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Date Posted 12/09/2009
WCPOS meeting opens in Barcelona
The first World Congress of Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (WCPOS) officially opened in Barcelona on Saturday 12 September.
This year’s ESCRS meeting in offers an opportunity for ophthalmologists from around the world to avail of interactive learning with their paediatric specialist colleagues.
The meeting marks a first, collaboration with paediatric ophthalmology in the form of the first WCPOS Congress
“The idea of putting the best people together in one room to talk about paediatric ophthalmology was irresistible. This is the beginning of what we hope will be regular opportunities for people to get together and talk. By getting together we can communicate with each other, take the skills and techniques that the adult [ophthalmologists] have, and the information that the paediatric specialists have, put those together and end up with something even better,” David Granet MD, director of the Ratner Clinic, University of California, San Diego, and co-director of WCPOS, told EuroTimes.
Dr Ken Nischal consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and Moorfields Eye Hospital (Hon) concurred.
“We all have strengths in different areas. Refractive surgeons are very good at refractive surgery, but in the child, it’s the visual rehabilitation after the refractive surgery that contributes to the success of the operation that the refractive surgeon has performed,” said Dr Nischal. “By increasing communications or links with paediatric ophthalmologists, who are good at visual rehabilitation in children, the refractive surgeons can increase the outcome or success of their own procedures,” he said.
At the WCPOS opening ceremony Dr Nischal thanked Dr Paul Rosen, president of ESCRS, and the ESCRS for their help in setting up the meeting.
“Without the ESCRS, this meeting would not have happened,” said Dr Nischal, “and specifically Dr Paul Rosen. Paul Rosen had faith in us, believed in our vision and I'd really like to thank him and ESCRS for helping to put this together.”
The WCPOS offers a full menu of scientific sessions, keynote lectures, instructional courses, and satellite symposia over its two-day run. While planning the programme Dr Granet and Dr Nischal were careful to invite speakers from around the world in order to provide the widest possible perspective on current issues in the field. As a result the conference, with registrations far exceeding expectations, should prove to be an excellent gauge of trends and current and future concerns in paediatric ophthalmology.
Research papers and posters are only a small part of what’s on offer. In addition to hundreds of free papers, lectures and posters there are three simultaneous tracks of instructional courses each day. These cover all areas of the field, including strabismus techniques, controversies in nystagmus, amblyopia, genetic disease, and uveitis and beyond. The meeting was organised so that common areas of interest wouldn't conflict in the schedule, allowing attendees to visit both lectures and courses of interest.
The duties of ‘adult’ ophthalmologists and paediatric specialists overlap in different ways in different parts of the world, creating some controversies. Those controversies were discussed on Saturday in a joint symposium of the ESCRS/WCPOS on Paediatric Cataract & Refractive Surgery.
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