08:30 - 09:00 » Opening ceremony

09:00 - 10:30 » Current approaches in treatment of keratoconus

• 09:00 - 09:30 » Translational research for UVA riboflavin corneal cross-linking:

• 09:00 - 09:15 » The science behind UVA riboflavin corneal crosslinking

  Eberhard SPOERL, Dresden (GERMANY)

• 09:15 - 09:30 » Clinical application of UVA riboflavin corneal crosslinking

  Farhad HAFEZI, Geneva (SWITZERLAND)

• 09:30 - 09:45 » Intracorneal segments

  Aylin KILIÇ, Istanbul (TURKEY)

• 09:45 - 10:00 » Refractive surgery and keratoconus

  Dean SARIC, Zagreb (CROATIA)

• 10:00 - 10:15 » State of the art in transplant surgery for ectatic disease

  Vincent BORDERIE, Paris (FRANCE)

• 10:15 - 10:30 » The pivotal role of contact lenses in the treatment paradigm of keratoconus

  Carina KOPPEN, Antwerp (BELGIUM)

10:30 - 11:00 » Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:20 » 3rd TFOS Report on Contact Lens Discomfort

11:20 - 12:00 » Free paper session 1

• 11:20 - 11:30 » Inflammatory cells in the central corneal epithelium in dry eye

  Anda BALGALVE, Riga (LATVIA)

• 11:30 - 11:40 » Showing the efficacy and safety of intraperitoneally applied celecoxib in the experimental dry eye model of mice

  Ozgul ALTINTAS, Kocaeli (TURKEY)

• 11:40 - 11:50 » The benefits of using therapeutic contact lenses in the anterior eye segment surgery

  Adriana STANILA, Sibiu (ROMANIA)

• 11:50 - 12:00 » Amniotic membrane or bandage contact lens?

  Mihály VÉGH, Szeged (HUNGARY)

12:00 - 12:45 » Industry sponsored symposium

12:45 - 14:00 » Lunch

14:00 - 15:00 » Contact lens materials: new developments

• 14:00 - 14:30 » Keynote speaker on soft lens materials

  Frank MOLOCK, Birmingham (UNITED KINGDOM)

• 14:30 - 14:50 » Overview of current RGP materials

  Lynette JOHNS, Boston (UNITED STATES)

• 14:50 - 15:00 » Antimicrobial materials: myth or soon reality?

  Florence ABRY, Epinal (FRANCE)

15:00 - 16:00 » R&D perspective on soft and RGP materials (Industry supported session)

16:00 - 16:30 » Coffee Break

16:30 - 17:00 » Rapid fire session on material problems with photo competition

• 16:30 - 16:35 » Iron deposits on soft contactlenses

  Gert VANSCHOENWINKEL, Diepenbeek (BELGIUM)

• 16:35 - 16:40 » A hidey hole not so quiet

  Soumaya EL AMALI EL HANACHE, Amiens (FRANCE)

• 16:40 - 16:45 » It is unbelievable what patients do with GP lenses within a short period of use

  Halina MANCZAK, Poznan (POLAND)

• 16:45 - 16:50 » Full scleral lens solved fitting issues in advanced PMD patient

  Halina MANCZAK, Poznan (POLAND)

• 16:50 - 16:55 » Fitting hybrid lens instead of RGP lens to avoid corneal graft

  Yamina KHALEF, Hydra (ALGERIA)

• 16:55 - 17:00 » Abnormal color fading of an iris paint lens

  Inge LEYSEN, Antwerp (BELGIUM)

17:00 - 18:10 » Free paper session 2

• 17:00 - 17:10 » Keratoconus - missing the early diagnosis becomes a medicolegal problem

  Yoram BIGER, Kfar-saba (ISRAEL)

• 17:10 - 17:20 » Importance of corneal tomography in differentiating atypical keratoconus and regular non-ectatic corneas with high astigmatism

  Kristina SAVIC, Belgrade (SERBIA)

• 17:20 - 17:30 » Corneal collagen crosslinking in pediatric patients: 1 year follow-up results

  Omür UCAKHAN-GÜNDÜZ, Ankara (TURKEY)

• 17:30 - 17:40 » Alterations in contact lens fitting parameters post cross linking in keratoconus patients of indian ethnicity

  Mainak BHATTACHARYYA, Delhi (INDIA)

• 17:40 - 17:50 » Evaluation of efficiency and safety of quercetin as an alternative of riboflavin in cross-linking treatment on rabbit cornea

  Ozgul ALTINTAS, Kocaeli (TURKEY)

• 17:50 - 18:00 » Effect of contact lens materials and corneal biomechanical properties on intraocular pressure in neophyte soft contact lens wearers

  Kishor SAPKOTA, Braga (PORTUGAL)

• 18:00 - 18:10 » New hybrid lenses: for whom … and how?

  Florence ABRY, Epinal (FRANCE)

18:15 - 19:15 » Welcome cocktail in the exhibition area

09:00 - 12:00 » Basic Course  Basic Course

• 09:00 - 09:40 » RGP contact lenses

  Irena MARKOVIC, Krilo Jesenice (CROATIA)

• 09:40 - 10:20 » Soft contact lenses

  Maja NOVAK-STROLIGO , Rijeka (CROATIA)

• 10:20 - 10:40 » Morning coffee

• 10:40 - 11:20 » Soft toric contact lenses

  Morena GAVRIC, Zagreb (CROATIA)

• 11:20 - 12:00 » Round table - Optometry and internet sale in contactology of the region

  Irena MARKOVIC, Krilo Jesenice (CROATIA) - Maja NOVAK-STROLIGO , Rijeka (CROATIA) - Morena GAVRIC, Zagreb (CROATIA)

14:00 - 17:00 » Advanced Course  Advanced Course

• 14:00 - 14:40 » Contact lenses for keratoconus

  Adrian LUKENDA, Zagreb (CROATIA)

• 14:40 - 15:20 » Fitting or irregular corneas and eyes after penetrating keratoplasty

  Dean SARIC, Zagreb (CROATIA)

• 15:20 - 15:40 » Coffee break

• 15:40 - 16:20 » Contact lenses for infants

  Ksenija CURUVIJA OPACIC, Zagreb (CROATIA)

• 16:20 - 17:00 » Contact lens complications

  Snjezana MILJAK , Split (CROATIA)

08:30 - 09:00 » ECLSO General Assembly

09:00 - 10:10 » Contact lens related infectious disease

• 09:00 - 09:15 » What is new about contact lens complications? An observation on over 2000 cases in Germany

  Dorothea KUHN, Riedlingen (GERMANY)

• 09:15 - 09:30 » How effective are contact lens solutions against Acanthamoeba?

  Ksenija CURUVIJA OPACIC, Zagreb (CROATIA)

• 09:30 - 09:45 » A practical approach to the microbiological diagnosis of infectious keratitis

  Pierrette MELIN, Liège (BELGIUM)

• 09:45 - 10:00 » Photoactivated chromophore (PACK-CXL) for the treatment of infectious keratitis

  Farhad HAFEZI, Geneva (SWITZERLAND)

• 10:00 - 10:10 » In office disinfection of contact lenses

  Helmer SCHWEIZER, Cointrin-geneva (SWITZERLAND)

10:10 - 10:30 » Fick-Kalt-Müller medal

10:30 - 11:00 » Coffee break

11:00 - 12:00 » Scleral lenses: Three ground-breaking pioneers offer their perspective

Chairpersons: Carina KOPPEN, Antwerp (BELGIUM) - Adriana STANILA, Sibiu (ROMANIA) - Omür UCAKHAN-GÜNDÜZ, Ankara (TURKEY)
Speakers: Lynette JOHNS, Boston (UNITED STATES) - Henny OTTEN, Nijmegen (NETHERLANDS) - Ken PULLUM, London (UNITED KINGDOM)

12:00 - 12:30 » Industry sponsored symposium

12:30 - 14:00 » Lunch

14:00 - 15:00 » International symposium by CLAO (Contact Lens Association of Ophthalmologists) and SOBLEC (Sociedade Brasileira de Lentes de Contacto)

