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Optometric Glaucoma Society 7th Annual Meeting
October 20-22, 2008
Marriott Hotel Anaheim and
Anaheim Convention Center
Anaheim, CA


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Mon Oct 20th Marriott Hotel Anaheim
1:30 – 5:30pm Joint Glaucoma Progression Scholars / OGS meeting
6:00 – 7:00pm OGS General Business Meeting
7:00 – 9:00pm Reception
   
Tue Oct 21st OGS Annual Meeting
Marriott Hotel Anaheim
7:00 – 8:00am Registration and breakfast
   
Session 1: Members’ Scientific Papers
8:00 – 8:15am Welcome, - Murray Fingeret,
John Flanagan, Brad Fortune
8:15 – 8:25am Member Presentation 1
8:25 – 8:30am Discussion
8:30 – 8:40am Member Presentation 2
8:40 – 8:45am Discussion
   
Session 2: Glaucoma Patient Perspectives & Epidemiology
8:45 – 9:15am Rohit Varma: Undetected eye disease in Latinos: an epidemic in the making?
9:15 – 9:25am Discussion
9:25 – 9:45am Scott R. Christensen:
Patient Education and Empowerment
9:45 – 10:05am Robert Ritch: Physician-Patient Communication & Understanding:
A Two-Way Street
10:05 – 10:15am Combined Discussion
Scott Christensen & Robert Ritch
   
10:15 – 10:35am Morning Break
   
10:35 – 11:05am David Crabb: Relating Visual Field Change to Patient Functions: Reaching & Grasping, Hazard Perception in Driving, Visual Search
11:05 – 11:15am Discussion
   
Session 3: The 2008 OGS Honoree's Lecture
11:15 – 12:00 noon Robert Ritch: Exfoliation Syndrome -
Beyond the Eye
12:00 – 12:15pm Discussion
   
Session 4: The 2008 OGS President's Lecture
12:15 – 1:00pm Ted Krupin: Low Pressure Glaucoma: Update and a Neuroprotective Clinical Trial
1:00 – 1:10pm Discussion
   
1:10 – 2:00pm Lunch
   
Session 5: Detecting and Monitoring Progression
2:00 – 2:30pm Paul Artes: Rates of Visual Field Progression in Treated & Untreated Glaucoma
2:30 – 2:40pm Discussion
2:40 – 3:10pm Ted Garway-Heath: Structural and Functional Progression in Glaucoma
3:10 – 3:20pm Discussion
3:20 – 3:40pm David Crabb: Dissociation of Identified Structural and Functional Progression in Glaucoma
3:40 – 3:50pm Discussion
   
3:50 – 4:10pm Afternoon Break
   
Session 6: The Future of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) for Glaucoma
4:10 – 4:40pm David Huang: Structural and Functional OCT in Glaucoma
4:40 – 5:10pm Wolfgang Drexler: Recent Trends of OCT Imaging in Glaucoma
5:10 – 5:40pm Claude Burgoyne: New Targets for Optic Nerve Head OCT Imaging in Glaucoma
5:40 – 6:00pm OCT Panel Discussion: David Huang, Wolfgang Drexler, Claude Burgoyne
   
6:00 – 7:30pm Cocktail Reception, Marriott Hotel
   
7:30 – 9:30pm Dinner, Robert Ritch, OGS Honoree, Marriott Hotel
   
Wed Oct 22nd Joint OGS-AAO Symposium,
Anaheim Convention Center
8:00 – 10:00am Pathogenic Mechanisms of Glaucoma: Basic Science
Speakers: Douglas Anderson,
Claude Burgoyne, Jack Cioffi and
John Morrison
   
10:00 – 12:00pm Pathogenic Mechanisms of Glaucoma: Clinical Implications
Speakers: Douglas Anderson,
Claude Burgoyne, Jack Cioffi and
John Morrison


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