Thanks for attending our Nelson conference

Links from the conference talks from Professor Fiona Stapleton are:

Good AK (acanthamoeba keratitis) information websites:
www.odak-project.eu/
www.cdc.gov/parasites/acanthamoeba/

Wearer and practitioner education 
www.moorfields.nhs.uk/content/healthy-habits-healthy-eyes www.cdc.gov/contactlenses/contact-lens-health-week.html

Keynote Speakers:

Marc Bloomenstein OD, FAAODr. 

Marc R. Bloomenstein is a 1990 graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles with a degree in Biology. He received his optometric degree from the New England College of Optometry in 1994. After graduation Dr. Bloomenstein finished a residency in secondary ophthalmic care at the Barnet Dulaney Eye Center in Phoenix, Arizona. He received his fellowship from the American Academy of Optometry in December 1998 and is a founding member of the Optometric Council on Refractive Technology (OCRT), serving as President from 2009-2011. Moreover, Dr. Bloomenstein is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Southern California College of Optometry and Arizona College of Optometry.
Currently Dr. Bloomenstein is the Director of Optometric Services at the Schwartz Laser Eye Center in Scottsdale, Arizona and President of MRB Eye Consultants. Dr. Bloomenstein is on the editorial board of Primary Care of Optometry News, Review of Optometry, Optometry Times, Advanced Ocular Care, Optometric Management and a frequent contributor to various optometric journals. Dr. Bloomenstein currently serves as the Chairman of the AOA Continuing Education Committee and served on the board of the Ocular Surface Society of Optometry (OSSO) as well as a founding member of the Optometric Cornea, Cataract, Refractive Society (OCCRS). Dr. Bloomenstein has served as the President of the Arizona Optometric Association, Legislation Chair and President of the Board of the Arizona Optometric Charitable Foundation. Dr. Bloomenstein has delivered over 500 invited lectures worldwide and serves as a consultant to numerous industry-leading pharmaceutical, biomedical and information technology companies.

Ken K. Nischal, MD, FRCOphth

• Division Chief, Pediatric Ophtalmology, Strabismus and Adult Motility

• Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

• Vice Chair, Department of Ophthalmology

• Associate Director of International Business – Ophthalmology

• Director, Pediatric Program Development, UPMC Eye Center

Dr. Nischal attended King’s College Hospital Medical School, University of London and completed his Ophthalmology residency at the Oxford Eye Hospital in the United Kingdom.  He completed his fellowship at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, and prior to joining Children’s in 2011, he was at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London in the United Kingdom.

Dr. Nischal is a pioneer in Pediatric Anterior Segment disease and surgery.  He has described innovative surgical techniques, disease classification and management algorithms.  He is evidence based and protocol driven in terms of clinical practice, and uses clinical audit to define management outcomes.

Professor Fiona Stapleton, School of Optometry and Vision Science, UNSW Australia

Fiona was awarded her PhD from City University and Moorfields Eye Hospital in London for her research on the pathogenesis and epidemiology of contact lens-related disease and she completed a post-doctoral fellowship at University College London. Fiona is a clinical scientist with expertise in epidemiology and clinical research in the fields of corneal infection, dry eye and contact lens related disease.

She holds numerous memberships and executive affiliations with scientific organisations, is a regular reviewer for a range of journals, belongs to the international editorial board of three journals, has more than 215 peer-reviewed publications, has contributed 20 chapters to textbooks and published one book. She has contributed to the last three Tear Film and Ocular Surface Society International Workshop and acted more recently as subcommittee chair and member of the steering committee for both the Contact Lens Discomfort and DEWS II workshops. She is an international advisor to the Asia Cornea Society Infectious Keratitis study.

She is vice president of the International Society for Contact Lens Research.  In 2011 she received the University of Houston College of Optometry award for Distinguished Research in Cornea & Contact Lenses and in 2012 she received both the American Academy of Optometry Max Shapero and Garland Clay awards and delivered the British Contact Lens Association Pioneers Lecture. In 2015, she received the British Contact Lens Association Medal. She is a Fellow of the British Contact Lens Association, Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry and a Diplomate of the Cornea, Contact Lenses and Refractive Therapies section of the American Academy of Optometry.

Prof Charles McGhee,

MB, BSc(Hons), PhD, DSc,  FRCS(G), FRCOphth, FRANZCO, FRSA. New Zealand.

Charles’s clinical interests include corneal diseases such as keratoconus, corneal dystrophies, corneal transplantation, cataract surgery and complex anterior segment surgery following trauma. His ongoing research has a clinical bias towards aspects of corneal disease and cataract and refractive surgery.

Invited speaker:

Associate Professor Trevor Sherwin

Trevor’s research team at the University of Auckland specializes in applying regenerative medicine solutions to ocular disorders. Currently the team is focusing on the use of stem cells and cell reprogramming to regenerate corneal tissue. Two international patents focus on the restoration of innervation following ocular surgery, rebuilding the corneal stroma of keratoconic patients and ultimately at the resolution of myopia through a short-term eye drop treatment.

Trevor gained his PhD in Cell Biology from the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, in 1989. From there he took up an academic position at the University of Manchester where he specialised in molecular parasitology. Trevor moved to the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Auckland in 1998 to begin targeting corneal dystrophies and disorders using ocular stem cells, cell reprogramming and corneal engineering.

Trevor has published over 80 papers, including articles in the top ranking premier journals Nature, Science and Cell, has received 3500 citations in the scientific literature and has a current h-Index of 31.

Trevor has received over $5 million in research funding to advance his group’s work and has presented the results at many international venues as an invited speaker including a prestigious public lecture at the Natural History Museum in London.

Professor Donald T.H. Tan 
MBBS FRCSG , FRCSE FRCOphth FAMS

Donald Tan is the Arthur Lim Professor in Ophthalmology at the Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, Senior Advisor of the Singapore National Eye Centre, Professor of Ophthalmology of the Department of Ophthalmology NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, immediate past Medical Director of SNEC, and immediate past Chairman of the Singapore Eye Research Institute. He has published over 350 peer-reviewed articles in the field of cornea and refractive surgery, eye banking, and myopia (h index = 46), contributed 18 book chapters, and is the recipient of over 20 awards, which most recently include the 2013 Albrecht von Graefe Innovator’s Lecture, the 2013 Intraocular Implant and Refractive Society of India Gold Medal, and the CLAO 2014 Oliver H. Dabezies, Jr. Lecture. He has recently been awarded the 2015 ASCRS Binkhorst Lecture, and the CLAO 2015 Richard L. Lindstrom MD Lecture. Professor Tan is the founding and current President of the Asia Cornea Society, which he formed in 2007, and the founding and current chair of the Association of Eye Banks of Asia (AEBA). In 2012, Professor Tan became the first international President of the Cornea Society, and is currently its immediate Past President. In 2014, he was named as the 3rd most influential ophthalmologist on The Ophthalmologist’s Power List.

Dr Holland MD

is the Director of Cornea Services at Cincinnati Eye Institute and Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology at the University of Cincinnati. Dr Holland has been awarded the Castroviejo Award from the Cornea Society in 2013. He has also received both the Senior Achievement Award and The Honor Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He formerly served as the President for the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery from 2011-2012. He was awarded the Binkhorst Medal by the ASCRS in 2008. He previously served on the Board of Trustees of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and as the Secretary for the AAO’s Annual Meeting. He was awarded the AAO’s Life Achievement Honor Award in 2012 and has received both the Senior Achievement Award and The Honor Award. Dr Holland is the past president of the Cornea Society and past president of the Eye Bank Association of America and was awarded the 2002 Paton Society Award by the EBAA.

TOPICS

• Diagnosis of Corneal and External Disease Infections

• Therapeutic intervention for Contact Lens Papillary Conjunctivitis

• Osteo-odonto keratoprosthesis (OOKP) surgery in end-stage corneal disorders

• Contact lens complications – what to do when things go wrong

• Keratoconus

• The future of keratoconus treatment

• Limbal Stem Cell Dysfunction

• Evidence for contact lens aftercare regime frequency

• The Unhappy Multifocal IOL Patient

• Contact lens cases

• Reducing endothelial cell loss in Endothelial Keratoplasty

• Fuchs’ Dystrophy and Cataract

• Corneal Biomechanics in KC: the Influence of Keratoplasty Technique

• Abnormal stromal protein

• Characteristics of corneas unable to wear RGP lenses following keratoplasty

• Torted toricity

• The Magic and Mystery of Technology

• Surgical strategies for success in Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty

• DALK vs. PK for Corneal Stromal Disease

• Paediatic Aphakia

• Therapeutics to promote corneal epithelial wound healing

• Corneal confocal imaging in systemic diseases and more

• Success rates of contact lens wear following keratoplasty for keratoconic eyes with contact lens intolerance prior to surgery

• Contact lens for colour deficiency

• Contact Lenses Why Would you NOT

• Demodex: the demon in dry eye

• Management of Contact Lens Related Inflammation and Infection

• Reducing myopia progression with low dose atropine eyedrops: the ATOM Trials