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Pan-American Research Day
PARD 2015
May 2, 2015
Governor’s Square 14 & 15
Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel
Denver, Colorado
This year’s Pan-American Research Day (PARD) is not
to be missed. This exciting event is scheduled to take
place on Saturday, May 2, 2015, from 12:30 – 6:00 pm
at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, Denver,
Colorado. This event is sponsored through a generous
grant from Allergan. Over 90 speakers were chosen to
present their ARVO accepted abstracts at this year’s
meeting.
There will be two keynote lectures:
 J. Bronwyn Bateman, MD (USA) – The
ophthalmologist in the modern world of
genetics
 Alfredo A. Sadun MD PhD (USA) – How a
Giant Brazilian Pedigree Helped Solve 3 Great
Mysteries in LHON
A total of four travel awards and three research awards
sponsored by industry leaders and private foundations
will be awarded this year.
Afterwards speakers and attendees can relax and discuss
the business of the day at the wind-up cocktail party,
which is immediately to follow.
OVERVIEW
10:00 AM – Speaker Check in & Registration Opens
12:30 PM – Program Begins
12:35 PM – Keynote Speaker: J. Bronwyn Bateman MD
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM – Break – Governor’s Square 14
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM – Break – Governor’s Square 15
5:12 PM – Keynote Speaker: Alfredo A. Sadun MD PhD
5:20 PM – PAOF
5:30 PM – Awards Presentation
6:00 PM – Cocktail Reception
Meeting Coordinator
Paulo E.C. Dantas MD (Brazil), Chair
Program Committee
J. Fernando Arévalo MD (Saudi Arabia)
Mauricio Maia MD (Brazil)
Peter A. Quiros MD (USA)
Lihteh Wu MD (Costa Rica)
Thank you to all our partners who helped make this
event possible:
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Allergan International
ARVO
David & Julianna Pyott Foundation
Pan-American Ophthalmological Foundation
Retina Research Foundation
Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel
1550 Court Place
Denver, Colorado 80202 USA
(303) 893-3333
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Pan-American Research Day
PARD 2015
May 2, 2015
Governor’s Square 14 & 15
Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel
Denver, Colorado
Alfredo A. Sadun, MD PhD
J. Bronwyn Bateman, MD
Specialist in Genetics and Pediatric
Ophthalmology
Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology,
David Geffen School of Medicine
at UCLA
Professor and Thornton Endowed Chair,
Doheny Eye Institute
Vice-Chair of Ophthalmology, Dept.
Ophthalmology, UCLA.
12:38 PM – 12:50 PM
Keynote talk: The ophthalmologist in the modern
world of genetics
5:13 PM – 5:25 PM
Keynote talk: How a Giant Brazilian Pedigree Helped
Solve 3 Great Mysteries in LHON
Dr. Bronwyn Bateman is a board-certified
ophthalmologist who specializes in pediatric
ophthalmology; she is also board-certified in clinical
genetics. She attended the University of California,
Berkeley for her undergraduate degree and moved on
to the Columbia University College of Physicians and
Surgeons for medical school. She did a residency in
ophthalmology at the Jules Stein Eye Institute at
UCLA and became a Professor of Ophthalmology and
Pediatrics. She went to the University of Colorado
School of Medicine in 1995 as Professor of
Ophthalmology and Pediatrics, and Chair of
Ophthalmology, the first woman in any department.
Her research has been in the genetic bases of
hereditary cataracts. She became the first woman
President of the Association of University Professors
of Ophthalmology. She has been President of the PanAmerican Association of Ophthalmology and is a
member of the American Ophthalmological Society.
She raised over $12 million to build the Rocky
Mountain Lions Eye Institute and establish an
endowed Chair. She is currently a Clinical Professor of
Ophthalmology at the David Geffen School of
Medicine, UCLA. Dr. Bateman has had a long-term
interest in Nicaragua and serves as the Honorary
Consul to the state of Colorado.
Dr. Sadun graduated from MIT (1972) and after
obtaining his Ph.D. and M.D., completed his residency
in Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School followed
by a fellowship in Neuro-Ophthalmology. He joined
the full-time faculty at Harvard, Department of
Ophthalmology in 1983. He was recruited to
USC/Doheny where he remained for 30 years. He
helped lead Doheny in its transition to UCLA in 2014.
His research has centered on the clinical,
psychophysical and laboratory studies of diseases of
the optic nerve. In the 1980’s, Dr. Sadun was one of the
first to apply a new tract-tracing technique in order to
establish nine anatomical pathways between the eye
and the brain. He was the first to describe a human
retinal projection to the hypothalamus that subserves
the visual entrainment of the circadian rhythm. Dr.
