PAST ANNUAL MEETINGS
The Academy began holding annual meetings in 1922. To view the Academy's past meetings dates and locations, please select the following.
Past Annual Meetings (1922-2010)
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Past International Meetings (1992-2004)
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Past meeting and program themes.
2010
Plenary: Today's Research, Tomorrow's Practice: Policy, Advocacy and Science in Women's Health
Hirsch Memorial Research Symposium: Ocular Genetics: From Laboratory to Clinical Practice and Back Again
2009
Plenary: Today's Research, Tomorrow's Practice: Longterm Deprivation and Perception
Hirsch Memorial Research Symposium: Teaching the Brain New Tricks
2008
Plenary: Today's Research, Tomorrow's Practice: How Does the Future Affect Today?
Hirsch Memorial Research Symposium: The Bionic Eye: Posterior Segment New Therapies
2007
Plenary: Impact of an Aging Population on Eye Care
Hirsch Memorial Research Symposium: The Bionic Eye: Implants for the Anterior Eye
2006
Plenary: Challenges and Opportunities in Providing a Lifetime of Eye Care to the Underserved
Hirsch Memorial Symposium: Age-related Macular Degeneration: the Future
2005
Theme: Today's Research, Tomorrow's Practice®: Rx for the Future
Plenary: Prescriptions for the Future
Hirsch Memorial Symposium: Hyperopia: A Prescription for Children's Vision Research
2004
Theme: Today's Research, Tomorrow's Practice®: Technology's Impact on Standards of Care
Plenary: Human Genome Project, Neurobiology, Genomics
Hirsch Memorial Symposium: Genetics of Ocular Disease
2003
Theme: The Future in Sight: Today's Research, Tomorrow's Practice®
Plenary: Information on Neurons, Glaucoma Treatment
Hirsch Memorial Symposium: Macular Degeneration: Science Impacting Sight
2002
Theme: Caring for Patients with Diabetes
Plenary: The Diabetes Epidemic
Hirsch Memorial Symposium: New Horizons in Detecting and Treating Diabetic Retinopathy- the Modern Paradigm of Applying Clinical and Basic Research to Prevent Blindness
2001
Theme: Preventable Vision Loss
Plenary: WHO, NEI representatives, joint with WCO
Hirsch Memorial Symposium: Myopia: Putting Theory into Practice
2000
Theme: Focus on Ethics
Plenary: Health Ethics in Action: From the Doctor-Patient Relationship to the New Global "Human Rights and Health" Agenda
Hirsch Memorial Symposium: Wavefront Sensing and Ideal Refractive Corrections: Breaking the 20/15 Barrier
FUTURE ANNUAL MEETINGS
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