WAEH Board meeting
Tuesday 19 February 2019

• Note about Sirithorn Rutnin – update

• Update programme and social programme 
  5 – 8 June – Moorfields London / 9 June – travel day
  Compared to previous years, we are also organizing a
  fundraising workshop on Wednesday morning June 5 –
  delegates can register via the registration form – maximum of 40 delegates.
• What about signing a MOU with the IAPB / WHO / Vision2020?
  Maybe about fireworks?
• Need for information: Visit the event website:
  https://www.waeh.org/en/waeh-2019/welcome
• Deadline Call for Abstracts (Call for Abstracts: open now).
  The board is requested to send in the abstracts from their team. To inspire all of you:
  these abstracts are sent in via our 2019-host Moorfields
• The Call for Registration has also been published (Call for Registrations: open now).
  Please note the difference this year: the payment system has been implemented
  and delegates have to immediately pay the fee after registration. All full
  members receive two codes for free attendance, and associate members one.
• Sponsoring: sponsor packages document. 
  • Allergan confirmed
  • Deepmind confirmed
  • Ongoing: Theapharma / MVZ has also contacted a long list of
    possible sponsors
  • Any updates from the board? The board will review the sponsor
    packagesand see to which companies they connect MVZ to invite to
    sponsor the13th annual meeting.

Agenda & Documents for review:

• Welcome
• Review Annual Report 2018
• Annual Financial Report 2018
• Activity Plan 2019 – 2020
• Budget & Fee Scheme 2019 – 2020
  • Budget & Fee Scheme 2019 – 2020
  • Budget 2019 – 2020 
• Outcomes Board Election Process & New Chair
• Review Project Proposals
• Minutes for Approval 2018 (Member Meeting 2018)
• Wrap up

1. Shortlist of outcomes measures
   – Update about project – King Khaled will lead the project, Sweden / Moorfields / Rotterdam will be members of the project – update by Maaike

2.a  Education – Subtopic: enucleation of the eye
– Update project plan Melbourne – update by Mark

2.b  Education – Subtopic: Know your drops
– Update – Knowledge Hub has been updated – update by Maaike

3. Tech – innovations connected to safety 
   – No received proposals yet
   
   

Proposed project by Melbourne: Keratoconus International Consortium (KIC).  

Currently a team of ophthalmologists at the Eye and Ear have setup a Keratoconus International Consortium (KIC). Essentially this a group of
hospitals who are sharing information via a de-identified database. Data collected includes: demographic data, risk factors, clinical data
and quality of life. The plan is to then investigate the data to:

1. Identify clinical, phenotypic as well as other risk factors that contribute to keratoconus disease causation,
   progression and response to treatment
2. To develop a revised classification system to promote a clearer understanding of keratoconus
3. Review the economic burden of keratoconus and the impact on quality of life of the patients
4. Identify trends in treatment success and failure (eg. graft rejection, CXL success)

The significance of this project is that the establishment of the KIC will be a first in
keratoconus and will have profound implications for the study and a subsequent paradigm shift in treatment of keratoconus.

Currently the project is in the early stage with database just recently established. The group
are keen to recruit more hospitals and one of the team members is looking for funding so
she can spend a day a week on initial analysis of data.

Project proposal

• Board composition (document)
• Nominating committee – Mark, Charity, David, Wim and Maaike – update about call.

India – application – verbal update by Maaike

• Application
• Highlights
• Brief History

a. Board meeting minutes December 2018
b. Decisions and action points

• Update – MVZ and WO have reviewed potential meetings in the year to promote the WAEH in the year more proactively
  • Possibility: Extra board meeting during AAO – 12 – 15 October 2019 – location: San Francisco – we
    can organize the extra board meeting together with our full member in SF – Rick Seefeldt is current
    also the chair of the AAEECE – the WAEH is welcome to visit his eye hospital
  • Possibility: extra board meeting connected to the meeting of the Singularity University – 4 – 7 November
    – San Diego – spoken about by the board in Dubai: https://exponential.singularityu.org/medicine/
    
    Exponential Medicine is a unique and intensive four-day experience that gathers world-class faculty,
    innovators and organizations from across the biomedical and technology spectrum to explore and
    leverage the convergence of fast moving technologies in the reinvention of health and medicine.

• Update- MVZ has sent out a Doodle for the 2019 – meetings on request
• Update about insurance by Maaike van Zuilen
• WAEH – Inclusion of Chapter Membership – Update by Dato Kula