ECVO Conference 2013

Program ECVO Conference 2013 Barcelona

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	Thursday, May 16^th	Friday, May 17^th	Saturday, May 18^th	Sunday, May 19^th
9.00 - 9.30		Welcome	Scientific Session	Welcome
		Residents’ Forum		Masterclass Session Immunology
9.30 - 10.00

10.00 - 10.30

10.30 - 11.00	Welcome
	CE - Session Immunology and Inflammation			Coffee Break
11.00 - 11.30		Coffee Break	Coffee Break
				Masterclass Session Immunology
11.30 - 12.00		Scientific Session	State of the Art Lecture

12.00 - 12.30

12.30 - 13.00

13.00 - 14.00	Lunch Break	Lunch Break	Lunch Break

14.00 - 14.30	CE - Session Immunology and Inflammation	Poster Session and Industrial Exhibition	Poster Session and Industrial Exhibition

14.30 - 15.00
	Coffee Break
15.00 - 15.30		Scientific Session	Scientific Session
	ECVO AGM Diplomates only
15.30 - 16.00

16.00 - 16.30

16.30 - 17.00		Coffee Break
			Closing and Awards
17.00 - 17.30		HED Session

17.30 - 18.00

18.00 - 18.30

18.30 - 19.00

19.00	Welcome Reception at Caixa Forum

20.00		Departure of busses for Conference Dinner at Restaurant Can Travi Nou

The organiser reserves the right to amend the conference program if necessary.

Information on speakers:
	Dr. Daniel Biros, DVM, DACVO Angell Animal Medical Center Boston, Massachusetts, USA Dr. Biros graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Science degree in Preprofessional Studies in 1992 and the University of Minnesota with a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree in 1996. He went on to complete a comparative ophthalmology residency at the University of Florida in 2000 under the mentorship of Kirk Gelatt, Dennis Brooks, and Stacey Andrew. He became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists in 2001. From 2000-2005 he was a fellow at Schepens Eye Research Institute and Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology working in autoimmunity of the eye and the ocular immunosuppressive factors in the aqueous humor and ocular tissue. Since 2000 Dr. Biros has also been staff ophthalmologist at Angell Animal Medical Centre which is part of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. As a full time clinician now his interests remain in uveitis and ocular surface inflammation.
	Dr. Christine Watte Vetsuisse, University of Bern, Switzerland Christine graduated from the university of Liège in 1996. She fulfilled a small animal internship before moving to the Royal Veterinary College, where she completed a residency and served as a staff clinician. In 2001 she moved to Boston to perform a post-doctoral fellowship at the Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard University. Since 2009 she is holding a faculty position at the university of Bern. Christine’s main research interest is in ocular immune deviation.
	Dr. Carolina Naranjo Freixa DECVP School of Veterinary Medicine Autonomous University of Barcelona Carolina graduated from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2002. She pursued a PhD program in the same university, with the thesis project “Histopathological, immunohistochemical and molecular characterization of ocular and adnexal involvement in canine leishmaniosis”. In 2006 she started a 1 year fellowship in Comparative Ocular Pathology with Dr. Richard Dubielzig in the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she stayed on for a residency in Anatomic Pathology. She passed the ACVP boards in 2010 and the ECVP boards in 2011. She is currently working at the vet school in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and running and ocular pathology business.
	Dr. Cornelia Deeg Lehrstuhl für Tierphysiologie 80539 München, Germany C. Deeg graduated from LMU Munich in 1998 and is currently assistant professor for physiology at LMU Munich. She started research on pathomechanisms of equine recurrent uveitis in 1998. Meanwhile, ERU is established as important translational model for human autoimmune uveitis through published findings in IOVS and Experimental Eye Research. C. Deeg is reviewer for grant applications in veterinary and human medicine and for Journal of Proteomics, Journal of Proteome Research, Experimental Research, IOVS and Veterinary Ophthalmology. C. Deeg’s main research focus is equine recurrent uveitis.
	Dr. Yan Guex-Crosier Fondation Asile des aveugles, Switzerland Yan Guex-Crosier graduated from Lausanne University in 1986 and performed Ophthalmology residency in Lausanne before moving to National Institutes of Health in Bethesda for a fellowship in ocular immunology. He spent one more year in Paris at the Hospital de la Pitié Salpètriere before moving back to Switzerland at the Jules Gonin Eye Hospital. Dr Yan Guex-Crosier is in charge of ocular inflammatory and infectious diseases. He is on the Editorial Board of the Klinische Monatsblätter and is currently the permanent scientific secretary of the Swiss Ophthalmologic society. His major topics of interest include the[breakdown of blood-ocular barrier in macular edema as well as indocyanine green imaging in scleritis, infectious keratitis and ocular toxoplasmosis. He developed an international patent for biopolymeric drug delivery system patent in 2008.
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