This program was last updated on Monday 25th August 2025 and is subject to change.
All sessions will be held at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC), unless otherwise stated. All times in this program are in local Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT).
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| FRIDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2025 | ||
| 8:30am | 10:45am | Global Eye Health Workshop |
| Room: 203/204 | ||
| 10:45am | 11:15am | Morning Tea |
| 11:15am | 12:30pm | Global Eye Health Workshop |
| 12:30pm | 1:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30pm | 4:00pm | Global Eye Health Workshop |
| 5:00pm | 7:00pm | Welcome Reception |
| 7:00pm | Roche Hosted Dinner Symposium | |
| SATURDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2025 | ||||||||||
| Health and Wellbeing Activity – Albert Park Run |
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| 6:30am | 7:45am | Hosted Breakfast Symposia | ||||||||
| Room: 212 /213 | Room: 219/220 | |||||||||
| Apellis Hosted Breakfast Symposium | Novartis Hosted Breakfast Symposium | |||||||||
| 8:00am | 8:30am | RANZCO AGM |
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| Room: Plenary 3 | ||||||||||
| 8:30am | 10:45am | Welcome to Country and Congress Opening |
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| 8:30am | 8:35am | Welcome to Country | ||||||||
| 8:35am | 8:40am | Welcome from Congress Convenors and Scientific Program Chairs | ||||||||
| 8:40am | 9:10am | Congress Opening Rachel Callander |
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| 9:10am | 9:40am | Hollows Lecture Dr Sandra Staffieri AO |
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| 9:40am | 10:45am | RANZCO Plenary | ||||||||
| 10:45am | 11:15am | Morning Tea | ||||||||
| 11:15am | 12:45pm | Concurrent Sessions | ||||||||
| Room Plenary 3 |
Room 210 | Room 211 | Room 212/213 | Room 219/220 | ||||||
| 11:15am | 11:55am | Glaucoma MIGS on Trial – Evaluating the evidence for minimally invasive glaucoma surgery |
Epidemiology/Public Health Sight and sunlight: Reducing myopia with sensible outdoor time |
Cataract Complex cataract surgery unpacked – a video-based approach |
Medical Retina Medical Retina Mysteries! |
Rapid Fire Session Oculoplastic/Ocular Oncology/Paediatrics/Strabismus |
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| 12:00pm | 12:40pm | Glaucoma Lasers in glaucoma – Tips from the glaucoma experts |
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| 12:45pm | 2:00pm | Lunch | Past Presidents, Vice Presidents and Censor in Chiefs’ lunch | |||||||
| 2:00pm | 3:30pm | Plenary: Keynote Lectures |
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| Room: Plenary 3 | ||||||||||
| 2:00pm | 2:30pm | Cornea Update Lecture Dr Radhika Tandon |
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| 2:30pm | 3:00pm | Retina Update Lecture Dr Clare Bailey |
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| 3:00pm | 3:30pm | Glaucoma Update Lecture Prof Gus Gazzard |
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| 3:30pm | 4:00pm | Afternoon Tea | ||||||||
| 4:00pm | 5:30pm | Concurrent Sessions | ||||||||
| Room Plenary 3 |
Room 210 | Room 211 | Room 212/213 | Room 219/220 | ||||||
| Other What did I miss that I really need to know now in 2025? |
RANZCO PD Session Cultural safety in Australian ophthalmology |
Strabismus Management strategies for common strabismic conditions |
Training and Education The 3rd part hurdles: The unspoken challenges in ophthalmology |
Rapid Fire Session Cataract/Cornea/Refractive |
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| 6:00pm | 8:30pm | Graduation & Awards Ceremony | ||||||||
| 8:00pm | Zeiss Hosted Dinner Symposium | |||||||||
| SUNDAY 16 NOVEMBER 2025 | |||||||||||
| Health and Wellbeing Activity | |||||||||||
| 6:30am | 7:45am | Hosted Breakfast Symposia | |||||||||
| Room: 212 /213 | Room: 219/220 | ||||||||||
| Bayer Hosted Breakfast Symposium | Bausch + Lomb Hosted Breakfast Symposium | ||||||||||
| 8:00am | 8:30am | AVR AGM |
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| Room: Plenary 3 | |||||||||||
| 8:30am | 10:45am | Plenary: Keynote Lectures |
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| 8:30am | 9:00am | Ida Mann Lecture A/Prof Andrea Vincent |
