Meeting Archives

View and download the AAO 2023 Meeting Program (PDF 2MB), a streamlined programs-by-day.

The Annual Meeting Program Committee is responsible for the scientific program including instruction courses, symposia and the Spotlight on Cataracts session. View a list of committee member financial disclosures.

Past Meetings

• Presenter financial disclosures for AAO 2021 (PDF 416KB)

• Presenter financial disclosures for AAO 2020 (PDF 480KB)

• Presenter financial disclosures for AAO 2019 (PDF 461KB)

• Presenter financial disclosures for AAO 2018 (PDF 454KB)

Awards presented at AAO 2023.

Laureate Recognition Award

H. Dunbar Hoskins Jr., MD

Guests of Honor

Philip R. Rizzuto, MD
Michael W. Brennan, MD
Cynthia A. Bradford, MD

Distinguished Service Award

Flora Lum, MD

Special Recognition Award

Indian Health Service-Joslin Vision Network Teleophthalmology Program

Outstanding Humanitarian Service Award

Chandak Ghosh, MD, MPH, FAAO
Baxter F. McLendon, MD, FACS

Outstanding Advocate Award

Kurt F. Heitman, MD

International Blindness Prevention Award

No award was issued for 2023.

Straatsma Award for Excellence in Resident Education

Fasika Woreta, MD

Find information about past Named Lectures, including lecturers and lecture titles, that took place during the Academy's annual meeting and Subspecialty Day.

Online versions of the syllabi from all 2023 Subspecialty Day meetings are available to view and download:

• Cornea Subspecialty Day 2023 (PDF 2.3MB)

• Glaucoma Subspecialty Day 2023 (PDF 1.5MB)

• Neuro-Ophthalmology Subspecialty Day 2023 (PDF 2MB)

• Ocular Oncology and Pathology Subspecialty Day 2023 (PDF 2MB)

• Oculofacial Plastic Surgery Subspecialty Day 2023 (PDF 2MB)

• Refractive Surgery Subspecialty Day 2023 (PDF 3.4MB)

• Retina Subspecialty Day 2023 (PDF 7MB)

The Academy does not mail out syllabi from past Subspecialty Day meetings.

Original Paper sessions focus on a specific topic. Paper presentations are followed by a panel discussion. At the end of each session, the panel selects the best paper.

Search for scientific posters in the online archive.

Search for surgical videos in the online archive.

The following videos were selected in 2023 as Best of Show.

• V01 Intrascleral Fixation of In-the-Bag Subluxated IOLs: Pearls and Pitfalls
  Author(s): Robin K Kuriakose, MD; Surendra Basti MBBS

• V11 Endothelial Ersatz
  Author(s): Lional Raj Daniel Raj Ponniah, MD

• V24 GATT Do's and Don'ts!
  Author(s): Kristell Mariana Hernandez, MD; Julio Martinez Martinez Almada, MD

• V33 Two Heads Are Better Than One: A Single-Incision Composite Levator-Müller Frontalis Advancement for Correction of Severe Congenital Ptosis
  Author(s): Joyeeta Das, MBBS, MS; Nibedita Das, MBBS; Samar K Basak MD FRCS MBBS

• V40 Five-Point Star Technique for Silicone Oil Retention Sutures in a Unicameral Eye
  Author(s): Christina Y Weng, MD, MBA

• V41 Amnion Membrane Transplantation: An Impossible Case
  Author(s): Sengul C Ozdek MD; Ece Ozdemir

View AAO 2023 exhibitors. Search by company name, product categories, medical specialties, common equipment terms and basic ophthalmic conditions.