See you soon in Vancouver!
Eye & Contact Lens Symposium:
Biomarkers for Ocular Surface Disease
Saturday, April 27, 2019
3:30 pm-5:30 pm
reception to follow
Rosewood Hotel Georgia, Spanish Ballroom
Vancouver, BC
To register, send complete contact information to:
pasbell@uthsc.edu
CME credit available
Program
Edoardo Villani, MD
Assistant professor of ophthalmology
Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
"Imaging biomarkers for ocular surface diseases"
Roger W Beuerman, PhD
Senior Scientific Director, head of Anti-Infectives Research Group and Biomarkers Research Group
Singapore Eye Research Institute
2019 Oliver H. Dabezies, Jr, MD Lecture: "What is needed to bring biomarkers to the clinic?"
Pablo Argüeso, PhD, FARVO
Senior Scientist, Schepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
"The disrupted glycocalyx as a source of ocular surface biomarkers"
Yi Wei , MD
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis
"Dry eye markers"
Neeta Roy, PhD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis
"Biomarkers of atopy"
Elisabeth M Messmer, MD, FEBO
Professor, Department of Ophthalmology
Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich, Germany
"Role of matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) in inflammation"
Junmin Peng, PhD
Professor, Structural Biology & Developmental Neurobiology, Director, Center for Proteomics and Metabolomics
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis
"Next-generation proteomics approach to understanding human diseases"
Co-directors and moderators:
Penny A. Asbell, MD, FACS, MBA, FARVO
Editor-in-Chief, Eye & Contact Lens
Director, Hamilton Eye Institute
Professor of Ophthalmology
University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis
Kazuo Tsubota, MD, PhD, FARVO, MBA
Professor and Chair, Department of Ophthalmology
Keio University, Tokyo
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Eye & Contact Lens will publish a special themed issue on biomarkers soon after this symposium. Do you have an original study or review article to contribute?
Submit your special issue articles here: http://www.editorialmanager.com/ecl/
Eye & Contact Lens is indexed in PubMed--no charge for publication. Open Access is available with a publication fee.
Questions about the journal?
Contact Terry Monahan, managing editor: tmonahan@clao.org
