08:30 - 09:45

Dry Eye session: New concepts in Dry Eye

Main arena Room Picasso

Chairpersons : Christophe BAUDOUIN (Paris, FRANCE), Maurizio ROLANDO (Genoa, ITALY)

08:30 - 08:45

Dry eye an inflammatory disease
Maurizio ROLANDO (Genoa, ITALY)

08:45 - 09:00

Looking at the tear film stability, new approaches
Maurizio ROLANDO (Genoa, ITALY)

09:00 - 09:15

Vision and Dry Eye
Jose BENITEZ DEL CASTILLO SANCHEZ (Madrid, SPAIN)

09:15 - 09:30

Burden of Dry Eye Disease
Francisco FIGUEIREDO (Newcastle, UNITED KINGDOM)

09:30 - 09:45

Discussion

09:45 - 10:05

Keynote lecture: Corneal involvement in allergy

Main arena Room Picasso

09:45 - 10:05

Keynote lecture: Corneal involvement in allergy
Andrea LEONARDI (Padua, ITALY)

10:05 - 10:30

Coffee break in the exhibition area

Exhibition area

10:30 - 11:15

Dry Eye session: Allergy & Contact Lens

Main arena Room Picasso

Chairpersons : Florence MALET (Bordeaux, FRANCE), Michel GUILLON (London, UNITED KINGDOM)

10:30 - 10:42

Contact Lens Dry Eye: Symptomatology & Tear Film Kinetics
Michel GUILLON (London, UNITED KINGDOM)

10:42 - 10:54

Tear film in CL wearers
Florence MALET (Bordeaux, FRANCE)

10:54 - 11:06

Allergy and CL
Sihem LAZREG (Algiers , ALGERIA)

11:06 - 11:15

Discussion

11:15 - 12:00

Free paper session 1

Main arena Room Picasso

Chairpersons : Dean SARIC (Zagreb, CROATIA), Mihály VEGH (Szeged, HUNGARY)

11:15 - 11:23

THE ROLE OF INNATE IMMUNE SYSTEM IN OCULAR ROSACEA: RESEARCH ON ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES
Nesrin BUYUKTORTOP (Kirikkale, TURKEY)

11:23 - 11:31

IN VIVO CORNEAL CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY IN MEIBOMIAN GLAND DYSFUNCTION
Betül N. BAYRAKTUTAR (Ankara, TURKEY)

11:31 - 11:39

EVALUATION OF OCULAR SURFACE IN DIFFERENT CONTACT LENS USAGE PROTOCOLS
Ersin MUHAFIZ (Yozgat, TURKEY)

11:39 - 11:47

SCLERAL LENSES AND OCULAR GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE
Agnès DELCAMPE (Rouen, FRANCE)

11:47 - 11:55

SCLERAL LENS AS A DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM
Renaud LABALLE (Le Mans, FRANCE)

11:55 - 12:00

Discussion

12:00 - 13:00

Gold Sponsor Symposium

Main arena Room Picasso

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch in the exhibition area

Exhibition area

14:00 - 15:15

Ocular surface infections

Main arena Room Picasso

Chairpersons : John DART (London, UNITED KINGDOM), Marc LABETOULLE (Le Kremlin Bicetre, FRANCE)

14:00 - 14:20

Infections and Contact lenses: what should know all ophthalmologists ?
John DART (London, UNITED KINGDOM)

14:20 - 14:35

Impact of hygiene and infectious keratitis in contact lens users: a national french survey
Arnaud SAUER (Strasbourg, FRANCE)

14:35 - 14:50

Herpes simplex keratitis: how a unilateral disease may drive bilateral sicca syndrome ?
Marc LABETOULLE (Le Kremlin Bicetre, FRANCE)

14:50 - 15:05

Fungal keratitis and acanthameba
Francisco ARNALICH-MONTIEL (Madrid, SPAIN)

15:05 - 15:15

Discussion

14:00 - 15:15

Free paper Session 2 - Part 1: Comfort & Lenses

Parallel room - Soutine Room

Chairpersons : Valentina DIMITRIJEVIC MILOVANOVIC (Belgrade, SERBIA), Cornelius BERZAS (Offenbach Am Main, GERMANY)

14:00 - 14:08

CONTACT LENSES AND SICCA PROBLEMS CONTACT LENS FITTING YES OR NO? AND IF, WHICH CONTACT LENS?
Sabine KASPERSKI (Oberhausen, GERMANY)

14:08 - 14:16

CORNEAL CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY FINDINGS IN CONTACT LENS DISCOMFORT PATIENTS
Aysun Sanal DOGAN (Ankara, TURKEY)

14:16 - 14:24

SCLERAL CONTACT LENSES IN DIFFICULT CORNEAS
Zeynep OZBEK (Izmir, TURKEY)

14:24 - 14:32

SEMI-AUTOMATIC MEASUREMENT OF RIGID GAS-PERMEABLE CONTACT LENS MOVEMENT USING PATIENT'S BLINKING IMAGES
Fateme ALIPOUR (Tehran, IRAN)

