Hi Hoover,
I wonder if you would please re-post the following reminder of a conference
at the University of Waterloo to the CVNetters. There have been minor
modifications compared to last time.
Thanks,
Trefford Simpson, PhD
Centre for Contact Lens Research
University of Waterloo
School of Optometry
Columbia Avenue,
Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada
phone (519) 885 1211 X 5015
fax (519) 725 0784
Waterloo Vision Research Symposium
Friday June 7, 1996
University of Waterloo
The programme:
8:45 - 9:00 Opening Address
Imaging Technology and Ocular Assessment
Moderator: William Bobier, BSc, OD, MSc, PhD
School of Optometry, University of Waterloo
9.00 - 9:20 Melanie Campbell, BSc, MSc, PhD
School of Optometry, University of Waterloo
New Views of the Fundus: Implications of Novel Instrumentation for
Diagnosis and Therapy
9:20 - 9:40 John Flanagan, BSc, PhD, MCOptom
School of Optometry, University of Waterloo
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Toronto
Imaging of the Optic Nerve and Retina
9.40 -10:00 Trefford Simpson, DipOptom, MSc, PhD
Centre for Contact Lens Research
School of Optometry, University of Waterloo
Image Processing in Contact Lens Research
10:0O -10:20 Coffee Break
10:20 -10:40 Jeffery Hovis, OD, MS, PhD
School of Optometry, University of Waterloo
Do Individuals with Colour Vsion Defects Really Prefer
"Rose-Coloured Glasses"?
10:40 - 11:00 Graham Strong, OD, MSc
Associate Director, School of Optometry
Director, Centre for Sight Enhancement
University of Waterloo
The Low Vision Enhancement System (LVES) and Related Device Technologies
11:00 - 11:30 John Lovasik, OD, BSc, MSc, PhD
School of Optometry, Universite de Montreal
Clinical Technique Advances for the Measurement of the Neural and
Vascular Elements in the Human Eye
11:30 -12:00 Panel Discussion
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
Refractive Components, Environment and Vision Correction
Moderator: Desmond Fonn, DipOptom, MOptom
Director, Centre for Contact Lens Research
School of Optometry, University of Waterloo
1:30 - 2:00 Raymond Applegate, OD, PhD
Department of Ophthalmology
The University of Texas Health Center at San Antonio
Corneal Topography and Visual Performance
2:00 - 2:20 Anthony Cullen, DipOpt, MSc, OD, PhD, DCLP, DSc
School of Optometry, University of Waterloo
Environmental Cataract
2:20 - 2:40 Jacob Sivak, LScO, MS, PhD, OD
Director, School of Optometry
Associate Dean of Science, University of Waterloo
Environmental Influence of the Refractive Development of the Eye -
Nurture vs. Nature?
2:40 - 3:10 Donald Mutti, OD, PhD
School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley
Does Children's Near Work Interact Statistically with Parental
Refractive History in the Development of Juvenile Myopia?
3:10 - 3:30 Cofee Break
3:30 - 4:00 Raymond Stein, MD, FRCS(C)
Medical Director, Beacon Eye Institute
Department of Ophthalmology
University of Toronto
Canadian Experience with the Excimer Laser
4:00 - 5:00 WOODRUFF LECTURE
Brian Holden BAppSc, LOSc,PhD, DSc
Professor & Director
Cornea & Contact Lens Research Unit,
Cooperative Research Centre for Eye Research & Technology
University of New South Wales
Vision Correction in the 21st Century
5:00 - 5:30 Panel Discussion
5:30 - 7:30 Wine and Cheese
The program is also available at;
http://quark.uwaterloo.ca/~cclr/wvrs.html
For more information contact D Cleasby phone 519 8884742, fax 519 7250784
or email dcleasby@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca