08:30 - 09:00 | ECLSO General Assembly | Main arena |
09:00 - 10:00 | Soft lens track - Taking soft lens fitting a level higher - Microbial keratitis | Main arena |
Chairpersons : René MELY (Valmont, FRANCE), Canan GÜRDAL (Ankara, TURKEY) 09:00 - 09:30 Differential diagnosis of corneal infiltrates and ulcerations Carina KOPPEN (Antwerp, BELGIUM)  , René MELY (Valmont, FRANCE)09:30 - 10:00 Contact lens related microbial keratitis - epidemiology and prophylaxis Mark WILLCOX (Sydney, AUSTRALIA) |
09:00 - 10:00 | Specialty lens track - Keratoconus management with contact lenses | Room 2 |
Chairpersons : Peter GORKA (Sankt Poelten, AUSTRIA), Tomris ŞENGÖR (Istanbul, TURKEY) 09:00 - 09:15 Soft/toric designs for the irregular cornea Ömür UÇAKHAN-GÜNDÜZ (Ankara, TURKEY) 09:15 - 09:30 Hybrid lenses Langis MICHAUD (Quebec, CANADA) 09:30 - 09:45 Scleral lenses: beyond corneal borders Eef VAN DER WORP (Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS) |
10:00 - 10:30 | Free paper session 3 | Main arena |
Chairpersons : Dean SARIC (Zagreb, CROATIA), Cornelius BERZAS (Offenbach Am Main, GERMANY) 10:00 - 10:07 Visual acuity outcome in clearkone and RGP lenses Mohammadali HASSANI (TEHRAN, IRAN) 10:14 - 10:21 Two degenerative corneal diseases comparison - keratoconus and pellucid marginal degeneration of cornea Rets SKRICKIS (Riga, LATVIA) 10:21 - 10:28 Contact lens fitting following penetrating keratoplasty Betül Nurefşan BAYRAKTUTAR (Ankara, TURKEY) Ömür UÇAKHAN-GÜNDÜZ (TURKEY) |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | Exhibition area |
11:00 - 12:15 | Soft lens track - Taking soft lens fitting a level higher - Modern lens designs | Main arena |
Chairpersons : Ursula VOGT (London, UNITED KINGDOM), Valentina DIMITRIJEVIC MILOVANOVIC (Belgrade, SERBIA) 11:00 - 11:15 Developments in materials Canan GÜRDAL (Ankara, TURKEY) 11:15 - 11:35 Current state of the research on soft toric lenses Graeme YOUNG (Farnham, UNITED KINGDOM) 11:35 - 12:00 Survival of the Fitting: the benefits of sagittal height in soft lens fitting Eef VAN DER WORP (Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS) 12:00 - 12:10 The inter-relationship of soft contact lens base curve radius, diameter and fit Graeme YOUNG (Farnham, UNITED KINGDOM) 12:10 - 12:15 Discussion |
11:00 - 12:15 | Specialty lens track - Trouble shooting with scleral lenses: panel discussion with experts from Europe and North America | Room 2 |
Chairpersons : Carina KOPPEN (Antwerp, BELGIUM), Yoram BIGER (Kfar-Saba, ISRAEL) 11:00 - 12:15 Oksana AVERYANOVA (Kiev, UKRAINE), Lynette JOHNS (Boston, UNITED STATES), Langis MICHAUD (Quebec, CANADA) |
12:15 - 13:00 | Gold sponsor symposium | Main arena |
13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | Exhibition area |
14:00 - 15:15 | Symposium on myopia control | Main arena |
