Kongsberg Vision Meeting 2024

Programme

Clinical Optometry & Vision Research Day 1 (Thursday, October 24th)

09:00 Welcome & Coffee/Tea (Lecture theatre Oksen)

09:05–09:50 The impact of environmental conditions on the ocular surface
Fiona Stapleton, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

09:55–10:10 Contributed talk
TBA

10:10–10:40 Coffee/Tea Break

10:40–11:25 Vision & dizziness
Tony Pansell, Karolinska Institutet and St Erik Eye Hospital, Stocholm, Sweden

11:30–13:30 Exhibits & Lunch
Visit Exhibits while you enjoy your lunch on the 3rd floor (Sølvsalen)

13:35–14:30 Six 8-minute presentations by PhD candidates
TBA

14:35–14:55 Exhibits & Coffee
Visit Exhibits while you enjoy your coffee on the 3rd floor (Sølvsalen).

15:00–15:45 Neovascular age-related macular degeneration: the patient’s journey!
António Filipe Macedo, Linnæus University, Kalmar, Sweden

Clinical Optometry & Vision Research Day 2 (Friday, October 25th)

09:00 Welcome

09:05–09:50 Ocular therapeutics
Maria Liu, UC Berkeley Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science, Berkeley, USA

09:55–11:55 Workshops on diagnosis and management (including coffee) in the Eye clinic 3rd floor

12:00–14:00 Exhibits & Lunch
Visit Exhibits while you enjoy your lunch in Sølvsalen on the 3rd floor.

14:05–14:50 Management of low and moderate hypermetropia
Julie-Anne Little, Ulster University, Coleraine, Northern Ireland

14:50–15:15 Implementering av terapeutiske medikamenter i optometrisk praksis.
TBA

15:15–15.30 Closing comments

October 24th: Clinical Optometry and Vision Research Day 1.
Participation includes lunch and coffee breaks.
NOK 800

October 24th: Conference Dinner on Thursday evening
NOK 950

October 25th: Clinical Optometry and Vision Research Day 2.
Participation includes lunch and coffee breaks, but not workshops.
NOK 550

October 25th: Workshops (you can attend only one, and max 30 participants per workshop)

Early-bird registration deadline is September 15. Participation fees will double after this date.