The Floretina ICOOR meeting begins in Florence, Italy

This year, 64 countries will be represented at the meeting by over 300 speakers. FLOR Image credit: ©H-AB Photography – stock.adobe.com

This weekend, a retina meeting will bring some of the newest medical technology to a centuries-old fortress. From 5 – 8 December, the Floretina meeting and International Congress on OCT Angiography, En Face OCT and Advances in OCT (ICOOR) will be held in Florence, Italy. The combined Floretina and ICOOR meetings will encompass a robust programme of scientific topics and valuable surgical education, including live surgery sessions, topical lectures and new research presentations. This year, 64 countries will be represented at the meeting by over 300 speakers and 2,900 attendees, according to the Floretina website.¹

This year’s meeting will be held at Fortezza da Basso in Florence. The venue, constructed in the 1530s under the order of Alessandro de’ Medici, has two exhibition pavilions. Historic aspects of the fortress, such as an armoury and an underground structure, provide unique flair and will be memorable for first-time visitors to Florence and those who have spent more time in the city.

The Bruno Lumbroso Lecture on Saturday, 7 December will honour the contributions Professor Lumbroso made to the field of ocular imaging. This year’s Bruno Lumbroso Lecture Award recipient is Amani Fawzi, MD, who is the Cyrus Tang and Lee Jampol professor of Ophthalmology at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The lecture committee is chaired by Quan Dong Nguyen. Additional sessions throughout the weekend include several lectures and panels on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in retinal surgery, conferences on unique cases in retina care, symposia on new therapeutics in development and surgical courses for all career stages.

As in previous years, retina specialists who submitted interesting OCT images may see their contributions as part of the "image gallery" on a monitor in the exhibit hall. These images will be available for viewing on floretina.com for two months after the congress. Judges will select a winning case from the images submitted to receive a prize at the end of the congress.

The meetings' leadership includes organizer and chair Stanislao Rizzo, MD, chair of the ophthalmology unit at Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS in Rome; co-chair Francesco Faraldi, MD, head of the ophthalmology department at AO Ordine Mauriziano in Torino; and scientific secretariat Daniela Bacherini, MD, PhD, FEBO, assistant professor at the University of Florence.

The full programme can be viewed on the Floretina webpage, or downloaded in PDF format for easy access. A conference app is also available for download for quick reference.

Reference

1. FLORetina ICOOR 2024: 12th International Congress on OCT and OCT Angiography. FLORetina. Accessed December 2024. https://floretina.com/floretinaicoormeeting2024