Ocular regenerative medicine

Canadian Ocular Regenerative Medicine Society
Saturday, June 18, 1545-1715
Room 203, Shaw Centre

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Share research ideas in the area of ocular regeneration and consider collaborative studies
• Identify other ophthalmologists in Canada with an interest and expertise in ocular regenerative medicine
• Describe limbal stem cell biology and epithelial surface regeneration
• Evaluate the long term outcome of Simple Limbal Stem Cell Transplantation (SLET)
• Discuss recent work involving intracameral corneal endothelial injection
• Develop a needs assessment regarding organizing a Canadian Ocular Regeneration Society

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Guest speaker Virender S. Sangwan, MS

Faculty Brian Ballios, MD Isabelle Brunette, MD Mahshad Darvish, MD Ian MacDonald, MD Allan Slomovic, MSc, MD, FRCSC

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SCHEDULE

1545	What is new in limbal stem cell biology? · Virender S. Sangwan
1600	Long-term outcome of SLET – simple limbal stem cell transplantation · Virender S. Sangwan
1615	Corneal endothelial cell injection therapy · Isabelle Brunette
1625	Will retinal gene therapy result in regeneration? · Ian MacDonald
1635	Treatment of severe ocular surface failure – the Cincinnati procedure · Mahshad Darvish
1645	Case report · Allan Slomovic
1655	Systemic immunosuppression for limbal stem cell transplantation · Brian Ballios
1705	Business meeting
1715	Adjourn