Chairpersons : Ömür UÇAKHAN-GÜNDÜZ (Ankara, TURKEY), Penny ASBELL (New York, UNITED STATES) 14:00 - 14:15 The myopia epidemic Penny ASBELL (New York, UNITED STATES) 14:15 - 14:30 Orthokeratology and myopia control Yoram BIGER (Kfar-Saba, ISRAEL) 14:30 - 14:45 The influence of soft multi/bifocal lenses on myopia progression Jacinto SANTODOMINGO (Pozuelo, SPAIN) 14:45 - 15:00 Pharmacological control of myopia Ömür UÇAKHAN-GÜNDÜZ (Ankara, TURKEY) 15:00 - 15:15 Panel discussion |
15:15 - 15:40 | Free paper session 4 | Main arena |
Chairpersons : Sevda AYDIN KURNA (Istanbul, TURKEY), Mihály VÉGH (Szeged, HUNGARY) 15:15 - 15:22 Orthokeratology, is it safe and efficient ? Moatez Billah MEKKI (Algiers, ALGERIA) Reda BELAOUDMOU (ALGERIA), Rachid BOUGUERFA (ALGERIA), Moatez Billah MEKKI (ALGERIA), Okba TITAH (ALGERIA) 15:22 - 15:29 Restoring quality of vision after unsuccessful hyperopic refractive surgery Dean SARIC (Zagreb, CROATIA) Senad RAMIC (CROATIA) 15:29 - 15:36 A complex case of late post-RK wound dehiscence treated with specialty lenses Jonas VAN DEN HEURCK (Antwerp, BELGIUM) Lieselotte ANTHONISSEN (BELGIUM), Kim BOVEN (BELGIUM), Carina KOPPEN (BELGIUM), Maarten VAN HOEY (BELGIUM) |
15:40 - 16:00 | Silver sponsor symposium | Main arena |
16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break | Exhibition area |
16:30 - 17:15 | CLAO-SOBLEC International symposium | Main arena |
Chairpersons : Ayfer KANPOLAT (Ankara, TURKEY), Gudrun BISCHOFF (Hamburg, GERMANY) 16:30 - 16:45 CXL - what do we really know about cross linking for Keratoconus, for Infectious keratitis? Penny ASBELL (New York, UNITED STATES) 16:45 - 17:00 Specular microscopy and its reliability indexes Fernando ABIB (Curitiba, BRAZIL) 17:00 - 17:15 Questions and Answers |
17:15 - 18:00 | Free paper session 5 | Main arena |
Chairperson : Anna Maria AMBROZIAK (Warsaw, POLAND) 17:15 - 17:22 Corneal endothelial analysis in patients with different stages of keratoconus Serdar AKTAS (Kutahya, TURKEY) Yasin CINAR (TURKEY), Abdullah Kursat CINGU (TURKEY) 17:22 - 17:29 Slit lamp photography by Smart Phone Mihály VÉGH (Szeged, HUNGARY) Andrea FACSKÓ (HUNGARY), András HÁRI-KOVÁCS (HUNGARY), Hans-Walter ROTH (GERMANY) 17:29 - 17:36 State of the art in high technology carrier contact lenses Kazim Hilmi OR (Istanbul, TURKEY) 17:36 - 17:43 Evaluation of ocular surface epithelial thicknesses in psoriasis patients using anterior segment optical coherence tomography Ismail ERSAN (Canakkale, TURKEY) Sedat ARIKAN (TURKEY), Baran GENCER (TURKEY), Selcuk KARA (TURKEY), Sevilay KILIC (TURKEY), Zerrin OGRETMEN (TURKEY), Isik SELDA (TURKEY) 17:43 - 17:50 Challanges in the non-invasive assessment of tear film break-up time with placido disc videokeratoscopy Dorota H. SZCZESNA-ISKANDER (Wroclaw, POLAND) 17:50 - 17:57 Comparing improvement in test scores with X-Chrom lenses on three colour vision testing techniques Shraddha SARAF (New Delhi, INDIA) Jugal KISHORE (INDIA), Kirti SINGH (INDIA), Punita Kumari SODHI (INDIA), Usha YADAVA (INDIA) |
18:00 - 18:15 | Best Free Paper and best Poster award - Closure of the meeting | Main arena |