The Sutton Place Hotel
955 Bay Street
Toronto, ON
Symposium Description
This one day symposium for ophthalmologists will cover innovations and applications of current knowledge related to glaucomatous disease and treatment. Practical approaches to determine the risk of developing glaucoma, and to recognize disease progression will be addressed. Emerging information regarding clinical signs of glaucoma and progressive disease, measurement tools and their interpretation, and management strategies regarding treatment initiation for those at risk, and for those with worsening disease will be considered in the context of day to day clinical practice.
Program:
7:00 Registration & Hot Breakfast
8:15 Opening
Catherine Whiteside, MD PhD
Dean, Faculty of Medicine
University of Toronto
8:17 Welcome
Jeff Hurwitz, MD
Chair, Ophthalmology & Vision Sciences
University of Toronto
8:19 Remarks
Neeru Gupta
Program Chair
8:20 Introduction of Keynote Speaker
Martin Steinbach, PhD
Director, Vision Science Research Program
University of Toronto
Research for Sight Keynote Lecture
“Pathogenesis and Biology of Prion Diseases -
Lessons for Other Neurodegenerative Disorders”
Stanley B. Prusiner MD
Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine 1997
Director, Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases
University of California, San Francisco
At Risk for Glaucoma?
Moderators: Drs. Neeru Gupta and Theodore Krupin
9:20 Assessing Risk - What it Means, Why it is Important,
and the Value of Biomarkers
Robert N. Weinreb, MD
9:40 Intraocular Pressure: Does it Measure Up?
M. Roy Wilson MD
10:00 Panel Discussion: Drs. Prusiner, Weinreb, Wilson
10:30 Break:
11:00 Risk Factors Needing More Attention
Anne Coleman MD PhD
11:20 Estimating the Risk of Developing Glaucoma
Felipe Medeiros MD
11:40 Panel Discussion: Drs. Coleman, Medeiros, Weinreb, Greenfield
12:00 Lunch
Lessons on the Patient with Glaucoma
Moderators: Drs. Roger Hitchings and David Greenfield
1:00 Staging the Glaucoma Patient: Why and How?
Remo Susanna MD
1:20 Measuring Optic Nerve Damage: Pearls and Pitfalls
Fred Mikelberg MD
1:40 Best Kept Secrets on Visual Field Loss in Glaucoma
Anders Heijl MD
2:00 Weighing in Ocular Perfusion Pressure in Clinical Practice
Fotis Topouzis MD
2:20 Panel Discussion: Susanna, Mikelberg, Heijl, Topouzis, Weinreb
2:45 Break
Managing the Glaucoma Patient
Moderators: Drs. Graham Trope, Robert N. Weinreb
3:00 Is the Patient Getting Worse?
Kuldev Singh MD
3:20 Stepping up Management: When and How?
Ivan Goldberg MD
3:40 Special Treatment for Pseudoexfoliation Patients
Robert Ritch MD
4:00 Personalized Medicine: Getting Closer
Ian MacDonald MD
4:20 Panel discussion: Drs. Goldberg, Singh, Ritch, MacDonald, Greenfield
4:40 Wrap Up
Roger Hitchings, FRCS, FRCOphth
4:50 Future Directions
Neeru Gupta, MD, PhD
5:00 Reception
Accommodation
A limited block of Deluxe King rooms is being held at The Sutton Place Hotel, 955 Bay Street - $220 CAD (plus taxes) single/double. Please direct your room requirements to the hotel reservations department stating "Glaucoma Risk & Disease Management Symposium". Rooms at the conference rate are available until the bedroom block fills or September 23, 2008, whichever occurs first.
Telephone: 416.924.9221
Toll-free: 1.866.378.8566
Fee(s)
Physicians Early: $195.00
Physicians Late: $245.00
Other health professionals Early: $175.00
Other health professionals Late: $225.00
Out of Town Residents /Fellows Early: $75.00
Out of Town Residents/Fellows Late: $100.00
Additional Details
- Poster - Glaucoma_Risk_08_Poster_Final.pdf
- Event Brochure / Program - Glaucoma_Risk_08_Brochure_Final.pdf
Registration
When you have reviewed the above information, click the following link to register.
Registration