UPDATE...
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, Bowden Room
Vancouver, BC
To register, send complete contact information to:
heiacademic@uthsc.edu
Preliminary program
Roger W Beuerman, PhD
2019 Oliver H. Dabezies, Jr, MD Lecture: "What is needed to bring biomarkers to the clinic?"
Pablo Argüeso, PhD, FARVO
"The disrupted glycocalyx as a source of ocular surface biomarkers"
Edoardo Villani, MD
"Imaging biomarkers for ocular surface diseases"
Yi Wei , MD
"Dry eye markers"
Neeta Roy, PhD
"Biomarkers of atopy"
Elisabeth M Messmer, MD
"Role of matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) in inflammation"
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, eMBA
Professor and Chair, Department of Ophthalmology
Keio University, Tokyo
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Eye & Contact Lens will publish a special themed issue on biomarkers resulting from this symposium. Do you have an original study or review article related to this topic?
Submit your articles for this special issue at:
http://www.editorialmanager.com/ecl/
Questions about Eye & Contact Lens? Contact Terry Monahan, managing editor, at tmonahan@clao.org.
