Dr Srinivas K Rao Key Participant In The World Ophthalmology Congress, Hong Kong, June 2008
List of Chairs of Scientific Sessions (External Eye Disease, Cornea & Eye Bank)
(in alphabetical order)
| # | Type | Topic | Co-Sponsoring Society | Chairs |
| 1 | Symposium | Allergic Eye Disease & Corneal Imaging | CORNEA Society | Michael Belin Ricky W.K. Law Tero Nishida |
| 2 | Symposium | Dry Eye Disease and Progressive Cicatricising conjunctivitis | Shigeru Kinoshita Michael Lemp C.C. Wong | |
| 3 | Symposium | Infectious Keratitis | Oman Ophthalmic Society | Eduardo Alfonso Abdulatif Al Raisi Xuguang Sun |
| 4 | Symposium | Keratoconus and Corneal Dystrophies | MEACO | Alaa El-Danasoury John Gottsch Chi-Yuen Shiu |
| 5 | Symposium | Keratoprosthesis | James V Aquavella Nai-man Lam Donald Tan | |
| 6 | Symposium | Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty | Asia Cornea Society | Vincenzo Sarnicola Donald Tan Yu-Feng Yao |
| 7 | Symposium | Endothelial Keratoplasty | Rajesh Fogla Srinivas K. Rao Mark Terry | |
| 8 | Symposium | Management of High Risk Corneal Grafts and Current Trends in Eye Banking | Samar Basak Walter Stark Lixin Xie | |
| 9 | Symposium | Ocular Surface Reconstruction | Harminder Dua Zu-guo Liu Kohji Nishida | |
| 10 | Panel | New Emerging Forms of Infectious Keratitis | Alfred T.S. Leung Terrence P. O’Brien Donald Tan | |
| 11 | Panel | Controversies in Immunosuppression for High Risk Keratoplasty and Ocular Surface Transplantation | Stanley Chung-Chai Chi Rajesh Fogla Christopher Liu | |
| 12 | Panel | End-stage Ocular Surface Disease – Stem Cell Transplantation or Keratoprosthesis | Günther Grabner Shigeru Kinoshita Srinivas K. Rao | |
| 13 | Panel | Eye Banking Challenges in Developed and Developing Countries | Aashish K Bansal Herbert Kaufman Angus K.K. Wong | |
| 14 | Panel | The Future of Femtosecond Lasers in Corneal Surgery | Dimitri Azar Thomas Kohnen Walton Li | |
| 15 | Panel | Recalcitrant Allergic Eye Disease and other Unexplained Corneal Conditions | Philip TH Lam Christopher J. Rapuano Virender S Sangwan | |
| 16 | Workshop | Lamellar Corneal Surgery | Srinivas K. Rao Shigeto Shimmura Mark Terry | |
| 17 | Workshop | Pterygium Management | Srinivas K. Rao Avi Solomon Alvin Young | |
| 18 | Workshop | Combined Surgery in Keratoplasty | Joaquín Barraquer Samar Basak Gordon Chau | |
| 19 | Workshop | Corneal Imaging | David Huang C.K. Leung Charles McChee | |
| 20 | Workshop | Amniotic Membrane Transplantation | JJ Gicquel Friedrich E. Kruse W. K. Wu | |
| 21 | Workshop | Limbal Grafts | Lulu Lu Cheng Harminder Dua Samuel C. Yiu |