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Agenda · 2026
Where the field is actually moving
The 2026 session grid is still being built around the themes below. Until it publishes, the fastest way to see how this meeting runs is the full 2025 program, kept below as an archive.
2026 Themes
What the program is built around
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Uveal melanoma adjuvant and neoadjuvant therapeutics
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New FDA approvals
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Intraocular lymphoma
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Radiation and black-box toxicities
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Retinoblastoma
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Advanced diagnostics
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Clinical trials
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Access to care
Program in development
The session-by-session 2026 schedule has not been published yet. Times, speakers and panels will be added here once the committee finalizes them.
Abstract presentations for 2026 fall on Saturday, November 14. Accepted authors take the podium that day. Read the abstract guidelines →
The Archive
November 14–15, 2025 program
This is the archived 2025 program, kept here for reference. It is not the 2026 schedule. Times below are Pacific.
Friday, November 14, 2025
12:00 PM Registration and Exhibits
1:00 PM Welcome Remarks · Prithvi Mruthyunjaya, MD, MHS
Session 1 · New “Insights” Into Ocular Imaging
Moderators: Thomas M. Aaberg, MD and Prithvi Mruthyunjaya, MD, MHS
Virtual visits in ocular oncology: The new era
Carol L. Shields, MD
“Imaging-only” surveillance for low-risk melanocytic lesions
Scott Walter, MD, MSc
A photoscreening pathway for choroidal nevus surveillance
Lauren A. Dalvin, MD
Impact of delayed referrals and the potential for improved outcomes with AI-assisted recommendations from fundus photos
Ezekiel Weis, MD, MPH
Panel Discussion
Previous session faculty and Zelia Maria Correa, MD, PhD
Integrated ophthalmic ultrasound: Enhancing usability and diagnostic utility
Michael J. Heiferman, MD
Ultrawide-field OCT in ocular oncology
Alison Skalet, MD, PhD, FACS
Polarization-diversity optical coherence tomography (PD-OCT) analysis and multimodal imaging of peripapillary melanocytomas
Zaid Mammo, MD, FRCSC
Panel Discussion
Previous session faculty and Zelia Maria Correa, MD, PhD
Uveal melanoma: What we know and what’s ahead
Carol L. Shields, MD
Session 2 · Ocular Surface and Adnexal Diseases
Moderators: Brian Peter Marr, MD and Maura Di Nicola, MD
Targeted next-generation sequencing-based molecular profiling of ocular sebaceous carcinoma
Hakan Demirci, MD
Characterizing Elahere-associated ocular toxicities
Filippos Vingopoulos, MD, PhD
Beyond the challenge: Innovation in managing ocular surface neoplasia in Brazil
Priscilla Ballalai Bordon, MD
Panel Discussion
Session 2 faculty
Break and Exhibits
Session 3 · Liquid Biopsy
Moderators: Lauren A. Dalvin, MD and Dan S. Gombos, MD, FACS
Aqueous humor liquid biopsy in uveal melanoma: A systematic review
Lauren Ong, BA
Meso-environment tissue culture model validation
Vinit B. Mahajan, MD, PhD
Circulating hybrid cells in uveal melanoma
Alison Skalet, MD, PhD, FACS
Reprogramming the immune response in uveal melanoma
J. William Harbour, MD
Panel Discussion
Session 3 faculty
The future of liquid biopsy
Ash A. Alizadeh, MD, PhD
Day 1 Concludes
Evening Program
Buses to Paul Brest West Hall
Reception
Presentation and Dinner
Buses return to hotel
Saturday, November 15, 2025
7:00 AM Breakfast, Registration and Exhibits
8:00 AM Welcome · Prithvi Mruthyunjaya, MD, MHS
Session 4 · Uveal Melanoma in Transition and Translation
Moderators: Scott Walter, MD, MSc and Devron Char, MD
In vitro and in vivo models for uveal melanoma
Lauren A. Dalvin, MD
Safety of needle biopsy of subfoveal and juxtapapillary choroidal lesions
