Program

	Session	Saturday 13th April 2013
8:00		Registration
8:30
9:00	Inaugural	Reitoria da UM, Presidência da ECUM, Diretora DF, Diretor CFUM, Diretora LIOCV, Diretor MOA, Comisão Organizadora CIOCV
9:30	Opening Session	Fight Against Avoidable Blindness Kovin Naidoo, PhD (International Agency For The Prevention Of Blindness, Africa)
10:00	Opening Session
10:30		Coffee-Break/Exhibition
11:30	Refractive Error Management	Full objective measurement of refractive error: is that clinically possible? Larry N. Thibos (University of Indiana, USA)
12:00		Emmetropization Nicola Logan (Aston University, Birmingham, UK)
12:00		Myopia Control Kovin Naidoo, PhD (International Agency For The Prevention Of Blindness, Africa)
12:30		Lunch/Exhibition
14:00	Contact Lenses	Comfortable contacts: Impossible dream or achievable reality? Lyndon Jones (University of Waterloo, Canada)
14:30		Beyond the corneal borders - the future of fitting the irregular cornea? Eef van der Worp (University of Maastricht, The Netherlands)
15:00		Nutrition and dry eye Lyndon Jones (University of Waterloo, Canada)
15:30		Coffee-Break/Exhibition
16:00	Psychophysics	Aging, “normal” vision and minimum requirements in visually demanding occupations John Barbur (City University of London, UK) How daltonics see – myths, facts and theories Sérgio Nascimento (University of Minho, Portugal) Colour and motion perception: psychophysics, neurophysiology and imaging Miguel Castelo-Branco (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
16:30
17:00
17:30

	Session	Sunday 14th April 2013
8:00		Registration
8:30
9:30	Visual Rehabilitation	We thought it was all about visual acuity loss Anton Verezen (The Netherlands and University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands)
10:00		Vision in children with special needs Kathry Saunders, (Ulster, UK)
10:30		What has changed in low vision rehabilitation in the last ten years? Michael Crossland (Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Vision & Eye Research Unit, Anglia Ruskin University UK)
11:00		Coffee-Break/Exhibition
11:30	Binocular Vision and Visual Training	Binocular Vision Testing and Diagnosis Bruce Evans (City University, UK)
12:30		Visual Training: recent advances Sandra Franco (University of Minho, Portugal)
12:30		Treatment of binocular vision disorders Bruce Evans (City University, UK)
13:00		Lunch/Exhibition
14:30	Ocular Diseases and Surgery	Predicting Progression of diabetic retinopathy to clinically significant macular oedema José Cunha-Vaz (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
15:00		Nucleotides and dinucleotides as stimulators of tear secretion and ocular surface regeneration Jesús Pintor (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
15:30		Refractive surgery: what has evolved? Fernando Silva (Hospital Privado de Braga, Portugal)
16:00		Coffee-Break/Exhibition
16:30	Free papers	Free Papers and Case Reports
17:00	Free papers	Free Papers and Case Reports
		Prizes and Diplomas Closure of the Conference