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| 9:00am | 9:30am | Oncology Update Lecture Prof Mandeep Sagoo |
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| 9:30am | 10:00am | Cataract Update Lecture Prof Anders Behndig |
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| 10:00am | 10:30am | Uveitis Update Lecture Prof Daniel Vitor Vasconcelos-Santos |
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| 10:30am | 11:00am | Morning Tea ASO AGM | |||||||||
| 11:00am | 12:30pm | Concurrent Sessions | |||||||||
| Room Plenary 3 |
Room 210 | Room 211 | Room 212/213 | Room 219/220 | |||||||
| 11:00am | 11:40am | Cataract IOL selection in the abnormal cornea: the corneal surgeon’s perspective on cataract surgery in complex corneas |
RANZCO PD Session Surgical Coaching and Performance Review (Part 1) |
Genetics Mimics of genetic retinal diseases |
Glaucoma Glaucoma Update lecture Series with global experts on what is new in 2025 and what is coming up in the future |
Rapid Fire Session Medical Retina/ Vitreo Retinal Surgery |
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| 11:45am | 12:25pm | RANZCO PD Session 30 tips to make seeing KIDS in your practice enjoyable |
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| 12:30pm | 2:00pm | Lunch | Women in ophthalmology luncheon | ||||||||
| 2:00pm | 3:30pm | Plenary: Best Paper Presentations |
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| Room: Plenary 3 | |||||||||||
| 3:30pm | 4:00pm | Afternoon Tea | |||||||||
| 4:00pm | 5:30pm | Concurrent Sessions | |||||||||
| Room Plenary 3 |
Room 210 | Room 211 | Room 212/213 | Room 219/220 | |||||||
| Other The Shirley Sarks Memorial Course. Building the future of retinal research: Validated human eye tissue in the era of AI, multimodal imaging, and multiomic discovery |
RANZCO PD Session Practical Cybersecurity – Minimizing the chances of data loss and maximizing the chances of recovery from a cyberattack |
Oculoplastic/Orbit Update on thyroid eye disease – Management and What’s Next |
Paediatric Ophthalmology Refractive correction in kids – tips for the generalist and the specialist |
Rapid Fire Session Glaucoma/Neuro-ophthalmology |
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| 5:30pm | 6:30pm | Sunset Poster and Film Festival | |||||||||
| 6:45pm | Alcon Hosted Dinner Symposium | ||||||||||
| MONDAY 17 NOVEMBER 2025 | ||||||||
| Health and Wellbeing Activity | ||||||||
| 6:30am | 7:45am | ANZGS Breakfast Symposium Sponsored by Alcon |
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| Room: 219/220 | ||||||||
| 8:00am | 9:00am | Plenary: Keynote Lectures |
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| 8:00am | 8:30am | Council Lecture Prof Celia Chen |
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| 8:30am | 9:00am | Gregg Lecture Prof Dinesh Selva |
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| 9:00am | 10:00am | Plenary: Australian Vision Research (AVR) Plenary | ||||||
| 10:00am | 10:30am | Morning Tea | ||||||
| 10:30am | 12:00pm | Concurrent Sessions | ||||||
| Room Plenary 3 |
Room 210 | Room 211 | Room 212/213 | Room 219/220 | ||||
| 10:30am | 11:10am | Artificial Intelligence Global Frontiers in AI and Ophthalmology |
Uveitis Uveitis and the brain |
Cornea Scratching the surface, one case at a time |
Medical Retina New “Retinal” Diagnoses and Signs |
Rapid Fire Session: Uveitis/ Genetics/ Epidemiology |
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| 11:15am | 11:55am | Ocular Oncology Multimodal Imaging in Ocular Oncology Master Class |
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| 12:00pm | 1:30pm | Lunch | ||||||
| 1:30pm | 3:00pm | Plenary: Clinical Controversies |
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| Room: Plenary 3 | ||||||||
| 3:00pm | 3:30pm | Afternoon Tea | ||||||
| 3:30pm | 5:00pm | Concurrent Sessions | ||||||
| Room Plenary 3 | Room 210 | Room 211 | Room 212/213 | Room 219/220 | ||||
| Other The Eye and Systemic Disease 2025 update |
RANZCO PD Session Surgical Coaching and Performance Review (Part 2) |
Oculoplastic/Orbit Orbit made easy! |
Neuro-ophthalmology An Eye on Optic Neuropathies |
Rapid Fire Session: Sustainability /Training and Education/ Artificial Intelligence/Other |
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| 5:00pm | Closing Remarks | |||||||
| Room Plenary Foyer | ||||||||
