FINAL PROGRAM

Welcome

The Global Alliance of Eye Bank Associations and the prior World Eye Bank Symposium Committee Members warmly invite you to

attend their first Global Scientific Meeting since official incorporation in early 2014. This will mark the first of many global opportu-

nities designed to develop robust discussion, network and promote knowledge exchange and—ultimately - support global corneal

eye care outcomes for millions of waiting recipients.

This meeting will depart from the usual lecture-question-format. Its purpose will be to better engage all participants in a Global

Conversation. The day has been organized into General Themes, with a few lead presentations given to introduce a topic in each

session, before opening into more of a “roundtable discussion” - primarily led, but not dominated by the panel presenters.

Audience members are encouraged to participate in discussions, network and exchange details.

And, as the Californian sun goes down in the West and our milestone scientific meeting comes to a close, our host city eye bank,

the San Diego Eye Bank, invites you to enjoy all the colours in the sky and kiss another day goodbye while joining them for

cocktails and hors d'oeuvres at twilight. Additionally, our host eye bank invites you to tour their facility at any time during your

stay in San Diego. To schedule a visit please email: info@gaeba.org or heather.machin@unimelb.edu.au.

The Global Alliance would also like to take this moment to thank their host city eye bank, event sponsors and the individual eye

banks and organizations involved in providing financial scholarship support to our colleagues from around the world. We could not

do this without your support, generosity and passion.

We look forward to seeing you in San Diego—and please don’t forget to register (details on the back page) - and we hope you

enjoy all the City of San Diego has to offer.

Thank you

Global Alliance of Eye Bank Association Representatives

Key Presenters

Key Note Address: Prof. Donald T.H. Tan MBBS FRCSG FRCSE FRCOphth FAMS.

Donald Tan is the Medical Director of the Singapore National Eye Centre, immediate past chairman of the Singapore Eye Research Institute, Medical Director of the Singapore Eye Bank, and Professor of Ophthalmology at the National University of Singapore and has published over 350 peer-reviewed articles in the field of cornea and refractive surgery, eye banking, and myopia (h index = 46), contributed 18 book chapters and is the recipient of over 20 awards, which most recently include the EuCornea 2012 Medal, the Arthur Devers 2012 Lecture, the AAO 2012 Distinguished Achievement Award, the 2013 Albrecht von Graefe Innovator’s Lecture, the 2013 Intraocular Implant and Refractive Society of India Gold Medal, and the CLAO 2014 Oliver H. Dabezies, Jr. Lecture. Professor Tan is the immediate Past President of the Cornea Society, and

founding President of the Asia Cornea Society and the Association of Eye Banks of Asia. He is a founding representative of the GAEBA.

Lunch Presenter: Prof. Mark J. Mannis, MD

Dr Mannis, Professor, is the Chair of the UC Davis Health System Eye Centre, Sacramento, California, and has over 125 publications and five books on topics relating to corneal surgery and diseases. His research has included development of experimental antimicrobial agents and growth factors that effect the corneal wound healing rate, skin diseases that effect the eye, and outcomes of corneal transplant and artificial corneas. Dr Mannis is an active humanitarian providing corneal surgery and teaching around the world. He is a representative for the APABO and is a founding representative of GAEBA.

Global Conversations: Prof. Francis L. Delmonico, MD

Dr Delmonico is the President of The Transplantation Society, Executive Director of the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group, Advisor for Human Transplantation, to the World Health Organization, Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School’s Massachusetts General Hospital, Transplant Center, and Medical Director of the New England Organ Bank. Dr Delmonico has co-authored over 260 publications, and has worked as the Associate Editor of the American Journal of Transplantation, and is currently on the Editorial Board of Transplantation, Kidney International and Clinical Transplantation.

Closing Address: Dr David Schanzlin , MD

Dr Schanzlin is the President, and Associate Medical Director of the San Diego Eye Bank, and is former Professor and Chairman at Saint Louis University’s Department of Ophthalmology and former Director of the prestigious Anheuser-Busch Eye Institute. Dr Schanzlin completed his medical education and residency at the University of Chicago, followed by fellowships at the University of California, San Francisco’s Proctor Foundation.

