Program - European Academy of Optometry and Optics 2023

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Friday 12.05.2023
Saturday 13.05.2023
Sunday 14.05.2023

WORKSHOP - Slit lamp basics

09:00 - 10:30
90 min
Poznań University of Medical Science (PUMS)

WORKSHOP - Retinoscopy: a useful tool to peripheral refraction examination in myopic children

09:00 - 10:30
90 min
Poznań University of Medical Science (PUMS)

WORKSHOP - Ocular motor dysfunction - specificity and management

09:00 - 10:30
90 min
Poznań University of Medical Science (PUMS)

WORKSHOP - ABCs of OCT - how to acquire and interpret the test results

09:00 - 10:30
90 min
Adam Mickiewicz University (UAM)

WORKSHOP - Assesment of Visual function in infants

09:00 - 10:30
90 min
Adam Mickiewicz University (UAM)

WORKSHOP - Scleral lens fitting with Profilometry

09:00 - 10:30
90 min
Adam Mickiewicz University (UAM)

#02. Color vision defects and their detection

10:00 - 11:00
60 min
Conference Hotel

Break

10:30 - 11:00
30 min

WORKSHOP - Slit lamp basics

11:00 - 12:30
90 min
Poznań University of Medical Science (PUMS)

WORKSHOP - Binocular Indirect Ophthalmoscopy (BIO) - theory and workshop

11:00 - 12:30
90 min
Adam Mickiewicz University (UAM)

WORKSHOP - Retinoscopy: a useful tool to peripheral refraction examination in myopic children

11:00 - 12:30
90 min
Poznań University of Medical Science (PUMS)

WORKSHOP - Assesment of Visual function in small children (age 1-5)

11:00 - 12:30
90 min
Adam Mickiewicz University (UAM)

WORKSHOP - Ocular motor dysfunction - specificity and management

11:00 - 12:30
90 min
Poznań University of Medical Science (PUMS)

WORKSHOP - Scleral lens fitting with Profilometry

11:00 - 12:30
90 min
Adam Mickiewicz University (UAM)

How to take a good topography capture

11:15 - 12:15
60 min
Conference Hotel

Measuring Carotenoid Levels and Macular Pigment in Eye Care

12:30 - 13:30
60 min
Conference Hotel

Lunch, Posters and Exhibition

13:30 - 15:00
90 min

Welcome session

15:00 - 15:15
15 min
Plenary Room / BERLIN

Special address from Ministry of Health, Poland

15:15 - 15:30
15 min
Plenary Room / BERLIN

Welcome speech EssilorLuxottica and Hoya

15:30 - 16:00
30 min
Plenary Room / BERLIN

Pediatrics & Binocular Vision Rapid Fire Session

15:30 - 17:00
90 min
Parallel room 1 / AMSTERDAM

KEYNOTE • Innovative enabling technolgies in optics, optometry and vision science

16:00 - 17:00
60 min
Plenary Room / BERLIN

Title: Innovative enabling technologies in optics, optometry and vision science

Matt Jaskulski, PhD, DSc

Clinical research software developer at the Indiana University Clinical Optics Research Lab (IU CORL)

Coffee Break, Posters and Exhibition

17:00 - 17:30
30 min

#50 Tele-triage system in an optical setting in the Netherlands

17:30 - 18:00
30 min
Parallel room 1 / AMSTERDAM

Digital Optometry

17:30 - 18:00
30 min
Plenary Room / BERLIN

SYMPOSIUM / ROUND TABLE • Technology for eye care

18:00 - 19:00
60 min
Plenary Room / BERLIN

dr Matt Jaskulski
Prof. Joseph J. Pizzimenti

Moderator: José M. González Méijome

Prof. Jacek Pniewski

Marcin Bartosz Stopa

New technologies for macular degeneration management

18:00 - 18:30
30 min
Parallel room 1 / AMSTERDAM

Technology Rapid Fire Session

18:30 - 19:00
30 min
Parallel room 1 / AMSTERDAM

#38 Incorporating Artificial Intelligence in eye screening practice of optometrists – new approach to digital assessment of early symptoms of open angle glaucoma - Andrzej Piotrowski
#33 Study of fixational eye movements in glaucoma using a super-fast eye tracking system - Aleksandra Gorczyca
#23 Assessment of the interactions between the anterior segment of the eye and soft contact lenses as a result of their extended wear - Patryk Młyniuk
#39 Repeatability and reproducibility of corneal epithelial thickness mapping with spectral domain optical coherence tomography using Canny Edge segmentation algorithm - Inese Petrovica

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Friday 12.05.2023
Saturday 13.05.2023
Sunday 14.05.2023

KEYNOTE • Eyecare in the Changing World: Scaling Up for Impact

09:00 - 10:00
60 min
Plenary Room / BERLIN

Eyecare in the Changing World: Scaling Up for Impact

Kovin Naidoo, PhD, OD

Professor, Global head of advocacy and partnerships, OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation and former CEO, Brien Holden Vision Institute

The World Health Assembly Resolutions, The UN Resolutions, The World Report on Vision, and the growing recognition by non-eye care actors of the importance of good vision, have catapulted Refractive Error in particular, and eye care in general, onto the center stage of global health.

