Ophthalmologist

Internship : Hôpitaux de Paris, France
Fellowship: Service d'Ophtalmology, Hotel Dieu de Paris, France

Scientific Societies:

• American Academy of Ophthalmology
• American Society ot Retinal Specialists (ASRS) (Served as International Representative in the Board, term 2005-2006)
• Association for Research and Vision in Ophthalmology (ARVO)
• European Vitreo Retinal Society (EVRS) (Cofondateur et membre du Board)
• Retina Society
• Société Française d'Ophtalmologie (SFO)
• Société Française de Rétine (SFR)

Member of the AMD Association

Teaching activity

European Vitreo Retinal Annual Training School (EVRTS), Bremen, Germany, 2008-2016.

Organization of congresses

• 8th European Vitreo Retinal Society (EVRS) annual meeting : 2008:  Prague, 6-9 September
• 9th  EVRS annual meeting : 2009, Marrakech, 5-8 September
• 10th EVRS annual meeting : 2010,  Sevilla, September 25-28
• 11th EVRS annual meeting : 2011, Malta, October 1-4
• 12th EVRS annual meeting : 2012, Dresden, September 15-18,
• 13th EVRS annual meeting : 2013 , Rhodos, September 7-10
• 14th EVRS annual meeting ; 2014, Porto, September 4-7
• 15th EVRS annual meeting : 2015, Venezia, September 12-14
• 16th EVRS annual meeting : 2016, Monaco, June 04-07.

 

Scientific Communications 2008-2021

2021

• Sur acceptation d’abstracts :

- Société Francaise de Rétine, 16 Janvier 2021 : Injection intra vitréenne off label d’Erythropiétine dans un cas d’occlusion veineuse ischémique sur syndrome de Flammer

- Retina Society, 54th Annual Scientific Meeting. September 29–October 2, 2021 • Chicago:

- Session interesting Cases & Video Presentations: Role of extracellular osmolarity in the activation of neovascular membranes : about one case.

- Scientific Session:  Metformin and Retinal Pigment Epithelium  (RPE)  Biology in the Human Eye in vivo, illustrated in a case of Pachychoroid Pigment Epitheliopathy (PPE) : a Hypothesis.

• Sur invitations :

- XXI Congresso Nazionale GIVRE VIRTUALE 11/06/2021 - 12/06/2021:  

- Neuronal and vascular retinal rescue potential of Erythropoietin

- 36th Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO) Congress, September 5-11: The Scientific Rationale for Endoscopy-assisted Vitrectomy

- Yale University Grand Rounds, Retina Service, September 17th 2021:  Prevention of Age Macular Degeneration

-  9th International Congress on OCT and OCT-Angiography in Rome (ICOOR), 16-18 dicembre 2021: Glycocalix and Age Macular Degeneration

 

2020

• Invited speaker, European Ohpthalmology Congress 29020 «New Innovations and Insights in Ophthalmology» : October 29-30, 2020 , Paris, France
• « Invited speaker European School  for Advanced Studies in Ophthalmology « ESASO », Retina module,  Lugano, 15-19 Juin 2020.

 

2019

• Société Francaise de Rétine, Paris, 19 Janvier 2019 :

Atelier 4 : le traumatisme chirurgical facteur de régénération rétinienne ?

• XX Congresso nazionale GIVRE, Rome, 4-6 avril 2019 : sur invitation, SESSIONE RETINA TECH, 6 AVRIL : Endoscopia 3D.
• Retina Society 2019 Annual Meeting, September 11-14, London :

Session Interesting Cases, September 11 :  Intravitreal Injection of EPO for Severe Central Vein Occlusion in the Context of Flammer Syndrome (Endothelin Dysfunctioning)

• Scientific Session , September 13 :   Only Close Surgical Dissection of the Vitreo Retinal interface can prevent/treat Proliferative Vitreo Retinopathy (PVR) in the Course of Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment (RRD) In Vivo.

 

2018

• Société de Chirurgie Vitréo Rétinienne (SCRV), 17-18  mars, Cannes :  paper : Dissection de la base du vitré sous endoscopie dans la prévention de la PVR antérieure :  Les données de la neurosciences et du wound healing.
• Société Francaise de Rétine, Paris, 7 Mai 2018 (Société Francaise d’Ophtalmologie , meeting annuel) : Réparation cellulaire Gliale après Vitrectomie-Pelage de la Limitante Interne Maculaire

2017

• Société de Chirurgie Vitréo Rétinienne (SCRV), 31 Mars 2017, La Baule : Le pelage de la limitante interne fonctionne parce que c’est un trauma de nature mécanique.
• Retina Society annual meeting, Boston, Octobre 5-7, 2017, poster : Epithelial Growth Factor (EGFR)-Driven Gliosis Reactive to Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment (RRD) In Vivo is Beneficial: it Reabsorbs Retinal Edema (RE) and it is Permissive for Photoreceptor (PR) Regeneration once the Retinal Disruption is Healed.
• Retina Biarritz, 12 octobre 2017 : modérateur session Oedèmes Maculaires (OMs) : un nouvel espoir en 2017 pour les traitements des OMs

2016

• Société Francaise de Rétine, Paris, janvier 2016 : Mécanisme de fonctionnement du pelage de la limitante interne maculaire
• EVRS annual meeting, Monaco, Juin 2016 :

Session Macular Edema : The Paradox of ILM peeling : it works, but it is traumatic : why ?

Session vitrectomy machines : Flow-control vitrectomy ratio risk_benfit with current pumps : EVA and the anterior vitreous base

• Retina Society annual meeting, San Diego, September 14-17, paper :  Internal Limiting Membrane Peeling Reabsorbs Macular Edema and Improves Visual Acuity Precisely Because It Is a Retinal Trauma of Mechanical Nature.

 

2015

• Société Francaise de Rétine, Paris, January 2015 : Severe Vision Loss in Altitude in a Case of Flammer Syndrome
• Maculart, Paris, June 2015 : Poster : Vitrectomy-Internal Limiting Membrane Peeling  for Macular Edema : Scientific Rationale
• Retina Society annual meeting, Paris, France, october 11th 2015 : Severe Visual Loss in Two Cases of Flammer Syndrome
• Retina Biarritz, 12 octobre 2015, invited speaker :

DMLA : Débat : induction par 3 injections d’anti VEGF

Why does vitrectomy-ILMP counteract macular edema : neuroscientific and morphological findings

Retinopathie Diabétique Proliférante Débutante : AVANT d’opter pour une iVT ou pour la chirurgie…

2014

• Société Francaise de Rétine, Paris, January 2014 : paper : Echecs de la Chirurgie du Décollement de Rétine : La Persistance du Cortex Vitréen Est Encore d’Actualité.
• Société de l'Association Française des Implants et de la chirurgie Réfractive (SAFIR), SFO annual meeting, Paris, 11 MaI 2014: paper : Endocyclophotocoagulation des procès ciliaires dans le traitement des glaucomes réfractaires du pseudophake.
• SFO annual meeting, Paris, 10-13 Mai 2014 : communication filmée : La persistance du cortex vitréen,  cause d’échecs du Décollement de Rétine
• EVRS annual meeting, Porto, Sept 2014 : paper : personnalized medicine applied to Age Macular Degeneration 2005-2014.

2013

• Société de Chirurgie Vitréo-Rétinienne (SCRV), 23 mars 2013, Nantes, France: Flow Control Vitrectomy,
• Retina Biarritz 2013, France, 22 Juin 2013 : paper DEBAT DMLA : Le traitement d’induction par trois injections successives d’anti VEGF ne doit pas être systématique.

2012

• Société Francaise de Rétine, Paris, 12 January 2012, paper:  Cellules Progénitrices Rétiniennes originaires du Corps Ciliaire.
• International Masters of Retina, Sanctuary, Cap Cana, Dominican Republic

February 25-28, 2012 : papers :

        session Retinal Detachment Feb 26 : Prevention of PVR

        session AMD : Lessons from Anti VEGF protocol « as needed » in AMD

         

• World Ophthalmology Congress (WOC) 2012, June 14th, Abu Dhabi, invited speaker :  Symposium: Recent trends in the management of complicated forms of retinal detachment Endoscopy-assisted-prevention of PVR.
• European Association for Vision and Eye  Research (EVER) 2012, Nice, France, 10-13 septembre 2012 : Poster : Early Reactional Hyperplasia and Neuronal Differentiation of the Ciliary Epithelium (CE) in Experimental Retinal Detachment (RD) with Proliferative VitreoRetinopathy (PVR) in the Porcine Eye.
• Retina Society, Washington DC, 4-6 octobre 2012 : Retinal detachment surgery in 2012: Persistent anterior and posterior vitreous cortex is still an issue (Video  session, october 4th).

2011

• EVRS annual meeting 2011, Malta, october 4th : Retinal Detachment session : The « internal weapon » :  constant environment during flow-control vitrectomy.
• Vu Explorer Institute, Imagerie en Ophtalmologie : de la Théorie à la Pratique, invited speaker, 14 octobre 2011, Paris : Imagerie au bloc opératoire : endoscopie oculaire.

