Vision Rehabilitation - Inherited Eye Disease: Genetic Testing and Vision Rehabilitation
Friday, June 6
1545-1715
Room: 200E
Objectives
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Describe current research initiatives that are identifying genetic factors that predispose to glaucoma and gene-based diagnostic screening tests
- Describe current research initiatives that are identifying genetic factors that predispose to inherited retinal diseases and gene-based diagnostic screening tests
- Understand the vision rehabilitation interventions that can assist patients with glaucoma and patients with inherited retinal disorders
Guests
Janey Wiggs, MD, PhD, MEEI
Faculty
Elise Héon
Marty Steinbach
Mary Louise Lapointe
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Moderator
Mary Lou Jackson
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Schedule and description
| 1545 | Introduction
Mary Lou Jackson |
| 1547 | Overview of genetic testing in ophthalmology
Janey Wiggs |
| 1601 | Questions |
| 1605 | Inherited retinal disease: An approach to clinical diagnosis and genetic testing
Elise Héon |
| 1615 | Vision rehabilitation interventions for inherited retinal disease
Mary Lou Jackson |
| 1623 | Recording binocular preferred retinal loci in patients with central vision loss
Marty Steinbach |
| 1630 | Questions |
| 1640 | Genetic investigation for early onset glaucoma
Janey Wiggs |
| 1655 | Will your patient with glaucoma benefit from vision rehabilitation?
Mary Louise Lapointe |
| 1704 | Questions |
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