NEWSLETTER 19
December 2019

ECLSO President Carina Koppen, MD ECLSO Secretary-General Ömür Uçakhan-Gunduz , MD

I. PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME ECLSO CONGRESS ON SEPEMBER 18TH AND 19TH 2020

We will start the first day with a session on Keratoconus, featuring Dr Farhad Hafezi (Zürich, Switzerland, Dr Elke Kreps (Ghent, Belgium), Dr Alfonso Ioveno, British Columbia, Canada).
Second main theme is Trouble Shooting with Scleral lenses, featuring Dr Muriel Schornack, Rochester, USA), Eef van der Worp (Maastricht, the Netherlands).
In the afternoon the main theme is Ocular Surface moderated by Dr Christophe Baudouin (Paris, France), Dr Andrea Leonardi (Padua, Italy), Dr José Benitez del Castillo (Madrid, Spain).
The second Congress day will be entirely devoted to Myopia Control focusing on a pragmatical approach and highlights of the IMI White Papers.
Moderators: Dr James Wolffsohn (Birmingham, UK), Dr Frank Schaeffel (Tübingfen,Germany), Dr Matthie Leconte, (Rouen, France), Dr Keith Tempany (Broadstone, UK), Prof. Ian Flitcroft (Dublin, Ireland). EACCME accreditation has been applied for.
Call for abstracts will be open from January 2020 – registration from April 2020 through a link on the website.

For all information, consult our website (www.eclso.eu), our congress organiser (regist-eclso@europa-organisation.com) and our ECLSO Secretary-General Dr Ömür Uçakhan-Gündüz (omuru@yahoo.com).

III. MEDICAL CONTACT LENS AND OCULAR SURFACE ASSOCIATION MCLOSA

The Medical Contact Lens and Ocular Surface Association MCLOSA celebrated their 26^th Annual Meeting in the Millennium Gloucester Hotel in London on Friday 29^th November 2019, the same venue as the joint congress with the ECLSO in 2017 which was a resounding success.
This year’s programme started with the Welcome from the President Mr Chris Hemmerdinger and was followed by a faculty of National and International leading experts, providing pearls of wisdom on their specialist topics.
The morning session opened with the Bron Award Presentations with two author competing.
Navdeet Dhillon, Queen Victoria Hospital East Grinstead, spoke on Corneal Neurotisation- a novel approach in the management of Neurotrophic Keratopathy, presented the method of her study of 11 patients and the results and concluded that neurotisation surgery demonstrates a safe treatment option for neurotrophic keratopathy.

Dr Sundas Maqsood, Queen Victoria Hospital, presented The management of persistent corneal epithelial defect with Omnilenz. It was a retrospective study on 30 patients with 38 persistent epithelial defect and 49 Omnilens applications in clinical settings and she concluded that initial results show safety and efficacy of a new lens tool in the management of persistent corneal epithelial defect.
This session was directly followed by Professor Dan Reinstein’s Symposia on “Corneal imaging”. Dan himself presented a topical and stimulating lectures on Topography/Tomography and Epithelial mapping. Professor Bernhard Steger from Innsbruck, Austria, explained Ocular Surface Angiography and Dr Vito Romano, Liverpool, showed us his Selective Fine Needle Diathermy approach.

2019 Kersley Lecture-Progress in managing infections of the ocular surface

We were fortunate to welcome the 2019 Kersley lecturer Professor Stephen Kaye, Honorable Professor of Ophthalmology – Department of Eye & Vision Science, University of Liverpool. Professor Kaye won the Royal College of Ophthalmologists 2018 Researcher of the Year Award in recognition of his research into diseases of the cornea and ocular surface, corneal transplantation, corneal infections and refractive disorders and he outlined fabulously the “Progress in managing infections of the ocular surface” for which Mr Chris Hemmerdinger presented him with the Kersley Lecture Award.
The early afternoon Neurotrophic Keratitis session, designed and chaired by Professor Francisco Figueiredo, featuring Ocular surface expert Dr Paolo Rama from Italy who looked at the medical management and world renowned paediatric/corneal & external eye disease Profressor Asim Ali, Toronto, giving us the surgical treatment approach.
The all-important Medical contact lens session “ Hot off the press “ was a more informal “chat-show” style discussion around “ Myopia management” and “ New innovations - now and in future” by Mr Keyur Patel and Mr Brian Tomkins, as always highly entertaining!
Dr Navpreet Dhillon won the Bron Presentation Award and cash prize for her research and presentation on Corneal Neurotisation.
All in all we enjoyed a fantastic MCLOSA meeting, with excellent exhibition and interesting, educational stimulating contributions and friendly atmosphere.

Ursula Vogt

Dr U Vogt, Hon Treasurer ECLSO

IV. 5^th CONTACTOLOGY AND OCULAR SURFACE CONGRESS OF THE TUNISIAN ASSOCIATION OF OPHTHALMOLOGISTS

Congratulations to Dr Nadia Korchane!

She had organised this excellent contactology meeting in the Tunis-ARENA on Saturday 26^th October 2019 for ophthalmologists.
National and international speakers presented on ametropia, adaptation of contact lenses, myopia control, OCT, allergy and glaucoma and contact lenses.

Dr Ursula Vogt (ECLSO) showed an epidemiology profile with results of international research studies, and stressed the importance of paediatric detection of the refractive error and early treatment.

Dr Moataz B. Mekki (Algerie) gave a most interesting presentation on astigmatism detection and recommended the need for full correction with contact lenses.

Dr Helene Bertrand (France) delighted the audience with her key note speech on myopia control, with various treatments and reading materials.

Active workshops on refraction, toric lenses and presbyopic contact lens fitting kept the delegates’ attention in the afternoon.

Medailles d’or de ASTOC SO were given for excellence and good partnership to STO- Dr Chachia, Dr Mekki -SMOC and Dr Vogt – ECLSO.

The conference was truly a global gathering of Ophthalmologists with excellent national and international speakers and interested delegates.

All in all a great success! Well done Nadia!!

Dr U Vogt
Medical ophthalmologist and contact lens specialist
ECLSO Treasurer

V. ROMANIAN CONTACT LENS AND OCULAR SURFACE SOCIETY

Prof. dr. Adriana Stanila, ECLSO Vice-President, reported on the very successful meeting of the Romanian Contact Lenses and Ocular Surface Society in Sibiu on November 8th – 10th. More than 400 participants and 21 sponsors joined in a meeting with outstanding topics focusing on early diagnosis and prevention of corneal epithelial defects, keratoconus management and early detection of corneal-conjunctival changes in congenital glaucome. Congratulations to the Romanian Society!

Thank you for your interest and support and let us meet at our 49^th Congress in Paris, Novotel Tour Eiffel, on September 18^th-19^th 2020.