Preliminary Meeting Schedule
This schedule is current as of April 2, 2025. Please check back for updates.
Friday, April 25, 2025
6:00 PM-8:30 pm: Reception/ Drinks & Appetizers
Hyatt Regency Hotel, 13200 East 14th Place, Aurora; room Aurora 3-4
6 pm: Presentation on the History of CU Medical School and CU Ophthalmology
Saturday, April 26, 2025
7:00 AM -4:20 PM: Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Institute, Third Floor Auditorium
7:00 AM -8:25 AM: Breakfast / Registration -at Auditorium
8:25 AM: Welcome –Robert Enzenauer, MD, Christopher Blodi, MD
All presentations include a five minute discussion period except where marked with an asterisk
Session 1
8:30 AM -10:15 AM Moderator: Chris Blodi
8:30 AM -8:50 AM
Curtis Margo and Lynn E. Harman:
The Intriguing Blindness of Maria Paradis and the Instructive Potential of Medical Biography
8:50 AM -9:10 AM
Jennifer Arch:
Sight and Insight in Boethius’s “Consolation of Philosophy”
9:10 AM -9:25 AM
Norman Medow:
From Papyrus to Parchment, From Paper to the Printing Press: The Evolution of Books and Some Ophthalmic History They Have Preserved*
9:25 AM -9:40 AM
Jace Jo:
Books to Bacilli -The Legacy of Dr. John E. Weeks*
9:40 AM -9:45 AM
Discussion of the two previous papers
9:45 AM -10:05 AM
Isaias Torres and Robert W. Enzenauer:
Admiral Lewis H. Seaton, MD: An Ophthalmologist’s Journey to Surgeon General
10:05 AM:-10:20 AM
Kenneth Hovland:
Historical Ophthalmic Exhibits at the University of Colorado
10:20 AM -10:50 AM
Break
Session 2 Snyder Lecture
10:50 AM -10:55 AM
Pam Sieving:
Introduction of the Charles Snyder Lecture
10:55 AM -11:45 AM
Alice “Wendy” Gasch:
Gratuitous Eye Color Modification: An Overview
11:45 AM -11:50 AM
Group Photo
11:50 AM -1:15 PM
Lunch
~ 12:20 pm: Optional guided tour of the Eisenhower VIP Suite at Building 500 on Old Fitzsimons
Session 3
1:15 PM -2:25 PM
Moderator: Christopher Leffler
1:15 PM -1:35 PM
Robert Feibel:
Sir William Bowman’s Contributions to the Operation of Needling of Posterior Capsular Opacity
1:35 PM -1:55 PM
John Bullock:
Hassal and Henle –Their Corneal Bodies and Other Scientific Contributions
1:55 PM -2:10 PM
Margaret Greer and Alice “Wendy” Gasch:
A Brief History of the Eye Exam: Vision, Intraocular Pressure, Visualization of the Eye*
2:10 PM -2:20 PM
George O’Hara and Alice “Wendy” Gasch:
The Slit Lamp Instrument: An Historical Overview*
2:20 PM -2:25 PM
Discussion of the two previous papers
2:25 PM -2:50 PM
Break
Session 4
2:50 PM -4:20 PM
Moderator: John Bullock
2:50 PM -3:10 PM
Michael Marmor:
Antisemitism in Ophthalmology and Art
3:10 PM -3:30 PM
Mark Mannis:
The “Well”: A Brief Review of the Eye in Jewish Literature and Lore –Myth, Metaphor, and Medicine
3:30 PM -3:45 PM
David Melanson and Stefano Cena:
A Global Perspective on Ophthalmic History: The Narrative of Onchocerciasis
3:45 PM -4:05 PM
Eric Wan, Arslon Humayun, Quinn Lysek and Alice “Wendy” Gasch:
History of Space Exploration and Ophthalmology: Co-evolution of the Two Fields from the 1950s to 2010s
4:05 PM -4: 20
Leah Doro:
Happy Accidents in Ophthalmology
4:20 PM
Recess
6:30 PM -8:30 PM
Banquet
Cedar Creek Pub, 2100 North Ursula
7:00 PM: Presentation on the history of Fitzsimons General Hospital and Fitzsimons Ophthalmology
Sunday, April 27, 2025
7:00 AM – 12:10 PM: Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Institute, Third Floor Auditorium
7:00 AM -8:15 AM: Breakfast / Registration -at Auditorium
8:15 AM -8:25 AM
Business Meeting (COHS members only)
8:25 AM -8:30 AM
COHS 2026 Richmond, VA (All registrants)
Session 5
8:30 AM -9:40 AM
Moderator: Alice “Wendy” Gasch
8:30 AM -8:50 AM
Christopher Leffler:
Casanova’s Truths: Tadini’s Monocular Cataract Extraction, and Cassamata’s Introacular Lens in 1790s
8:50 AM -9:10 AM
Robert Maloney:
Harold Ridley, Stewart Duke-Elder and Survivor Bias in the History of the Invention of the IOL
9:10 AM -9:30 AM
Christine Xu:
A Change in Perspective: Stereopsis, Sightreading, and Cataract Surgery
9:30 AM -9:45 AM
Aba Quainoo, Hojin Han, Robert Enzenauer and Alan Beitler:
Ophthalmologist, Flight Surgeon, Five-year Prisoner of War: The Recollections of a True Survivor, Hal Kushner
9:45 AM -10:05 AM
Edward De Sutter:
Jules Gonin 1934 His opus magnum le décollement de la rétine
10: 05 AM -10:25 AM
Break
Session 6
10:25 AM -12: 15 PM
Moderator: Curtis Margo
10:25 AM -10:45 AM
Barbara Arnold:
Retinal Hemorrhages in Battered Babies
10:45 AM -11:00 AM
Mark Greenwald:
Dr. Martin Urist and the Version Light Reflex Test
11:00 AM -11:15 AM
Taylor Miller, Robert W. Enzenauer and Craig A. McKeown:
Dartmouth Eye Institute Led by Non-Ophthalmologist Adlebert Ames, Jr
11:15 AM -11: 35 AM
Mary Claire Schleck, Robert Enzenauer and Grace Ambrose-Zaken:
Revisiting the Role of the White Cane for Congenitally Blind Children
11:35 AM -11:55 AM
Alison Hong:
The Origins of the Double Eyelid Blepharoplasty
11:55 AM -12:10 PM
Christopher Blodi:
Aces and Eights: How Wild Bill Hickock’s Vision Loss Led to the “Dead Man’s Hand”
12:10 PM
Adjourn
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