The 40th Congress of the ESCRS | Milan 16

The 40th Congress of the ESCRS is taking place from 16-20 September 2022, at the Milano Convention Centre in Milan, Italy. The congress, which will host around 1,000 registered participants, will also be streamed via the virtual conferencing platform now that the virtual world has become a part of our world.

The 4-day congress will include daily exhibitions, giving people the chance to experience the latest technologies in ophthalmology and providing the ideal location for ophthalmologists and researchers to network with their peers.

Let’s have a look at this year’s program

Friday, 16 September

The World Society of Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus will hold their WSPOS Subspecialty Day during the ESCRS 2022 Milan Congress from 08:00-18:00.

There will be an IME Symposium Phaco Complex Cases scheduled for 16:00-17:00 while ESCRS/EuCornea Symposium will be held from 17:00-19:00. Space 3 and Space 4 will host Cornea and Glaucoma Day – two different events organized by the Cornea Committee of the ESCRS, Eu-Cornea, and EGS.

Instructional courses will take place between 17:15-18:15 while experts discuss the latest innovations from 19:15-20:15.

Saturday, 17 September

The second day of the congress will be full of exciting events, such as symposiums about clinical research, video symposiums on challenging cases, live surgery sessions, and ESONT symposiums.

There will also be a program specifically designed for young ophthalmologists while exhibitor companies will begin their satellite symposiums, introducing their latest innovations in the ophthalmic field.

Exhibitions and instructional courses will continue to take place throughout the day.

Click the link to see details of the program:

Sunday, 18 September

In addition to the daily main symposium, two other symposiums will take place on Sunday, one being a JCRS Symposium and the other one being a video symposium on ‘Surgical Complications – You make the call’.

There will be a workshop planned on visual optics, while eye care professionals and experts will attend the ‘Practice Management Masterclass’. Young ophthalmologists will not only continue to benefit from the program created for them, but they will also attend instructional courses, which are planned to take place on five different sessions on Sunday.

Free Paper sessions are also expected to place before the day wraps up with IlIC (Intraocular Lens Implant Club) Symposium from 18:15-19:45.

Monday, 19 September

The third day of the congress will kick off with the ‘Heritage Lecture’, which then will be followed by the main symposium. A surgical video session entitled ‘Getting Into Trouble’ will take place in the afternoon. CSRCS and ISRS will organize two different symposiums, of which their topics are not disclosed yet.

Monday will be full of instructional courses and satellites of global ophthalmic companies, giving attendees a unique chance to explore the newest innovations in the field.

Visitors can also attend ‘ESONT Courses’ and ‘Wetlabs’ throughout the day. There will also be ‘Free Paper Sessions’ and ‘Presented Poster Sessions’ on three different occasions.

Monday marks the last day that the daily exhibition is open.

Tuesday, 20 September

On the final day of the Congress, a ‘Presbyopia Workshop’ and an ‘Orbis Symposium’ will take place in the morning. Free Paper Sessions, Wetlabs and instructional courses will remain among the events that continue on the last day.

The final day will be rounded up, as has become something of a tradition at the ESCRS Congress, with the “Best of the Best”, a session that will enable attendees to go away with the main pearls of the event.

Click the link to see the program overview with further details: https://congress.escrs.org/programme/programme-overview/