SOE2011

Key Note Lecturers


Wolfgang Drexler
Tuesday, 7 June 12.00-12.45, Room: B



Optical coherence tomography:

Pushing the frontiers of retinal OCT
Wolfgang Drexler received his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1991 and 1995, respectively, at the Technical University of Vienna, Austria. From 2006 to 2009 he was a Full Professor of Biomedical Imaging at the School of Optometry and Vision Sciences at Cardiff University, Wales, UK. Since October 2009 he is a Full Professor of Medical Physics and the Head of the Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. So far his research group has accomplished pioneering work and has played a leading role in the development of optical coherence tomography. He spent two years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA, and was four years the Director of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Laser Development and their Application in Medicine. He received the Austrian START Award from the Austrian Science Fund in 2001 as well as COGAN Award from the American Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology in 2007. He is a member of the Austrian Academy of Science, has published more than 120 papers in peer reviewed journals that have been cited more than 4000 times in the last ten years.
Anders Heijl
Saturday, 4 June 13.30-14.15, Room: B



Glaucoma:

Lessons from the early manifest glaucoma trial
Anders Heijl is Professor and Chairman at the Dept of Ophthalmology, Malmö University Hospital, Lund University, Sweden.

Profesor Heijl is a graduate of the Lund University Medical School where he also completed his residency in ophthalmology. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Lund in 1977 for his early work on computerized perimetry, and later completed a post-doctoral fellowship under the mentorship of Professor Stephen Drance at the University of British Columbia. Professor Heijl has served as Chairman at the Department of Ophthalmology, Malmö University Hospital since 1990. 

Professor Heijl and his research group have invented and developed the Statpac programs for the Humphrey perimeter, including the now widely used concepts of Probability Maps, Pattern Deviation, Change Probability Maps, the Glaucoma Hemifield Test and the Glaucoma Progression Analysis (GPA) programs. The Swedish Interactive Thresholding Algorithm (SITA) was also developed and adapted to Standardized Automated Perimetry and to Short Wavelength Automated Perimetry (SWAP) in his laboratory. 

Professor Heijl initiated and has served as Study Director of the Early Manifest Glaucoma Trial.

Between 1980 and 1996 Anders Heijl served the International Perimetric Society first as Scientific Secretary and later as President. Between 2003 and 2008 he served as President of the Glaucoma Research Society.

He is the chief ophthalmological advisor to the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, recently headed the group of glaucoma experts producing a systematic literature review on the diagnosis and treatment of open angle glaucoma for the Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care and serves on the board of the European Glaucoma Society, now as Chairman of EGS National Glaucoma Society Liaison Committe.

Professor Heijl has published 200 scientific papers, chapters and books. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of Acta Ophthalmologica, and on the editorial boards of eight ophthalmic journals.

Professor Heijl has received scientific Awards, and delivered invited name lectures at a dozen instances.
Shigeru Kinoshita
Monday, 6 June 13.30-14.15, Room: B



Cornea:

Towards sophisticated therapeutic modalities for corneal diseases
Shigeru Kinoshita, M.D., Ph.D. graduated from Osaka University Medical School in 1974, and has served as the Professor and Chairman of Ophthalmology at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine since 1992. In the early 1980s at Harvard Medical School, he, in collaboration with Doctor Richard A. Thoft, established the concept of centripetal movement of corneal epithelium, and his groundbreaking work has shed new light on the importance of limbal epithelium. His series of findings has had an enormous impact on this subject, ultimately contributing to the development of the corneal stem cell theory. Over the past 30 years, his primary interest has been focused on the research and development of new therapeutic modalities for the cornea. Following this path, his group has recently established the system of cultivated mucosal epithelial stem cell transplantation and cultivated corneal endothelial transplantation. Dr. Kinoshita is a recipient of the 1999 Alcon Research Institute Award, the 2008 Castroviejo Medal Lecturer of the Cornea Society. He served as an ARVO Program Committee Member in the Cornea Section between 1996 and 1999, and he is currently the ARVO Vice President-Elect. Doctor Kinoshita presently serves as the Associate Editor of Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, and as an Editorial Board Member of Experimental Eye Research and Cornea.
Jonathan Trobe
Sunday, 5 June 13.30-14.15, Room: B



Neuro-ophthalmology:

The management of optic neuritis: why is there so much controversy?
Doctor Jonathan Trobe is head of neuro-ophthalmology and Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurology at the University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.  

He attended Harvard Medical School, followed by a medical internship at Rush Presbyterian Medical School in Chicago, and an ophthalmology residency at the Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, where he served as chief resident during his final year. Some years later, Doctor Trobe completed his second residency – this time in neuro-ophthalmology. This made him qualified to hold dual faculty positions at Ann Arbor, Michigan where he has been head of the neuro-ophthalmology service for more than 20 years.

Professor Trobe has first-authored or co-authored some 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and eight books. He is a member of many learned societies, has received a number of awards for excellence and has held numerous named lectures. Notably, Docotr Trobe has been Editor-in Chief of the Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology, the official journal of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society for nine years.
 
He has an outstanding reputation for his scholarly approach and his teaching skills.

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