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2015 OMIG Meeting Agenda

Ocular Microbiology and Immunology Group
49th Annual Meeting
Friday, November 13, 2015
Caesars Palace

Moderators:
Irmgard Behlau, MD and Anat Galor, MD

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6:45 a.m. Registration
7:30 a.m. Introduction by Moderators
7:35 a.m.

2014 Harry Hirsch Leiter Award Recipient: R.A. Eiferman
Put The Preservative In The Bottle, Not In The Eye!

7:43 a.m.

1. Epidemiology of Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus: Recurrence and Chronicity
Kimberly D. Tran, MD

7:50 a.m.

2. Development of Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus after Herpes Zoster Vaccination
Shruti Aggarwal, MD

7:57 a.m. 3. Effect of Corneal Scar Location in Patients with Herpes Simplex Keratitis on Bilateral Corneal Nerve Alteration: An In Vivo Confocal Microscopy Study
Chareenun Chirapapaisan, MD
8:04 a.m.

4. Is Benzalkonium Chloride (BAK) Effective against Adenovirus?
Eric Romanowski

8:11 a.m. 5. Epstein-Barr Virus-Associated Scleritis Responsive to Valganciclovir: A Case Report
Robert Garoon, MD
8:18 a.m. 6. Staphylococcus Caprae Polymicrobial Keratitis
David J. Harris, III, MD
8:25 a.m. 7. Molecular Epidemiology of Ocular Staphylococcus aureus Infections
Paulo J. M. Bispo, PhD
8:32 a.m. 8. Staphylococcus aureus Keratitis: Multi-Locus Sequence Typing and Genome Sequencing to Identify Lineage, Virulence and Antibiotic Resistance Genes
Irmgard Behlau, MD
8:39 a.m. 9. Microbial Keratitis at an Urban Public Hospital: A 10-year update
David T. Truong, MD
8:46 a.m. 10. Ocular Pathogens and Antibiotic Sensitivity of Bacterial Keratitis Isolates at King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Saudi Arabia - 2011-2014
Donald U. Stone, MD
8:53 a.m. 11. Organ culture model for microbial keratitis in ex vivo rabbit and human corneas
Prashant Garg, MD
9:00 a.m. 12. Corneal Endothelial Safety in Far Ultraviolet Light (222 nm) Antimicrobial Ophthalmic Care
J. James Rowsey, MD
9:07 a.m. 13. Photodynamic Therapy-Potential as Alternative/Adjunctive Therapy for MRSA Keratitis?
Darlene Miller, DHSc,MPH,CIC
9:14 a.m. 14. Intracameral Cross-Linked Hyaluronic Acid Plus Vancomycin—Sustained Release and the First Step Towards Effective Dropless Eye Surgery
Richard A. Eiferman, MD
9:21 a.m BREAK
9:36 a.m. 15. Diffusion of Moxifloxacin across Corneal Collagen Shields
Kimberly Brothers, PhD
9:43 a.m. 16. The Role of Scleral Debridement in Infectious Scleritis
Laura A. Vickers, MD
9:50 a.m. 17. Changing Azole Susceptibility in the Mycotic Ulcer Treatment Trial I
N. Venkatesh Prajna, MD
9:57 a.m. 18. The effect of light exposure on the efficacy and safety of Amphotericin B in
Optisol-GS corneal storage media

Katherine Duncan
10:04 a.m. 19. Fungal endophthalmitis after Descemet Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty due to endogenously infected grafts from the same donor
Sotiria Palioura, MD
10:11 a.m. 20. Candida interface infections among a cluster of positive fungal corneoscleral rim cultures used in Descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty
Edmund Tsui, MD
10:18 a.m. 21. Fungal Keratitis and Endophthalmitis after using Gamma-Irradiated Corneas as Carriers for Boston Type I Keratoprosthesis
Mansi D. Talati, MD
10:25 a.m. 22. Hypochlorous Acid: A Candidate Prophylactic Antifungal Agent for Boston
Keratoprosthesis Patients

Silvia Odorcic, MD
10:32 a.m. 23. Initiation of systemic anti-neoplastic agents contributing to corneal transplant rejection?
A case series

Ashley Rohr, MD
10:39 a.m. 24. Pure 0.01% Hypochlorous Acid Cleanser without Sodium Hypochlorite Impurities for Treating Demodex Blepharitis
Kathryn Najafi-Tagol, MD
10:46 a.m.

25. Dry Eye Profiles in Patients with a Positive Elevated Surface Matrix Metallopeptidase 9 Point of Care Test versus Negative Patients
Victoria S. Chang, MD

10:53 a.m. 26. Features of neuropathic ocular pain in dry eye are associated with chronic comorbid pain syndromes (CPS)
Hatim Batawi, MD
11:00 a.m. 27. Low-dose topical preservative-free Dexamethasone 0.01% and 0.05% for treatment of chronic ocular surface disease unresponsive to commercially available steroids, antibiotics, and
anti-allergy agents

Adnan Mallick, MD
11:07 a.m. 28. Reduced Efficacy of Low-dose Topical Steroids in Dry Eye Disease Associated with Ocular GVHD
Ahmad Kheirkhah, MD
11:20 a.m. Thygeson Lecture: New Insights Into the Pathogenesis of Fungal Keratitis
Eric Pearlman, PhD
Professor
Department of Ophthalmology and Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Director, Institute for Immunology University of California, Irvine
12:05 p.m. Closing Comments and Awards
12:15 p.m.

Business Luncheon - Genoa Room

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