14:32 - 14:40

SCLERAL LENS VISUAL PERFORMANCE AND IMPACT ON QUALITY OF LIFE IN IRREGULAR CORNEAS
Dilay OZEK (Ankara, TURKEY)

14:40 - 14:48

EVALUATION OF CORNEAL EPITHELIAL THICKNESS AND CORNEAL MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES INDUCED BY THE USE OF DAILY DISPOSABLE CONTACT LENSES
Semra AKKAYA TURHAN (Istanbul, TURKEY)

14:48 - 14:56

THE USE OF THERAPEUTICAL CONTACT LENSES IN CORNEAL EPITHELIAL DEFECT
Adriana STANILA (Sibiu, ROMANIA)

14:56 - 15:15

Discussion

15:15 - 16:15

Silver Sponsor Symposium

Main arena Room Picasso

15:15 - 16:15

Free paper Session 2 - Part 2: Keratoconus

Parallel room - Soutine Room

Chairpersons : Sylvain ROY (Carouge, SWITZERLAND), Peter GORKA (Sankt Poelten, AUSTRIA)

15:15 - 15:23

ACCELERATED (9 MW/CM2) CORNEAL COLLAGEN CROSSLINKING FOR PROGRESSIVE KERATOCONUS: ONE - YEAR FOLLOW-UP
Ömür UÇAKHAN-GÜNDÜZ (Ankara, TURKEY)

15:23 - 15:31

EFFICIENCY OF CORNEAL CROSSLINKING FOR KERATOCONUS PERFORMED IN PATIENTS WITH CORNEAL THICKNESS ABOVE AND BELOW 400 MICRONS
Dean SARIC (Zagreb, CROATIA)

15:31 - 15:39

OUR RESULTS AT 7 YEARS AFTER CROSS-LINKING PROCEDURE IN KERATOCONIC PATIENTS
Cristina NICULA (Cluj Napoca, ROMANIA)

15:39 - 15:47

ROSE K CONTACT LENSES IN CORNEAL ECTASIA
Zeynep BAS (Ankara, TURKEY)

15:47 - 15:55

HYDRO CONE LENS VISUAL PERFORMANCE AND İMPACT ON QUALITY OF LIFE IN KERATOCONUS AND TRAUMATIC CORNEAL SCAR
Dilay OZEK (Ankara, TURKEY)

15:55 - 16:15

Discussion

16:15 - 16:35

Keynote lecture: Corneal wound healing and neurotrophic ulcers

Main arena Room Picasso

16:15 - 16:35

Keynote lecture: Corneal wound healing and neurotrophic ulcers
Eric GABISON (Paris, FRANCE)

16:35 - 17:00

Coffee break in the exhibition area

Exhibition area

17:00 - 18:00

Iatrogenic Dry Eye

Main arena Room Picasso

Chairpersons : Béatrice COCHENER (Brest, FRANCE), Gysbert VAN SETTEN (Solna, SWEDEN)

17:00 - 17:12

Deleterious effects of preservatives to the ocular surface
Françoise BRIGNOLE-BAUDOUIN (Paris, FRANCE)

17:12 - 17:24

The ocular surface in glaucoma
Antoine LABBE (Paris, FRANCE)

17:24 - 17:36

Post-surgical dry eye
Béatrice COCHENER (Brest, FRANCE)

17:36 - 17:48

Solution-induced corneal staining syndrome (SICS)
Florence MALET (Bordeaux, FRANCE)

17:48 - 18:00

Discussion

17:00 - 18:10

Free paper Session 2 - Part 3

Parallel room - Soutine Room

Chairpersons : Ömür UÇAKHAN-GÜNDÜZ (Ankara, TURKEY), Michelle RHEE (New York, UNITED STATES)

17:00 - 17:08

TITLE COLORED COSMETIC CONTACT LENS, A PREDICTABLE DISASTER
Nadia KORCHANE (Tunis, TUNISIA)

17:08 - 17:16

COULD RGP LENSES CHANGE THE BIOMECHANICS OF CORNEA IN KERATOCONUS?
Ebrahim JAFARZADEHPUR (TEHRAN, IRAN)

17:16 - 17:24

CORNEAL BIOMECHANICAL FINDINGS IN CONTACT LENS-INDUCED CORNEAL WARPAGE COMPARED WITH NONE- WARPAGE NORMAL AND KERATOCONIC EYES
Fateme ALIPOUR (Tehran, IRAN)

17:24 - 17:32

RGP CONTACT LENS FITTING ASSESSMENT IN PATIENTS WITH KERATOCONUS USING SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE AS A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM
Fateme ALIPOUR (Tehran, IRAN)

17:32 - 17:40

NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR KERATOCONUS AND IRREGULAR CORNEA CORRECTION WITH EYE BRID SILICONE HYBRID LENSES - OWN CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
Piotr SZYMANEK (Warszawa, POLAND)

17:40 - 17:48

CONTACT LENS FITTING IN PATIENTS WITH IRREGULAR CORNEAS - BASE CURVE AND KERATOMETRIC READINGS
João COELHO (Porto, PORTUGAL)

17:48 - 17:56

ORTHO-K-LENS STOPS MYOPIA PROGRESSION: FIRST 10 CASE REPORTS
Cornelius BERZAS (Offenbach Am Main, GERMANY)