Sadun was the first to identify an optic neuropathy
associated with Alzheimer’s disease. In 1993, he was
selected and sponsored by the United Nations to lead
an investigative team to determine the cause of an
epidemic of optic neuropathy in Cuba. He is author of
about 300 peer-reviewed publications (H-index: 47).
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Pan-American Research Day
Saturday, May 2, 2015
Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel,
(Plaza Building Concourse Level)
Governor’s Square 14
(Posterior Segment & PotPourri)
Governor’s Square 15
(Anterior Segment & PotPourri)
Ana Luisa Hofling-Lima MD
12:30 PM 12:35 PM
Welcome
12:35 PM 12:38 PM
Introduction of keynote speaker
12:38 PM 12:50 PM
Keynote talk: The ophthalmologist in the modern world of genetics
12:50 PM 1:00 PM
1:00 PM 1:05 PM
Paulo E.C. Dantas MD
J. Bronwyn Bateman MD
BREAK / CHANGE ROOMS
Moderators: Mauricio Maia MD, Peter Quiros MD, R.V. Paul
Chan MD, Alfredo Sadun MD PhD
Moderators: Paulo E.C. Dantas MD, Luis Izquierdo MD
MMed PhD, Jorge Valdez MD, J. Bronwyn Bateman MD
Rashi Arora MBBS MS MRCOphth
Jesus Cabral Macías MD
*Recipient 2015 Arno Habicht Award for Research
Sciences*
Multicolor imaging in Acute Macular Neuroretinopathy
Novel TACSTD2 gene Nonsense Mutation in a Family with Gelatinous
Drop-Like Corneal Dystrophy (GDLD)
1:05 PM 1:10 PM
1:10 PM 1:15 PM
1:15 PM 1:20 PM
1:20 PM 1:25 PM
1:25 PM 1:30 PM
1:30 PM 1:35 PM
1:35 PM 1:40 PM
1:40 PM 1:45 PM
1:45 PM 1:50 PM
Gustavo Alfredo Ortiz
David Islas MD
Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Reduced IL-6 mRNA Levels in Human
Microvascular Cells Exposed to a High Amount of Glucose
Angular structure-assessment in children with congenital glaucoma
and healthy controls using anterior segment optical coherence
tomography.
Catalina Hernández Sánchez PhD
Andrew Gordon Olivo-Payne MD
Proinsulin formulated in PLGA microspheres delays vision loss and
activates survival pathways in the rd10 mouse model of retinitis
pigmentosa.
Small Incision Lenticule Extraction Performed by Residents:
Experience and Safety
María Dolores Pinazo Duran MD
Adriana Margarita Caballero Acosta MD
Differential profiles of miRNAs, homocystein, vitamin B12/folate
levels and oxidative stress parameters in diabetic retinopathy
Comparison of the efficacy of 5% or 10% povidone-iodine (PVI)
irrigation in combination with moxifloxacin 0.5% as prophylaxis in
patients undergoing cataract surgery
Natalia Paulina Quiroz Casian MD
Rossen M. Hazarbassanov MD PhD
Genetic association of polymorphisms in the p53 and LTA genes with
proliferative vitreoretinopathy after retinal detachment surgery in
Mexican population
Use of topical immunomodulator in the treatment of patients with
aqueous deficient dry eye and evaporative dry eye
Mohammed Qutub BSc(Med) MBBS
Jaime D. Martinez MD
Pericyte loss in vitrectomy samples is a sensitive and specific marker
of diabetic retinopathy
Iridocorneal Angle in Neonates Interoperator and Intraoperator
Reliability using Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography
David Rivera De La Parra MD
Verónica Elisa Castillo Benítez MD
New Proposed Classification For Tomographic Posterior Vitreous
Detachment (PVD), And High Prevalence Of Type 3 PVD In Diabetic
Macular Edema Among Diabetic Patients.
Detection of virulence factors with multiplex PCR Technique of
Conjunctival Coagulase Negative-Staphylococcus (CNS) from patients
undergoing cataract surgery
Tânia Patrícia da Silva Borges MD
Jesús Lozano Cárdenas MD
Topographic distribution of ocular vascular lesions: a 20-year study
Gene expression pattern comparison between pterygium and adipose
cells
Sultan Aldrees MBBS
Denise Loya MD
Gonadotropin releasing hormone receptor is expressed in
retinoblastomas and a retinoblastoma cell line
Outcomes of Sclero-Corneal Keratoplasty in Severe Corneal
Perforations
Dhariana Acon Ramírez MD
Pamela Cepeda MD
Long-Term Visual and Anatomical Outcomes of Patients with Macular
Edema Secondary to Central Retinal Vein Occlusion Following
Intravitreal Bevacizumab: Real World Experience from a Developing
Country
Control of intraocular pressure after Ahmed valve implant in patients
with penetrating keratoplasty. A retrospective ten-year study.
