UPMC Department of Ophthalmology Research Retreat

The faculty, residents, fellows and graduate students of the UPMC Department of Ophthalmology will be holding a research retreat on Friday, August 21 at the University Club. The resident and graduate student retreat, originally scheduled for Saturday, August 22, has been postponed.

Agenda

Friday, August 21, 2009

 

7:30 AM – 8:00 AM        Continental Breakfast

Location: Ballroom B

 

Morning Presentations & Round Table Discussions

Location: Ballroom B

 

8:00 AM – 8:30 AM        Review & Attainment of Goals set at 2007 Retreat

Robert L. Hendricks, Ph.D.

 

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM        Group Discussion: Methods to enhance and continue of the achieved goals.

Moderator: Robert L. Hendricks, Ph.D.

 

9:30 AM – 9:45 AM        BREAK

 

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM      Challenges, Obstacles, and Life Impacts of a Serviceman with

Visual Injury

Patient Speakers: Brace, Charlene, and Jeremy Feldbusch

 

10:45 AM – 11:45 AM    McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine: Projects, Recent

Developments & Clinical Translations

Deputy Director: William Wagner, Ph.D.

 

11: 45 PM – 1:15 PM     Lunch

Location: Ballroom B

 

1:15 PM – 2:15 PM        Developments on Center of Vision Restoration Executive Director: Maj. Gen. (retired) Gale Pollock Department Chair: Joel S. Schuman, M.D.

 

Regenerative Researches at Ophthalmology

 

2:15 PM – 2:45 PM        Retinal Regeneration: Amy Nau, M.D.

 

2:45 PM – 3:15 PM        Trabecular Meshwork: Yiqin Du, M.D./Ph.D.

 

3:15 PM – 3:45 PM        Corneal Regeneration: Jim Funderburgh, Ph.D.

 

3:45 PM – 4:00 PM        BREAK

 

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM        Group Discussion:

Identify potential research collaborative projects between Clinical and Research

Translation of Research to Clinical Treatment

How to develop CVR? Target Recruitment

 

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM        COCKTAIL RECEPTION Location: Rooftop Terrace