courses and events,

1991 Announcements for courses and meetings on intraocular lens implantation or related anterior segment surgery must be received no later than eight weeks before publication.

• 12TH ANNUAL ROYAL HAWAIIAN EYE MEETING

January 19-26, 1991

Hyatt Regency Waikoloa Waikoloa, Hawaii

Topics include cataract and implant update, refractive news, finance and marketing, neuro-ophthalmology, personal lifestyle management, medical risk management, glaucoma update.

Allied and administrative session topics include quality assurance, computers, Medicare audits, medical and surgical issues, office personnel issues, and contact lenses.

CME credit

Contact: RHEM '90

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c/o Mary Charles & Associates 2334 S. King Street, Suite 205 Honolulu, Hawaii 96786 (808) 942-9655

6TH SARASOTA PHACO COURSE sponsored by Gulf Coast Eye Foundation, Inc.

February 8-9, 1991

Sarasota, Florida

Course is for the beginning and advanced phacoemulsification surgeon. Topics include mini-incisions, foldable implants, one-stitch and no-stitch closure, capsulorhexis, and phaco in situ. Live surgery, didactics and wet labs.

AMA credit

Contact: Kim Fox

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Course Coordinator Gulf Coast Eye Foundation, Inc. 3920 Bee Ridge Road Bldg. F, Suite C Sarasota, FL 34233 (813) 925-0000

13TH ANNUAL WILMER INSTITUTE CURRENT CONCEPTS IN OPHTHALMOLOGY sponsored by the Wilmer Institute of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

February 10-17, 1991

Hyatt Regency Cerromar Beach Hotel Dorado, Puerto Rico

Course Director: Walter J. Stark, M.D.

A course designed for the ophthalmologist in clinical practice with an up-to-date review of the medical and surgical management of topics in refractive corneal surgery (RKs, excimer lasers and epigrafts), cataracts, IOLs, lasers, glaucoma, strabismus, corneal-external and vitreo-retinal diseases.

AMA Category I credit

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Contact: Program Coordinator

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The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Office of Continuing Education Turner Building, 720 Rutland Avenue Baltimore, Maryland 21205 (301) 955-2959

17TH ANNUAL FRONTIERS IN OPHTHALMOLOGY sponsored by the Prentice Eye Institute and St. Luke's Medical Center

February 21-23, 1991

Red Lion's LaPosada Resort Scottsdale, Arizona

Chairman: Edward L. Shaw, M. D.

CME credit

Contact: Christine Campbell

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Campbell Meeting Management 1419 E. Divot Drive Tempe , Arizona 85283

FIFTH CONGRESS OF THE GERMAN SOCIETY OF INTRAOCULAR LENS IMPLANTATION sponsored by the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Intraokularlinsen Implantation (DGII) and the University of Aachen

March 8-9 , 1991

Aachen , Germany

Contact: Prof. Dr. M. Reim

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Dr. M. Wenzel Augenklinik der RWTH Pauwelsstrasse 5100 Aachen, Germany

8TH ANNUAL WILMER INSTITUTE CURRENT CONCEPTS IN OPHTHALMOLOGY sponsored by the Wilmer Institute of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

March 9-16, 1991

Manor Vail Lodge Vail , Colorado

Course Director: Walter J. Stark, M.D.

An up-to-date review of the medical and surgical management of refractive corneal surgery (RKs, excimer lasers and epigrafts), cataracts, IOLs, lasers, glaucoma, strabismus, corneal-external and vitreo-retinal diseases .

AMA Category I credit

Contact: Program Coordinator The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

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Office of Continuing Education, Turner Building 720 Rutland Avenue Baltimore, Maryland 21205 (301)955-2959

THE CULLEN COURSE 1991: CLINICAL ADVANCES IN OPHTHALMOLOGY FOR THE PRACTICING OPHTHALMOLOGIST sponsored by The Cullen Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Baylor College of Medicine

March 15-17, 1991

Houstonian Hotel and Conference Center Houston, Texas

AMA credit

Contact: Lila K. Lerner, Program Coordinator Office of Continuing Education. Baylor College of Medicine One Baylor Plaza Houston , Texas 77030 (713) 798-6020

• THE CORNEA

March 16, 1991

Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital New York, New York

Course Directors: Sandra Belmont, M.D., Richard Gibralter, M.D.

Contact: Kimberly Corbin , Course Coordinator Department of Ophthalmology Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital 210 East 64th Street New York , NY 10021 (212) 605-3761 Fax: (212) 753-7699

• 27TH SPRING MEETING OF THE PITTSBURGH OPHTHALMOLOGY SOCIETY cosponsored by the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

March 22-23, 1991

Vista International Hotel Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Faculity includes Simmons Lessen, M.D. , who will present the Eleventh Annual Harvey Thorpe Lecture, Perry S. Binder, M.D., Manus C. Kraff, M.D., Allan D. Jensen, M.D., George L. Spaeth, M.D. , Donald Gass, M.D.

The Twelfth Annual Symposium for Allied Ophthalmic Personnel will be held concurrently at the same site .

Contact: Pat Kennerdell POS Executive Assistant 2545 Mosside Boulevard Monroeville, Pennsylvania 15146 (412) 243-8845

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