The retina as an interface between neurology and ophthalmology
Time: Friday, June 19th 2015
Location: Friedrich-Kopsch-Hörsaal, Waldeyer-Haus, Institute of Anatomy, Charité Campus Mitte
Session 1: Clinical relevance of visual system examination in neurology
14:50 – 15:00: Welcome
Friedemann Paul (Berlin, DE) & Alexander U. Brandt (Berlin, DE)
Alexander U. Brandt (Berlin, DE) & Pablo Villoslada (Barcelona, ES)
15:00 – 15:30 Key Note: The Afferent Visual Pathway: Defining Structural-Functional Correlations in Central Nervous System Disorders
Fiona Costello (Calgary, CA)
15:30 – 15:45 Clinical neurophysiology of the visual system in multiple sclerosis
Letizia Leocani (Milano, IT)
15:45 – 16:00 Erythropoietin treatment in Optic Neuritis – the TONE trial
Wolf Lagrèze (Freiburg, DE)
16:00 – 16:15 To OCT or not to OCT – is optical coherence tomography ready for routine application in multiple sclerosis?
Axel Petzold (Amsterdam, NL)
16:15 – 16:30 Break
Coffee and Snacks
Session 2: Current research in retinal imaging in multiple sclerosis
Wolf Lagrèze (Freiburg, DE) & Friedemann Paul (Berlin, Germany)
16:30 – 17:00 Key Note: The Role of the Visual System in Monitoring Neurodegeneration: Lessons from the MS Model
Peter Calabresi (Baltimore, US)
17:00 – 17:15 Defining disease heterogeneity in multiple sclerosis with the help of OCT and MRI
Sven Schippling (Zürich, CH)
17:15 – 17:30 Implementing Visual Outcomes in Clinical Trials
Alexander U. Brandt (Berlin, DE)
17:30 – 17:45 Next Generation Retinal Imaging
Ari Green (San Francisco, US)
17:45 – 18:00: Farewell
Friedemann Paul (Berlin, DE) & Alexander U. Brandt (Berlin, DE)