In 2003, during the Pan-American Congress of Ophthalmology in Puerto Rico, the GLADAOF group was renamed again. A group of members of the Latin American Group Angiography, Laser and Vitreoretinal Surgery (GLADAOF) and the PAAO Board of Direc tors decided to create the Sociedad Panamericana de Retina y Vitreo (GLADAOF SPRV) as a subspecialty affiliated society to PAAO.
In 2004 the I SPRV Congress (X GLADAOF Forum) was organized in Quito (Ecuador), the President was Dr. Gregorio Gabela.
And after that the next Congress was II Congress of the SPRV (XI Forum of GLADAOF) in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), in 2006 under the presidency of Dr. Francisco Rodríguez, the III Congress of the SPRV (XII Forum of the GLADAOF) was in Isla Margarita (Venezuela), in 2008 under the presidency of Dr. Fernando Arévalo, the IV Congress of the SPRV (XIII GLADAOF Forum) was in Lima (Peru), in 2010 under the presidency of Dr. José Antonio Roca, the V Congress of the SPRV (XIV GLADAOF Forum) was in San José (Costa Rica), in 2012 under the presidency of Dr. Lihteh Wu, the VI Congress of the SPRV (15th Forum of the GLADAOF) was in San Juan (Puerto Rico), in 2014 under the presidency of Dra. María H. Berrocal, the VII Congress of the SPRV (XVI Forum of the GLADAOF) was in Natal (Brazil), in 2016 under the presidency of Dr. Michel e. Farah, the VIII Congress of the SPRV (XVII GLADAOF Forum) was in Cancun (Mexico) in 2018 under the presi- dency of Dr. Virgilio Morales Canton and this one the IX Congress of the SPRV (XVIII GLADAOF Forum) is tak-ing place in Buenos Aires (Argentina) from November 15 to November 18, 2022 under the presidency of Dr. Arturo Alezzandrini Jr.