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Guest Lectures
Mr Amod Shriram Gogate
Associate Director,
Professional Affairs, Johnson
& Johnson Vision Care, India;
“Science & Technology
behind Acuvue Lenses”;
10 June 2014.
Prof Jill Keeffe
University of Melbourne,
Department of
Ophthalmology (Honorary
Appointment); “Online
course in Low Vision for
Ophthalmologists”; 31 July 2014 and “Global
issues in Low Vision Services”; 12 November
2014.
Dr Irene H Maumenee
Research Professor of
Ophthalmology, Pediatric
Ophthalmology & Adult
Strabismus Service, Director,
Ocular Genetics Laboratory,
Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary, Chicago,
USA; “Ocular Complications in Hereditary
Connective Tissue Diseases”; 8 October 2014.
Dr Gangadhar Sundar
Head, Orbit & Oculofacial
Surgery, National University
Hospital System, Singapore;
“Thyroid Eye Disease - The
past, present and the
future”; 3 July 2014.
Dr Edoardo Midena
Chairman and Professor of
Ophthalmology and Visual
Sciences, Department of
Ophthalmology, University of
Padova, Italy; “Subthreshold
Micropulse Laser Treartment: Efficacy and
Safety”; 1 August 2014.
Dr Gregory Hopkins
Research clinical assistant
professor at the Ohio
State University, College of
Optometry and a low vision
optometrist at the Columbus
Veteran Affairs Medical Center; “Evaluation
of visual function in a pediatric low vision
setting”; 10 October 2014.
Dr David Maberley
Faculty and Head of
Department, Ophthalmology
and Visual Sciences, School
of Medicine, University of
British Columbia; “Pathologic
Myopia”; 28 October 2014.
Dr Vivian Yin
Oculoplastic Surgeon,
University of British
Columbia, Vancouver;
“Management of Difficult
Ptosis”; 28 October 2014.
Dr Michael T Trese
Beaumont School of
Medicine and Wayne
State University School of
Medicine; “Pharmacologic
Manipulations in Vitreous in
Pediatric and other Retinal diseases”;
5 November 2014); and “Wide-Field Imaging
in FEVR”; 11 November 2014.
Prof Usha Chakravarthy
Professor of Ophthalmology
and Vision Sciences, Royal
Victoria Hospital (The Belfast
Trust) and Queens University
of Belfast, Northern
Ireland;“Geographic Atrophy in the Anti VEGF
Era: Fact or Myth”; 21 November 2014.
Mr Ramam Atmakuri
Executive Vice Chair,
LVPEI; “The Doctor as an
Entrepreneur”; 14 January
2015.
Dr Milind Pande
Consultant Ophthalmic
Surgeon & Medical Director,
Vision Surgery & Research
Centre, UK; “Refractive
Cataract Surgery”;
24 January 2015.
Dr Richard W Hertle
Chief of Pediatric
Ophthalmology and Director
of the Children’s Vision
Center at Children’s Hospital
Medical Center of Akron in
Ohio; “Strategies for the Management of
Nystagmus”; 2 February 2015.
Dr Sriram Varahan
Uiversity of Kansas, USA,
; “From the good to the
bad to the ugly: Rise of
enterococcus beyond
vancomycin resistance”;
11 February 2015.
Dr Robert Folberg
Founding Dean and
Professor of Biomedical
Sciences, Pathology and
Ophthalmology, Chicago,
USA; “Virtual microscopy”;
25 February 2015.
Rajeev S Ramchandran
Assistant Professor in
Ophthalmology in the
University of Rochester
School of Medicine and
Dentistry’s Flaum Eye
Institute”; The University of RochesterL V Prasad Eye Institute Partnership: Building
on a 40-year Association”; 25 March 2015.
Michael W Stewart
Chair Ophthalmology at
Mayo Clinic, Florida, USA;
“Mayo Clinic History and
Culture”; (through an audio
call facility); 11 March 2015.
Prof Brien Holden
Founder and CEO, Brien
Holden Vision Institute
Vision Cooperative Research
Centre, Sydney, New South
Wales, Australia; “The
Growing Impact of Myopia on Vision, Vision
Impairment, Blindness and Society Can We
Control It?”; 13 February 2015.
Richard T Libby
Associate Professor,
Department of
Ophthalmology and
Biomedical Genetics;
“Developing Science
Collaborations Between the University of
Rochester and LVPEI”; 25 March 2015.
Prof Jacob Pe’er
Chairman, Department
of Ophthalmology, Jonas
Friedenwald Professor
of Ophthalmic Research
Hadassah-Hebrew University
Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel; “Diagnosis
and treatment of vitreoretinal lymphoma”;
25 February 2015.
Prof Adrian Glasser
Professor of Optometry and
Vision Science, University
of Houston College of
Optometry, USA; “The loss
of focusing ability of the eye
with aging and how to correct it”; February
2015.
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