UBC Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences 2013 Grand Rounds Schedule

Rounds take place on Friday mornings from 8am to 9am. Please check for updates as topics/ speakers are subject to change.

We gratefully acknowledge the following sponsors who provided unrestricted education grants
PLATINUM	SILVER	BRONZE
Alcon Canada Inc.	Allergan Canada Inc.	Novartis

2013 Grand Rounds Spring Schedule

DATE	RESIDENT	CHAIR	SPEAKER	TITLE
January 11, 2013	Kaivon Pakzad-Vaezi	Dr. Jean Carruthers	Dr. Jean Carruthers	History and Treatment of the Eyebrow
January 18, 2013	Andrea Butler	Dr. Duncan Anderson	Dr. Roderick McFadyen Visiting Professor, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons	Royal College Maintenance of Certification Update: Using Mainport At Your Desk and On The Go
January 25, 2013	Kaivon Pakzad-Vaezi	Dr. Andrew Kirker	Dr. Peter McCluskey, Visiting Professor, University of Sydney	Treatment Strategies for Uveitis Macular Oedema
February 1, 2013	Aaron Joe	Dr. Simon Warner	Dr. Larry Dian, Visiting Professor, UBC Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine – Geriatric Medicine	Geriatrics, Dementia and Ophthalmology
February 8, 2013	Byron Silver	Dr. Joanne Matsubara	Dr. Brian Macvicar, Visiting Professor, UBC Professor, UBC Brain Research Centre	Glia and the Protection of Brain and Retinal Function
February 15, 2013	Kaivon Pakzad-Vaezi	Dr. Paul Mackenzie	Dr. Paul Mackenzie	Glaucoma Cases
February 16, 2013	PHC Clinical Day	PHC Clinical Day	PHC Clinical Day	PHC Clinical Day: St. Paul's Hospital Room 1477 (Providence Building on Level I – 1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver) – Dr. George Waring Topic: Perspectives of Cornea, Refractive and Cataract surgery
February 22, 2013	Aaron Joe	Dr. Jason Barton	Dr. Jason Barton	Fields and Fundi: A Neuro-Ophthalmologic Sampler
March 1, 2013	Ashley Ko	Dr. Paul Denton	Dr. Bryan Arthurs, Visiting Professor, McGill University	Sebaceous Cell Carcinoma of the Eyelids
March 8, 2013	Aaron Joe	Dr. Kevin Gregory-Evans	Dr. Kevin Gregory-Evans	Audit of a Retina Medical Genetics Clinic
March 15, 2013	Byron Silver	Dr. Jason Barton	Dr. Ted Atkins, Visiting Professor, University of Saskatchewan	Optic Nerve Imaging Using Synchrotron Radiation
March 22, 2013	Riley Hall	Dr. David Maberley	Dr. Mahyar Etminan, Visiting Professor, UBC Assistant Professor of Medicine, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation	Epidemiologic Research in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, UBC: Future Directions
March 29, 2013	NO ROUNDS	NO ROUNDS	GOOD FRIDAY	NO ROUNDS
April 5, 2013	Nawaaz Nathoo	Dr. Simon Holland	Dr. Corina van de Pol, Visiting Speaker, Chief Clinical Officer, AcuFocus, Inc	Corneal Inlays for Treatment of Presbyopia
April 12, 2013	Byron Silver	Dr. Andrew Merkur	Dr. Andrew Merkur	Advances in Imaging Technologies
April 19, 2013	Nawaaz Nathoo	Dr. Val White	Dr. Wayne Moore, Clinical Professor, UBC Department of Pathology, Neuropathologist	Optic Neuritis/Multiple Sclerosis: Current Pathogenetic Concepts and their Relation to MRI
April 26, 2013	Research Day	Research Day	RESEARCH DAY	Research Day
May 3, 2013	Aaron Joe	Dr. Joanne Matsubara	Dr. Joanne Matsubara and Dr. Farzin Forooghian	Inflammatory Mechanisms in Age-Related Macular Degeneration
May 10, 2013	Heather O'Donnell	Dr. Paul Dubord and Dr. Sonia Yeung	Dr. Nag Rao, Visiting Professor, Hyderabad India LV Prasad Institute	Blindness and Visual Impairment: Can We Control It Globally?
May 17, 2013	Heather O'Donnell	Dr. Christopher Lyons	Dr. Scott Lambert, Visiting Professor, Emory University, Atlanta USA	The Infant Aphakia Treatment Study and Optimal Infant Cataract Management: What We Have Learned So Far
May 24, 2013	BCSEPS SPRING CLINICAL DAY	BCSEPS SPRING CLINICAL DAY	BCSEPS SPRING CLINICAL DAY	BCSEPS SPRING CLINICAL DAY: Retina (Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue – SFU Downtown Campus)
May 31, 2013	Heather O'Donnell	Dr. Jack Rootman	Dr. Jack Rootman	The Orbit in Systemic Disease: Are We Connecting? - 40 Years of Experience

2013 Grand Rounds Fall Schedule

DATE	RESIDENT	CHAIR	SPEAKER	TITLE
September 6, 2013	Pediatrics Conference	Pediatrics Conference	Pediatrics Conference	Pediatrics Conference: Biennial Pediatric Ophthalmology Symposium: September 6 & 7
September 13, 2013	Andrea Butler	Dr. David Albiani	Dr. David Albiani	Retina
September 20, 2013	Ashley Ko	Dr. Fredrick Mikelberg	Dr. Kuldev Singh, Visiting Professor, Stanford School of Medicine	Landmark Glaucoma Trials: What We Have and Have Not Learned
September 27, 2013	Brennan Eadie	Dr. Martin McCarthy	Dr. Martin McCarthy	Cornea/External Disease
October 4, 2013	Zaid Mammo	Dr. Katherine Paton	TBA	Oncology
October 11, 2013	Gelareh Noureddin	Dr. Francis Law	TBA	Cataract/Refractive
October 18, 2013	Stephanie Wise	Dr. Simon Warner	Residents/Fellows	Conundrum Rounds
October 25, 2013	Chris Or (UBC Medical Student)	Dr. Farzin Forooghian	Dr. Larissa Derzko-Dzulynsky, Visiting Professor, University of Toronto	Uveitis
November 1, 2013	Aaron Joe	Dr. Jason Barton	Dr. Martin Sutton-Brown	Neuro-Ophthalmology
November 8, 2013	Heather O'Donnell	Dr. Annette D'Souza	Dr. Martin Spencer	3 rd World Ophthalmology
November 15, 2013	Byron Silver	Dr. Martin McCarthy	Dr. Martin McCarthy	Cornea/External Disease
November 22, 2013	Riley Hall	Dr. Fredrick Mikelberg	Dr. Fredrick Mikelberg	Glaucoma
November 29, 2013	Nawaaz Nathoo	Dr. Christopher Lyons	Dr. Christopher Lyons	Pediatrics
December 6, 2013	Kaivon Pakzad-Vaezi	Dr. Simon Warner	Dr. John Fleetham, Visiting Professor, UBC Department of Medicine, VCH Sleep Disorders Program and Clinic	Sleep Apnea and the Eye
December 13, 2013	Brennan Eadie
December 20, 2013	Residents	Residents	Residents	Resident Christmas Rounds

The Ophthalmology Grand Rounds is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Last revised on April 19, 2013

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