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EVER 2011 SIS sponsors Crete Oct 5-8 www.ever.be Programme book Carl Zeiss Vision CIS sponsors Partner in Concordia EVER 2011 Programme book Exhibitors Join EVER 21 CME credits EVER 2011 Programme Book - www.ever.be Zeus Artemis Athena Europa Minos 1 Danae Minos 2 Monday October 3 / Tuesday October 4, 2011 ICO Residency Program Directos Course Wednesday October 5, 2011 12:00 - 14:45 NSPH: The swollen optic disc: ACB: In vitro techniques for COS: Common IM: EBO review course: PO: EBO review course: Is it true swelling, What causes ocular cell biology and tissue corneal procedures Intraocular infl ammation Diagnostics of ophthalmic it and how to investigate it engineering and infection (Part I) tumours Hannu UUSITALO Harminder S DUA Bahram BODAGHI Laurence DESJARDINS Aki KAWASAKI Ulla AAPOLA Jean-Jacques GICQUEL Carl P HERBORT Bertil DAMATO 14:30 - 16:45 COS: Facial nerve palsy: COS: Corneal infectious COS: Basic keratoprostheses IM: EBO review course: anatomy, etiology, evaluation, diseases update Intraocular infl ammation and and management infection (Part II) Jean-Jacques GICQUEL Bahram BODAGHI Ioannis MAVRIKAKIS Harminder S DUA Christopher LIU Carl P HERBORT Welcome Ceremony in ZEUS 17:00 - 17:15 Welcome by the President EVER 2011 - Lene MARTIN ZEUS 17:20 - 18:00 EVER Lecture: Spot the difference! The electrophysiological differentiation of retinal fl eck and spot disorders - Graham HOLDER ZEUS 18:05 - 18:20 European Ophthalmologic Heritage Lecture: The development of microkeratomes from the very early ages, with handmade and mechanical systems, until the fempto - laser technology today - Ioannis PALLIKARIS ZEUS 18:25 - 19:00 Keynote Lecture 1: Ocular surface and refractive surgery - Béatrice COCHENER ZEUS 19:00 - 21:00 EVER Welcome Reception ZEUS Terrace Thursday October 6, 2011 08:15 - 09:45 RV: Cholesterol and retina: MBGE: Functional studies of ACB: Retinal cell growth, death IM: EVER/ARVO : Antigen COS: Corneal ulcerations: LC: Ionizing radiation COS: Refractive surgery and news and views cellular & molecular dysfunction and survival presenting cells in the eye in from bench to slit lamp and cataract quality of vision Seang-Mei SAW Arto URTTI health and disease Eric GABISON Ioannis G. PALLIKARIS Lionel BRETILLON Graeme C M BLACK Neville OSBORNE Sally ATHERTON Serge DOAN Jochen GRAW Beatrice COCHENER 10:00 - 10:45 Keynote Lecture 2: Clinical and molecular genetic aspects of optic nerve hypoplasia - Elias TRABOULSI ZEUS 11:00 - 12:30 RV: Diabetic retinopathy MBGE: New disease genes & ACB: Cell biology of retinal IM: Uveitis: from practice G: Visual fi eld and risk factors NSPH: Free Papers COS: Refractive surgery mutations pigment epithelium to principles for EVER Jost B JONAS Bart LEROY Hannu UUSITALO Ananth VISWANATHAN Andrzej GRZYBOWSKI Beatrice COCHENER Anat LOEWENSTEIN Marcela VOTRUBA Kai KAARNIRANTA Carl P HERBORT Thierry ZEYEN Aki KAWASAKI Jean-Jacques GICQUEL 12:35 - 13:35 Lunchtime CIS - THEA : What’s new in 2011 in antibiotherapy? 13:45 - 15:15 RV: Surgical retina MBGE: Update on ocular ACB: The eyelid margin – IM: Applications of PCR in G: Controversies in glaucoma LC: Free Papers Lens COS: Keratoconus and genetics - part 1 a fresh view on an infectious ocular disease corneal grafting important structure Erich KNOP Sayeh POURJAVAN Catherine CREUZOT Bart LEROY Nadja KNOP Christophe CHIQUET Veva DE GROOT Alfred WEGENER Jean-Jacques GICQUEL Constantin POURNARAS Graeme CM BLACK Johannes NEPP Marc LABETOULLE Andrzej GRZYBOWSKI Ralph MICHAEL Jean-Louis BOURGES 15:30 - 16:10 European Vision Award 2011 lecture: From comfort to pain: neural basis of ocular surface sensations - Carlos BELMONTE ZEUS 16:15 - 17:25 Poster Session 1: Anatomy/Cell Biology - Glaucoma - Lens and Cataract - Molecular Biology / Genetics / Epidemiology 17:30 - 19:00 RV: Macular edema in MBGE: Update on ocular ACB: Immunology and NSPH: Controversies in G: EBO review course: How to PO: Crash course in COS: Management of vein occlusion genetics - part 2 infl ammation at the ocular neuro-ophthalmology and begin with the glaucomas? ophthalmic pathology conjunctival cicatrizing diseases surface pediatrics and severe ocular surface Erich KNOP Sarah COUPLAND dysfunction Bart LEROY Robert A SACK Andrzej GRZYBOWSKI Karin LOEFFLER Harminder S DUA Catherine CREUZOT Graeme C M BLACK Nadja KNOP Dominique BREMOND-GIGNAC Alain BRON Steffen HEEGAARD Jean-Jacques GICQUEL Zeus Artemis Athena Europa Minos 1 Danae Minos 2 Friday October 7, 2011 08:15 - 09:45 RV: Anti-VEGF agents for PBP: Anterior