09:00 - 09:30 » Opening of the congress

09:00 - 09:30 » President of ECLSO

09:00 - 09:30 » President of the Organising Committee

09:30 - 11:00 » Session: Silicone hydrogels - State of the art

09:30 - 09:45 » Different generations of silicone hydrogel contact lenses

Anna-Maria AMBROZIAK, Warszawa (POLAND)

09:45 - 10:00 » Readaptation from hydrogels to silicone hydrogels

10:00 - 10:15 » Update on Mechanical Complications (GPC and SEALs): diagnosis and prevention

10:15 - 10:30 » Continuous wear: the best choice of candidates ?

10:30 - 10:45 » Biocompatibility of silicone hydrogel contact lenses and multipurpose solutions: latest issues

Evelyne LEBLOND, Grenoble (FRANCE)

10:45 - 11:00 » Questions and answers

11:00 - 11:30 » Coffee break in the exhibition area

11:30 - 12:00 » Fick-Kalt-Muller Medal awarded to Albert Fransceschetti

12:00 - 12:30 » Free papers 1

12:00 - 12:10 » Therapeutic use of the sillicone-hydrogel senofilcon a soft contact lens in patients with intensified dry eye syndrome

12:10 - 12:20 » Treatment of dry eye symptoms with new advanced lubricating eye drops

Martin LAUER, Viersen / Dülken (GERMANY)

12:20 - 12:30 » In a post-lasik residual astigmatism and myopia patient the best option may be a silicone hydrogel contact lens

Hilmi OR, Istambul (TURKEY)

12:30 - 13:15 » Symposium Johnson & Johnson Vision Care

12:30 - 13:00 » The importance of... blinking?

13:00 - 13:15 » Johnson & Johnson Vision Care: 20 years of Innovation

Loannis G. TRANOUDIS, Athens (GREECE)

13:15 - 14:00 » Lunch in the exhibition area

14:00 - 15:00 » Parallel session

15:00 - 16:00 » Parallel session

Valentina DIMITRIJEVIC, Belgrade (SERBIA) - Franck EARITH, Le Vesinet (FRANCE)

16:00 - 17:00 » Parallel session

17:00 - 17:15 » Coffee break in the exhibition area

17:15 - 18:00 » Symposium Coopervision

17:15 - 18:00 » The key factors for Silicone Hydrogel lenses choice

18:30 - 20:00 » Welcome cocktail in the exhibition area offered by OPTI-FREE RepleniSH

08:30 - 09:15 » CIBA VISION SYMPOSIUM

08:30 - 09:15 » The Role of New Technologies in Achieving Comfort in Contact Lens Wear

09:15 - 10:25 » Session RGPs: state of the art ?

09:15 - 09:25 » Corneal topography applications in RGP lens fitting

09:25 - 09:35 » Confocal microscopy and spectral optical coherence tomography in contact lens wearers

Jacek SZAFLIK, Warsawa (POLAND)

09:35 - 09:50 » RGP lens wear modality and choice of Dk

Ayfer KANPOLAT, Ankara (TURKEY)

09:50 - 10:05 » Quality of vision: aberrometry evaluation in RGPs

Florence MALET, Bordeaux (FRANCE)

10:05 - 10:25 » Questions and answers

10:25 - 11:00 » Free papers 2

10:25 - 10:35 » The most common reasons for refitting soft contact lenses into RGP contact lenses

Gordana SUVAJAC, Belgrade (SERBIA)

10:35 - 10:45 » Silicone hydrogel kerasoft 3 contact lenses for keratoconus and irregular corneas

10:45 - 10:55 » Accuracy of dispensed rigid contact lenses

Ourania FRANGOULI, London (UNITED KINGDOM)

10:55 - 11:05 » Calculating the iol for keratoconus: don't forget the contact lens!

11:00 - 11:30 » Coffee break in the exhibition area

11:30 - 12:00 » Round Table Debate: High Dk contact lenses: soft or rigid ?

12:00 - 12:30 » Posters award

12:30 - 13:15 » Symposium Bausch & Lomb

Speaker: Natalia PARFENOVA (ROMANIA)

13:15 - 14:00 » Lunch

14:00 - 15:30 » Parallel session

Yoram BIGER, Kfar-saba (ISRAEL) - Carina KOPPEN, Edegem (BELGIUM) - Elena RYBAKOVA, Moscow (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)

15:30 - 16:15 » Parallel session

16:15 - 17:00 » Course 5: Therapeutic contact lenses: guidelines and practical tips, especially for the use with children

16:15 - 17:15 » Free papers 3

16:15 - 16:25 » Use and success of therapeutic contact lenses

Sabine KASPERSKI, Oberhausen (GERMANY)

16:25 - 16:35 » Amniotic membrane and therapeutic contact lenses use in ocular surface diseases treatment in children

16:35 - 16:45 » Posibilities to cover the disorders of ocular surface

Adriana STANILA, Sibiu (ROMANIA)

16:45 - 16:55 » Benefit of silicone-hydrogel contact lenses for patients undergoing combined surgical myopa correction

Vjacheslav KUZNETSOV, Riga (LATVIA)

16:55 - 17:05 » Contact lens hydrophilic polymers: fluid absorption kinetics

Lorenzo MANNUCCI, Padova (ITALY)

17:05 - 17:15 » Effectiveness of moisturizing daily disposable lenses with additives

Timothy GILES, Duluth (UNITED STATES)

17:15 - 17:30 » ECLSO GENERAL ASSEMBLY

17:30 - 18:00 » Coffee break in the exhibition area

20:00 - 01:00 » GALA DINNER AT THE VILNIUS PICTURE GALLERY

09:30 - 10:20 » Session dry eye

09:30 - 09:45 » Dry eye or dryness ?

Ljiljana KOVAC, Belgrade (SERBIA)

09:45 - 10:00 » Influence of dry eyes on contact lens drop-outs ?

Simona RADU, Bucharest (ROMANIA)

10:00 - 10:10 » Therapeutic options (rewetting additives, material modification...)

Canan GURDAL, Ankara (TURKEY)

10:10 - 10:20 » Discussion

10:20 - 10:55 » Keratoconus session

Chairman: Florence MALET, Bordeaux (FRANCE)

10:20 - 10:35 » RGP CL fit review

Ksenija OPACIC, Zagreb (CROATIA)

10:35 - 10:45 » Crosslinking

Mirna STABUC, Ljubljana (SLOVENIA)

10:45 - 10:55 » Intracorneal rings

Izzet CAN, Ankara (TURKEY)

10:55 - 11:15 » Coffee break in the exhibition area

11:15 - 12:15 » CLAO session

11:15 - 11:35 » Cornea Crosslinking (CXL) and Controlled Kerato Reformation (CKR)

11:35 - 11:55 » Surgical correction of astigmatism

Donald DOUGHMAN, Edina, Minnesota (UNITED STATES)

11:55 - 12:15 » Lissamine, fluorescein and the ocular surface

E. Lee STOCK, Mequon (UNITED STATES)