Scientific Programme
Download of Full Programme (January 2020)
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11.30 |
Registration open |
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14.30 - 16.00 |
Guided City Tours |
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12.00 - 18.45 |
Workshops & Wetlabs |
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19.00 |
Welcome Reception and Art Exhibition |
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07.30 |
Registration open |
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08.15 |
Committee Meeting (closed session) |
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10.00 |
Opening Ceremony - The impact of Vision 2020 in eliminating avoidable blindness |
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10.30 |
Niels Ehlers Memorial Lecture |
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10.50 |
Session I: Banking - Quality assurance, microbiological safety, corneal storage |
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11.50 |
Short Break |
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12.10 |
Session II: Banking - lamellar transplants & cell preparation |
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13.00 |
Lunch |
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13.30 |
Guided Poster Tour I |
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14.00 |
Session III: Transplantation - Lamellar grafts, donor characteristics and challenges |
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15.00 |
Coffee Break |
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16.00 |
Session IV: Ophthalmological therapies - new methods & applications |
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19.30 |
Gala Dinner and Award Ceremony of the Photo & Art Contest |
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08.00 |
Registration open |
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08.30 |
EEBA Business Meeting (Open) |
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09.30 |
Session V: Innovation |
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10.20 |
Session VI: Donation and related processes |
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11.00 |
Coffee Break |
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11.15 |
Guided Poster Tour II |
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11.45 |
Session VII: VISION 2020 I - International Development Charity vs. self-sufficiency: challenges in establishing donation systems, cornea banking and transplantation in developing countries |
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12.30 |
Roundtable: Corneal transplantation and tissue management in Africa |
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13.30 |
Session IIX: VISION 2020 II - Ethics |
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14.00 |
Closing Ceremony |
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14.15 |
Farewell (Lunch to go) |
