? t Y ou n . e t v k a Do yo now how to tre to pre u a ls o k n o w h o w Together with Baltic Eye Forum Early registration deadline - 10 May 2012 Congress fees Registration fees Early fee until 10 May 2012 Regular fee from 11 May 2012 Onsite fee Delegate 400 550 650 Resident / Trainee 250 350 400 Accompanying person 150 150 150 Cruise and dinner 90 90 90 Concert 40 40 40 Congress dinner 90 90 90 Social events XXXX NORDIC CONGRESS OF OPHTHALMOLOGY HELSINKI CONGRESS PAASITORNI HELSINKI, FINLAND 25-28 AUGUST 2012 Social programme • • • • • • Get together, Friday, 24 August at 18:30 Opening ceremony, Saturday, 25 August at 10:30 Cruise and dinner, Saturday, 25 August at 18:00 Concert at Temppeliaukio Church, Sunday, 26 August at 18:30 Congress dinner at Hilton Kalastajatorppa, Monday, 27 August at 19:30 Closing ceremony, Tuesday, 28 August at 11:00 www.nok2012.fi Restaurant Saaristo Keynote lectures Johanna Seddon: Can AMD be prevented? Robert Ritch: How to prevent glaucoma? plus Acta Gold Medal Lecture Selected Invited lectures Per Fagerholm: Biosynthetic materials allows new possibilities in corneal grafting Manfred Zierhut: Follow-up and treatment strategy of JRA associated uveitis Helen MintzHittner: Intravitreal antiVEGF and ROP Invited symposia Four Symposia of Baltic Ophthalmology and EVER Symposium CORNEA, ANTERIOR SEGMENT AND REFRACTICE SURGERY • Anterior segment imaging • Autoimmune diseases and the cornea • Corneal sensitivity and ocular pain • Dry eye - from the lab to clinical practice • Eye banking in the Nordic countries • Femtosecond laser in corneal surgery • Keratitis and its treatment in Nordic countries • Presbyopia surgery • Special aspects of uveitis • The pediatric cornea – when to perform keratoplasty? LENS AND CATARACT • Astigmatism correction • Bilateral vs. unilateral cataract surgery • How to manage demand for cataract surgery in the future • Intraocular refractive surgery • New technologies in cataract surgery • Late dislocation of IOL in the bag RETINA AND VITREOUS • RPE aging/degeneration • Epidemiology/genetic pathways in the pathogenesis of AMD • The treatment of wet AMD, how have we come where we are now, what is next? • Managing wet AMD in the clinical setting (panel) • Vitreoretinal treatment practices (panel) • Video session on vitreoretinal cases • New perspectives in retinopathy of prematurity • Lipids, atherosclerosis and ocular events – prevention and treatment • Optimised screening of diabetic retinopathy • Possibilities and limitations of modern diagnostic tools in diabetic retinopathy • Preventing diabetic retinopathy – evidence, targets and tools • Treatment of diabetic retinopathy – old and new • Special aspects of uveitis • Update on uveal melanoma • Uveitis in childhood PEDIATRIC OPHTHALMOLOGY AND STRABISMUS • New perspectives in retinopathy of prematurity • The pediatric cornea – when to perform keratoplasty? • Vascular anomalies of the orbit and the eye in children • Update on retinoblastoma • Uveitis in childhood HISTORY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY • Famous Nordic ophthalmologists GLAUCOMA AND NEURO-OPHTHALMOLOGY • Glaucoma surgery • Neuro-ophthalmological cases OCULAR ONCOLOGY • Update on ocular tumours • Update on retinoblastoma • Update on uveal melanoma ORBIT AND OCULOPLASTICS • Update on orbital processes • Tumours of the lids