Key Note Lectures



Stephen J. Ryan

Saturday, June 9
13.15 - 14.00   Room D

Key Note Lecture: Retina
Innovative technology in retinal diagnosis and treatment


Stephen J. Ryan, M.D., is President of the Doheny Eye Institute and Professor of Ophthalmology. Dr. Ryan served as Chair of the USC Department of Ophthalmology, as Dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC, and as Senior Vice President of USC. Dr. Ryan completed his residency at the Wilmer Institute at Johns Hopkins, where he subsequently was Associate Professor. Dr. Ryan’s awards include: The Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars Award, 2005 Distinguished Alumnus Award, the American Academy of Ophthalmology Senior Honor Award and its Distinguished Service Award, the Research to Prevent Blindness Inc. Louis B. Mayer Scholar Award, the Kupfer Award for Distinguished Public Service, the Benjamin Boyd Humanitarian Award, the Fight for Sight/Mildred Weisenfeld Lifetime Research Achievement Award, and the American Ophthalmological Society Lucien Howe Medal. He is the author or editor of 8 books, including RETINA (4th edition), the author of over 270 articles in the scientific peer-reviewed literature, has delivered 30 named lectures, and has received 18 honors and awards.

 


Peng T. Khaw

Sunday, June 10
13.15 - 14.00   Room D


Key Note Lecture Glaucoma
Repairing and regenerating the eye – from the laboratory to the clinic

Professor Khaw is Professor of Glaucoma and Ocular Healing and Consultant Eye Surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital and the Institute of Ophthalmology, University College, London. He obtained a PhD in the cell and molecular biology at the Institute of Ophthalmology, London and the Institute for Wound Research, University of Florida. He directs paediatric glaucoma and the Ocular Repair and Regeneration Biology Unit at Moorfields. Professor Khaw has given many invited lectures, including the Hunterian and Barbers Professorship lectures, the 12th Duke Elder Lecture and the Ida Mann Lecture. He received several prizes for their research including the Royal College of Ophthalmologists Prize for best UK research, the International Glaucoma Review prize for the best glaucoma research paper worldwide, the Alcon Institute Research Prize and the first Translational Medicine Prize. He was elected to the British Academy of Medical Sciences and has helped to raise grants of over $60 million, including the new Moorfields International Children’s Eye Centre. He has published over 300 papers, chapters and books including the most popular ophthalmology book for GPs and medical students in the UK.


Howard Fine

Monday, June 10
13.15 - 14.00   Room D


Key Note Lecture Cataract
The use of bimanual microincision phacoemulsification for difficult and challenging cataract cases

Dr. Fine is a Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, and a co-founder of the Oregon Eye Surgery Center. He has held local, state, and national instructional leadership positions within organized medicine and ophthalmology. He served as the president of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery in 2001 and is the secretary of the International Intraocular Implant Club. Dr. Fine did his undergraduate training at the MIT and his medical and ophthalmology training at the Boston University Medical Center. Specializing in cataract/IOL and refractive surgery, he has been in private practice for 35 years in Eugene, Oregon. In 2005, Dr. Fine was honored to give the inaugural lecture in honor of his mentor and friend, Charles D. Kelman at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He has designed instruments and implants and has innovated many surgical procedures including cortical cleaving hydrodissection, chip and flip, crack and flip, and choo-choo chop and flip phacoemulsification techniques, and the temporal self-sealing clear corneal incision.



Richard Collin

Tuesday, June 12
13.15 - 14.00   Room D

Key Note Lecture: Oculoplastic Surgery
Visual development in congenital eyelid abnormalities
 

Mr Richard Collin is a Consultant Oculoplastic Surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital where he also serves as the Director of the Oculoplastic Service and an Honorary Consultant Surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street in London. He trained in ophthalmology at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London after which he trained in plastic surgery: first, in general plastic surgery at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead and then he did a fellowship in oculoplastic surgery with Dr Crowell Beard at the University of California, San Francisco. Mr Collin is the Past President of British OculoPlastic Surgery Society (BOPSS), Past President of European OculoPlastic Surgery Society (ESOPRS), Council Member for Oculoplastic Surgery to the advisory Board of the International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO) and a Council member and ex-Master of Oxford Ophthalmological Congress.

In addition to his clinical practice he is actively involved in research and teaching. He has written 3 separate text books and published in excess of 100 articles on Oculoplastic surgery subjects.