• 14:00 - 14:15 » My initial clinical experience with a new Hybrid Lens

  Bruce KOFFLER, Lexington (UNITED STATES)

• 14:15 - 14:30 » Dry eye and pollution in Brazil

  Newton KARA-JOSÉ, Sao Paulo (BRAZIL)

• 14:30 - 14:45 » Superficial keratitis in contact lens wearers

  Cesar LIPENER, Sao Paulo (BRAZIL)

15:00 - 15:20 » Industry sponsored symposium

15:20 - 16:00 » Free paper session 3

• 15:20 - 15:30 » A comparison of the effects of preoperative wearing soft and RGP contact lenses on dry eye after lasik surgery

  Vesna NOVAKOVIC, Belgrade (SERBIA)

• 15:30 - 15:40 » The correlation between duration of orthokeratology lens wear and corneal epithelial and stromal thickness in school children

  Jho Yan CHIA, Selangor (MALAYSIA)

• 15:40 - 15:50 » Results of refractive surgery after many years of Ortho-K

  Andriy KOVALOV, Kiev (UKRAINE)

• 15:50 - 16:00 » A new alternative treatment for refractory corneal ulcers: topical coenzyme Q10 eye drop

  Koray GUMUS, Kayseri (TURKEY)

16:00 - 16:30 » Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00 » Free paper session 4

• 16:30 - 16:40 » A new alternative fitting approach for providing adequate comfort and visual performance in keratoconus: soft hydrocone silicone hydrogel lenses

  Nisa PARMAKSIZ, Kayseri (TURKEY)

• 16:40 - 16:50 » Safety and efficacy of kerasoft IC contact lenses in refractive correction

  Betül BAYRAKTUTAR, Ankara (TURKEY)

• 16:50 - 17:00 » Scleral RGP lenses for the correction of complicated corneas

  Oksana AVERYANOVA, Kiev (UKRAINE)

• 17:00 - 17:10 » The possibilities in customized permeable scleral lenses for the best fitting

  Agnes DELCAMPE, Rouen (FRANCE)

• 17:10 - 17:20 » Angulation of the mini sclera lens to improve scleral fitting

  Sien JONGENELEN, Edegem (BELGIUM)

• 17:20 - 17:30 » Scleral lenses for the correction of irregular and high regular astigmatism

  Jovana SUVAJAC, Belgrade (SERBIA)

• 17:30 - 17:40 » Mini-scleral contact lenses: settling, apical clearance and corneal thickness changes after 8 hours of wear

  Ebru TOKER, Istanbul (TURKEY)

• 17:40 - 17:50 » Therapeutic scleral lens to rescue severe ocular surface disease

  Said YAHIAOUI, Algiers (ALGERIA)

18:00 - 18:15 » Best Free Paper and best Poster award - Closure of the congress

12:00 - 12:45 » Symposium ALCON: How important is the central K reading in soft contact fitting?

Helmer SCHWEIZER, Geneva (SWITZERLAND)

15:00 - 16:00 » R&D perspective on soft and RGP materials

• Alcon: Innovations for 2014

  I. PEREZ-GOMEZ

• Johnson & Johnson: The science behind contact lens innovation

  G. KARACA

• SynergEyes: The Soft Cushion Design

  D. REYES

• Mark'ennovy: Inspired by nature

  K. ARIF

• EyeBrid: Innovative hybrid technology leading to a new generation of materials

  E. VEILLARD

• Menicon: A new approach to daily disposable soft lenses

  P. MONTEIL

• Fenestrations a key for corneal sclerals lenses ?

  F. BAECHELE LAO

• Eaglet Eye: measuring anterior surface beyond the cornea

  A. SNEPVANGERS

12:00 - 12:30 » Symposium Johnson & Johnson Vision Care: Clinical Performance of Contemporary Daily Disposable Contact Lenses

15:00 - 15:20 » Symposium SynergEyes: UltraHealth - Second Generation S-H Hybrid Contact Lens - The New Solution for Irregular Cornea Management