Thursday, November 13

Searle Center Auditorium, Duke Medical Center

8am

Breakfast

8:45am

Welcome (P. Mruthyunjaya and David Epstein, Chairman)

Opening Remarks (Victor Dzau)

Global Health Challenges: Focus on Eye Care as Model for Change (John Bartlett)

Focusing Organized Ophthalmology Worldwide (Mike Brennan)

Implementation of Cataract Surgical Strategies (Geoffrey Tabin)

Eliminating Blinding Trachoma (Joseph Cook)

Assessing the Global Health and Economic Burden of Eye Diseas (Leon Ellwein)

Collaboration with Academia/NGOs on the Front Line (James Clarke)

Making Corneal Blindness a Priority (Donald Tan)

Volunteer Eye Care: Mission Impossible?  (Philip McKinley)

12:00pm

KEYNOTE

Pathways for Eradicating Blindness--Vision 2020: The Right to Sight (GN Rao)

Wrap up/Response Panel with moderator (all speakers)

Lunch

Duke Eye Center, Albert Eye Research Institute Auditorium

2:00-2:30pm

Tour of the Duke Eye Center

2:30-4:30pm

Focal Points:  Models to Address Blindness

• Care Delivery Issues Within Societal Priorities (Paul Lee)

• Implementing Small Incision Cataract Surgery: Outcomes (Geoffrey Tabin)

• The Unmet Need for Refractive Correction in School-Age Children: A Global Public Health Problem (Leon Ellwein)

• Glaucoma in the Developing World (Seth Wanye)

Panel Discussion