Scienti c Program - WOC2012

Scientific Program
Sunday, 19 February 2012
11:02 Strategies for Reaching Out to the Underserved-
Primary Eye Care in India-How to Make it Universal,
G.V.S. Murthy
11:12 Human Resources for Prevention of Blindness in India:
Problems and How to Manage Them, R.V. Azad
11:22 Residency Programmes is India-How Can the Training
of Ophthalmic Manpower be Improved, Ashok Grover
11:32 Eye Banking in India-Is it on the Right Track and the
Future Course, Usha Gopinatha
11:42 Panel Discussion
IS-PHA-SU 289
Sun 19 Feb
FP-CLR-SU 290
Sun 19 Feb
10:30 - 12:00 Capital Suite 1
Ocular Gene Therapy and
Emerging Therapies: Present and Future
Chairpersons: Paul Kaufman, Chris Paterson
10:30 Gene Therapy and Aqueous Outflow, Paul Kaufman
10:40 AAV-Mediated Restoration of Vision in CNG Channel
Deficient Mouse Lines, Martin Biel
10:50 Laser Beam Assisted Gene Transfer: A Novel Method for
Gene Delivery to the Retina, Itay Chowers
11:00 Lentivirus Vector-Mediated Gene Therapy for Retinitis
Pigmentosa, Yasuhiro Ikeda
11:10 Cell Transplantation for Glaucoma, Keith Martin
11:20 Bone Marrow Stem Cell Therapy for Retinitis Pigmentosa,
Atsushi Otani
11:30 Panel Discussion
11:45 Q&A Session
10:30 - 12:00 Capital Suite 7
Free Paper: Contact Lens and
Refractive Error
Chairpersons: Christina Grupcheva, Jenny Deva
10:30 Prevalence of Myopia in Young Adults in the Middle East,
Yazan Gammoh
10:37 Shift from Microkeratome-based Flap Creation to
Intralase: Study of Flap Complications in the First 100
Eyes, Mahmoud Saleh
10:44 Miniscleral Contact Lens for Severe Dry Eye, Fateme
Alipour
10:51 Miniscleral Lenses for Correcting Vision After Corneal
Graft, Fateme Alipour
10:58 Heritability of Peripheral Refraction in Chinese Children
and Adolescents: The Guangzhou Twin Eye Study,
Xiaohu Ding
11:05 Amniotic Membrane Transplantation Combined with
Therapeutic Silicone Hydrogel Contact Lens–The
Treatment of Success, Christina Grupcheva
11:12 The Important Role of Rigid Gas Permeable Lenses
(RGPs) in Post-Crosslinking Managment of Keratoconus,
Jenny Deva
11:19 Bioptics in Sutureless Intrascleral Multifocal Posterior
Chamber Intraocular Lens Fixation, Peter Raak
11:26 Early Detection of Refractive Amblyopia,
Bogdanici Camelia
11:33 Soft Contact Lens Complications. How to Manage Them,
Jonathan Walker
11:40 Q&A Session
IS-UVE-SU 291
Sun 19 Feb
Interactive Session on Challenging
Intraocular Inflammations
Chairpersons: Narsing Rao, Marc De Smet, Kalpana Babu
10:30 Elisabetta Miserocchi
10:40 Mirjam van Velthoven
10:50 Karina Julian
11:00 Khalil Ghasemi Falavarjani
11:10 Kalpana Babu
11:20 Dean Elliot
11:30 Panel Discussion
11:45 Q&A Session
IS-SCS-SU 292
Sun 19 Feb
What is New in Minimally Invasive
Eye Surgery (Part 2)
Chairpersons: Daniel Mojon, Jorge Alio
10:30 - 12:00 Capital Suite 5
10:30 - 12:00 Conference Room B1
10:30 Introduction, Daniel Mojon, Jorge Alio
10:40 Minimally Invasive Strabismus Surgery, Daniel Mojon
10:50 Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery, Andre Mermoud
11:00 Minimally Invasive Vitreoretinal Surgery: Drug Assisted
Vitrectomy, Anselm Kampik
11:10 Minimally Invasive Vitreoretinal Surgery:
Transconjunctival Sutureless Vitrectomy, Siegfried
Priglinger
11:20 Minimally Invasive Tumor Treatment, Arun Singh
11:30 Panel Discussion
11:40 Q&A Session
FP-COR-SU 293
Sun 19 Feb
10:30 - 12:00 Capital Suite 13
Free Paper: External Eye Disease,
Cornea, Eye Banking
Chairpersons: Saeed Akhtar, Madhavan Rajan
10:30 Reports of Severe Contact Lens Associated Microbial
Keratitis in Eastern India, Jayangshu Sengupta
10:37 DALK (Fluid Dissection) versus PKP in term of Quality of
Vision, Islam Hamdi
10:44 Ultrastructural Features of Corneal Storma of Stringray
and Shark, Saeed Akhtar
10:51 Be Careful when Using Antibiotic Drops!, Swati Zawar
10:58 Depth of Penetration Assessed by Visante OCT after
Corneal Collagen Crosslinking for Keratoconus and
Corneal Ectasia, Cheuk Sing Jason Yam
11:05 Validation of the Efficacy of Transephithelial Crosslinking
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