verschuer, and Ophthalmic Genetics at the Deutsche Ophthalmologische
Gesellschaft (D.O.G.) Meeting, Heidelberg, 1936
811:01–11:16 AM
Bronwyn Bateman
Institutional Integrity: The History of the Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Institute at the University
of Colorado
11:17–11:22 AM – Discussion
11:22–11:32 AM
Vicky Yuan Lin, Christopher T. Leffler
Will the Pellier Brother Who Performed the First Glass Keratoprosthesis (Artificial Cornea)
Please Stand Up?
11:33–11:43 AM
Rupert Congmon
From Sight to Certification: Driver Vision Standards and the Transformation of Ophthalmic
Authority, 1900–1970
11:44–11:54 AM
Alison Hong
Early Ophthalmology Graduates of the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania
11:55 AM–12:10 PM
Christopher T. Leffler, William Banko, and Stephen G. Schwartz
The Development of Small-Incision Cataract Surgery by Charles Kelman and Anton Banko:
Insights Based on Newly Identified Documents
12:11–12:16 PM – Discussion
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