Note: This schedule is tentative and subject to change.
Wednesday, June 5 | Session |
7:00 am – 4:30 pm | Registration |
7:30 am – 11:00 am | Workshop: Happy Leaders Breakfast at 7:30, session at 8:00 Separate Registration Required |
11:30 am – 12:00 pm | New Attendee Welcome Meeting |
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm | General Session (1 CEU) Chair’s Welcome Gift of Sight Testimonials Keynote: The Happy Mindset Speaker: Gillian Mandich, PhD, The International Happiness Institute |
2:00 pm – 2:15 pm | Refreshment Break |
2:15 pm – 3:45 pm | Donor, Partner, and Community Relations Workshop (1.5 CEUs) Building Successful Relationships with OPOs |
2:15 pm – 3:45 pm | Quality Assurance Workshop (1.5 CEUs) Bridging the Gap Between cGTP and cGMP Compliance Cliffhangers: When Protocols Take a Detour |
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm | General Session (1 CEU) Keynote: Taking Hold of the Opportunities That Await You – Raising Financial and Community Support for Your Mission Speakers: Chad Jansen, Donor Centric Consulting, and Matthew Hicks, MSH Visual |
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm | Welcome Reception in Exhibit Hall |
Thursday, June 6 | |
7:00 am – 4:00 pm | Registration |
7:00 am – 8:00 am | Breakfast in Exhibit Hall Sponsored by |
8:00 am – 9:30 am | General Session (1.5 CEUs) Keynote: FDA Division of Human Tissues Update Speakers: Brychan Clark, MD, and Scott Brubaker, Food and Drug Administration The Current and Future Outlook for OPOs Staying Focused on Eye Donation Promotion with DLA Eye Donation Month Announcement |
9:45 am – 10:45 am | Concurrent Sessions (1 CEU) DMEK 2.0: A Deeper Dive Social Media Strategies: Maximizing your Efforts to Make a Difference Leading with Intention |
11:00 am – 12:00 pm | Concurrent Sessions (1 CEU) Navigating the Technical Staffing Merry-Go-Round Moving Beyond the Label: Empowering Electronic Information Exchange in Eye Banking Using the ISBT 128 MPHO Unique Identifier Creative Ideas and Focus Areas For Advancing Your Fund Development Program |
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Lunch in the Exhibit Hall |
1:00 pm – 3:15 pm | Technical Skills Workshop (2.25 CEUs) A Perfect Match: Ophthalmic Procedures and Tissue Selection Recovering Tissue for Research CAIRS – You Should’ve Put a Ring on It! Should I Stay or Should I Go? Donor Eligibility Case Studies Innovation Spotlights – Recipient Information: Still Haven’t Found What I am Looking For – There’s a Storage Solution for That – Vitreous Draws, You Spin Me Right Round – No More Ice, Ice, Baby – Markers: The Good, the bad, the smudgy |
3:15 pm – 3:45 pm | Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall Sponsored by |
3:45 pm – 6:00 pm | Accreditation Board Meeting Public Portion (.5 CEU) Closed meeting for AB Members Only (1.75 CEU) |
3:45 pm – 5:15 pm | Concurrent Sessions (1.5 CEUs) Corneal Tissue Recovery – Wet Lab, Demos, and Discussion Creating a Workplace of Distinction |
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm | Thursday Social: EBAA on the Town Location: No Other Pub Separate Pre-Registration Required Sponsored by |
Friday, June 7 | |
7:15 am – 4:00 pm | Registration |
7:15 am – 8:30 am | Breakfast in Exhibit Hall Sponsored by |
8:30 am – 10:00 am | General Session (1.5 CEUs) Keynote: The Power of AI- Redefining the Future Speakers: Zhiguo Zhou, PhD, University of Kansas Medical Center, and Dray McFarlane, Tasio State of the Association |
10:00 am – 10:30 am | Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall |
10:30 am – 11:30 am | Concurrent Sessions (1 CEU) Thriving in a Multi-Generational Workforce Research Requests –Maximizing the Gift and Advancing Innovation AI Unveiled: Harnessing Generative Technologies |
11:30 am – 1:00 pm | Lunch in the Exhibit Hall |
1:00 pm – 3:30 pm | Medical Advisory Board Meeting (2.5 CEUs) Sponsored by |
3:30 pm – 3:45 pm | Refreshment Break |
3:45 pm – 4:45 pm | House of Delegates Meeting |
4:45 pm – 5:30 pm | Board of Directors Business Meeting By invitation only |
7:15 pm – 8:00 pm | Cocktail Reception |
8:00 pm – 9:30 pm | Annual Dinner & Awards Program |
9:30 pm – 10:30 pm | Dessert Reception with the Award Recipient Join us for Music, Desserts, Coffee, and Drinks! Sponsored by |
Saturday, June 8 | |
7:15 am – 12:00 pm | Registration |
7:00 am – 8:00 am | Breakfast in Exhibit Hall |
8:00 am – 11:30 am | Scientific Symposium* (3.5 CEUs) Invited Session Novel Surgical and Cellular Therapy Interventions for Corneal Epithelial Diseases Speaker: Ali R. Djalilian, MD Scientific Abstracts Assessing Research Productivity of U.S. Academic Cornea Specialists using the Relative Citation Ratio Gender Differences in Ophthalmologist Salary Among Cornea Specialists at US Public Medical Schools Intracameral Antibiotic Prophylaxis After Corneal Transplant Surgeries Ocular Surface Disease may be Associated with Allograft Dehiscence Following DALK and PK Identification of the Role of Wnt Signaling Pathways in the Endothelium during Cold Storage of Donor Corneas using Transcriptomics-based Approach Novel Eye Banking Practices Based on Biocompatible Cryopreservation of Ocular Tissues in Regular Deep Freezers Your Scope or Mine? Consistency of Trypan Blue-based ACD Evaluation across Different Imaging Setups Dual-Modality Imaging for Cellular Volumetric Evaluation of Donor Corneal and Retinal Tissues Quantifying Corneal Endothelial Cell Injury during Loading and Ejection of DMEK Grafts Using a Modified Calcein-AM Staining Method Clinical Outcomes of DescePrep-Prepared DMEK Tissue: A Retrospective Review of the First Eight Cases A Novel Technique for Processing Keratolimbal Allografts for the Treatment of Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency Retrospective Analysis of Adult Human Retina Pigmented Epithelial Cell (ahRPE) Culture Success Rate from Human Cadaver Ocular Tissues *This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM |
11:45 am – 12:45 pm | Physician Luncheon* Physician attendees only Non-physician attendees may retrieve lunch at nearby restaurants. *This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM |
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm | Medical Directors Symposium* (3 CEUs) The Medical Director’s Role – Inspections and Accreditation – Eye Bank Research Programs – Annual Competencies Systemic Infectious Disease Transmission & Eye Banking TB – What Medical Directors Need to Know! Determining Tissue Imputability Following an Adverse Reaction Broadening Tissue Acceptance Among Surgeons Medical Director Dilemmas *This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM |