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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
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NORDIC CONGRESS OF
OPHTHALMOLOGY
HELSINKI CONGRESS PAASITORNI
HELSINKI, FINLAND
25-28 AUGUST 2012
Social programme
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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