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The Indonesia Hospital Expo is an International Hospital, Medical, Pharmaceutical, Clinical, Laboratories Equipment and Medicine Exhibition. The event will provide the best opportunity for medical equipment players to introduce their products and innovations besides exchange of experiences and ideas leading to widened and profit oriented investment.

It is our immense pleasure to welcome you to all the 73^rd Annual Congress of Japan Clinical Ophthalmology at the National Kyoto International Conference Center and the Grand Prince Hotel Kyoto from October 24^th to 27^th, 2019.

It is great honor for me and Dr Kiyoshi Komai, the Vice-President of the annual congress, to host the largest ophthalmology conference in Japan. First of all, we would like to express our sincere appreciation to the executive committee members of Japanese Ophthalmological Society who allowed us to host this congress. Secondly, we would like to express our gratitude to Professor Toshiki Murata who is the Chair of the program committee and last but not least, we would like to thank the program committee members who are working on hard with Prof Murata to create this wonderful and interesting program.

The theme of the congress is "Progress and Breakthrough". There has been a steady progress in the last 120 years of the Japanese Ophthalmological Society. There is also remarkable technological innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI), which is impacting the research and medical in Ophthalmology as well.

I'd like to introduce Professor Naoyuki Maeda at Osaka University and Professor Shuichi Yamamoto, Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology at Chiba University will give plenary Lectures. I'd also like to extend special welcome to two great invited speakers from United State; Professor Paul A Sieving from National Institute of Health and National Eye Institute and Professor Peter Campochiaro from the Johns Hopkins University. We are looking forward to hearing the wonderful lectures by Japanese great researchers and world giant researchers.

It goes without saying that learning the latest knowledge from original papers and the symposia is important. Updating knowledge through instruction courses and sponsored seminars and testing the latest equipment at the exhibition are just as important. It may not always easy to acquire the latest research and medical information, but I hope that the congress will help you.

The National Kyoto International Conference Center is one of the largest convention centers in Japan, but was not enough large for the Annual Congress of Japan Clinical Ophthalmology, due to the increase in number of participants. Fortunately, a new exhibition hall was established recently and we will use this exhibition hall for the first time in Ophthalmology conference which allows us more exhibition.

Lastly, Kyoto is the old capital of Japan where you could enjoy historical sites, both modern and traditional cultures cuisine. We are sure that you and your families enjoy the stay in Kyoto. We sincerely look forward to your active participation.

President: Masahito Ohji, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor and Chairman, Shiga University of Medical Science

The Bali International Ophthalmology Review (BIOR) is an international event for Ophthalmologists providing rich Scientific Sessions and Workshops from a renowned Ophthalmologist faculty as well as distinguished special guest speakers from outside the profession. Since its successful launch in 2008, BIOR has established itself for quality, excellence, and professionalism.

The Canadian Ophthalmological Society’s Annual Meeting and Exhibition is the premier event for Canada’s ophthalmological community. Attracting over 1,600 attendees annually, you will see a return on your investment by choosing to spend your advertising, marketing and exhibition dollars at this event.COS brings together hundreds of ophthalmologists, residents and fellows in ophthalmology training programs, medical students, researchers, basic scientists, registered ophthalmic nurses, family physicians, and allied health professionals to share ideas and advance their knowledge to improve patient care. Collaborating with more than 12 national affi liate societies, each representing a specifi c ophthalmological subspecialty, the COS Annual Meeting and Exhibition presents a unique opportunity for hands-on learning, academic excellence, innovative thinking, and new perspectives on cutting-edge surgical innovations and leadership.Sponsoring the COS Annual Meeting and exhibiting alongside other industry partners will raise the visibilityof your company and position you for success.The COS is committed to developing global partnerships to improve eye and vision care. COS is looking forward to working with you to deliver another world-class ophthalmology meeting.

by Mona Harissi-Dagher, MD, FRCSC Chair, COS Annual Meeting Planning Committee

On behalf of Organizing Committee of “In-Depth Meeting 2020”, it is indeed my honour and privilege to welcome you all, to this prestigious ” the 1^st In-Depth Meeting 2020” to be held on 18-19 April 2020 at the Borobudur hotel, Jakarta.

In-Depth, INASCRS Development Program for Ophthalmologists, is one of the INASCRS programs in disseminating knowledge specifically basic skills in the fields of Cornea, Cataract, and Refractive Surgery through comprehensive didactic courses platform. In-Depth meeting aims to encourage especially young and existing Ophthalmologists to learn and become an expert in one of these sectors of Cornea, Cataracts, and Refractive Surgery. In this meeting INASCRS is collaborating with INACORS (Indonesian Cornea Society).

Despite significant scientific advances in Cornea, Cataract and Refractive Surgery over last few decades, the knowledge to practice gap still exists due to most of teaching hospitals in our country don’t have dedicated programs to teach them lengthily. The theme of the meeting “Enhancing Clinical Competence” could contribute towards addressing this knowledge to practice gap. A distinguished panel of national and international experts would be sharing their expertise and clinical practice perspectives during this meeting, which would be applicable in your clinical practice. I also believe that, meeting with your friends and sharing of your own clinical practice perspectives with them, would further make this meeting rich in its content, with a win-win situation for all.

So register now, and see you at the 1^st In-Depth Meeting 2020!

Chairperson,

VISION 2020: The Right to Sight was launched in 1999. It sought to promote: “A world in which nobody is needlessly visually impaired, where those with unavoidable vision loss can achieve their full potential.” The Global Initiative was set up to:  Intensify and accelerate prevention of blindness activities so as to achieve the goal of eliminating avoidable blindness by 2020.” It sought to do this by: “Focussing initially on certain diseases which are the main causes of blindness and for which proven cost effective interventions are available.”The 2 major causes of avoidable blindness and vision loss in most of countries including indonesia are refractive error and cataract, which about 80% of them can be avoided.

We are aproaching the mark for the VISION 2020 global initiative. This is a good time to take stock of what we have achieved and what still needs to be done. Although the prevalence of blindness is decreasing in some countries that have adopted VISION 2020 strategies. But much more needs to be done if we are to achieve our overall objective and we have some cause for optimism.

Perdami Lampung is an opthalmologist association in Lampung province. Although the organization is still very young, but along with its vision and mission, Perdami Lampung has never stopped to educate about eye health. The theme carried this year is “Vision 2020: achievement and challenges” as one of the concrete steps to reduce the number of blindness and visual impairment in the community, a Sumatera Ophthalmology Meeting 2020 (SOM 2020) continuing medical education was  reated. An Ophthalmologist has a responsibility to manage eye health problems. Continuing medical education, in this case, is the best way to improve professionalism.

Join us in Lampung for The 14^th Sumatera Ophthalmology Meeting 2020!