[vslist] topical meeting

[Odom, J]

Functional Vision: Assessment and Outcome
Topical Meeting
May 30-31, 2003  

Functional Vision is a crucial topic that spans the domains and professions
involved in low vision rehabilitation.  Assessing the functional
capabilities of low vision patients is crucial to planning their
rehabilitation.  As new therapies and devices are developed, demonstrating
improvements in function is crucial to obtain the approval of regulatory
agencies for the new treatments and devices and to justify reimbursement by
governmental and private insurers to providers for these therapies.  The
importance of assessment and outcome measures of functional vision indicates
the need to begin to develop guidelines and standards.

The Appalachian Center for Vision Rehabilitation at the WVU Eye Institute is
hosting a conference to celebrate the first full year of operation. The
topic of the conference will be Functional Vision:  Assessment and Outcome.
The conference is co-sponsored by the Atlanta VA Vision Rehabilitation
Research & Development Center, the WV Chapter of AER, and the West Virginia
University Eye Institute.  We have invited a group of outstanding speakers
to stimulate the discussions on the various aspects of functional vision,
how it can be assessed and its role in evaluating outcomes of treatments,
devices and services.  By attending this conference, you will be able to
participate (by presentation and/or discussion) in a small, in-depth,
topical meeting that will lay the foundation for developing standards in the
assessment methods and outcome measures of functional vision.  The goal of
the organizers is to produce standards documents (maybe even a published
consensus paper) that would begin the process of developing standards in
functional vision assessment and outcomes.

The conference will comprise two full days May 30 and May 31, 2003. The
conference will consist of Invited Presentations, Free Presentations,
Posters (depending on the number of submissions), Panel Discussions and
exhibits.  The invited speakers are listed below:

Speakers	Affiliation	
Ian Bailey 	UC Berkeley - School of Optometry	
John Brabyn	Smith-Kettlewell, San Francisco	
Mitchell Brigell	Pfizer Global Development, Ann Arbor	
August Colenbrander	Smith-Kettlewell, San Francisco	
Duane R. Geruschat	Johns Hopkins, Baltimore	
Kent Higgins 	The Lighthouse, New York	
Aart Kooijman	University of Groningen, The Netherlands	
Robert Massof	Johns Hopkins, Baltimore	
Tom Raasch 	Ohio State Universtiy, Columbus	
Gary Rubin	Institute of Ophthalmology, London	
Ronald Schuchard	VA Rehab R&D Center / Emory University, Atlanta

William Seiple	New York 	
Kathleen Turano	Johns Hopkins, Baltimore	



Conference Location: West Virginia University Eye Institute
				Stadium Drive 
				Morgantown, WV 26506-9193

Conference Topic: Functional Vision:  Assessment and Outcome.  

Conference Dates: Friday, May 30 - Saturday, May 31, 2003

Presentation Submission Deadline: March 28, 2003

Registration:  $125 for the full conference including lunches and dinner
Friday night
	One-day registration: $80 Friday; $60 Saturday
	Student Rate: $40 for both days (Dinner Friday not included); $25
for one day 

Hotels:   The two closest hotels to the conference site are:
Hampton Inn 	$66.00-$85.00 	and 		Euro-Suites
$99.00-$130.00

Travel by air:  Flights are available to Morgantown from Pittsburgh, PA and
Washington. DC on US Airways Express.  

Travel by car:  One may also fly to Pittsburgh and rent a car to drive to
Morgantown.  Morgantown is conveniently located at the intersection of
Interstate 68 and 79. 
		Driving directions are available upon request.

To submit a paper or abstract contact 
		J. Vernon Odom, Ph.D., Professor of Ophthalmology
		West Virginia University Eye Institute 
		Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia
University
		1 Stadium Drive
		P.O. Box 9193
		Morgantown, WV 26506-9193
				Work Telephone  	+1 304 598 6959
FAX		+1 304 598 6928
				Electronic-Mail:       	jodom@wvu.edu
<mailto:jodom@wvu.edu>

For Registration or Exhibition Information contact:
		Karen Murray
		West Virginia University Eye Institute
		Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia
University
		1 Stadium Drive
		P.O. Box 9193
		Morgantown, WV 26506-9193
				Work Telephone  	+1 304 598 6954
FAX	+1 304 598 6929
				Electronic-Mail:
murrayk@rcbhsc.wvu.edu <mailto:murrayk@rcbhsc.wvu.edu>


J. Vernon Odom, Ph.D.
Professor of Ophthalmology, Physiology, and Psychology
Mail	West Virginia University Eye Institute
	Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center 
	West Virginia University
	1 Stadium Drive
	P.O. Box 9193
	Morgantown, WV 26506-9193
	U.S.A.
Work Telephone  	+1  304  598 6959  Beeper 0496
FAX			+1  304  598 6928
Electronic-Mail 	     odomj@rcbhsc.wvu.edu
                             jodom@wvu.edu
The Appalachian Center for Vision Rehabilitation
<http://www.hsc.wvu.edu/acvr/step1.htm> or
<http://acvr.us/>
The ISCEV homepage is http//www.ISCEV.org/
The Healthy Vision Website is <http//www.healthyvision2010.org/>




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