2025 Annual Meeting Package

The EBAA 2025 Annual Meeting is available on-demand. This package features select sessions from the 2025 Annual Meeting and includes over 20 hours of content. Check out all that this package has to offer!

NOTE: You may purchase this on-demand package in advance, but you will only receive access to the recordings in July after the Annual Meeting ends. However, the MAB Meeting will be broadcasted live from San Diego. If you purchase this package in advance, you will be able to view the broadcast live on June 27.

This package includes:

• Opening General Session
  • A Legacy of Life: Honoring My Father’s Gift of Donation
  • Keynote: The Power of Recognition in Eye Banking
• DPCR Workshop: Cultivating Relationships with Donor Families 
• Transforming Resistance to Change
• Thursday General Session
  • OPOs and Eye Banks Navigating the Future of Transplantation
  • Honoring One of Our Own: Turning Tragic Loss into a Lasting Legacy
• Activating Your Board and Medical Directors into Eye Bank Ambassadors
• On the Case: Investigating Infectious Adverse Reactions
• Technical Skills Workshop
• Accreditation Board Meeting – Public Portion
• Friday General Session
  • Understanding and Identifying Sepsis
  • Visionary Solutions: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Eye Banking
  • 2025 Eye Donation Month Announcement
  • The State of the Association
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI): Going Back to the Basics
• Medical Advisory Board Meeting
• Scientific Symposium
  • Invited Session: Novel Surgical and Cell Therapy Interventions for Endothelial Disease
  • Scientific Abstracts
• Medical Directors Symposium

View the "CEU Information" tab for important information about earning credits.

Thank you to Aurion Biotech for sponsoring the 2025 Annual Meeting package!

Access

eyeLEARN Package Purchase Instructions 

To purchase the package on eyeLEARN, log into eyeLEARN with your EBAA credentials, click the 'register' button, and checkout. Once the package is purchased, visit the event page, and access the sessions via the contents tab.

Package Prices:

Member: $400   Non-Member: $800

2025 Annual Meeting In-Person Attendees If you attended the EBAA 2025 Annual Meeting in San Diego, you receive complimentary access to this package. To access the meeting, log into eyeLEARN using your EBAA credentials, visit the event page, and access the sessions via the contents tab. If you don't know your password, select the 'forgot password' link. If you still have issues, contact Herocia Hawkins.

IMPORTANT: DO NOT complete the session evaluation for sessions you attended in person, as you have already earned CEUs for attending those sessions.

Medical Directors Medical Directors may view the MAB Meeting and Medical Directors Symposium for accreditation purposes. Once you view the session and complete the evaluation, the certificate will be available. Please download the certificate as proof of attendance. 

CEUs

The 2025 Annual Meeting package on eyeLEARN has been approved for up to 20.25 CEUs. Details for earning and tracking CEUs are listed below.

2025 Annual Meeting In-Person Attendees 

 If you attended the EBAA 2025 Annual Meeting in San Diego, you have complimentary access to all of the sessions available in this package. You may only earn CEUs for sessions you did not attend in person; attendees may only earn CEUs for a session once.

IMPORTANT: DO NOT complete the session evaluation if you already completed the session evaluation for that session in the meeting app, as you have already earned CEUs for attending in-person. If you aren't sure if you already earned CEUs for a specific session, log into the Member's Portal, and click "View My Credit History" under the "Certification/CEU" menu tab. If you did not already earn CEUs for a session, view the session on eyeLEARN, complete the session evaluation, and the CEUs will populate on your member profile. Contact  Herocia Hawkins with any questions.

2025 Annual Meeting eyeLEARN Attendees 

 To earn CEUs, view the session on eyeLEARN, complete the session evaluation, and the CEUs will populate on your member profile. To view your CEUs, please log into the Member's Portal, and click "View My Credit History" under the "Certification/CEU" menu tab. To view credits earned on eyeLEARN, click "View my eyeLEARN Credits."

Opening General Session

Opening Remarks
Kevin Corcoran, CAE, EBAA

A Legacy of Life: Honoring My Father’s Gift of Donation
Monique Pascucci, Donor Family Member

Keynote: The Power of Recognition in Eye Banking
Karen Andrews, The Andrews Group

CEU: 1

Donor, Partner & Community Relations Workshop

Cultivating Relationships with Donor Families

Annie Kuhl, Saving Sight
Esther Baker, MA, MBA, Iowa Lions Eye Bank
Rebecca Grossman, Lions World Vision Institute
Wesley Thompson, CEBT, Advancing Sight Network

CEU: 1.5

Transforming Resistance to Change

Parish Jefferson, MA, MS, UCSD Extended Studies
Supported by UCSD Extended Studies 

CEU: 1

Thursday General Session

Chair's Address
Jim Quirk, CEBT, AltruVision

Honoring One of Our Own: Turning Tragic Loss into a Lasting Legacy
Chuck Pivoney, CEBT, The Eye Bank of Kentucky
Tina Mays, CEBT, Cincinnati Eye Bank

OPOs and Eye Banks Navigating the Future of Transplantation
Megan Young, San Diego Eye Bank
Jeffrey Trageser, LifeSharing

FDA Regulatory Update: Reading the Tea Leaves
Jennifer DeMatteo, MCM, CIC

CEU: 1.25

Activating Your Board and Medical Directors into Eye Bank Ambassadors

Tony Bavuso, CEBT, Saving Sight
Elizabeth Fout, Beauty of Sight
Pat Martchink, Saving Sight
Michael Tramber, MBA, CEBT, CTBS, Miracles In Sight

