COS Quarterly Conference
December 8, 2025
Co-sponsored with the Rabb Retina Study Group
Featuring the COS Alex E. Krill Memorial Lecture
Chair, Department of Ophthalmology
Steven G. Kramer, MD, PhD, Endowed Chair in Ophthalmology
Theresa M. and Wayne M. Caygill, MD, Distinguished Professor
University of California, San Francisco
"How can we know if a treatment is helping patients with inherited retinal degenerations?"
Plus... Rabb Retina Study Group community case presentations
Advance registration for this meeting is now available!
CLICK HERE to view a list of previous Krill Lecturers.
About this year's Krill Lecturer
Dr. Jacque L. Duncan earned her medical degree (1995) at the University of California-San Francisco, where she also completed an ophthalmology residency in 1999. Dr. Duncan then completed a medical retina fellowship in 2000 at the Penn Medicine Scheie Eye Institute in Philadelphia, PA, where she focused on patients with age-related macular degeneration and inherited retinal degeneration. She joined the UCSF faculty in 2000.
In her research, Dr. Duncan is studying treatments to preserve vision as well as devices to stimulate visual perception. She has received research funding from Research to Prevent Blindness, the Karl Kirchgessner Foundation, Hope for Vision and the American Geriatrics Society, in addition to receiving a Career Development Award from the Foundation Fighting Blindness. She leads an NIH-funded translational vision science laboratory focused on adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AOSLO) imaging of human photoreceptors to discover mechanisms of cone death in inherited retinal degenerations. In addition, Dr. Duncan’s group is studying changes in cone structure and function during disease progression and testing the efficacy of treatments that aim to slow progression. She also serves as principal investigator on a number of clinical trials of treatments and natural history of disease progression in inherited retinal degenerations including retinitis pigmentosa and Usher syndrome.
Registration (Online)
All Attendees -- COS & Rabb Members, Residents/Fellows and Non-members -
Pre-registration is now open!
On the form, click on "register yourself" to start the process. If you are planning to present a case during the Rabb portion of the meeting, you will see a place to enter that information, as well.
RABB CASE PRESENTATIONS -- If you wish to give a case presentation during the Rabb Retina Study Group portion of the conference, you will be able to indicate that on the registration form, as well as the topic/title of your case.
Meeting Information
Location:
Gleacher Conference Center 450 N. Cityfront Plaza Dr., Chicago Discounted parking with validation in the NBC Tower garage and several other area
parking lots.Date:
Monday, December 8, 2025
Time:
6:00 p.m. - Reception
6:30 p.m. - Dinner
7:00 p.m. - Business meeting - Asim Farooq, MD, COS President
7:10 p.m. - Krill Lecture - Jacque L. Duncan, MD
7:40 p.m. - Rabb Case Presentations & Discussion - Community members/residents
8:30 p.m. - Adjourn (approximate time)
Registration
Advance registration is required although there is no fee. Please register no later than
December 5th.
This year, we are waiving the registration fee (normally $75) for non-members and guests.
There will be no virtual option for attending this meeting... in-person only.
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Educational Items
Course Director: Ann Tran, MD
Target Audience: Practicing ophthalmologists, ophthalmology residents and fellows
Commercial Support
Any exhibiting companies participating will be acknowledged at the time of the meeting.
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Questions?
Contact the COS office at: 847-680-1666 or by email: [email protected]
Dinner
We are proud to announce that catering at the Gleacher Center is provided by Wolfgang Puk. A buffet dinner with several choices of entrees will be available.
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