Scientific Program – Day 1

12th September 2026 | DAY - 1

Time Title Faculty
08:00 am Free Paper Presentations Judges: Dr Indu Sen
Dr Shyam Charan Meena,
Dr Rasesh Diwan
Basic Session
Moderators: Dr Karthikeyan Venkatachalam, Dr Dilip Shende, Dr Renuka Sridevi, Dr Smita Mahajan
09:00 am Prime Patients Health: Optimizing Systemic Status before Eye surgery Dr Arun Muthukumar
09:15 am Monitors and Anaesthesia Equipment’s for an Ophthalmic OT: Must Have, Better to Have, Luxury to Have! Dr Mayur Joshi
09:30 am Know about Newer and Safer Local Anaesthetic agents in Ophthalmic anaesthesia Dr Uma Maskeri
09:45 am Intraocular Pressure: “Perfect Pressure Before Perfect Cut” Dr Choro Athiphoro K
10:00 am Beyond the Orbit: Systemic complications from Ophthalmic blocks Dr Mritunjay Kumar
10:15 am Audience Takeover
10:30 am Tea Break
10:45 am Panel Discussion: Clarifying Medicolegal Challenges in Patients Undergoing Eye Surgery Moderator: Dr Parakh SC, Dr Jaichandran V V
Panelists: Dr Gopinath Shenoy, Dr Nishikant Borse, Dr Venkat Raja Hadigal
Intermediate Session
Moderators: Dr Renu Sinha, Dr Neeru Sahni, Dr Preeti Nanda
11:15 am Elderly patients for Ophthalmic blocks: Anaesthetic Implications Dr Veena Borse
11:30 am Safety Protocols and Emergency preparedness in Standalone Ophthalmic set up Dr Geeta Sonone
11:45 am Post-operative vision loss following Ophthalmic and Non-ophthalmic surgery Dr Mohammad Luqman
12:00 pm Risk Management strategies for a High Reliability Ophthalmic Anaesthesia Practice Dr Suman Shree R
12:15 pm Audience Power-Up
12:30 pm 5th Annual AIOA ORATION
“Awake Eyes, Beating Hearts”: Bridging Perspectives in Ophthalmic and Cardiac Anaesthesia		 Dr Multan Mal Sharma
01:00 pm 6th AGBM AIOA
01:30 pm Lunch Break
Paediatric Session
Moderators: Dr Indu Sen, Dr Suman Shree R, Dr Reena Gautam
02:30 pm Requirements for Paediatric Ophthalmic theatre Set-up Dr Chaitra Kalakrishnan
02:45 pm Syndromes: Going Beyond the tip of the iceberg Dr Smita Mahajan
03:00 pm Ophthalmic examination under anaesthesia: How to reduce time and OT Pollution? Dr Renu Sinha
03:15 pm Management of Perioperative Events in Paediatric eye surgery Dr Sujata Rawlani
03:30 pm Role of TIVA and TCI in Paediatric Ophthalmic Surgery Dr Ridhima Sharma
03:45 pm Audience Connect
04:00 pm Tea break
General Session
Moderators: Dr Ravichandar, Dr Rajeev Chauhan, Dr Shubangi Kerkar, Dr Ankur Luthra
04:15 pm Breaking Bad News Compassionately Dr Vishnu Narayanan
04:30 pm Ethical use of AI in writing a paper Dr Neeru Sahni
04:45 pm Role of USG for Ophthalmic blocks Dr Arshad Ayub
05:00 pm Audience Voiceover
05:15 pm – 06:00 pm Inauguration
07:00 pm onwards Gala Dinner

Scientific Program – Day 2

13th September 2026 | DAY - 2

Time Title Faculty
08:00 am Free Paper Presentation Judges : Dr Indu Sen, Dr Shyam Charan Meena, Dr Rasesh Diwan
09:00 am Panel Discussion : Multidisciplinary Skyview on Ophthalmic Anaesthesia Moderator : Dr Tanvir Samra, Dr Veena Borse
Panelists : Dr Ganeshkumar, Dr Lotika Purohit, Dr Ryan Dsouza, Dr Olvyna Dsouza
General Session
Moderators: Dr Sameer Sethi, Dr Pradnya Sriram, Dr Anjali Nair
09:30 am Preferred practice pattern of Ophthalmic Anaesthesia in India in Private Clinic, Institution and Government set-up: A Whistle Blower!! Dr Jaichandran V V
09:45 am Hyaluronidase: Is it a necessary evil? Dr Shalini Subramanian
10:00 am When the Going gets Tough (Difficult Airway), the Tough gets Going Dr Deepa S. Chitnis
10:15 am Frailty scoring – Identifying the high risk eye surgery patient Dr Smita Khare
10:30 am Audience Edition
10:45 am Tea Break
Super-specialty Session
Moderators: Dr Vikas Saini, Dr Rasesh Diwan, Dr Mayur Joshi
11:00 am Anaesthetic considerations in Ocular Trauma cases Dr Bhavna Gupta
11:15 am An interesting case of severe OCR during squint surgery under LA Dr Pradyna Sriram
11:30 am Silent Shield: Anaesthetic Strategies for Ocular Plaque Brachytherapy Dr Anil Kumar Bura
11:45 am Anaesthesia considerations in Corneal transplantation surgeries Dr Reena Gautam
12:00 pm Thyroid orbital decompression: Anaesthetic Implications Dr Manjula Ramsali
12:15 pm Anaesthesia for Vitreoretinal surgery Dr Preeti Nanda
12:30 pm Audience Edition
12:45 pm Valedictory Function & Vote of Thanks
01:00 pm Lunch and Disperse