Key Note Lectures
Marie-José Tassignon, Belgium
Saturday, June 13 at 13.30-14.15
Key Note Lecture: Refractive cataract surgery
 Marie-José Tassignon is Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology of the
Antwerp University Hospital since 1991 and Full Professor at the Faculty of
Medicine of the
University of Antwerp since 2002. She served as president of the European
Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons from 2004 to 2006 and has been the
Chair of the programme committee of that same
society since 2004.
She served as President of the European Board of
Ophthalmology during 2007–2008. She is member of the European Academy of
Ophthalmology and of the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis. Professor
Tassignon has
received numerous awards and has given many named lectures. She has designed
different implants and introduced the bag-in-the-lens implantation technique
aiming at solving the problem of posterior capsular opacities occurring in
adults and babies.
Norbert Pfeiffer, Germany
Sunday, June 14 at 13.30-14.15
Key Note Lecture: Why do we get glaucoma?
Norbert Pfeiffer received his M.D. degree from Freiburg University. After completing his
Ph.D. degree he became Chairman and Director of the Department of Ophthalmology
at Mainz University in 1995 and served as the CEO of Mainz University Hospital
from 1999–2002. He is a member of several national and international societies
including the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the Association for Research
in Vision and Ophthalmology and serves on the executive committee of the
European Glaucoma Society. Currently, he was the president of the German
Ophthalmological Society.
His research interest has focused on elucidating important aspects of the
diagnosis and treatment of glaucomatous disease combining both morphological and
functional aspects and introducing basic science methods into the clinical
diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma. He was awarded several scientific prizes
including the prestigious Galenus von Pergmanon Prize for the introduction of
innovative medical therapies.
Philip Rosenfeld, United States
Monday, June 15 at 13.30-14.15
Key Note Lecture: Age-related macular degeneration: The revolution in therapy
and imaging continues
Philip Rosenfeld is Professor of Ophthalmology at
the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute of the University of Miami,
Miller School of Medicine. He received both his MD and PhD degrees
from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and completed his residency in ophthalmology and a post-doctoral
research fellowship at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary of Harvard Medical School.
Following his residency and research fellowship, he completed
a vitreoretinal fellowship at the Bascom Palmer Eye
Institute where he joined the faculty in 1996.
Dr. Rosenfeld
is a retina specialist with a primary clinical research interest
in age-related macular degeneration. Dr. Rosenfeld has been
a principal investigator in numerous photodynamic therapy
trials using verteporfin (Visudyne®) and in several trials
exploring the next generation of pharmacotherapies for the
treatment of neovascular AMD. This interest led the way
for his pioneering, breakthrough use of intravitreal Avastin
for the treatment of neovascular AMD and other exudative
retinal diseases; an approach that now is used globally as a
low cost alternative to Lucentis therapy. Philip Rosenfeld is
an active member in several ophthalmologic societies including
the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American
Society of Retinal Specialists, the Retina Society, the
Macula Society, and the Association for Research in Vision
and Ophthalmology.
Geoffrey Rose, United Kingdom
Tuesday, June 16 at 13.30-14.15
Key Note Lecture: Cracking the Orbit; greater returns for less damage!
 Geoffrey Rose qualified in Medicine
at King’s College Hospital Medical
School, University of London in 1979.
Postgraduate ophthalmic training
was undertaken at King’s College
Hospital, St Thomas Hospital and
Moorfields Eye Hospital, with award
of Fellowship of the Royal College of
Surgeons in 1985 and of the Royal
College of Ophthalmologists at its foundation in 1988. In
2004 the University of London granted him a Doctor of
Science in Ophthalmology and Ophthalmic Surgery.
Mr Rose was appointed as Consultant Surgeon to Moorfields
Eye Hospital in 1990 and specialises in orbital and lacrimal
diseases and surgery. He lectures widely at national and
international level, has presented various named and guest
lectures. In 2004, he received the Lester Jones Anatomy
Award of the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic
and Reconstructive Surgery (of which he is an honorary
member). For eight years, Geoffrey Rose served as the
British Council member of the European Society of
Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and he is the
President of the British Oculo-Plastic Surgical Society.
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