Please join us for A World Through a Child's Eyes on Thursday November 8 at the Rangos Conference Center at Childrens Hospital. This event will bring together the pediatric and ophthalmology communities to discuss new initiatives in pediatric ophthalmology at UPMC. The conference will feature three sessions: 

Pushing The Envelope will emphasize new techniques and research in the field of pediatric care and ophthalmology. 

Seeing is Believing  will highlight how we learn to see, artificial vision and different practices that are happening around the world. 

Surgical Techniques and Peaks will focus on OCT in the next generation, several surgical case presentations, and look at pediatric ophthalmology in Pittsburgh. 

Please contact Mary Lindenfelder at lindenfelderme@upmc.edu for registration and additional information

SCHEDULE:
 
8:30 – 9:30 am: Grand Rounds

Session I: Pushing the Envelope
 
9:30 am:  Introduction
      Joel S. Schuman, MD, FACS
 
9:45 am: Pediatric Ocular Surface Disease: Masquerade Syndrome for the Pediatrician
      Ken Nischal, MD, FRCOphth 
 
10:00 am: Imagining Imaging – Things You Thought We Would Never See!
     Ashok Panigrahy, MD
 
10:15 am: Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension: New Ways of Surveillance
        Ellen Mitchell, MD
 
10:30 am: Case Presentation
        LeAnn Lope, DO
 
10:45 am: The Ciliopathies: A New Frontier of Understanding
        Eduardo Silva, MD
 
11:05 am: Novel Prescriptions for Neuro Development Disorders in the Eye 
        Maria Escolar MD
 
11:25 am: The Role of Functional MRI in Understanding Visual Processing
        Marlene Behrman, PhD
 
11:45 am: Case Presentation
        Christin Sylvester, DO
 
12:00 am – 12:55 pm: Lunch

Session II: Seeing Is Believing 
 
1:00 pm: Artificial Vision
      Amy Nau, OD
 
1:15 pm: Corneal Endothelium - The Holy Grail of Bioengineered Tissue
     Adam Feinberg, PhD
 
1:30 pm: Etiology of Keratoconus, Can National Perspective Impact a Global Problem
      Andrea Molinari, MD
 
1:50 pm: ERG in Vigavatrian Surveillance 
      Valeria Fu, PhD
 
2:05 pm: Case Presentation
      Craig Luchansky, OD
 
2:20 pm: Corneal Cross Linking
     Deepinder Dhaliwal, MD
 
2:35 pm:  OCT: The Next Generation
      Joel S. Schuman, MD/ Hiroshi Ishikawa, MD 
 
2:55 – 3:15 pm: Break
 
Session III: Surgical Techniques and Peaks
 
3:20 pm: No Way is That in My Muscle
      Ramesh Kekunnaya, MD
 
3:40 pm: Strabismus Surgery: Things I Wish I had Never Done 
       Dave Granet, MD
 
4:00 pm:  Early Intervention for Visual Rehabilitation 
        Leah Hyvarinen, MD
 
4:25 pm: Intraocular Melphaln for Retinoblastoma
        Arun Singh, MD 
 
4:45pm: Pediatric Ophthalmology in Pittsburgh – A Historical Perspective
        Albert Biglan, MD 
 
5:00 pm: Adjournment