1:50 PM 1:55 PM
Eddie Liu
Systematic review and meta-analysis on the efficacy of LipiFlow®
device in the treatment of Meibomian Gland Dysfunction
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Pan-American Research Day
Saturday, May 2, 2015
Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel,
(Plaza Building Concourse Level)
Governor’s Square 14
(Posterior Segment & PotPourri)
1:55 PM 2:00 PM
2:00 PM 2:05 PM
2:05 PM 2:10 PM
2:10 PM 2:15 PM
2:15 PM 2:20 PM
2:20 PM 2:25 PM
2:25 PM 2:30 PM
Governor’s Square 15
(Anterior Segment & PotPourri)
Rafael Bueno García MD
Lorena Lam-Franco
Screening of Diabetic Retinopathy: Our experience using telemedicine
method in Mexican Population
Evaluation of topographic indices in Hispanic patients with
Keratoconus and Keratoconus suspects
Gisela Barcat Angelelli MD
Javier Cabrerizo MD
Real-world visual acuity outcomes of ranibizumab treatment for
retinal vein occlusion (RVO) in a well-defined region of the United
Kingdom (UK).
Changes in lipidomic profile of aqueous humor in Fuchs endothelial
corneal dystrophy
Christina Mastromonaco BS
Alejandro Ibarra-Lozano MD
Diagnosing pathological prognostic factors in retinoblastoma:
correlation between traditional microscopy and digital slides
Clinical and Microbiological Characteristics of Infectious Keratitis in
Mexico
Antonio Ferreras MD PhD
Erick Hernández Bogantes MD
Changes in the macular ganglion cell complex thickness associated to
diseases of the vitreomacular interface
Minor Ipsilateral Simple Limbal Epithelial Transplantation (MiniSLET) for Pterygium Treatment
Alberto Miguel Hernández Pinto PhD
Judith Zavala Arcos PhD
PEDF-derived Peptides delay Photoreceptor Cell Death in two
Experimental Models of Retinitis Pigmentosa.
Inhibition of pterygium fibroblasts proliferation by Siempre viva plant
(Sedum dendroideum) extracts (presented by Pedro Ramos)
Rachel Bryant
Marcos Ivo Ferreira Ríos MD
Behavioural Validation of a Transgenic Mouse Modeling Specific
Impairment of Detailed Vision
Objective outcomes of AT LISA Tri IOL in Conde de Valenciana
Matias Iglicki MD
Pedro Mario González Madrigal MD
Are the dyes enough for a complete peeling of the ILM or ERM and to
distinguish the causes of the ERM ? : histopathological study.Up to
Date.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa Ocular Strains Resistant to Ceftazidime in
Northeast of Mexico
2:30 PM 2:35 PM
2:35 PM 2:40 PM
2:40 PM 2:45 PM
2:45 PM 2:50 PM
Brian Garrett BS
Correlation of retroillumination photography analysis and clinical
severity grading method in Fuchs Corneal Dystrophy
Lauren Gabra
COFFEE BREAK
Comparing toricity ratios across leading toric IOL manufacturers
Alejandro Eduardo Tamez Peña MD
Micro-Monovision LASIK as a treatment for presbyopia
Natalia Alpízar Alvarez MD
*Recipient 2015 Allergan Latin America Research Incentive
Awards in Retina*
Long-Term Visual and Anatomical Outcomes of Patients with CME
Secondary to BRVO Following Intravitreal Bevacizumab: Real World
Experience from a Developing Country.
2:50 PM 2:55 PM
2:55 PM 3:00 PM
3:00 PM 3:05 PM
Shireen Khattak
Melanin Distribution in Intact Human and Minipig Eyes Detected by
Photoacoustic Imaging
COFFEE BREAK
Jay Chhablani MD
Validity of an automated algorithm for Choroidal Volume
measurement
Salvador López Rubio MD
Non-mydriatic fundus photography vs. clinical ophthalmoscopy for
diabetic retinopathy in patients with early diabetes diagnosis
Mauricio Guzman
*Recipient 2015 Allergan Latin America Research Incentive
Awards in Cornea*
Tear film hyperosmolarity breaks down the ocular surface’s immune
tolerance: a role in initiating dry eye?