Speaker: Patricia Dahl, ED/CEO, The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration, New York

Ms Dahl has 30 years experience in eye banking, is a past-Chair of the Eye Bank Association of America and has served on a variety of key committees, including Medical Advisory Board, Accreditation Board and Certification Board. She is also a member of the New York Alliance for Donation, a statewide collaborative organization established to increase awareness for organ, eye and tissue donation, and serves on the New York State

Transplant Council. Ms. Dahl holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN.

Tuesday 14th April Program Schedule

7:30 Registration Open

08:30 - 10:15 Session 1 Developing Global Conversations in Eye Banking: Setting the scene

Chair Jeffrey Penta (USA)

Opening Address Donald Tan (Singapore)

India Samar Basak - EBAI Representative

UK John Armitage - EEBA Representative

USA Kevin Corcoran - EBAA Representative

USA Mark J Mannis - APABO Representative

Australia Graeme Pollock - EBAANZ Representative

Singapore Donald Tan - AEBA Representative

10:15 - 10:45 Morning Tea

10:45 - 12:45 Session 2 Discussion: Conversations in global mapping, bioethics and surveillance

Moderator Dominique Martin (Australia)

Panel Members

Spain Dr José Ramon Nuñez Peña - WHO perspective

USA Francis L. Delmonico - WHO and experiences of the peer organ community

Australia Heather Machin - Global mapping & statistical data development

Egypt Silvana Madi - Surgeon tissue issues

USA Kevin Corcoran – Eye Bank tissue issues

USA Patricia Dahl – Representing an EB that has already implemented ISBT128

Italy Diego Ponzin - Dealing with surplus tissue

USA Paul Dubord - Project Notify

USA Marian Macsai – Project Notify and ISBT128

New Zealand Louise Moffatt - Surveillance and Tracking Working Group ISBT128

Tuesday 14th April Program Schedule

12:45 - 13:30 Lunch With Key Note Speaker - Prof. Mark J Mannis

13:30-14:30 Session 3 Discussion: Organizational Aspects of Eye Banking

Moderator David Korroch (USA)

Panel Members

Mexico Enrique Graue - Struggles to establish and maintain an eye bank

USA Marian Macsai - Clinical leadership

USA Bernie Iliakis - Large multi-country eye banks

Mexico Van Lansingh – IAPB, NGO and global health perspective

Chile Miguel Río del Amo – Future proposals for Chile

14:30 - 15:30 Session 4 Discussion: Transplant Outcomes and Registers

Moderator Mark J Mannis (USA)

Panel Members

UK John Armitage - UK Model

Sweden Margareta Claesson Armitage - Swedish Model

Australia Keryn Williams - Australian Model

USA David Glasser - USA Future Register

15:30 - 16:00 Afternoon Tea

16:00 - 17:00 Session 5 Case Studies: Medical Director Moments

Chair Samar Basak (India)

Denmark Jesper Hjortdal

The Philippines Ma. Dominga B. Padilla

Italy Diego Ponzin

17:00 - 17:30 Session 6 Presentations: Closing Address

Closing Address David Schanzlin (USA)

Californian Sunset As the Californian sun goes down in the West and our milestone scientific meeting comes to a close, the San Diego Eye Bank invites you to enjoy all the colours in the sky and kiss another day goodbye while joining them for cocktails and hors d'oeuvres at twilight. Venue to be announced during the meeting.

Please RSVP to heather.machin@unimelb.edu.au by April 1st.

18:30—20:00

Invitation to Continue the Evening (optional):

Speaker Profiles

Prof. John Armitage: is the Director at the Bristol Eye Bank – which established corneal organ culture in the UK and has provided corneas for > 30,000 transplants, Vice President of the EEBA, former President of the British Association for Tissue Banking, Board Governor to the Society for Cryobiology and Associate Editor of Cryobiology. Prof. Armitage has completed his BSc in Comparative Physiology with Zoology at the University of London; PhD in Cryobiology followed by research posts in Cambridge, UK, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA, and Bristol, and has published numerous publications.

