General Information
- Date
- November 7 (Saturday) 13:00 – November 8 (Sunday) 16:00, 2026 (Scheduled)
- Venue
- Otemachi Mitsui Hall
3F, Mitsui & Co. Building, Otemachi One, 1-2-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0004, Japan
https://otemachi-hall.jp/access.html - Course Format
- Onsite and ondemand streaming
※Simultaneous interpretation available - Registration Fee
- Onsite JPY12,000 Online JPY3,000
- Organizer
- Alcon Japan Ltd.
Registration
Pre-registration is required for the Advanced Vitreous Surgery Course.
Please note that the registration fee differs between onsite and online participation.
Payment must be made by credit card. Please be sure to complete the payment when registering online.
The information required to view the live and on-demand streaming will be sent to those who have completed payment of the registration fee.
Please download your receipt and certificate of participation during the registration period. (They will be available from "My page" after you complete your payment by credit card.)
Registration period：Friday, May 15 - Friday, November 6
Those who plan to view only the on-demand streaming after the course must also register by Friday, November 6.
Both onsite and online participants will be able to view the on-demand streaming later.
Organizing Committee
※In Japanese syllabary order, titles omitted.
Makoto Inoue（Kyorin University）
Kazuaki Kadonosono（Yokohama City University）
Motohiro Kamei（Aichi Medical University）
Program Committee
※In Japanese syllabary order, titles omitted.
Keijiro Ishikawa（Kyushu University）
Ayumi Ouchi（Juntendo University Urayasu Hospital）
Takashi Koto（Kyorin University）
Hirokazu Sakaguchi（Hiroshima University）
Kiyoshi Suzuma（Kagawa University）
Yuki Morizane（Okayama University）
Invited Speakers from Overseas
Under construction
Invited Speakers from Japan
Under construction
Program
Under construction
History of Advanced Vitreous Surgery Course
This course was held for the first time in 1975 in which the late Professor Mizuo Matsui invited
the late Professor Machemer, and is the longest-standing vitreous surgery course in Japan.
World-leading vitreous surgery experts are invited to the course every few years.
| No. | Year | Date | Venue | Special Lecture |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ☆ | 1975 | Held at Japan Clinical Ophthalmology (President: Dr. Ken Kato) |
Robert Machemer | |
| 1 | 1978 | May 27 – May 28 | Hotel Okura Tokyo | Robert Machemer |
| 2 | 1979 | Oct 12 – Oct 14 | Marunouchi Hotel | Robert Machemer, Maurice Landers |
| 3 | 1982 | Oct 10 – Oct 12 | Duke Advanced Course | Robert Machemer |
| 4 | 1982 | Dec 3 – | Kyoto International Conference Center | Robert Machemer |
| 5 | 1983 | Feb 5 – Feb 6 | Japan Municipal Research Center | Henry F. Edelhauser, Tom Aaberg |
| 6 | 1983 | Dec 3 – Dec 4 | Nantes, France | Phillie Sourdille, G. Eisner, Klaua Heimann, August Deutman |
| 7 | 1984 | Nov 29 – | Kyoto Hotel | J. Federmann |
| 8 | 1985 | May 25 – | Akasaka Prince Hotel | August Deutman |
| 9 | 1986 | Feb 15 – | Japan Municipal Research Center | J. Federmann |
| 10 | 1986 | Sep 22 – Sep 23 | Japan Mariners' Club | Ron Michel, Tom Aaberg, Henry F. Edelhauser, JM. Parel |
| 11 | 1987 | Oct 31 – Nov 1 | Shinjuku Sumitomo Hall | Phillie Sourdille, Klaua Heimann |
| 12 | 1990 | Feb 25 – | Osaka Obayashi Building | G.Abrams |
| 13 | 1993 | Nov | Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo | Klaua Heimann, PC Ho |
| 14 | 1995 | Sep 22 – Sep 23 | Surugadai Nihon University Hospital | Brooks W. McCuen II, Hilel Lewis |
| 15 | 1997 | Sep 20 – Sep 22 | Yebisu Garden Place The Garden Hall |
Stanley Chang, Brooks W. McCuen II, Michael T. Trese |
| 16 | 1999 | Sep 25 – Sep 26 | Miyako Hotel | Arturo A. Alezzandrini, Jr., Susanne Binder, Mark S. Blumenkranz, Henry F. Edelhauser, Alain Gaudric, Bernd Kirchhof, Gregg T. Kokame, Hilel Lewis, William F. Mieler, Hugo Quiroz-Mercado |
| 17 | 2001 | Oct 5 – Oct 6 | Yebisu Garden Place The Garden Hall |
Carl C. Claes, Borja F. Corcostegui, Kirk H. Packo |
| 18 | 2003 | Oct 3 – Oct 4 | Yebisu Garden Place The Garden Hall |
Antonio Capone, Jr., Peter K. Kaiser, E. Mitchel Opremcak, Paul E. Tornambe |
| 19 | 2005 | Sep 23 – Sep 24 | Tokyo Conference Center | Periklis Brazitikos, Andrew Chang, Stanley Chang, Wilson J. Heriot, Allen C. Ho, Hugo Quiroz-Mercado |
| 20 | 2007 | Sep 22 – Sep 23 | Yebisu Garden Place The Garden Hall |
Robert L. Avery, Jose Garcia-Arumi, Kirk H. Packo, George A. Williams |
| 21 | 2009 | Sep 25 – Sep 26 | Yebisu Garden Place The Garden Hall |
David S. Boyer, Dean Eliott, Gregg T. Kokame |
| 22 | 2011 | Sep 10 – Sep 11 | Sheraton Miyako Hotel Tokyo | Pravin U. Dugel, Robert L. Avery, Daniel F. Martin |
| 23 | 2013 | Sep 28 – Sep 29 | Sheraton Miyako Hotel Tokyo | Allen C. Ho, Carlos Mateo, Paul E. Tornambe |
| 24 | 2015 | Oct 3 – Oct 4 | Toranomon Hills Forum | Dean Eliott, Tarek S. Hassan, Marco Mura |
| 25 | 2017 | Sep 23 – Sep 24 | Toranomon Hills Forum | R.V. Paul Chan, Ehab N EL Rayes, Tamer H. Mahmoud, Carl D. Regillo, David H W Steel, Ramin Tadayoni |
| 26 | 2019 | Sep 21 – Sep 22 | Toranomon Hills Forum | Maria H. Berrocal, Tarek S. Hassan, André Maia, Manish Nagpal, Barbara Parolini, Kourous A. Rezaei, |
| 27 | 2022 | Oct 30 | Held Online | Maria H. Berrocal, Philip J. Ferrone, I-Van Ho, Noem Lois, Carsten H. Meyer, Wei-Chi Wu, Yoshihiro Yonekawa |
| 28 | 2024 | Oct 12 – Oct 13 | AP Nihonbashi (Held in a hybrid format) |
Tamaso Caporssi, Alan Franklin, Shu Yen Lee, Manish Nagpal, Mario Romano, Alessandra Scampoli, Lejla Vajzovic, Christina Weng, Yoshihiro Yonekawa |
Organizer
Alcon Japan Ltd.