PRELIMINARY OPTOMETRIC PROGRAMME : OSSA 2009
DURBAN ICC : THURS 26 FEBRUARY TO SATURDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2009
THURS 26 FEB 2009
Registration Opens from 12h00 onwards
WORKSHOP Programme:
WORKSHOP 1
13h00 – 15h00
: OCT Workshop: Prof Stefano Miglior and Panel
15h00 - 15h30
: TEA
15h30 – 18h00
: VEGF Therapy Update: Prof Paul Mitchell and Panel
WORKSHOP 2
14h00 – 18h00
: To be confirmed by Zeiss: Dr Damien Gatinel
WORKSHOP 3
14h00 – 15h00
: 25 Gauge Vitrectomy Workshop: Dr Carl Groenewald
15h00 – 15h30
: TEA
15h30 -16h30
: Pentacam Workshop
18h00 for 18h30
: Cocktail Party
FRIDAY 27 FEB 2009
SESSION 1
07h00
08h00
08h15
08h45
09h15
Registration
Official Opening/Welcome
Fundus Cameras-Which camera must I buy?
New treatment for keratoconus - corneal cross linking
Corneal cross linking video session and discussion
09h45 REFRESHMENT
- Dr Harold Konig
- Dr. Brian Gundry
- Dr. Danie du Toit
- Dr. Danie du Toit
SESSION 2
10h30
New Medical Therapies - Avastin/Lucentis/Kenalog. - Dr Peter van Lingen
How this changes the referral guidelines for optometrists
11h00 Odd retinal Lesions - AIDS, Adult Best’s,
- Dr Linda Visser
Chloroquine maculopathy, Sarcoid
11h35 SAM & DORA COHEN Lecture:
- Dr John Salmon
Primary angle-closure glaucoma
(move to Hall 2C)
Wits Alumni Group of Ophthalmologists Speaker
12h00 - 14h00: POSTER SESSION, TRADE EXHIBITION OPENING
AND LUNCH
SESSION 3
14h00 – 14h25: Prof Stefano Miglior
Why do I need to consider the choroid and ICGA imaging?
14h25 – 14h50: Prof Paul Mitchell
Retinal Vein Occlusion: classification, epidemiology, natural history
and approaches to management – Where are we in 2009?
14h50 – 15h00: Dr Robbie Nutt
Revisiting Retinal Vein Occlusions
15h00 – 15h25: Dr Carl Groenewald
Visualisation in Vitreoretinal surgery
15h25 – 15h40: Panel discussion
15h40 – 16h10: TEA
SESSION 4
16h10 – 16h35: Prof Paul Mitchell
Interaction of genes and environment in the risk for AMD
16h35 – 17h00: Prof Raj Ramesar
Advances in understanding retinal pathologies: hope for the future?
17h00 – 17h10: Prof Kovin Naidoo
Meeting the challenge of Africa’s Avoidable Blindness: The IAPB
Business Plan
17h10 – 17h35: Prof Paul Mitchell
Childhood refraction and eye conditions: What have findings from
recent population studies taught us?
17h35 – 17h45: Dr Rhian Grötte
Post Streptococcal Syndrome Uveitis in South African children
17h45 – 18h00: Panel discussion
18h00 for 18h30 ALCON LABORATORIES SOCIAL EVENING
SATURDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2009
SESSION 5
08h00 Optical Coherence Tomography - How it changes the - Dr Rizwana Amod
treatment of AMD, Diabetes and other macula pathology
08h30 Toric and Multifocal IOLs
- Dr Mark Deist
09h00 Intraocular contact lenses and Artisan lenses
- Dr Carl-Heinz Kruse
09h30 Unusual causes of a red eye
- Prof Andries Stulting
(a) Floppy Eyelid Syndrome
(b) Mucus Fishing Syndrome
(c) SLK
(d) Reiter’s Syndrome
10h00 Relevance of fundal photography
- Prof Polla Roux
10h30 TEA
SESSION 6
11h00 Allergic conjunctivitis/GPC - An optometric
approach
11h30 Common Eyelid Pathologies
(a) Entropian/Ectropian
(b) Blepharitis/Scabies
(c) Molluscum Contagiosum/Papilloma/
Basal cell carcinoma
(d) Trichiasis/Distichiasis
(e) Seborrhoea
12h15 D J WOOD Lecture Dr Louis Kruger
- Dr Anthony Zaborowski
- Dr Vanessa Thunstrom
(move to Hall 2C)
13h00 LUNCH
SESSION 7
14h00 Low Tension Glaucoma/Ocular Hypertension/
Glaucoma: Confusion?
14h30 Glaucoma Screening Technologies GDX/HRT/OCT
15h00 Glaucoma visual fields - update
15h30 TEA
- Dr Sue Williams
- Prof Grant McLaren
- Prof Colin Cook
SESSION 8
16h00 Corneal ulcers can be blinding. How can the
optometrist avoid this complication
- Prof Trevor Carmichael
16h30 Pentacam-Diagnosing Keratoconus/Form Fruste
Keratoconus
18h30 for 19h00 SUPPER CLUB
- Joerg Iwanczuk