3:05 PM 3:10 PM
3:10 PM 3:15 PM
3:15 PM 3:20 PM
Luiza Manhezi Oliveira MD
Allister Gibbons Fell MD
Explanted Scleral Buckle, a retrospective study
Dry eye profiles in patients with a positive elevated surface matrix
metallopeptidase 9 point of care test versus negative patients
Damián Dorfman MD
Juan Pablo Fernández MD
Enriched environment protects from axoglial alterations of the optic
pathway induced by experimental diabetes in adult rats
Fuchs Syndrome: A cross sectional study in a tertiary university center
in Argentina
Aline Astorga MD
Jeremías Gastón Galletti MD PhD
*Recipient 2015 David & Juliana Pyott Foundation Travel
Award *
Chiasmal syndrome: clinical features in mexican patients, a 5 year
review
Corneal burn in one eye disrupts conjunctival immunological
tolerance of the fellow eye
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Pan-American Research Day
Saturday, May 2, 2015
Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel,
(Plaza Building Concourse Level)
Governor’s Square 14
(Posterior Segment & PotPourri)
3:20 PM 3:25 PM
Governor’s Square 15
(Anterior Segment & PotPourri)
Juliana Kato
Etiology and susceptibility pattern of isolates in endophthalmitis over
a 5-year period
Romina Mayra Lasagni Vitar MSc
*Recipient 2015 Arno Habicht Award for Research
Sciences*
Evaluation of redox status in human conjunctival epithelial cells
exposed to diesel exhaust particles (DEP)
3:25 PM 3:30 PM
3:30 PM 3:35 PM
3:35 PM 3:40 PM
3:40 PM 3:45 PM
Daniel Rangel O'Shea MD
Nallely Ramos Betancourt MD
Epidemiological characteristics of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome
in a mexican population
Correlation between Infrared Meibography and Ocular Surface
Disease signs and symptoms
Rosalva Yasha Bobadilla Maryoquin MD
Alexandra Arive Peña Velázquez MD
Clinical features of syphilitic uveitis in an ophthalmologic reference
center in Mexico City
Combined Therapy with Verteporfin and Ranibizumab for Corneal
Neovascularization
Cristhian A. Urzúa Salinas MD MSc
Juan Carlos Serna Ojeda MD
Expression kinetics of Glucocorticoid Receptor Isoforms Predicts
Treatment Response to Glucocorticoids in Uveitis patients
Herpes simplex virus disease of the anterior segment in children
Mariana Ingolotti MD
Ricardo Yuji Abe MD
*Recipient 2015 Arno Habicht Award for Research
Sciences*
Hypertension in uveitis: a case series study.
Detecting Functional Loss in Glaucoma with the Performance
Centered Portable Test (PERCEPT)
3:45 PM 3:50 PM
3:50 PM 3:55 PM
Beatriz Valadez Blanco MD
Maria V.C. Pereira da Silva MD PhD
Pediatric uveitis in a reference Centre in Mexico.
Detection of Human herpes virus 1 (HHV-1) in graft failure corneas:
a study of 24 cases using polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
Carlos Eduardo Estrada MD
Augusto Paranhos Jr. MD PhD
*Recipient 2015 Allergan Latin America Research Incentive
Awards in Glaucoma*
Triple therapy for Choroidal Hemangioma: Experience in an
Ophthalmology Institute of Mexico City.
Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell activity is associated
with decreased sleep quality in glaucoma patients
3:55 PM 4:00 PM
4:00 PM 4:05 PM
4:05 PM 4:10 PM
4:10 PM 4:15 PM
4:15 PM 4:20 PM
4:20 PM 4:25 PM
4:25 PM 4:30 PM
4:30 PM 4:35 PM
4:35 PM 4:40 PM
4:40 PM 4:45 PM
Patrick Logan MSc PhD
Sandra María Ferreira PhD
Evaluating the in vivo efficacy of a novel first in class drug for the
treatment of primary uveal melanoma
Changes in the antioxidant status of brain structures in a rat model of
glaucoma.
Dalia Consuelo Guadarrama Vallejo MD
María de los Angeles Ramos Cadena MD
Identification of RB1 gene germline mutations in Mexican patients
with sporadic unilateral retinoblastoma
Open-angle glaucoma Mexican patients treated with Canaloplasty:
first 6-month post-operative report from a 5-year follow-up.
