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The EGS Screening Task Force

Aims:

  • To determine the feasibility of sight- and cost-saving glaucoma screening in Europe
  • To foster creation of sustainable and effective screening models

Activities and Structure (Working groups):

  • WG1: GENOMICS ENABLING TARGETED SCREENING
    • LEADS: Nomdo Jansonius, Anthony Khawaja

  • WG2: AI-IMAGING TECHNOLOGIES FOR SCREENING
    • LEADS: Luis Abegao Pinto, Alex Schuster (E3 link), Joao Barbosa Breda, Ingeborg Stalmans, Marta Pazos
    • SUPPORTING: Hans Lemij

  • WG3: GLAUCOMA NATURAL HISTORY (Clinic-based studies)
    • LEADS: Frances Meier-Gibbons, Panayiota Founti, Esther Hoffman
    • SUPPORTING: Dimitris Giannoulis

  • WG4: MODELLING OF POTENTIAL SCREENING PROGRAMMES
    • LEADS: Ananth Viswanathan, Ted Garway-Heath, Bart-Jan Boverhof
    • SUPPORTING: Rodolfo Hernandez

  • WG5: PUBLIC ACCEPTANCE AND ENGAGEMENT
    • LEADS: Andrew Tatham, Andrew Scott, Sanna Leinonen, Anja Tuulonen, Gauti Johannesson

  • WG6: PROSPECTIVE RCT PLANNING
    • LEADS: Anthony Khawaja, Augusto Azuara-Blanco
    • SUPPORTING: Jen Burr, Dimitris Giannoulis

Chair
Anthony Khawaja
Anthony Khawaja

United Kingdom