Vision Rehabilitation

Microperimetry and clinical practice

Monday, 17 June 2013, 1045-1215
Verdun

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

  • Interact with new concepts in functional vision analysis and modern low vision rehabilitation.
  • Describe the concepts and intricacies of microperimetry and its application in general and specialty clinical practice.
  • Consider possible ways for introducing and incorporating microperimetry in their own practice.

Guest
Janet S. Sunness, MD 		Moderator
Marie-Louise Lapointe

1045Introduction
Marie-Louise Lapointe
1050Microperimetry and clinical practice
Janet S. Sunness
1110Discussion
1115Perceptual learning with threshold stimuli leads to improvement in visual performance of patients with central vision loss
Martin J. Steinbach, Luminita Tarita-Nistor, Michael H. Brent, Samuel N. Markowitz, Esther G. Gonzalez
1125The worse-seeing eye is not as bad as it seems to be in AMD
Dominik W. Podbielski, Sophia Reyes, Samuel N. Markowitz
1135Discussion
1140Bridging the continuum of low vision care; optometry services inside an ophthalmology department
Walter Wittich, T Canuto
1145Determinants in access to low vision services - a Montreal retina study
Alice Y. Zhang, Donald H. Watanabe, Walter Wittich, Christian El-Hadad, Salim Korban, Julius E. Gomolin, Olga Overbury
1155Discussion
1200A randomized controlled trial of eccentric viewing training vs. closed-circuit television use for visual rehabilitation from age-related macular degeneration
Francie F. Si, Susan Leat, Deborah Gold, Dawn Pickering, Julia Baryla, Keith Gordon, William Hodge
1210Discussion

Janet S. Sunness
Janet S. Sunness, MD