Given this context and the growing unmet needs in eye care and the changing ecosystem of optometry and optics the sector must be both receptive and responsive in order to remain relevant.

This lecture will emphasize the latest global evidence on eye health challenges and the global commitments of the public-private sector to make eye care accessible, equitable, affordable, and effective for everyone, everywhere in the world. This lecture will provide an overview of the achievements and evidence of remaining challenges and opportunities for improved eye care worldwide. It will locate Eye health as a global political, health, and development priority and discuss the central role that optometrists and opticians can proactively play within their professional associations, together with other health professions, and with their governments to achieving the scale that is demanded of us.

Key issues to be addressed are:

How do we scale up refractive services to the next level and create access for everyone?

How do we deploy public health strategies to protect our children from the looming myopia crisis?

How do we develop an integrated approach that brings all sectors together to achieve our goal (systems approach)?

How do we mobilise technology to drive this scale without undermining the role of optometrists and opticians or comprising quality?

How every practitioner, in every part of the globe, including in Europe, can become a part of this process to benefit our patients and societies?

#21 Influence of binocular vision on academic performance: A multivariate analysis

10:00 - 10:30
30 min
Plenary Room / BERLIN

SIG - Binocular vision

10:00 - 11:00
60 min
Parallel room 1 / AMSTERDAM

ESSILORLUXOTTICA Education Lecture: Recent advances in the development of Progressive Addition Lenses - Artificial intelligence behind Varilux XR

10:30 - 11:00
30 min
Plenary Room / BERLIN

Coffee Break, Posters and Exhibition

11:00 - 11:30
30 min

#29 Burnout in Optometry: Risks and Prevention

11:30 - 12:00
30 min
Parallel room 1 / AMSTERDAM

Thyroid and eye disease

11:30 - 12:30
60 min
Plenary Room / BERLIN

#10 Report from the Global Summit on Optometric Education

12:00 - 12:30
30 min
Parallel room 1 / AMSTERDAM

#07 Optic Neuritis: It is more than MS-NMOSD is a sight threating & life-threatening reality

12:30 - 13:00
30 min
Plenary Room / BERLIN

SIG - Contact lenses

12:30 - 13:30
60 min
Parallel room 1 / AMSTERDAM

HOYA Education Lecture • Limitations of randomized controlled trials

13:00 - 13:15
15 min
Plenary Room / BERLIN

The movement towards evidence-based medicine (EBM) since the 1990s has centred on randomised-controlled trials (RCTs). However, it is wrong to assume that EBM is synonymous with RCTs and this presentation that, to validate interventions, RCTs are essential but not sufficient. Bradford Hill who was the architect of the RCT said in 1967 “any belief that the controlled trial is the only way would mean not that the pendulum had swung too far but that it had come right off the hook”. The often-used pyramid of EBM (below) is unhelpful in propagating the notion of a hierarchy of evidence, when in fact a diversity of evidence is required.

Like all research tools, RCTs have limitations. For example, RCTs typically define the study population with inclusion and exclusion criteria rather than investigating the intervention in a real clinical population. Also, RCTs typically use more rigorous testing procedures than everyday clinical practice. RCTs may demonstrate interventions’ efficacy (performance under ideal and controlled circumstances), but not their effectiveness (performance in the real world). Real world studies (e.g., observational and cohort studies) help provide a fuller picture of effectiveness. In addition to generalisability, other limitations of RCTs include inappropriate use of null hypothesis and obsession with arbitrary p-value.

Conference organisers and journal editors should welcome a diversity of research designs and different approaches should be seen as complementary rather than hierarchical. Finally, EBM is more than just a consideration of research evidence, which needs to be integrated with the clinician’s clinical expertise and the patient’s preferences.

MiYOSMART myopia control spectacle lenses in UK children: 12-month outcomes

13:15 - 13:30
15 min
Plenary Room / BERLIN

MiYOSMART spectacles, which are well tolerated, have been shown to effectively retard myopia in Chinese children (8-13 years) compared to peers in conventional spectacle lenses. Current data are presented the 12-month changes in SER and AL in children in the UK.

87 children aged 5-15 (mean 10.3 ±2.4) with SER -0.50 to -8.50D were prescribed MiYOSMART. SER (cycloplegic autorefraction) and AL were measured at baseline, 6 and 12-months. Data were compared with UK myopic control data of similar age (8-13 years) and ethnicity (12-month change in SER=-0.58D, AL=0.24mm, Chamberlain et al. 2019), and age specific models of untreated myopic annual AL growth from non-Asian studies (9 years 0.38mm, 13 years 0.19mm, Shamp et al. 2022).

