Scienti c Program - WOC2012

Scientific Program
Corneal Tissue Engineering, Shigeto Shimmura
09:30 Signaling Pathways and Neurotrophic Factors in
Regeneration, Ernst Tamm
09:40 Panel Discussion
IS-EDU-MO 361
Mon 20 Feb 08:30 - 10:00 Conference Room A4
Teaching Ophthalmic Subspecialty
in Developed and Developing Countries
Chairpersons: Marko Hawlina, Heather Mack, Karl Golnik
08:30 Harmonisation of Ophthalmic Education in Europe,
Marko Hawlina
08:40 Ophthalmic Subspecialty Teaching: Cross-Border
Education in South-Eastern Europe, Petja Vassileva
08:50 Teaching Ophthalmic Subspecialties in Developed and
Developing Countries, Heather Mack
09:00 Becoming a Subspecialist in Latin America, Eduardo
Mayorga
09:10 Training Ophthalmology Subspecialists for Subsaharan
Africa: An Emerging Need, Kenneth Kagame
09:20 Pitfalls and Pearls of Teaching Retinal Disease, Wai-Ching
Lam
09:30 What I Have Learned from ICO Program Directors
Courses in Developing Countries, Karl Golnik
09:40 Panel Discussion and Q&A Session
08:40 Warning Signs in Amblyopia, Susan Day
08:50 The Role of Refractive Surgery in Treatment of Amblyopia
in Children, Amr El Kamshoushy
09:00 Amblyopia: When to Give Up, Ramesh Kekunnaya
09:10 Surprising Findings from PEDIG Trials, Michael Repka
09:20 Adaptive Optics in Amblyopia, Paul Rychwalski
09:30 Panel Discussion
IS-PCM-MO 364
Mon 20 Feb 08:30 - 10:00 Capital Suite 7
How To Make Your Ophthalmology Practice
Work
Chairpersons: Kunle Hassan, Harald Gaeckle, Rainald Duerksen
08:30 Setting up a Practice, Kibata Githeko
08:40 Managing the Practice, Venkatachalam Panneerselvam
08:50 Growing Practice, Juan Francisco Yee
09:00 Dealing with the Ecosystem (and Changes in the
Environment), Ramesh
09:10 Alternatives for Funding, Juan Batlle
09:20 Sustaining a Group Practice, Kunle Hassan
09:30 Big Investment - Big Return, Harald Gaeckle
09:40 Eye Care Financing - Community Eye Care Initiative,
Benedictus Ajayi
09:50 Panel Discussion and Q&A Session
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IS-WFS-MO 362
Mon 20 Feb 08:30 - 10:00 Conference Room B3
Can Onchocerciasis be Eliminated in the
Next Decade: What are the Challenges
Chairpersons: Francisca Olamiju, Adrian Hopkins, Adenike
Abiose
08:30 OCP and APOC Remarkable Achievements so Far,
Adenike Abiose
08:40 Putting the Communities in Charge; The Only Way
Forward, Amazigo Uche
08:50 NGDOs in Partnership with Ministries; The Recipe for
Success, Francisca Olamiju
09:00 Onchocerciasis in the Americas: Already History, Ed Cupp
09:10 Do We Want to Shift the Paradigm in Africa, Adrian
Hopkins
09:20 No Research; No Final Solution, Julie Jacobson
09:30 Panel Discussion
09:45 Q&A Session
IS-STR-MO 363
Mon 20 Feb 08:30 - 10:00 Capital Suite 1
Amblyopia Treatment
Organized by the American Association for Pediatric
Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS)
Chairpersons: Michael Repka, Mohamad Jaafar, David Plager
08:30 Did the PEDIG Studies Change My Management of
Amblyopia, Mohamad Jaafar
IS-HIS-MO 365
Mon 20 Feb 08:30 - 10:00 Capital Suite 5
Milestones in Ophthalmology
Organized by Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis (AOI)
Chairpersons: Jean Jacques De Laey
08:30 Trachoma, Hugh Taylor
08:40 ROP, Frank Bilson
08:50 IOL and Ridley, Jorge Alio
09:00 Excimer Laser, John Marshall
09:10 Vesalius. 500 Years of Ocular Anatomy, Jean Jacques De
Laey
09:20 The Blind Spot and the Yellow Spot, Balder Gloor
09:30 Charles Schepens - From Mouscron to Boston, Bill
Tasman
09:40 Panel Discussion
09:50 Q&A Session
FP-WFS-MO-366
Mon 20 Feb 08:30 - 10:00 Conference Room B1
Free Paper: Prevention of Blindness/VISION
2020
Chairpersons: Parikshit Gogate, Rajiv Khandekar
08:30 Spectacle Compliance Amongst Rural Secondary School
Children in Pune District, India, Parikshit Gogate
08:37 Why does Pediatric Cataract Surgery in India Have a
Poor Follow-up, Anil Kulkarni
08:44 Compliance of Spectacle Wear in School Children with