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Education
Featured this year are two symposia along with the strong array of scientific and clinical papers.
Symposium topics will include:
Optometry
and the Aging Eye
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Physiological changes over time
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Personal and societal costs of vision impairment in the elderly
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Prevention of falls in the elderly vision impaired
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Case management in low vision patients
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Assessment
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Patient selection
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Low vision devices
Cornea,
Contact Lenses and Recent
Advances in Refractive Surgery
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Corneal physiology and contact lenses
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Contact lens options
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The difficult contact lens fit
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Orthokeratology
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Wavefront guided LASIK
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New implant options
The Woo Memorial Lecture will open the Congress. A total of 21 hours of education will be offered including papers on clinical case studies and vision science.
Gordon Sanderson, BSc, PG Dip Tert T, FBOA, FRANZCO is a Senior Lecturer in the Ophthalmology Section, Otago University Dunedin School of Medicine, New Zealand. He is the current Chair, New Zealand National Eye Bank; Secretary, Sure Sight Society; Trustee, Glaucoma New Zealand; and former Chair, Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind. He holds honorary membership in the Ophthalmological Society of New Zealand and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists.
George
Woo, OD, PhD, FAAO
is Chair Professor of Optometry at The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University, China.
Prior positions there were Head and Professor, Department of
Diagnostic Sciences, and Dean of Faculty of Health and Social
Sciences.
Before joining HK Poly he held faculty appointments at the
University of Waterloo (Canada) and consulting appointments at the
University of Melbourne (Australia), Pennsylvania College of
Optometry (USA), and the University of Cambridge (UK).
He is an honorary professor at China’s Sun Yat-sen
University and Tinjian Medical University.
Peter
Bergenske, OD, FAAO
is Associate Professor of Optometry and Chief of Contact Lens
Services at Pacific University College of Optometry (USA). He
graduated with honors from the University of California (Berkeley)
and was in private practice for 22 years in Wisconsin.
In addition to providing patient care, Dr. Bergenske enjoys
active involvement in clinical research and has served as a clinical
investigator for numerous contact lens products.
He is a Diplomate of the American Academy of Optometry’s
Section on Cornea and Contact Lenses and Past Chair of that Section.
He has lectured extensively and published numerous articles
and is a regular columnist for Contact Lens Spectrum and Review of
Contact Lenses.
Paul Barney, OD is the Center Director of the Pacific Cataract and Laser Institute (PCLI) in Anchorage, Alaska. This Center is one of many in a multi-office ophthalmic referral practice within five states of the Western United States. The Laser Institute specializes in refractive surgery, cataract surgery, corneal diseases, anterior segment disorders, glaucoma, and medical retinal disorders. Dr. Barney has extensive experience practicing and teaching outside the US; he has provided humanitarian optometric care in Central America, South America, Southeast Asia, and Micronesia.
