Topics and Session Titles

Cataract and Refractive

• Video Session: A video-based course on difficult cases of cataract and refractive surgery
• Cataract to treat refractive errors
• Corneal and intraocular solutions to presbyopia
• Latest news in presbyopia correction technique
• Ocular alignment in cataract, corneal and refractive surgery
• Surgical management of irregular corneas
• Think or sink: avoiding complications in cataract surgery
• Tips, tricks and falls in cataract surgery

Cornea and External Eye

• Corneal cross-linking
• Current strategies for inflammatory and infectious disease of the cornea
• Donor cornea selection: implications on graft survival
• From conventional to mushroom and top-hat penetrating keratoplasty
• New techniques for keratoplasty
• Replacement of the corneal endothelium: lamellar surgery and beyond
• Towards sophisticated therapeutic modalities for corneal diseases
• Treatment of ocular surface disease
• Understanding elevation based corneal tomography
• Update on contact lenses
• Update on the diagnosis and treatment of corneal dystrophies and degenerations

Education

• All you need to know about the EBO exam Controversies in the delivery of ophthalmic
• Eye care in Africa. How can Europe help?
• Herpetic eye disease
• Private and public partnerships in the clinical trial stage
• Update on eye imaging
• Using evidence-based clinical guidelines to improve quality of care and resident education: the benefits and the challenges
• What can the EBO do for you?
• VISION 2020: how can I get involved
• VISION 2020: strategies for success
• Young ophthalmologists in international ophthalmology

Electrophysiology

• Clinical electrophysiology of vision in paediatric practice
• Electrophysiology and imaging: a diagnostic synergy

Glaucoma

• Angle closure
• Disc and nerve fibre layer imaging
• Glaucoma progression: is it getting worse?
• Glaucoma surgery
• Glaucoma: from scientific evidence to clinical practice
• Gonioscopy for everyone
• IOP measurement and IOP control
• Lessons from the early manifest glaucoma trial
• Optic disc examination
• Paediatric glaucoma
• Stem cells and the future
• The Lindberg Society symposium

Neuro-Ophthalmology

• Common problems in paediatric neuroophthalmology
• Pearls in neuro-ophthalmology
• Practical approach to common neuroophthalmologic conditions
• The management of optic neuritis: why is there so much controversy?
• The top five neuro-ophthalmic diagnoses you cannot afford to miss

Ocular Trauma

• Video Session: Trauma: hot topics

Oculoplastics

• Current concepts of the management of Graves’ orbitopathy
• Eye lid surgery
• Lacrimal disease: how to deal with the watery patient?
• Orbital lesions
• Update in aesthetic eye lid surgery

Oncology and Pathology

• Clinico-pathological correlations. Cases from EOPS-VSS 2011
• Current perspectives and patient care impact issues in the practice of ocular pathology
• Genetic studies on ocular melanoma
• Intra-arterial chemotherapy for retinoblastoma: current perspective in 2011
• Management of difficult cases in ocular oncology
• Review of intraocular tumours
• Review of orbital and adnexal tumours Update in brachytherapy for uveal melanoma

Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus

• Esotropia: evaluation and management 2011
• Modern diagnostic methods in paediatric neuroophthalmology
• Paediatric surgery
• Retinopathy of prematurity
• Update in exotropia management
• What is new in strabismus surgery

Retina

• A rational approach to retinal detachment surgery
• Diabetic macular oedema
• Dry AMD
• Interesting cases on fluoroscein angiography
• Introduction to and pitfalls of imaging in diabetes
• Management of anti-VEGF therapy
• Management of infrequent cases of vitreoretinal disease
• Minimal extraocular surgery for retinal detachment
• Recent developments on the diagnosis and treatment of macular oedema
• Pushing the frontiers of retinal OCT
• Retinal imaging
• Retinal showcase: advances in gene and cell based therapy for retinal diseases
• Therapy of vitreo-maculopathies: surgery and pharmacologic vitreolysis
• Treatment options in retinal vein occlusion
• Update in macular surgery
• Update on malignant intraocular tumours
• Vitreous: from biochemistry to clinical relevance

Uveitis

• Clinical studies in ocular inflammatory disease
• More mistakes in uveitis and how to avoid them
• New trends in ocular inflammation
• Ocular imaging for the diagnosis and management of uveitis
• Uveitis: misconceptions, oblivions, mystifications and rectifications
• Uveitis: the basics and beyond
• Viral induced anterior uveitis

Allied Health

• Chronic disease management: a story without end?
• Oculoplastics and reconstruction: looking at the whole picture
• Preparation makes perfection
• Retinal imaging
• Taking the lead in care pathways
• Vision 2020: innovation and implementation of strategy across United States, United Kingdom and Europe