Dr Samar K Basak, MD, DNB, FRCS: is Director and one of the founders of Disha Eye Hospitals, Kolkata, India specializing in Cataract, Cornea and External eye diseases, and Eye Bank services. Currently, he is the President, EBAI; Vice president Asia Eye Bank Association; Vice President Cornea Society of India and Editor - and recipient of; CS Reshmi Award, Col. Rangachari Award; ET Selvam Award; Sante Vision Award; PS Hardia Award; AIOS-Cornea Award and RP Dhanda Award from All India Ophthalmological Society. He is also awarded with 8 other Gold Medal orations including the prestigious Prof LP Agarwal Oration by AIIMS and numerous posters, videos and education awards. Dr Basak is an Examiner in FRCS (Glasgow), reviewer of 8 prestig-ious journals including IJO, Ophthalmology, Clinical Ophthalmology, AJO and BJO and has written multiple books papers in peer-review journals. Dr. Basak is currently the. Dr. Basak loves to pursue his unique hobby on special stamp collection - “Ophthaphilately” which he has been recognized by International Philatelic Society. He has also written a book on Ophthaphilately. He is also a founding representative of the GAEBA.

Dr Margareta Claesson Armitage, MD PhD: is the Senior Consultant Director for Corneal Services and Medical Director of the Eye Bank, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden. She is also; previous member of the EEBA Board; Cornea representative on the Swedish National Tissue Board - chairing their Cornea subgroup; and Founder and Board Chair of the Swedish Cornea Transplant Register. She completed her PhD thesis in 2008 on register data and corneal transplant outcome.

Prof. Paul Dubord MD: is a Clinical Professor at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada, and has been a standing member of the Expert Advisory Panel on Human Cell, Tissue and Organ Transplantation since 2005 for the WHO. Currently, he is a member of the Board for SightLife (recent past chair), as well as an Associate Medical Director. In 1992, he founded EyeSight International a non-profit NGO to support Corneal Transplantation and Eye Banking in the Developing World.

Kevin P. Corcoran, CAE: has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of the EBAA since 2012, and is a founding representative of the GAEBA. Kevin has over 20 years of non-profit management experience, and holds the Certified Association Executive designation, granted by the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE). He recently completed a six-year term on the Board of Directors of ASAE Business Services, Inc. and is a frequent lecturer on association management topics for ASAE and other organizations. Kevin is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing.

Prof. Jesper Hjortdal: is Clinical Professor and Consultant at the Department of Ophthalmology, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark. He graduated from Aarhus University in 1988 and, has also been a Visiting Research Associate at Stanford University; Honorary Fellow to the Cornea and External Diseases unit at Moorfields Eye Hospital; and was appointed Clinical Professor and Medical Director of The Danish Cornea Bank in 2009. Since 2013 he has been president of the EEBA and has published more than 130 papers and book chapters on corneal biomechanics and surgery.

Bernie Illiakis: is the longest tenured employee of SightLife, joining the organization in July 1995 and has worked in all functions of the eye bank from recovery technician to his current role of Chief Operating Officer. As COO, Bernie is responsible for overseeing all eye bank operations, including all the people and activities involved in the donation process to the flow of ocular tissue in and out of the organization’s three locations. Bernie has been directly or indirectly involved in more than 87% of the corneal tissues provided for transplant by SightLife since 1969. He has also been involved in the EBAA, currently holding a position on the Board of Directors and Medical Advisory Board. He was also a longtime member of the EBAA Accreditation Board as an eye bank inspector. Bernie earned his Master’s Degree in Health Administration from the University of Washington and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Zoology, also from the UW.