17:56 - 18:10

Discussion

18:00 - 18:20

Keynote Lecture: New Imaging techniques of the Ocular Surface

Main arena Room Picasso

18:00 - 18:20

Keynote Lecture: New Imaging techniques of the Ocular Surface
Christophe BAUDOUIN (Paris, FRANCE)

18:20 - 19:05

Sponsor Symposium

Main arena Room Picasso

09:00 - 09:40

International update on contact lenses

Main arena Room Picasso

Chairpersons : Ursula VOGT (London, UNITED KINGDOM), Adriana STANILA (Sibiu, ROMANIA)

09:00 - 09:15

International CL prescribing
Philip MORGAN (Manchester, UNITED KINGDOM)

09:15 - 09:40

Contact lens research
Eef VAN DER WORP (Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS)

09:40 - 10:00

Free paper session 3 & Rapid fire session with photo-competition

Main arena Room Picasso

Chairpersons : Adrien SARFATI (Paris, FRANCE), Mirna STABUC SILIH (Ljubljana, SLOVENIA)

09:40 - 09:46

VISION-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE AND CLINICAL PERFORMANCE OF A NEW HYBRID CONTACT LENS FOR KERATOCONUS
Didem YIGIT DIZDAR (Istanbul, TURKEY)

09:46 - 09:52

HYBRID LENSES, REFITTING AFTER NON-TOLERANCE TO RGPS
Pauline DAGUE (Ambilly, FRANCE)

09:52 - 10:00

Photo Competition

10:00 - 10:30

Round table controversies: pro/con Daily disposable lenses for everyone?

Main arena Room Picasso

Chairpersons : Philip MORGAN (Manchester, UNITED KINGDOM), Tania SCHAEFER (Curitiba, BRAZIL)

10:00 - 10:30

Round table controversies: pro/con Daily disposable lenses for everyone?
Christina GRUPCHEVA (Varna, BULGARIA)

, Simona Elena RADU (Bucharest, ROMANIA)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break in the exhibition area

Exhibition area

11:00 - 11:45

Keratoconus, contact lens correction and surgery

Main arena Room Picasso

Chairpersons : Inge LEYSEN (Antwerp, BELGIUM), Florence MALET (Bordeaux, FRANCE)

11:00 - 11:30

Round table controversies: pro/con RGP lenses or scleral lenses?
Paul ROSE (Hamilton, NEW ZEALAND)

, Gregory DENAEYER (Columbus, UNITED STATES)

11:30 - 11:45

Where does contact lens fitting stop? When is the right time for graft surgery?
Vincent BORDERIE (Paris, FRANCE)

, Carina KOPPEN (Antwerp, BELGIUM)

11:45 - 12:45

Gold Sponsor Symposium

Main arena Room Picasso

12:45 - 13:45

Lunch in the exhibition area

Exhibition area

13:45 - 14:15

News from Industry

Main arena Room Picasso

14:15 - 15:00

Myopia control session

Main arena Room Picasso

Chairpersons : Ayse Ebru TOKER (Morgantown, UNITED STATES), Yoram BIGER (Kfar-Saba, ISRAEL)

14:15 - 14:30

Facts and fiction on myopia control
Ömür UÇAKHAN-GÜNDÜZ (Ankara, TURKEY)

14:30 - 14:45

Myopia control attitudes and practice in Europe
James WOLFFSOHN (Aston, UNITED KINGDOM)

14:45 - 15:00

Progress in Myopia Progression
Noel BRENNAN (Jacksoville, UNITED STATES)

15:00 - 16:00

Gold Sponsor Symposium

Main arena Room Picasso

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break in the exhibition area

Exhibition area

16:30 - 17:00

International contact lens societies (IMCLC, CLAO, SOBLEC): Presidents' session

Main arena Room Picasso

Chairpersons : René MELY (Valmont, FRANCE), Gudrun BISCHOFF (Hamburg, GERMANY)

16:30 - 16:40

The IMCLC - past, present and future
Gudrun BISCHOFF (Hamburg, GERMANY)

16:40 - 16:50

News from CLAO - CL education of ophthalmologists in the USA
Michelle RHEE, Ecla (New York, UNITED STATES)

16:50 - 17:00

SOBLEC - Global Meeting by Web
Tania SCHAEFER, Soblec (Curitiba, BRAZIL)

17:00 - 17:15

Fick-Kalt-Müller Medal & Prizes for best poster & best paper presentation

Main arena Room Picasso

17:15 - 17:45

Communication and contact lenses

Main arena Room Picasso

Chairpersons : Andrena MC ELVANNEY (London, UNITED KINGDOM), Bruce KOFFLER (Lexington, UNITED STATES)

17:15 - 17:30

Communication skills in Contact Lens practice
Sarah MORGAN (Bolton, UNITED KINGDOM)

17:30 - 17:45

Building a successful Contact Lens practice
Brian TOMPKINS (Northampton, UNITED KINGDOM)

17:45 - 18:15

Sponsor Symposium

Main arena Room Picasso

18:15 - 19:15

General Assembly

Main arena Room Picasso