Ezekiel Weis, MD, MPH
Development of a synthetic eye model for uveal melanoma biopsy training in ocular oncology
Maura Di Nicola, MD
Panel Discussion
Previous session faculty
NCCN: Its role in past and future care of uveal melanoma
Miguel A. Materin, MD
Uveal melanoma: Need for optimization of surveillance protocols
Arun Singh, MD
Panel Discussion
Previous session faculty
Updated indications of photodynamic therapy in ocular tumors
Brian Peter Marr, MD
Gamma knife and proton beam therapy: Indications, outcomes, controversies
Maria Pefkianaki, MD, MPH, PhD
Comparative outcomes of large uveal melanomas treated with brachytherapy using 75 versus 85 Gy
Zelia Maria Correa, MD, PhD
Panel Discussion
Previous session faculty
Session 5 · Advanced Uveal Melanoma
Moderators: Pauline Funchain, MD and J. William Harbour, MD
Efficacy and safety of anzutresgene autoleucel (anzu-cel, IMA203), a PRAME-directed T-cell receptor (TCR) T-cell therapy, in patients with previously treated advanced or metastatic uveal melanoma from a Ph 1 trial
Pauline Funchain, MD
Evidence based update on advanced disease
Sunil Arani Reddy, MD
What to do with all the tools: A strategic approach to patients with uveal melanoma
Marlana Orloff Dacey, MD
Darovasertib in primary uveal melanoma: Early evidence of tumor shrinkage, eye-sparing, and vision preservation
David A. Reichstein, MD
Immune related adverse reactions (irAE): Lessons from systemic side effects
Pauline Funchain, MD
Panel Discussion
Session 5 faculty and Dan S. Gombos, MD, FACS
Break and Exhibits
Sponsor Presentations
Session 6 · Retinoblastoma
Moderators: Jesse Berry, MD and Raya Saab, MD
The potential unknown long term sequelae for IAC and Ivit injections in Rb
Dan S. Gombos, MD, FACS
Suprachoroidal delivery of chemotherapy in retinoblastoma: What is the preclinical evidence
Arun Singh, MD
LBSeq4Kids: Clinical implementation of an aqueous humor liquid biopsy platform for retinoblastoma and simulating lesions
Jesse Lee Berry, MD
Panel Discussion
Session 6 faculty
Lunch and Exhibits
The ALRN-6924 story
Matthew W. Wilson, MD, FACS
Session 7 · Lymphoma
Moderators: Arun Singh, MD and Maria Pefkianaki, MD, MSc, MPH, PhD, FEBO
Updates on molecular diagnosis of vitreoretinal lymphoma
Maura Di Nicola, MD
Ocular toxicities of CAR-T therapy
Tara Murty
CAR-T therapy and lymphoma
David Miklos, MD, PhD
Panel Discussion
Session 7 faculty
Session 8 · Uveal Melanoma Genetics
Moderators: Hakan Demirci, MD and Miguel A. Materin, MD
New insights into the genetic evolution of uveal melanoma
J. William Harbour, MD
Multimodal deep learning for classification of uveal melanoma
Michael J. Heiferman, MD
Open source and bespoke models of uveal melanoma prognostication
Chase A. Ludwig, MD, MSc
Panel Discussion
All session faculty
Update on next-generation sequencing for uveal melanoma (long-term data)
Armin Afshar, MD, MBA
GPS-guided management of clinically indeterminate lesions: Biopsy first, then decide whether to treat or observe
Scott Walter, MD, MSc
Changes in GEP in observed indeterminate lesions
Ezekiel Weis, MD, MPH
Early detection of small, Class 2 choroidal melanomas using diagnostic FNAB
Zelia Maria Correa, MD, PhD
Panel Discussion
All session faculty
Break and Exhibits
Session 9 · Case Presentation
Moderators: Prithvi Mruthyunjaya, MD, MHS and Ezekiel Weis, MD, MPH
Atypical choroidal melanoma
Vikas Khetan, MD
A very mysterious case
Brian Peter Marr, MD
Cyberknife stereotactic radiosurgery for nonresectable iris melanomas
Murat Tunc, MD
Beyond the vitreous
Purna Nangia
What lurks in the dark: A rare presentation of conjunctival melanoma in a young immunocompetent patient
Nida Safdar, MD
Retinoblastoma beyond initial remission: Highlighting the role of ongoing surveillance
Reem Alahmadi, MD
Bilateral panuveitis manifestation of myelodysplastic neoplasms associated autoinflammatory syndrome
Tina Tang, MD
Multiple melanomas in a single eye: BAP1, seeding, or just good luck?
Evandro Lucena, MD
Ocular Oncology