Prof. Van Lansingh: is the new Medical Officer for HelpMeSee, and past IAPB Latin America Regional Coordinator and a Vision2020 technical sub-committee member. Having worked extensively throughout Latin and North America, South East Asia, the Pacific and Australia, and with interest in Cataracts, he completed medical training at the Universidad Nacional Autóno-ma de Mexico City, Mexico; residency and postgraduate work in Mexico City and Nielsen Center for Eye Surgery/University of South Florida and completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne. As the current Voluntary Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, he is also Chief Editor for the Journal of Community Eye Health-Spanish Edition and peer reviewer for: Eye, Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, Ophthalmic Epidemiology, Oftalmología Clinica y Experimental, the Australian Medical Journal, and has published multiple papers and book chapters.

Heather Machin, RN: is a practicing ophthalmic Registered Nurse, GAEBA and EBAANZ representative, Project Officer at Lions Eye Donation Service (University of Melbourne - Centre for Eye Research Australia), Consultant to the Fred Hollows Foundation-NZ, Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Ophthalmic Practice and prior Associate Director of Nursing at ORBIS International. Working in over 30 countries, she has (co)authored numerous papers, editorials and text chapters and received awards and nominations from; Rotary Australia, Pride of Australia Medals and the University of Queensland. She has developed numerous training programs for several institutions including the Fiji National University - Pacific Eye Institute, Fiji, and has post-graduate qualifications in professional communications and public relations, and ophthalmic nursing.

Dr David B. Glasser, MD: is the managing member of Patapsco Eye M.D.s in Columbia, MD and Assistant Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is Associate Medical Director of the TBI Baltimore / Medical Eye Bank of Maryland and is the Chair of the Eye Bank Association of America.

Speaker Profiles

Marian S. Macsai, MD is President-Elect of the Cornea Society; Chief of the Division of Ophthalmology at NorthShore University Health System; Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine; and serves as Medical Director of the Eye & Vision Center located at Glenbrook Hospital; examiner for the American Board of Ophthalmolo-gy; Advisory Committee member on both the Blood and Tissue Safety and Availability (ACBTSA) and World Health Organization Biovigilance and Surveillance Committees and has served as Chair of the Eye Bank Association of America and Secretary/Treasurer of the Cornea Society and as Ophthalmic Devices Panel member to the Food and Drug Administration. As a Board Certified Ophthalmologist with fellowship training in cornea and refractive surgery she is a member with thesis of the American Ophthalmologic Society recipient of numerous honors and awards including the Paton Award, Distinguished Contributions in Medicine Award, and other outstanding teaching/education awards.

Dr Silvana Madi: is currently assistant lecturer of Ophthalmology at Alexandria - University, Egypt. She obtained both her medical bachelor and her Master Degrees in ophthalmology at the University of Alexandria where she is also completing her Doctorate in Medicine degree. She trained in ophthalmology at the Main University Hospital in Alexandria and completed a cornea fellowship at Villa Igea, Italy with surgical training in lamellar corneal surgery with the eminent Dr Massimo Busin. She is the author and co-author of multiple publications including a thesis about Mushroom keratoplasty with Dr Busin - published in Transactions of American ophthalmological society. She has contributed to over 10 training courses about lamellar keratoplasty delivered through ASCRS, ESCRS and AAO meetings and is currently establishing the first eye bank in Alexandria Egypt and is running a tertiary referral consultant cornea practice in Alexandria.

Dr Dominique Martin, MBBS, BA (Hons Phil), PhD: is Lecturer in Health Ethics at the Centre for Health Equity within the School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne. She is co-chair of the Ethics Committee of The Transplantation Society, and a member of the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group. Dr Martin's bioethics research explores issues relating to the procurement, use and distribution of human biological materials and medical products of human origin, especially in the setting of cross-border markets and medical travel. She has collaborated with the World Health Organization's Initiative on Medical Products of Human Origin and has been instrumental in assisting EBAANZ to develop their first Bioethical Framework.

Dr José Ramón Núñez Peña MD, PhD: is the recently appointed Medical Officer for Transplantation and Special Advisor for the Initiative for Medical Products of Human Origin at the World Health Organization, Geneva. Dr Núñez was previously Transplant Coordinator of the Hospital Clínico San Carlos in Madrid. Dr. Nunez completed his training at the Hospital Clínico San Carlos and the Mayo Clinic and has authored over 100 publications and more than 300 communications and lectures at conferences and national and international symposia.

Speaker Profiles

Ma. Dominga B. Padilla, MD, FPAO: is a consultant and head of the Out-Patient Surgical Unit at St. Luke’s Medical Center Global City; Associate Clinical Professor of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of the Philippines, Manila; founder and president of the Eye Bank Foundation of the Philippines; and a current and founding council member of the Asia Cornea Society; and Vice President of the AEBA. As a medical graduate from the University of the Philippines, Manila she completed Residency Training in Ophthalmology at the Philippine General Hospital, with further corneal and eye bank training at Tissue Banks International, Baltimore Maryland and the International Eye Bank of Prague. She has earned numerous awards, including recognition for her contribution to blindness prevention in the Asia Pacific Region by the Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology, and has published widely.

Miguel Rio del Armo: is a Cornea Fellow From Carriazo Ophthtalmic center in Colombia who has completed fellowship training in Eye banking essentials and public health at OHSU and Lions Vision Gift Eye bank (Portland, Oregon). He currently works as a Cornea surgeon at Tabancura Clinic, and is the Ophthalmic Service Chief at the Health Reference Center SAG in Santiago, Chile and the Cornea Coordinator in North metropolitan Hospital in Santiago, Chile (San José).

Dr Graeme Pollock BSc (Hons), MPH, PhD: began his career as a cell biologist working in the field of organ preservation. This experience led him into the field of eye banking, and in 1991 he became inaugural manager of the Lions Eye Donation Service in Melbourne where he is now the Director of Service. Graeme holds a joint appointment with The University of Melbourne and the Centre for Eye Research Australia and is; Chair for EBAANZ; founding representative and developer for GAEBA; Clinical Governance Committee member for the Australian National Authority for Organ and Tissue Donation; founding editorial board member for the International Journal of Eye Banking; invited member on the EBAA’s Medical Advisory panel; and past President of the Australasian Transplant Coordinators Association. Graeme has published widely and presented internationally within eye banking.

Prof. Keryn Williams: is an Australian National Health & Medical Research Council Principal Research Fellow in the Department of Ophthalmology within the School of Medicine at Flinders University. A BSc (Hons) and PhD graduate of the University of Melbourne. She undertook her postdoctoral research in the Nuffield Department of Surgery at the University of Oxford UK, where she first developed a career-long interest in transplantation immunobiology. On returning to Australia, she began to work in the eye. She established, and is the scientific director, of the Australian Corneal Graft Registry and maintains research interests in corneal transplantation and ocular inflammation, novel drugs and devices for ophthalmic use, antibody engineering, and aberrant ocular angiogenesis.

Dr Diego Ponzin: is Medical Director and Corneal Consultant of the Veneto Eye Bank Foundation in Venice, Italy with clinical interest in ocular surface and corneal diseases, cornea biology, storage and selection for transplantation. He obtained his medical degree at the University of Padua, Italy and his post-doctoral diploma in Ophthalmology at the University of Udine, Italy and has been Research Associate at the Department of the FIDIA Research Laboratories in Padua, and Expert for eye banking of the Consulta Nazionale Trapianti, Rome. He has received multiple international awards including as an honorary Member of the Italian Society for Corneal Transplantation (2000), and has obtained Scientific Research Award from the Italian Society of Ophthalmology. As a reviewer of several journals including: the British Journal of Ophthalmology, European Journal of Ophthalmology, and Cornea, he has (co-)authored multiple papers, and book chapter reviews.

