Ali Al-Beshri

Dynamic professional with a diverse skill set encompassing calligraphy, video editing, and drawing, complemented by expertise in healthcare administration and health education. Demonstrates strong communication skills and proficiency in curriculum planning, contributing to effective educational initiatives. Committed to leveraging artistic talents and administrative acumen to enhance healthcare education programmes.

1. Examining and diagnosing wide variety of ophthalmic diseases.

2. Dealing with different cases of glaucoma emergencies and open globe emergencies.

3. Managing primary and secondary congenital glaucoma

4. Interpreting ancillary tests related to glaucoma diseases.

5. Phacoemulsification (soft, hard, white, brown cataracts or in critical situations like with pseudoexfoliation, small pupils, shallow anterior chambers , vitrectomised eyes…).

6. Trabeculectomy (traditional and with Express shunt)

7. Deep Sclerectomy with and without implants

8. Canaloplasty

9. Goniotomy

10. Trabeculotomy (traditional or with microcatheter)

11. Combined Phaco+ Trabeculectomy

12. Combined Phaco + Deep Sclerectomy

13. Combined phaco + Shunt procedures or MIGS

14. Extracapsular Cataract Extraction (ECCE) ,alone or combined with glaucoma surgery.

15. Different Kinds of implants

(e.g.: Ahmed (FP7, FP8) Baerveldt (350,250), AADI implants, Molteno implants (I'm the first who did this implant in the middle east ), PAUL implant.

16. Minimally invasive glaucoma surgeries (MIGS) (e.g.: iStent, KDB, ABiC, GATT, XEN…etc.)

17. Scleral fixated IOL

18. Anterior vitrectomy

19. Iridozonulohyaloidotomy (IZH)

20. Managing complicated cases ( cyclodialysis clefts, iridodialysis, choroidal effusion , aqueous misdirection, hypotony post glaucoma surgeries , bleb leaks).

21. Doing different kinds of laser procedures related to glaucoma and retinal diseases ( cyclophotocoagulation (CPC), micropluse CPC , Ultrasound cycloplasty (UCP), Endocyclophotocogulation ( alone or combined with phaco), Yag-Laser iridotomy , Argon Laser iridoplasty, Argon-Laser suture lysis, Selective laser trabeculoplasty, Panretinal photocoagulation.

22. Intravitreal injections

1. Al-Arfai KM, Yassin SA, Al-Beshri AS, Al-Jindan MY, Al-Tamimi ER. (2015) ' Indications and techniques employed for keratoplasty in the Eastern province of Saudi Arabia: 6 years of experience' Ann Saudi Med. 35(5):387-93.

2. Al-Bishri, Ali, MD; Malik, Rizwan, MD, PhD; Freidi, Alia, MPH; Ahmad, Sameer, MD (2019) ' Risk Factors for Glaucoma Drainage Device Exposure in a Middle- Eastern Population' J Glaucoma . 28(6):529-534

3. Al-Beshri AS , Edward DP , Haiti KA , Craven ER (2018) ' Overhanging-Dissecting Blebs: Immunohistochemical Characterization' J Glaucoma.27(5):450-454

4. Al-Qahtani S , Al-Afraj K , Al-Jindan M , Al-Beshri AS , Khandekar R (2018)' Short and long-term outcomes of angle supported phakic intraocular lens implantation in high myopic eyes' .Int J Ophthalmol .11(5):888-890

5. Al-Beshri AS , Kozak I , Craven ER (2018)' Retinal Detachment After Cyclophotocoagulation in a Child with Knobloch Syndrome'

Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol. 25(3-4):161-162.

6. Donald U. Stone, Earl Randy Craven, Sameer I. Ahmad, Ali AlBeshri, and Ohoud A. Owaidhah (2019) ' Glaucoma Patch Graft Surgery Utilizing Corneas Augmented with Collagen Cross-linking' Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol.26(3): 148–152.

7. Muhammad Aamir, Muhammad Irfan, Tariq Ali,Ghulam Ali,Ahmad Shaf, Alqahtani Saeed S,Ali Al-Beshri ,Tariq Alasbali, and Mater H. Mahnashi (2020) ' An Adoptive Threshold-Based Multi-Level Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Glaucoma Eye Disease Detection and Classification' Diagnostics. 10(8): 602

8. Abeer Alawi, Ali AlBeshri, Konrad Schargel, Khabir Ahmad, Rizwan Malik (2020) ' Tube Revision Outcomes for Exposure with Different Repair Techniques' Clin Ophthalmol.14: 3001–3008.

• "First Medical Career Day" at King Abdul Aziz University on 01-03-2007.
• NEW TRENDS IN OPHTHALMOLOGY , held in King Fahd university Hospital – Khobar on Dec. 2010
• First International Conference for Applied Prophetic Medicine from 26-2-2008 to 28-2-2008.
• "Second Medical Career Day" that was held on March 12th-13th, 2008, at Seef Conference Hall, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia.
• Combined meeting of the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Saudi Ophthalmological Society and the Annual Symposium of the King Khalid Eye Specialist Hospital (2009-to date), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
• Middle East African Council of Ophthalmology (MEACO), 26-30 March 2009, Manamah, Kingdom of Bahrain.
• Participated as ER physician in two consecutive years in seasonal Hajj and Omrah 2009-2010
• PHACOEMULSIFICATION AND ECCE TRAINING COURSE in Chennai, India, in April 2012, with a total of 30 cataract surgeries (Phaco + ECCE )
• The 116th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of ophthalmology, a joint meeting with the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO), which was held in Chicago, Illinois, USA (10-13 Nov 2012)

a. I participated in the wet labs and did trabeculectomy surgeries on pigs' eyes and human eyes as well.

b. I participated in a phaco course in pigs' eyes.

c. I participated in photorefractive courses.

d. I participated in a neuro-ophthalmology course.

• World Ophthalmology Congress – Abu Dhabi 2012

a. I participated in a phaco course on pigs' eyes.

• European Society of Cataract and refractive Surgery (15th ESCRS Winter Meeting) 18-20 February 2011 Istanbul, Turkey

b. I participated in a goniotomy course

• World Sight Day 2012 and 2013, which was held at King Fahd University Hospital – Khobar
• At World Sight Day 2015, which was held at King Khalid Eye Specialist Hospital – Riyadh, I participated through a hotline to receive public calls for educational purposes.
• WORLD GLAUCOMA WEEK 2013 - KING FAHD UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL - KHOBAR
• WORLD GLAUCOMA WEEK 2015-2016-2018 KING Khalid Eye Specialist Hospital – Riyadh

I participated through the hotline to receive public calls for educational purposes. Educational campaign at Gharnatah Mall.

• (Glaucoma advanced wet lab), which was held among the events of the Saudi Ophthalmology Society, included:

a. Trabectome uses

b. Endocyclophotocoagulation

(ECP)

c. (EXPRESS) glaucoma micro

incisional instruments d.

d. Canaloplasty

• 8th International Congress on Glaucoma Surgery (ICGS) – Oman – Muscat 2016

i. Presenting video surgery of

interesting histopathological finding on glaucoma surgery

• 3rd Red Sea Ophthalmology Symposium (RSOS 2017) in Jeddah. (Speaker)
• The 36th Congress of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS), which took place between the 22nd and 26th of September 2018 in the Reed Messe, Vienna, Austria
• King Khalid Eye Specialist Hospital (KKESH) 35th Anniversary Consultative Meeting Program. An Eye on the Future. Thursday, 15 November 2018.
• Eastern Ophthalmology and Optometry Conference (EOC2018) in AlKobar-Eastern Province, Kempinski AlOthman Hotel on 24-26 November, 2018. (Chair, speaker)
• 10th International Congress on Glaucoma Surgery (ICGS), held at the historic Church House, London, UK, on February 6-8, 2020.
• 9th World Glaucoma E-Congress (beyond Borders) 30 June - 03 July 2021 (session chair and speaker).
• The 15th congress of European Glaucoma Society, Athens, Greece, (4th to 8th June 2022)
• 6th international Red Sea Ophthalmology Symposium which was held between 10 and 12 November 2022 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (SPEAKER)
• The 10th World Glaucoma Congress (WGC) was organised by the World Glaucoma Association (WGA) and held from Jun 28 to Jul 01, 2023, at the La Nuvola Convention Center, Rome, Italy. (SPEAKER)
• The 41st Congress of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS), which took place between 08 and 12 September 2023 in the Messe Wien Messe Exhibition, Vienna, Austria
• the 42nd Congress of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS), which took place in Barcelona, Spain, was held from Friday 6 to Tuesday 10 September 2024
• the 43rd Congress of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS), which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 12 to 16 September 2025.
• AAO 2023, the American Academy of Ophthalmology's annual meeting, which was held in San Francisco, November 3-6, 2023.
• 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th Evolving Practice of Ophthalmology Middle East Conference 2023 (EPOMEC), which was held in Dubai, UAE. (SPEAKER)
• Representing Saudi Glaucoma Group as a SPEAKER at 11th World Glaucoma Congress (WGC) in Honolulu, Hawaii from June 25 to 28
• Magrabi Symposium, Advances in Ophthalmology, which was held in Doha, Qatar, between 22 and 23 January 2026. (SPEAKER)

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