Zermatt Winter Meeting Manifest
Independent international organisation committed to improving the state of glaucoma by engaging academics, clinicians and researchers to share recent knowledge and data trying to improve understanding and management of the disease.
Principals:
- Independent, objective, unbiased, transparent
- One yearly meeting
- Altruistic
- Mandatory disclosure of outside interests
Location: Zermatt
Participation: Mandatory attendance at least once every two years. Otherwise excluded.
Organizing committee: Gordana Sunaric Mégevand, Tony Hommer, Luca Rossetti
Goals:
- To determine the current status and future goals in glaucoma diagnostic and therapies
- To construct, create and work in future direction
- To developing directions for evidence based practice and researching glaucoma
- To set a strategic plan for glaucoma clinical care and research
- To concretize ideas of these discussions into white papers (ways to run trials, ways to collect data, identify unmet needs)
Structure
By invitation only, fixed number of participants
Organizers elect a scientific committee deciding on the program content
The next Zermatt Winter Meeting will explore current novellities in basic research related to the diagnosis of glaucoma, discuss difficult clinical cases and explore the role of functional and structional measurements as well as new therapeutic modalities.