Duke Eye Center
Duke Glaucoma Fellows Course & Wet Lab
One day at the bench with the surgeons who wrote the playbook. Current practice, live controversy and hands-on time with the latest glaucoma surgical techniques and instrumentation.
- Date
- Friday, October 23, 2026
- Location
- Duke Eye Center · Durham, North Carolina
- Format
- Didactic sessions + hands-on surgical wet lab
- Eligibility
- Current glaucoma fellows · application-based
- Support
- Educational grant from Alcon
The Course
A one-day course giving glaucoma fellows a working overview of current practices and controversies in glaucoma diagnosis and management, plus hands-on experience with the latest surgical techniques and instrumentation.
Attendance is application-based and limited to current glaucoma fellows. That’s deliberate. A small bench, senior faculty at your shoulder and enough repetitions that you leave with technique rather than notes.
An educational scholarship covers meals, up to two nights of shared hotel lodging at the AC Hotel Durham and a $400 travel stipend. The only thing between a fellow and the lab bench is the application.
See what the scholarship covers →Learning Objectives
Six objectives. Together they cover the working span of modern glaucoma management, pharmacology through to the operating room.
Topical & Implant Therapies
Current medical management: where drops still win, and where sustained-release implants change the calculus.
Trabeculectomy
The reference standard, done well: technique, titration and the judgment calls that separate outcomes.
MIGS Devices
Micro-invasive glaucoma surgery across the current range of devices: indications, instrumentation and angle work.
Drainage Devices
Tube selection, placement and management when the disease demands more than the angle can give.
Latest Developments
Demonstrations of the latest developments in glaucoma surgery: techniques and instrumentation as they reach the field.
Reducing Complications
Strategies to keep surgical complications rare, and to manage them decisively when they do occur.
Hands-On Wet Lab
Lectures give you the map. The bench gives you the hands.
The hands-on portion belongs to instrumentation. Practice with the latest surgical techniques and devices, faculty circulating one-on-one, repetitions on the maneuvers the objectives call out. You do them until they feel routine.
At Your Shoulder
World renowned leaders teaching the course and staff the bench.
Leon W. Herndon Jr., MD
Duke Eye Center
Kelly W. Muir, MD, MHSc
Duke Eye Center
Jullia A. Rosdahl, MD, PhD
Duke Eye Center
Where It Happens
Duke Eye Center, Durham
Hosted at Duke Eye Center in the heart of the Research Triangle, one of the country’s densest concentrations of academic glaucoma expertise.
AC Hotel Durham
2800 Erwin Road. Up to two nights of shared lodging are covered by the educational scholarship for accepted fellows.
Friday · October 23 · 2026
Take Your Seat at the Bench
Application-based and limited to current glaucoma fellows. Meals, shared lodging and a $400 travel stipend are covered by the educational scholarship.