chamber ACB: Anterior segment anatomy IM: Immune modulation in G: Ocular rigidity and LC: Ocular oxidative stress COS: Wavefront aberrometry various ocular pathologies and therapy possibilities corneal transplantation hydrodynamics of the human eye and quality of vision symposium Constantin POURNARAS Nicholas DELAMERE Erich KNOP Thomas FUCHSLUGER Anna DASTIRIDOU Per SÖDERBERG Jean-Jacques GICQUEL Efstratios MENDRINOS Gerhard GARHOFER Tanja ILMARINEN Uwe PLEYER Ioannis G. PALLIKARIS Marjorie F LOU Pierre Jean PISELLA 10:00 - 10:45 EVER-Acta Lecture: Clouding lens, swap or stop? - Per SÖDERBERG ZEUS 11:00 - 12:30 RV: AMD PBP: Vascular aspects of ACB: Cell biology of ocular CONCORDIA: Standards and VEP: Binocular vision & PO: Complications of COS: Update on techniques in glaucoma - what to look at? surface criteria in academic stereopsis: Why two eyes are irradiation treatment of intra corneal and ocular surface surgery Anita LEYS Hannu UUSITALO ophthalmology in Europe better than one! ocular tumours Mario NUBILE Gisèle SOUBRANE Leopold SCHMETTERER Roger BEUERMAN Marko HAWLINA Franziska RAUSCHER Leonidas ZOGRAFOS Jean-Jacques GICQUEL 12:35 - 13:35 Business meetings of the scientifi c sections - Sandwiches and Refreshments RV MBGE/ PBP ACB/ VEP IM/ NSPH G LC/ PO COS 13:45 - 15:15 RV: Imaging retinal fl uorophores: PBP: Intravitreal treatment FRO - Belgian Fund for NSPH: Update in Management G: Eye and brain in glaucoma PO: Pathology/Oncology 1 COS: Cell therapy in autofl uorescence and beyond Research in Ophthalmology 1 of Graves’ orbitopathy cornea - Moving towards individualized treatment Miltiadis TSILIMBARIS Antonella BOSCHI Georg MICHELSON Theodora HADJISTILIANOU Thomas FUCHSLUGER Irene BARBAZETTO Neville OSBORNE Philippe KESTELYN Aki KAWASAKI Doina GHERGHEL Martine J JAGER Harminder S DUA 15:30 - 16:10 Ophthalmic Research Lecture: Road to fulfi llment (not perdition): taming immune response to restore vision - Andrew D DICK ZEUS 16:15 - 17:25 Poster Session 2: Neuro-ophthalmology / Strabismology / Paediatric / History - Retina / Vitreous 17:30 - 19:00 PBP: Retinal oxygenation FRO - Belgian Fund for IM: The new decade: immune G: Secondary glaucomas PO: Management of small COS: Corneal bioengineering and blood fl ow Research in Ophthalmology 2 modulation in eye diseases choroidal melanocytic lesions Sveinn HARDARSON Uwe PLEYER Sayeh POURJAVAN Laurence DESJARDINS Thomas FUCHSLUGER Gerhard GARHOFE Philippe KESTELYN Andrew DICK K. Sheng LIM Tero KIVELÄ Christopher LIU Saturday October 8, 2011 08:15 - 09:45 RV: Retina PBP: Blood fl ow COS: Optical coherence IM: Pediatric uveitis and G: Surgery PO: Pathology/Oncology 2 COS: Cornea and ocular tomography applications in arthritis: impact on vision and surface - infl ammation 1 Eberhart ZRENNER Leopold SCHMETTERER anterior segment eye diseases life - life long! Alain BRON Steffen HEEGAARD Dominique BREMOND-GIGNAC Irene BARBAZETTO Gerhard GARHOFER Edward WYLEGALA Friederike MACKENSEN K. Sheng LIM Karin LOEFFLER Anthony J. BRON 10:00 - 10:45 Keynote Lecture 3: Genetics and treatment of Stargardt disease - Rando ALLIKMETS ZEUS 11:00 - 12:30 RV: Retinal detachment surgery VEP: Doctor I can’t see IM: Angiography and fundus imag- IM: How to get your work G: Cataract and glaucoma OOG Presentations 1 COS: Keratoprosthesis update in the dark ing in uveitis: principles & practice published ? surgery, combined or not? Constantin POURNARAS Carl P HERBORT Uwe PLEYER RJW DE KEIZER Efstratios MENDRINOS Graham HOLDER Moncef KHAIRALLAH Harminder S DUA Thierry ZEYEN Nikolaos E. BECHRAKIS Christopher LIU 12:35 - 13:35 Lunchtime CIS - CROMA: New IM: Uveitis Award Ceremony advanced technologies for ophthalmic applications Manfred ZIERHUT 13:45 - 15:15 RV: CME: Pathogenesis and VEP: Free Papers LC: Restoration of IM: Ocular immuno-infectiology G: Imaging OOG Presentations 2 COS: Cornea and ocular surface, management accommodation from basic science to clinical infl ammation 2 challenges Gabriel COSCAS Werner SPILEERS Rafael I. BARRAQUER Piergiorgio NERI Jost B JONAS Edoardo MIDENA Harminder S DUA Gisèle SOUBRANE Miguel CASTELO-BRANCO Ralph MICHAEL Carl P HERBORT Fotis TOPOUZIS Nathalie CASSOUX Mario NUBILE 15:20 - 16:25 Poster Session 3: Cornea / Ocular Surface - Immunology / Microbiology - Pathology / Oncology - Physiology / Biochemistry / Pharmacology - Vision Sciences / Electrophysiology / Physiology Optic 16:30 - 18:00 RV: Retinal detachment VEP: ISCEV Session The EVER ƒ - How to promote IM: Virus and anterior uveitis The Vision Screens in the OOG : Business meeting COS: The optics