The mean (±SD) 12-month changes in SER and AL were -0.36±0.42D and 0.18±0.20mm respectively, significantly less than reported for untreated UK myopes by Chamberlain et al. 2019 (SER: t=4.82, p=0.0001; AL: t=-2.80, p=0.003). Younger children (<10 years, mean 8.1 years at baseline) showed significantly more myopic progression compared to those aged 10-15 (mean 12.0 years at baseline); (-0.56D vs -0.22D; t=-4.12, p=0.0001) and AL increase (0.32mm vs 0.08mm; t=7.22, p<0.0001) over 12-months. Compared to the expected 12-month growth for children aged 9 and 13, MiYOSMART significantly reduced AL by 15% and 57% in younger (<10 years, t=-1.99, p=0.027) and older (10-15 years, t=-6.04, p<0.0001) children respectively. For SER, a 12-month change was -0.25D or less in 19% and 54% of children in the younger and older groups respectively.

Compared to published data from untreated myopes, MiYOSMART spectacles significantly reduced average myopic progression and axial elongation in UK children. Better efficacy was seen in children over 10 y.o.

Lunch, Posters and Exhibition

13:30 - 14:30
60 min

Essilor® Stellest® lens: new insights and research on myopia control spectacle lenses

14:30 - 15:30
60 min
Parallel room 2 / LONDYN

KEYNOTE • Nutrition and the eye

14:30 - 15:30
60 min
Plenary Room / BERLIN

Title: Nutrition and the Eye

Greg A. Caldwell, OD, FAAO

Diplomate of the American Board of Optometry (ABO), member of the Optometric Glaucoma Society (OGS), member of the Optometric Wellness and Nutritional Society (OWNS)

Carotenoids are nutrients that have been proven to protect the eye from light damage and several ocular pathologies. Their antioxidative protection is at the molecular level and are most recognized in age related macular degeneration. Many ocular and retinal diseases are linked to low levels are carotenoid levels. However, the retina is a highly metabolic tissue under constant assault. This course will review carotenoids and the comprehensive nutritional antioxidant network needed, how to assess their levels, and identify the patients that would benefit from diet, lifestyle, and macula and full retina supplementation. This course will provide patient cases to the audience.
Ocular Nutrition – Tying, Structure, Function, and Molecular All Together in the Changing World
Early detection, prevention, and wellness is not only trending but is now expected by our patients. Oxidative stress and damage are the hallmarks of chronic disease which is easily identified with our current and new instruments and technologies. This course will introduce and review concepts of integrative and complementary medicine and provide clinicians with clinical pearls, diagnostic interpretation and approaches, present-day and recently approved nutraceutical and therapeutic opportunities, and guidance on becoming a great Integrative Optometrist.

CooperVision lecture: Evidence - based treatment of myopia

14:30 - 15:00
30 min
Parallel room 1 / AMSTERDAM

Rodenstock lecture: MyCon, the new Rodenstock solution for children with myopia

15:00 - 15:30
30 min
Parallel room 1 / AMSTERDAM

MyCon, the new Rodenstock solution for children with myopia

MyCon is a Rodenstock spectacle lens designed to correct myopia and to control the progression of myopia. The central area and the upper and lower parts of the lens are designed for central foveal vision to correct myopia. The nasal and temporal areas of the lens have continuous increasing plus power to focus the light in front of the peripheral retina and reduce contrast to slow down the progression of myopia. The presentation will explain the technical concept and the scientific background.

Clinical Optometry Rapid Fire Session

15:30 - 16:30
60 min
Parallel room 1 / AMSTERDAM

   #41 Can proper nutrition relieve digital eye strain?: Nutrition in digital eye strain - Anna Kraśnicka
   #28 UK Eye care practitioner experiences of using technology to improve medication adherence in glaucoma: A qualitative study using the Theoretical Domains Framework - Deborah Bott
   #08 Clinical Examination of Papilloedema vs Pseudopapilloedema in 2023- Learning from Diagnostic errors - Lorcan Butler
   #57 The influence of optometric visuomotor training on soccer skill performance of young soccer players - Luiza Krasucka

Lighting the way: new evidence and advances in myopia management

15:30 - 16:30
60 min
Parallel room 2 / LONDYN

SYMPOSIUM / ROUND TABLE • Eyecare in the Changing World: Harnessing our Collective Response

15:30 - 16:30
60 min
Plenary Room / BERLIN

Prof. Kovin Naidoo

Moderator: Eva Lazuka

Liliana Stankova, EAOO President
Matjaž Mihelčič, ECOO President
Fiona Anderson, IOA President
Dominika Olkowska, PTOO President
Susan Cotter, AAO President
Kovin Naidoo

