|
Date |
Time |
Presentation type |
Theme |
Venue |
Chair(s) |
Speakers & Topics |
| Ophthalmic Epidemiology |
| Jun 29, 2008 |
14:00-15:30 |
Symposium |
Changing epidemiology
of visual impairment in developed and developing countries |
Rm 211
Rm 212
|
Paul COURTRIGHT
Tien
WONG
Minguang HE
|
- Paul COURTRIGHT - The Changing Epidemiology of Vision
Loss in Africa: Evidence for Re-calculating Our Estimates?
- Tien WONG - The Prevalence, Causes and Patterns of
Visual Impairment in Malays: The Singapore Malay Eye Study (SiMES)
- Minguang HE - Epidemiology of Visual Impairment in
Urban and Rural China
- Nathan CONGDON - Good Vision for All by 2020:
Challenges to China's Eye Care Workers
- Ryo KAWASAKI - Epidemiology of AMD in
Asia
|
| Jun 29, 2008 |
16:00-17:30 |
Symposium |
Better understanding
the environmental and genetic contributions to age-related eye
disease |
Rm 211
Rm 212
|
Paul MITCHELL
Paul
LEE
Jie-jin WANG
|
- Paul MITCHELL - New AMD Genetic Findings: How Much
Remaining Risk for AMD is Due to Environmental Factors?
- Paul LEE - Better Understanding the Environmental and
Genetic Contributions to Age-related Eye Disease
- Johannes VINGERLING - Genetic and Environmental Risk
Factors for AMD in the Rotterdam Study
- Jie-jin WANG - Contributions and Interactions of
Environmental and Genetic Factors to AMD Risk
- Ching-yu CHENG - Admixture Mapping as A Gene Discovery
Method for Complex Ocular Traits
|
| Jul 02, 2008 |
09:00-10:30 |
Symposium |
Epidemiology of
childhood eye disorders: a healthy start to life |
Rm 211
Rm 212
|
Jialiang ZHAO
Leon
ELLWEIN
Rohit VARMA
|
- Jialiang ZHAO - Prevalence and Incidence of Refractive
Error and Visual Impairment in School-age Children in China
- Leon ELLWEIN - Epidemiology of Childhood Eye Disorders:
A Healthy Start to Life
- Rohit VARMA - Prevalence of Refractive Error and Visual
Impairment in Preschool Children in the US
- Seang-mei SAW - Current thoughts on the Global Epidemic
of Childhood Myopia
- Luke LIN - Epidemiology Myopia Among School Children in
Taiwan
|