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Optometric Glaucoma Society 8th Annual Meeting
Took place on November 9-11, 2009
Orlando World Center
Marriott Resort & Convention Center
8701 World Center Drive
Orlando, FL


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Mon Nov 9th Executive & Business Meetings
(Chicago / Denver Rooms)
4:00 – 5:00pm OGS Executive Committee Meeting
5:00 – 6:00pm OGS General Business Meeting
   
Mon Nov 9th OGS Annual Meeting
(Chicago / Denver Rooms)
6:00 – 7:00pm Scientific Session
(Open Submissions, 10 min talks with
5 min discussion each)
   
7:30pm Reception
(Grand Ballroom 6)
   
Tue Nov 10th OGS Annual Meeting
(Crystal Ballroom G2)
7:30 – 8:00am Registration and breakfast
   
MorningSession I:
Clinical Testing; New Ideas and Implications
Moderator: Douglas Anderson
8:00 – 8:15am Welcome - Murray Fingeret,
John Flanagan
8:15 – 8:45am Gonioscopy & Optic Disc Assessment
George Spaeth, MD
8:45 – 9:00am Discussion
9:00 – 9:45am Disc Hemorrhages: Red Flags or Red
Herrings?
Louis R. Pasquale, MD
9:45 – 10:00am Discussion
   
10:00 – 10:30am Morning Break - Exhibits
(Crystal Ballroom G1)
   
Morning Session II:
Race and Glaucoma
Moderator: Michael Chaglasian
10:30 – 11:15am OGS President's Lecture:
Race and Glaucoma
Christopher A. Girkin, MD
11:15– 11:35am Is a Race-Specific Normative Database Important for Imaging in Glaucoma?
Murray Fingeret, OD
11:35– 11:55am Is a Race-Specific Normative Database Important for Perimetry in Glaucoma?
V Michael Patella, OD
11:55 – 12:15pm Panel Discussion
12:15 – 12:30pm Advocating/Educating About the Value of Federally Funded Vision Research
James F. Jorkasky, Executive Director, NAEVR
   
12:30 – 1:30pm Lunch
(Grand Ballroom 9-10)
   
Afternoon Session I:
Translational Research in Glaucoma
Moderator: Ron Harwerth
1:30 – 1:50pm A View Beneath the Surface: ONH Structures at the Onset of Topographic Change
Brad Fortune, OD, PhD
1:50 – 2:00pm Discussion
2:00 – 2:20pm Proteomics of Optic Nerve Head Astrocytes and Laminar Cribrosa Cells
John Flanagan, McOptom, PhD
2:20 – 2:30pm Discussion
2:30 – 3:15pm

Research Excellence Award Lecture:
Repair to Regeneration - Translating
Laboratory Discovery to Clinical
Advance
Peng T. Khaw, MD, PhD

3:15 – 3:30pm Discussion
   
3:30 – 4:00pm Afternoon Break - Exhibits
(Crystal Ballroom G1)
   
OGS Honoree's Lecture
4:00 – 4:30pm The Purpose Driven Life
George Spaeth, MD
   
Afternoon Session II:
Glaucoma Cases; Presentations & Discussion
Moderator: Douglas Anderson
4:30 – 5:30pm Panel Discussion of Each Case
George Spaeth, Christopher Girkin
Louis Pasquale, Peng Khaw
   
6:00 – 7:30pm OGS Annual Meeting Reception
(Grand Ballroom 10-11 )
   
7:30 – 9:30pm Banquet in honor of OGS Honoree
Dr. George Spaeth, MD
(Grand Ballroom 10-11)
   
Wed Nov 11th Joint OGS-AAO Symposium
(Convention Center)
Session 1: Innovations in Surgical
Management of Glaucoma
8:00 – 8:40am Trabeculectomy - Advances in Surgical
Techniques and Wound Modulation
Peng T. Khaw, PhD, FRCP, FRCS, FRCOphth, FIBiol, FRCPath, FMedSci
9:00 – 9:40am Alternatives to Trabeculectomy
Christopher A. Girkin, MD
   
Session 2: Doctor-Patient Interactions in Health
Care Delivery for Glaucoma
10:00 – 10:40am Doctor, Do I Have Glaucoma?
Louis Pasquale, MD
11:00 – 11:40am The Future of Health Care - The Road Not Taken
George Spaeth, MD


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