S23 – Course: Keratoconus for those at the workface: Everything you wanted to know but were scared to ask in 2017!

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S23 – Course: Keratoconus for those at the workface: Everything
you wanted to know but were scared to ask in 2017!
Chair: Prof Charles McGhee
Co-Chairs: Prof Michael Belin and Prof Trevor Sherwin
Topics and Speakers:
Aetiology – are we any nearer to a genetic understanding?
– A/Prof Andrea Vincent
Refining the diagnosis and monitoring of keratoconus progression
– Prof Michael Belin
Corneal Collagen Cross linking – the beginning of the end?
– Prof Gerard Sutton
Intrastromal segments – where do they fit in? – Adam Watson
Corneal transplantation – penetrating or lamellar surgery?
– Dr Sue Ormonde
The final frontier – cellular re-population in keratoconus
– Prof Trevor Sherwin
Creating a simple management paradigm for corneal ectasia
– Prof Charles McGhee

49th Annual Scientific Congress of The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists