courses and events,

1987 Announcements for courses and meetings on intraoculw- lens implantation or related anterior segment surgery must be reeehoed no later than eight weeks before publication.

• FOURTH SCARBOROUGH SYMPOSIUM

March 19-20, 1987

The Postgraduate Centre Scarborough Hospital Yorkshire, England

Course Director: Piers Percival, F.R.C.S.

One-day teaching course on radial keratotomy. Second day will be the spring meeting of the North of England Ophthalmologica Society with symposia on r efinements of lens implantation, endocapsular extraction, and soft lenses .

Contact: Postgraduate Secretary

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Scarborough Hospital Scalby Road Yorkshire , England

THE CULLEN COURSE-1987: Clinical Advances in Ophthalmology for the Practicing Ophthalmologist sponsored by The Cullen E ye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Baylor College of Medicine

The Houstonian Hotel and Conference Center 111 North Post Oak Lane

March 20-22, 1987

AMA credit

Contact: Vicki Forgac, Program Coordinator The Office of Continuing Education Baylor College o f M edicine One Baylor Plaza Houston, Texas 77030 (713) 799-6020

• ANTERIOR SEGMENT SURGERY WORKSHOPS sponsored by the University of Minnesota Department of Ophthalmology

Phaco, Planned ECCE, YAG Laser, and Compressible IOL Implantation Workshop

March 23, 1987 September 21 , 1987 April 13 , 1987 October 19, 1987 July 13, 1987 November 16, 1987 August 17, 1987

Refractive Surgery Workshop May 18, 1987 December 14, 1987

Course Director: Richard L. Lindstrom, M.D.

CME credit

Contact: Ann Chiginsky

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Box 493 Mayo Memorial Building 516 Delaware Street SE Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 (612) 625-4628

MEMPHIS EYE CONVENTION sponsored by the University of T ennessee Department of Ophthalmology and the Memphis Eye Society

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March 28-29, 1987

Peabody Hotel Memphis, Tennessee

Guest speakers will be Francis L'Esperance, M.D., Robert Dryden, M.D., Marguerite McDonald, M.D.

Contact: Thomas Gettelfinger, M.D.

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Memphis Eye Convention 6485 Poplar Avenue Memphis, Tennessee 38119 (901) 767-3937

NINTH ANNUAL DALLAS SPRING OPHTHALMOLOGY SYMPOSIUM

April 3-4, 1987

Plaza of the Americas Hotel Dallas, Texas

Topics include ocular trauma, anterior and posterior segment trauma (retina and vitreous)

Faculty: D. Jackson Coleman, M.D., Joseph C. Flanagan, M.D., Richard K. Forster, M.D" Bert M. Glaser, M.D" Travis A. Meredith, M.D.

Contact: Lela Breckenridge

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Office of Continuing Medical Education Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas 820 Walnut Hill Lane Dallas, Texas 75231 (214) 696-84,58

THE SYMPOSIUM .ON CATARACT, IOL AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY sponsored by the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

April 6-10, 1987

Marriott's Orlando World Center Orlando, Florida

Scientific papers, courses, symposia, film festival

CME/AMA credit

Contact: American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery 3700 Pender Drive

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Suite 108 Fairfax, Virginia 22030 (703) 591-2220

SEVENTEENTH ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF THE RETINAL VASCULAR CENTER-CLINICAL TRIALS AND THE PRACTICE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

May 22, 1987

The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Baltimore, Maryland

Director: Stuart L. Fine, M.D.

CME. credit

Contact: Program Coordinator

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Office of Continuing Education Turner 22, 720 Rutland Avenue Baltimore, Maryland 21205 (301) 9.5.5-6046

YAG/ARGON WORKSHOP

May 22,1987

Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas

Topics include open angle glaucoma, iridotomies, capsulotomies, macula update, and hands on lab using YAG and argon lasers

Director: William B. Snyder, M.D.

Guest Faculty: M. Bruce Shields, M.D.

Contact: Lela Breckenridge

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Office of Continuing Medical Education Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas 8200 Walnut Hill Lane Dallas, Texas 75231 (214) 696-84,58

SIXTH BIENNIAL CONTACT LENS AND ANTERIOR SEGMENT CONFERENCE

May 22-24, 1987

Toronto Hilton Harbour Castle Hotel Toronto, Canada

Contact lens conference combined with anterior segment problems and refractive surgery presentations

Concurrent meeting for ophthalmic nurses and technicians

Contact: Harold Stein, M. D.

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170 Bloor Street W., #210 Toronto, Ontario M,5S IT9 (416) 966-3336

TWENTIETH PANHELLENIC OPHTHALMOLOGICAL CONGRESS

Mav 28-30, 1987

Island of Rhodes, Greece

Topics include ophthalmology update 1987, panels on ECCE, posterior chamber IOLs, refractive surgery, and lasers

Contact: John E. Lambros, M.D.

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1568 Woodbourne Road Levittown, PA 19057 (215) 943-7800

ELEVENTH CONGRESS OF THE ASIA PACIFIC ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

June 7-12, 1987

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Contact: Keshmahinder Singh, M.D. Malaysian Ophthalmological Society 124 Jalan Pahang 53000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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• SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OPHTHALMOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF HADASSAH HOSPITAL

June 11-12, 1987

Jerusalem, Israel

An update meeting on advances on ophthalmology

Chairper~ons: Professor Hannan Zauberman Jack Hartstein, M.D.

Contact: Jack Hartstein , M.D. 224 S Woods M ill Road Suite 700

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Chesterfield, Missouri 63017 (314) 469-1122

INTERNATIONAL CATARACT, IMPLANT AND MICROSURGICAL MEETING sponsored by the International Intraocular Implant Club and the Asia-Pacific Intraocular Implant Association

June 13-15, 1987

Location: Shangri-La Hotel Singapore

Contact: Arthur S.M. Lim , M.D.

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3 Mt. Elizabeth #0605-0608 Mt. Elizabeth Medical Centre Singapore 0922

CANADIAN IMPLANT ASSOCIATION THIRTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING

June 19-20, 1987

Bonaventure Hilton Hotel Montreal, Canada

Topics include epikeratophakia, radial keratotomy, computers in ophthalmology and lens implant innovations

Speakers include Herbert Kaufman, M.D., Marguerite McDonald, M.D., John Cowden , M.D. , and Leeds Katzen, M.D.

Contact: Marvin L. Kwitko, M.D.

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5591 Cote des Neiges Road Suite 1 Montreal, Quebec Canada H3T 1 Y8

THIRD INTERNATIONAL CATARACT AND INTRAOCULAR LENS SYMPOSIUM OF THE SOCIEDADE BRASILEIRA DE IMPLANTES INTRAOCULARES/FIRST INTERNATIONAL REFRACTIVE SURGERY SYMPOSIUM

June 23-27, 1987

Rio Palace Hotel Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Latest developments in cataract, intraocular lens, and refractive surgeries and related subjects will be covered in courses, panel discussions, free communications, films, video tapes, and technical and scientific exhibitions

Course Directors: Miguel A. Padilha, M.D. Carlucio Andrade, M.D.

Contact: Sociedade Brasileira de Implantes Intraoculares Rua Visconde de Silva, 521501 Botafogo-22281-Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (021) 266-1582

• FIFTH CONGRESS OF THE EUROPEAN INTRAOCULAR IMPLANT LENS COUNCIL

September 13-18, 1987

Jerusalem Hilton Hotel Jerusalem , Israel

Chairperson: Michael Blumenthal, M. D.

Topics include biodegradation of plastic material, explantation c IOLs, prevention of cataracts, manufacturing and design of IOLs, refractive surgery, and a film festival

Contact: Secretariat

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p. O. Box 50006 61500 Tel Aviv Israel

FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE MICROSURGERY

December 3-6, 1987

Florence, Italy

Scientific Coordinators: Ivan Esente, M.D. P.E. Gallenga, M.D. Walter Stark, M.D.

Discussions of present and future technologies of IOL implantation in cataract and allied pathologies, new materials , management of complications and refractive microsurgery

Contact: Enic Italia Sri

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Via S.C. DAlessandria 12 50129 Florence, Italy

THE MONTREAL INTRAOCULAR LENS IMPLANT COURSE presented by the Canadian Implant Association

Last Friday and Saturday of April, September, October, and November

St. Mary's Hospital Montreal. Canada

Course Director: Marvin L. Kwitko, M.D.

Course includes lens power calculation and review of planned manual and automated extracapsular surgery. Enrollment limited to three ophthalmologists for each course .

CME/AMA credit

Contact: Director of Professional Services St. Mary's Hospital 3830 Lacombe Avenue Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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