Laura Andrea Torrado Cobian MD
Fauze Abdulmassih Gonçalves MD
Adenoma of the nonpigmented ciliary body and iris epithelium in
Mexican mestizo patients (presented by Juan Carlos Serna Ojeda)
Correlation and agreement between the diurnal tension curve, the
water-drinking test and the postural-change test in glaucoma patients
Nadine Marques
Olegario Iván Castro Vite MD
PAR-1 and Maspin expression in Retinoblastoma and their correlation
with histopathological prognostic features
Ocular complications of pediatric uveitis at a reference center in
Mexico city
Vasco Torres Fernandes Bravo Filho MD
Effects of ranibizumab and amfenac on the functional abilities of uveal
melanoma cells
Pablo J. Guzmán Salas MD
Surgical and visual outcomes in traumatic cataract following
phacoemulsification, in a mexican pediatric population.
Paulina Núñez Rivera MD
Erica De Abreu Borges MD
Thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy: Epidemiologic characteristics in
a reference institution in Mexico City.
Comparison of Daily Curve of Intraocular Pressure Using
Measurements at 6 am and at 8 am in Glaucoma
Alberto Carlos Abdala Figuerola MD
María Angelica Moussalli MD
Systemic and Immune Thyroid Status in Hispanic Patients with
Recently Diagnosed Thyroid Eye Disease at the Conde Valenciana
Institute of Ophthalmology – Mexico City. A 7 year review.
Evaluation of knowledge of patients with Glaucoma.Author Moussalli
María A Coauthor Montañez N,Tapia C, Echeverría B,Burchakchi A
Glaucoma Unit: Hospital Italiano de BsAs
César Miguel Portilla Espinosa MD
Richard Filek BMSc
Congenital Blepharoptosis: Clinical Characteristics and Surgical
Outcomes in Mexican Population
Visual Field Indices as the Primary outcome for New Glaucoma Drug
Testing: A Systematic Review
Oscar Francisco Chacón Camacho MD
Adrián Aldrete MD
Exome sequencing in Nasopalpebral-Lipoma-Coloboma Syndrome
identifies a pathogenic mutation in an imprinted locus
RETCAM 3 Calculated Cup/Disc Ratio of Preterm Newborn Optic
Nerves in a Mexican Population
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Pan-American Research Day
Saturday, May 2, 2015
Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel,
(Plaza Building Concourse Level)
Governor’s Square 14
(Posterior Segment & PotPourri)
4:45 PM 4:50 PM
4:50 PM 4:55 PM
4:55 PM 5:00 PM
5:00 PM -
Governor’s Square 15
(Anterior Segment & PotPourri)
Cristina Fonseca MD MSc
Sebastião Cronemberger MD PhD
A large series of blind painful eyes: potential causes and associated
histopathological features
Effects of age, gender, race, biometric parameters and refractive error
on retinal nerve fiber layer of acute primary angle closure and fellow
eyes
Mariana Flores MD
Matheus Iván Schmitz Vieira MD
Risk factors associated with nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic
neuropathy in young patients at a reference center in Mexico City
SECTION: Eye Movements/Strabismus/Amblyopia/Neuroophthalmology (EY)
Anterior Segment Evaluation in healthy Brazilian children with
Scheimpflug topography
Givago Da Silva Souza PhD
Valentina Franco Cardenas MD
Visual evoked cortical potential (VECP) elicited by
pseudoisochromatic stimuli
Decadelong Gender Presence in Editorials of Ophthalmic Literature
Move to Governor’s Square 14 for Keynote talk and
Awards Ceremony
BREAK / CHANGE ROOMS
5:10 PM 5:13 PM
Introduction of Keynote Speaker
5:13 PM 5:25 PM
Keynote talk: How a Giant Brazilian Pedigree Helped Solve 3 Great
Mysteries in LHON
5:25 PM 5:30 PM
PAOF
5:30 PM 6:00 PM
6:00 PM 8:00 PM
Peter A. Quiros MD
Alfredo A. Sadun MD PhD
Mark J. Mannis MD
Awards Ceremony
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Arno Habicht Awards for Research Sciences
... Romina Mayra Lasagni Vitar MSc
... Ricardo Yuji Abe MD
... Jesus Cabral Macías MD
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David & Juliana Pyott Foundation Travel Award
... Jeremías Gastón Galletti MD PhD
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Allergan Latin America Research Incentive Awards in Glaucoma
... Augusto Paranhos Jr. MD PhD
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Allergan Latin America Research Incentive Awards in Cornea
... Mauricio Guzman
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Allergan Latin America Research Incentive Awards in Retina
... Natalia Alpízar Alvarez MD
Cocktail Reception, sponsored by Allergan
Windows Room (Tower Building Second Level)
** Must be registered for PARD (with badge) to attend **
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