Coffee Break, Posters and Exhibition

16:30 - 17:00
30 min

Contact Lens & Ocular Surface Rapid Fire Session

17:00 - 18:00
60 min
Parallel room 2 / LONDYN

   #06 The use of protocols and informed consent for contact lens instructions in the Netherlands and Belgium. - Maurice Heunen
   #26 Scleral lenses: what did we learn during the last 10 years? - Langis Michaud
   #42 Optometrist’s Approach to Meibomian Gland Dysfunction: Diagnostic Modalities and Patient Care Options - Beata Lewandowska
   #30 Role of corneal epithelial thickness mapping in monitoring the effects of overnight orthokeratology - Jagoda Rzeszewska-Zamiara

KEYNOTE • Clinical Cases in Posterior Segment Imaging

17:00 - 18:00
60 min
Plenary Room / BERLIN

American Academy of Optometry - EAOO Join Pediatric Optometry

17:00 - 18:30
90 min
Parallel room 1 / AMSTERDAM

Joint AAO/EAOO Symposium

Title: Prescribing for Childhood Hyperopia: Top Tips & Considerations

Susan Cotter, OD, MS, FAAO
Southern California College of Optometry, Marshall B Ketchum University

Kathryn Saunders, PhD, FCOptom
Centre for Optometry and Vision Science Research, School of Biomedical Sciences, Ulster University

When testing older children and adult patients, optometrists make decisions about the importance of refractive error and the need for spectacle correction based primarily on symptoms and the impact of refractive correction on visual acuity.
These parameters are less helpful when testing infants or young children when the visual system is maturing rapidly and there is a risk for the development of strabismus, amblyopia, and other visual anomalies. The magnitude of refractive error is only one consideration when deciding whether to prescribe a refractive correction and how much to prescribe for young children. Other factors, including age, accommodative function, binocular status (eye alignment and stereopsis), behavioral signs or symptoms, and academic performance, are essential components in the eyecare professional’s decision-making.
In this lecture, we will discuss the ‘why,’ ‘when,’ and ‘how much’ aspects of prescribing for childhood hyperopia and provide evidence-informed ‘top tips’ that we use in our clinical practice. We will review key objective methods for assessing accommodative function in young patients and how these measures inform our decision-making when managing typically developing hyperopic children and those with developmental disabilities. We will include patient cases for discussion.

Susan Cotter
Kathryn Saunders

SIG - Education (#19) Active Learning for Educators

18:00 - 18:30
30 min
Parallel room 2 / LONDYN

Optical performance of new ophthalmic lenses for Myopia Control

18:00 - 18:30
30 min
Plenary Room / BERLIN

EAOO Gala Dinner

20:30 - 23:59
209 min
Plenary Room / BERLIN

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Friday 12.05.2023
Saturday 13.05.2023
Sunday 14.05.2023

#58 Sensory aniseikonia

09:00 - 09:30
30 min
Parallel room 1 / AMSTERDAM

KEYNOTE • Humanitariam eyecare projects

09:00 - 10:00
60 min
Plenary Room / BERLIN

#36 Evaluation of a new care model "Optometry First" to help meet Ophthalmology demand

09:30 - 10:00
30 min
Parallel room 1 / AMSTERDAM

#17 HEADACHES: a guide for the optometrist

10:00 - 10:30
30 min
Plenary Room / BERLIN

Visionix lecutre: Comprehensive optometric examintation with Visionix diagnostic station

10:00 - 10:30
30 min
Parallel room 1 / AMSTERDAM

Visionix - wykład TBA

EAOO Assembly General Meeting

10:30 - 11:30
60 min
Parallel room 1 / AMSTERDAM

#44 Efficiency of Vision Relaxation in Computer Users

10:30 - 11:00
30 min
Plenary Room / BERLIN

Coffee Break, Posters and Exhibition

11:00 - 12:00
60 min

SIG - Myopia management

11:30 - 13:00
90 min
Parallel room 1 / AMSTERDAM

#51 Effects of defocus incorporated multiple segments (DIMS) on reading behavior of Caucasian children

12:00 - 12:30
30 min
Plenary Room / BERLIN

#13 Latest Update on Myopia Management Interventions

12:30 - 13:00
30 min
Plenary Room / BERLIN

#25 Myopia management: one child at a time

13:00 - 13:30
30 min
Plenary Room / BERLIN

Myopia Management Rapid Fire Session

13:00 - 14:00
60 min
Parallel room 1 / AMSTERDAM

#31 The relationship between BMI, myopia, premyopia and visual function in 6-7-year-old schoolchildren

13:30 - 14:00
30 min
Plenary Room / BERLIN