3rd World Keratoconus Congress WKC Italy 2026 | 16.04.26 Florence

3rd WORLD KERATOCONUS CONGRESS WKC ITALY 2026 FLORENCE

April 16-18

Palazzo dei Congressi- Firenze Fiera
Piazza Adua, 1, Florence (Italy)

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Presidents

Congress President: Cosimo Mazzotta MD, PhD (Italy)

Hosting President: Rita Mencucci MD, PhD (Italy)

Honorary President: Teresio Avitabile MD, PhD (Italy)

Faculty

Aiello Francesco, Rome (Italy)

Albertazzi Roberto, Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Alessio Giovanni, Bari (Italy)

Alfonso Sánchez José, Madrid (Spain)

Ali Asim, Toronto (Canada)

Alió Jorge, Alicante (Spain)

Al Raqqad Nancy, Amman (Jordan)

Alsaidi Rashid, Mascate (Oman)

Alsaidi Mahmood, Mascate (Oman)

Ambrosio jr Renato, Rio De Janeiro (Brasil)

Armia Ashraf, Cairo (Egypt)

Avitabile Teresio, Catania (Italy)

Awwad Shady, Beirut (Lebanon)

Baiocchi Stefano, Siena (Italy)

Balestrazzi Alessandra, Rome (Italy)

Balestrazzi Angelo, Grosseto (Italy)

Balidis Miltos, Salonicco (Greece)

Barbara Adel, Haifa (Israel)

Barbara Ramez, Haifa (Israel)

Battiato Ilenia, Catania (Italy)

Belin Michael, Arizona, Texas (USA)

Bolivar Juan, Granada (Spain)

Bona Giulia, Catania (Italy)

Borroni Davide, Varese (Italy)

Bovone Cristina, Forlì (Italy)

Buzzonetti Luca, Rome (Italy)

Cagini Carlo, Perugia (Italy)

Calossi Antonio, Florence (Italy)

Cappellani Francesco, Catania (Italy)

Chen Shihao, Wenzhou (China)

Civiero Gabriele, Turin (Italy)

Cochener Beatrice, Paris (France)

Conti Luigi, Salerno (Italy)

Coşkunseven Efekan, Istanbul (Turkey)

D’Esposito Fabiana, Enna (Italy)

De Vitto Vincenzo, Florence (Italy)

Di Maria Alessandra, Milan (Italy)

Di Zazzo Antonio, Rome (Italy)

Elmassry Ahmed, Alexandria (Egypt)

El Naggar Tarek, Cairo (Egypt)

Fantozzi Marco, Florence (Italy)

Fasciani Romina, Rome (Italy)

Ferrari Giulio, Milan (Italy)

Ferrise Marco, Lamezia Terme – CZ (Italy)

Figus Michele, Pisa (Italy)

Fogla Rajesh, Telangana (India)

Fontana Luigi, Boulogne (Italy)

Franch Antonella, Venice (Italy)

Franchini Alessandro, Florence (Italy)

Frisani Mauro, Turin (Italy)

Gabbriellini Giovanna, Pisa (Italy)

Gagliano Caterina, Enna (Italy)

Gatinel Damien, Paris (France)

Ghabra Marwan, London (UK)

Gheller Pietro, Imola (Italy)

Giannaccare Giuseppe, Cagliari (Italy)

Giansanti Fabrizio, Florence (Italy)

Giglio Rosa, Trieste (Italy)

Gordillo Carlos, Mendoza (Argentina)

Gualdi Luca, Rome (Italy)

Güell José Luis, Barcelona (Spain)

Gustafsson Ingemar, Lund (Sweden)

Hafezi Farhad, Zurich (Switzerland)

Hamada Samer, London (UK)

Herber Robert, Dresden (Germany)

Hosny Mohamed, Cairo (Egypt)

Hosny Rawanm, Cairo (Egypt)

Iovino Marco, Avellino (Italy)

Jacob Soosan, Chennai (India)

Kammoun Haikel, Tunis (Tunisia)

Katsoulos Konstantinos, Athens (Greece)

Khamar Pooja, Bangalore (India)

Kilic Aylin, Istanbul (Turkey)

Klyce Stephen D., New York (USA)

Koh Shizuka, Osaka (Japan)

Kymionis George, Athens (Greece)

Lafjdah Farida, Lyon (France)

Lazreg Sihem, Algiers (Algeria)

Legaria Hugo, Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Lisario Rinaldo, Brescia (Italy)

Liu Christopher, Brighton (UK)

Lombardo Marco, Rome (Italy)

Lorè Francesco, Rome (Italy)

Malandrini Alex, Siena (Italy)

Marino Antonio, Catania (Italy)

Martone Gianluca, Grosseto (Italy)

Mastropasqua Leonardo, Chieti-Pescara (Italy)

Mazzotta Cosimo, Enna-Siena (Italy)

Menabuoni Luca, Florence (Italy)

Mencucci Rita, Florence (Italy)

Mehta Jodhbir, Singapore (Singapore)

Montericcio Alberto, Trapani (Italy)

Moramarco Antonio, Bologna (Italy)

Mularoni Alessandro, San Marino (Italy)

Nanavaty Mayank, Brighton & Hove (UK)

Narang Priya, Ahmedabad (India)

Nubile Mario, Chieti-Pescara (Italy)

Orfeo Vincenzo, Naples (Italy)

Orione Carlo, Nizza Monferrato – AT (Italy)

Orione Matteo, Alessandria (Italy)

Pedrotti Emilio, Verona (Italy)

Pereira Gomes Jose Alvaro, São Paulo (Brasil)

Petrini Daniele, Rome (Italy)

Ponzin Diego, Mestre – VE (Italy)

Prisant Olivier, Paris (France)

Protti Romolo, Domodossola (Italy)

Randleman James Bradley, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)

Rechichi Miguel, Catanzaro (Italy)

Roberts Cynthia, Columbus (USA)

Rocha De Lossada Carlos, Malaga (Spain)

Romani Andrea, Arezzo (Italy)

Romano Vito, Brescia (Italy)

Rosa Nicola, Salerno (Italy)

Roszkowska Anna Maria, Messina (Italy)

Russo Andrea, Brescia (Italy)

Ruzza Alessandro, Mestre – VE (Italy)

Scorcia Vincenzo, Rome (Italy)

Scorsetti Daniel Horacio, Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Seitz Berthold, Homburg (Germany)

Shafik Mohamed, Alexandria (Egypt)

Sharma Namrata, New Delhi (India)

Shetty Rohit, Bengaluru (India)

Simonelli Francesca, Naples (Italy)

Sinjab Mazen, Dubai (UAE)

Soragni Paolo, Desenzano del Garda – BS (Italy)

Spadea Leopoldo, Rome (Italy)

Stanca Horia, Bucharest (Romania)

Tinti Alberto, Milan (Italy)

Tognetto Daniele, Trieste (Italy)

Tompkins Brian, Northampton (UK)

Torres Netto Emilio, Zurich (Switzerland)

Tosi Gian Marco, Siena (Italy)

Vigo Luca, Milan (Italy)

Vinciguerra Paolo, Milan (Italy)

Vinciguerra Riccardo, Milan (Italy)

Watson Stephanie, Sydney (Australia)

Zagari Marco, Catania (Italy)

Zagari Silvio, Catania (Italy)

Zaldivar Roger, Mendoza (Argentina)

Zilfyan Artashes, Yerevan (Armenia)

Zuccarini Silvio, Florence (Italy)

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Al Bayati Safwan, Dubai (UAE)

Apa Luigi, Boulogne (Italy)

Bair Henry, Philadelphia (USA)

Budhiraja Gunjan, New Delhi (India)

Calabresi Valerio, Cagliari (Italy)

Camellin Umberto, Rovigo (Italy)

Chen Shihao, Wenzhou (China)

Christodoulou Raimy, Zelarino (Italy)

Dinu Valentin, Bucharest (Romania)

D’Oria Francesco, Rome (Italy)

El Askary Manar, Alexandria (Egypt)

García-Albisua Ana Mercedes, Mexico City (Mexico)

Gheorghe Alina, Bucharest (Romania)

Herber Robert, Dresden (Germany)

Jünger Valentin, Rome (Italy)

Kapur Neha, New Delhi (India)

Lanza Michele, Naples (Italy)

Lombardo Marco, Rome (Italy)

Maru Shruti, Indore (India)

Pongo Vanessa, Piura (Peru)

Severinsky Boris, Atlanta (USA)

Shah Zaman, Peshawar (Pakistan)

3rd Italian EVO ICL Expert Meeting – STAAR Surgical

Florence – Palazzo dei Congressi 17 April 2026 | 09:00-12:00

Meeting Objective

The meeting is aimed at experienced ICL users seeking to share insights and optimize outcomes.
The meeting facilitates elite discussions among leading Italian and international experts on new frontiers in lens-based refractive surgery, offering practical, evidence-based decision-making models backed by real-world outcomes, clinical studies, and scientific innovation.

Faculty

R. Zaldivar, P. Alfonso, L. Mastropasqua, A. Russo, S. Zuccarini, A. Mularoni, L. Conti, R. Vinciguerra, A. Leccisotti, D. Gatinel, G. Savini

Agenda