Speaker Profiles

Jeffrey G. Penta, MBA, CEBT: is the Executive Director of the San Diego Eye Bank and has over 35 years of experience in eye banking. Having served on many of the EBAA’s committees and currently serving on its Board of Directors, he is recognized for his dedication to further eye banking worldwide by direction, and promotion, of the International Cornea Project and United Sight. He has also served the Pan American Association of Eye Banks on its Board of Directors, as Treasurer and as its Executive Director. He is a long time member of the North American Transplant Coordinators Organization, the American Society for Microbiology and the New York Academy of Sciences. Mr Penta has a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology from San Diego State University and a Masters in Business Administration/Law from National University.

Event Sponsors

Celebrating its 20th Anniversary, ICCBBA is the not-for-profit, nongovernmental interna-tional standards organization in official relations with the World Health Organization, and is responsible for the management and development of the ISBT 128 Standard.

Used in more than 75 countries across six continents and disparate health care systems, ISBT 128 is the global standard for the terminology, identification, coding, and labeling of medical products of human origin including blood, cell, tissue, milk, and organ products. The Standard has been designed to ensure the highest levels of accuracy, safety, and efficiency for the benefit of donors and patients worldwide.

Partnership Opportunities

To partner with the Global Alliance at this event, please

contact Heather Machin via: heather.machin@unimelb.edu.au

or info@gaeba.org

In addition to sponsorship of the event, the Global Alliance is

seeking scholarship support to assist eye bankers from lower

resource countries to attend this meeting. If you can assist,

please let us know.

MED-LOGICS is a US based manufacturer with 22 years of ophthalmic device experience. MED-LOGICS manufactures the ML7® DSAEK System, Nitro® DSAEK System, AAC Digital Pressure Gauge, Components to fit

other brands of DSAEK systems and the CLB® disposable blades for these various DSAEK systems. They also have more than 10 years of experience in repairing a variety of microkeratome brands at our US facility with a quick turnaround. MED-LOGICS has come to be recognized as an innovative leader in practical advancements that provide the patient with real clinical benefits. All MED-LOGICS products are manufactured in the United States.

Scholarship Sponsors

GAEBA would like to acknowledge and thank the below

organizations who have assisted in the provision of

scholarships, to eye bank professionals from developing

nations, to attend the scientific meeting.

Lions Eye Donation Service—Melbourne, Australia

Lions Eye and Tissue Bank of New South Wales, Sydney,

Australia

As our Host City Eye Bank, the San Diego Eye Bank is a California Non-Profit corporation dedicated to the preservation and restoration of sight through the collection, processing, and distribution of human ocular tissue; progress in medicine through the support of research; the maintenance of an eye center for diagnostic evaluation and therapy; and the sponsorship of educational programs for the medical community and general public.

Conference Venue and Accommodation

Embassy Suites San Diego Bay—Downtown, 601 Pacific Highway, San Diego, CA, USA 92101.

TEL: + 1 619 239 2400 Fax: 1 619 239 1520

http://embassysuites3.hilton.com/en/hotels/california/embassy-suites-san-diego-bay-downtown-SANDNES/index.html

How to get there

From San Diego International-Lindbergh Field airport

Directions: Follow airport signs to Pacific Highway. Continue

on Pacific Highway until you reach Harbor Drive and the hotel

will be located on the left hand side of the street on Harbor

Drive and Pacific Highway.

Distance from Hotel: 3 miles (Drive time—5 minutes)

Type Typical Minimum Charge

Bus Service 2.25 USD

Courtesy Bus no courtesy bus

Limousine 35.00 USD

Rental Car 35.00 USD

Taxi 15.00 USD

THANK YOU

The Global Alliance of Eye Bank Associations would like to thank their Global Association

Partner, Eye Bank Association of America, local Eyebank host, The San Diego Eye Bank, and

prior World Eye Bank Symposium Committee Members for their personal support, expertise

and assistance with planning of the Global Alliance’s first Scientific Meeting since official

incorporation.

www.gaeba.org

Registration is now open

To Register for this event please go to:

www.restoresight.org/upcoming-events/global-alliance-of-eye-bank-associations-scientific-meeting/

Program Registration Fee (shown in USD):

Before March 17 $175

Between March 17—31 $225

Onsite: $250