2009

• EVRS annual meeting Marrakech, 8 Septembre 2009: session Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy : moderator & speaker : « Have we progressed in reducing complications of vitrectomy ? ».
• Association for Research and Vision in Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2009, Fort Lauderdale: Paper: Progenitor properties are expressed by CD 133 (Prominin-1) in the External Limiting Membrane (ELM) of normal Human Fetal Retina in Vivo and reactivated in the ELM of Retinal Detachment (RD) in Vivo in the Human Eye.
• LODZ International Retina Meeting (invited speaker), Pologne, october 10th, 2009 : Endoscopy for Anterior Proliferative Vitreo Retinopathy.
• American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), International Society of Ocular Trauma (ISOT), invited speaker, San Francisco, October 25th, 2009 : Vitrectomy in an injured eye with a claoudy cornea using the endoscope. 
• Retina Biarritz, Biarritz, France, 13 juin 2009, invited speaker: Session Matériel & Recherche : Endoscopie et Prolifération ciliaire.

2008

• Association for Research and Vision in Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2008, Fort Lauderdale: Paper: Histomorphological study and immunohistochemistry of the ciliary margin in Retinal Detachment (RD) and Proliferative Vitreo Retinopathy (PVR).
• EVRS annual meeting, Praga, 2008, Sept 7th : Session « my way of removing the vitreous », moderator & speaker: Endoscopy assisted vitrectomy.

 

Articles peer-review

• Experimental Vitreoretinal Surgery in Porcine Eyes.

Claude Boscher, Didier Schmidt-Morand, Delphine Holopherne, Olivier Gauthier. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2011, DOI: 10.1007/s00417-011-1891-6.

Proliferation of the Ciliary Epithelium with Retinal Neuronal and Photoreceptor Cell Differentiation in Human Eyes with Retinal Detachment and Proliferative Vitreoretinopathy. Ducournau Yvette, Boscher Claude, Adelman Ron A, Guillaubey Colette, Schmidt-Morand Didier , Mosnier Jean-François , Ducournau Didier.

Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2012;250:409-423.

• Reactional Retinal Progenitor Neuronal Cells in the Human Ciliary Epithelium in Patients with RD and PVR : a potential autologous source for retinal repair ?

Claude Boscher, MD,  Yvette Ducournau, MD,  Ron A Adelman, MD,  Didier Ducournau, MD.

Retinal Physician, July 2012, 20-25, peer-reviewed section.

• Endoscopy-assisted vitrectomy for severe endophthalmitis

Boscher Claude

Retinal Physician, November 2012

• Retinal Progenitor Cells Contingents in the Adult Human Eye with Retinal Injury: a Specific Differentiation Potential According to the Localization?

Boscher Claude, MD; Yvette Ducournau, MD; Ron Adelman, MD; Colette Guillaubey, MD; Didier Ducournau, MD

Experimental Eye Research, November 2012, 105, 79-80.

• Post Operative Hemorrages in Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy are Still an Issue.

Boscher Claude

Retinal Physician, May 2013

• An Endoscopic Review of the Anterior Vitreous Base in Retinal Detachment and Anterior Proliferative VitreoRetinopathy

Boscher Claude, Kuhn Ferenc

Acta Opthalmologica, June 2014, 92: e298–e304

• Strategy for the management of diabetic macular edema: the European vitreo-retinal society macular edema study.

Adelman R, Parnes A, Michalewska Z, Parolini B, Boscher C, Ducournau D.

BioMed Res Int. 2015; 352-487.

• Endoscopic Evaluation and Dissection of the Anterior Vitreous Base

Boscher Claude, Kuhn Ferenc

Ophthalmic Research, 2015; 53:90-99, DOI : 10.1159/00370032.

 

Collaboration in published multi-center clinical trials

• Strategy for the Management of Uncomplicated Retinal Detachments: The European Vitreo-Retinal Society Retinal Detachment Study Report 1 , Ophthalmology,  September 2013, 1804-1808.
• Strategy for the Management of Complex Retinal Detachments: The European Vitreo-Retinal Society Retinal Detachment Study Report 2, Ophthalmology,  September 2013, 1809-18013.
• How do Vitrectomy prameters influence the result of regmatogenous retinal detachments repair ? EVRS RD Study No3, Acta Ophthalmologica, August 2014, , 92:e416-7.
• Clinical variables associated with failure of retinal detachment repair: the European vitreo-retinal society retinal detachment study report number 4. Ophthalmology , 2014 Sep;121(9):1715-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2014.03.012
• Strategy for the Management of Macular Edema in Retinal Vein Occlusion: The European VitreoRetinal Society Macular Edema Study. Biomed Res Int. 2015; 870987. Published online 2015 Jan 29. doi: 10.1155/2015/870987