CEU: 1

On the Case: Investigating Infectious Adverse Reactions

Katrina Capuzzo, CEBT, Lions World Vision Institute
Elizabeth Ellett, MSHA, MT(ASCP), CQA(ASQ), ACHE, Advancing Sight Network
Melissa Williams, CEBT, AltruVision

CEU: 1

Technical Skills Workshop

Moderator: Ingrid Schunder, MBA, CEBT, CTBS, Miracles In Sight

Guardians of Sterility: Aseptic Technique for Difficult Recoveries
Patrick Becker, CEBT, Lions Gift of Sight
Monica Freiburger, CEBT, Iowa Lions Eye Bank
Ann Kent, CEBT, Georgia Eye Bank

Illuminating the Gift –Pen Light Exams
Chris Conwell, CEBT, CQIA (ASQ), Sierra Donor Services Eye Bank
Paul Graves, CEBT, CTBS, Advancing Sight Network Dana Owens, CEBT, Eversight

Advances in Corneal Tissue Processing
Nick Hicks, CEBT, Eversight

You Want Us to Do What!? Surgeon Feedback & Requests
David Moore, CEBT, Lions World Vision Institute

Research Requests and Research Tissue Uses
Panhia Yang, Lions Gift of Sight

Maximizing the Donor Pool for Research: Extending the Post-Mortem Interval for the Retina
Khoa Tran, PhD, VisionGift

Donor Eligibility Case Studies
Ingrid Schunder, MBA, CEBT, Miracles In Sight
Andrea Crosson, CEBT, Lions World Vision Institute

Innovation Spotlights

• Spinning Success: Vitreous Centrifuging PDSA 2.0
  Dana Owens, CEBT, Eversight

• Breaking Out the Scissors- An Unconventional Orientation Mark
  Paul Graves, CEBT, CTBS, Advancing Sight Network

• Endo-In DMEK- Wait, how do you fold the tissue?
  Chelsea Green, CEBT, Iowa Lions Eye Bank

CEUs: 2.25

Accreditation Board Meeting (Public Portion)

The public portion of the meeting was recorded and is available to attendees. 

CEUs: .5

Friday General Session

Eye Donation Month 2025
Colleen Bayus, EBAA
Christine Lichti, Cornea Recipient
Jennifer Li, MD, Sierra Donor Services Eye Bank

Understanding and Identifying Sepsis
Beverly Forsyth, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Visionary Solutions: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Eye Banking
Beth Ann Benetz, MA, CRA, Case Western Reserve University
Matt Battey, MSCS, Mid-America Transplant

CEUs: 1.75

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI): Going Back to the Basics

Michael Tramber, MBA, CEBT, CTBS, Miracles In Sight
Ieesha Johnson, MS, Association for Multicultural Affairs

CEUs: 1

Medical Advisory Board Meeting

CEUs: 2.25

Scientific Symposium 

Invited Session: An Update on Endothelial Cell Therapy in the United States
Speaker: W. Barry Lee, MD, FACS, Eye Consultants of Atlanta

Scientific Abstract Presentations:

Ocular Surface Reconstruction with Keratolimbal Allograft for Severe or Recurrent Symblepharon
Novel Technique to Thin Oral Mucous Membrane Grafts for Ocular Surface Reconstruction to Achieve Texture Mimicking Conjunctiva
Role of Sex and Extracellular Matrix Modification on Migration Rate of Fuchs Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy Cells in Descemet’s Stripping Only
Evaluating the Role of Rho Kinase Inhibitors in Glaucoma Patients with Underlying Cornea Transplantation
Efficacy of α-MSH in Accelerating Corneal Endothelial Regeneration Following Descemet’s Stripping Only
Comparison of Orientation Markings on Endothelial Keratoplasty Grafts Over 72 Hours
Comparing the Characteristics and Feasibility of Donor DMEK Tissue Under Age 50: A Retrospective Review
Screening and Preventing Textural Interface Opacities in DSAEK Corneal Transplants
Comparison of Corneal Storage Solutions for the Preservation of DSAEK Grafts
How Different are Donor Corneas from Diabetics versus Non-Diabetics?
Diabetes Endothelial Keratoplasty Study (DEKS): Donor and Donor Lenticule Prep Findings
Evaluation of Area of Cell Damage Assessment in the DEKS-ACD Ancillary Study
Eyes with Severe to Total Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency can Present Clusters of Limbal Epithelial Cells Evaluated by In vivo Confocal Microscopy

CEUs: 3.25

Medical Directors Symposium

Moderator: M. Soledad Cortina, MD, Eversight

Infectious Diseases: A Primer for Medical Directors
Beverly Forsyth, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Adverse Events- Reporting, Investigations and Case Studies
Elmer Tu, MD, Eversight
Winston Chamberlain, MD, PhD, VisionGift
Sean Edelstein, MD, Mid-America Transplant
Zeba Syed, MD, Wills Eye Institute

Accreditation Board Update
Amy Lin, MD, Utah Lions Eye Bank 

Advocating for Eye Banking: The Medical Director’s Role in Education, Outreach, and Social Media
Lorenzo Cervantes, MD, Eversight

Becoming an Ambassador for your Eye Bank
Viral Juthani, MD, The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration

Medical Director Dilemmas: What Would You Do?
Moderator:
Jennifer Li, Sierra Donor Services Eye Bank
Panelists:
John Bokosky, MD, San Diego Eye Bank
Sander Dubovy, MD, Beauty of Sight
Beverly Forsyth, MD, Icahn School of Medicine
Shahzad Mian, MD, Eversight

CEUs: 2.75