courses and events,

1986-1987 Announcements for courses and meetings on intraocular lens implantation or related anterior segment surgery must be received no later than eight weeks before publication.

• SURGICAL COURSE IN LENS IMPLANTATION sponsored by the Ophthalmological Foundation of America, Inc.

September 4-6, 1986 November 6-8, 1986 October 9-11, 1986 December 4-6, 1986

Limited to two ophthalmologists who scrub all day

Contact: Ruth Green, Administrator

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Ophthalmological Foundation of America, Inc. 823 United Nations Plaza New York, New York 10017 (212) 986-4848

ANTERIOR SEGMENT SURGERY WORKSHOPS sponsored by University of Minnesota Department of Ophthalmology

Refractive Surgery Workshop September 8, 1986 December 15, 1986

Phaco, Planned ECCE, YAG Laser, and Compressible IOL Implantation Workshop November 17, 1986

Course Director: Richard L. Lindstrom, M.D.

CME credit

Registrar: Ann Chiginsky

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Box 493 Mayo Memorial Building 516 Delaware Street SE Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 (612) 625-4628

GUERNSEY CONFERENCE sponsored by the United Kingdom Intraocular Implant Society

Fifth Rayner Medal Lecturer - Jan Worst, M.D.

Symposia on refractive keratoplasty and complications in extracapsular cataract surgery

September 24-27, 1986

Contact: Richard Reynolds, F.R.C.S. 64a, Hauteville St. Peter Port Guernsey, Channel Islands

• COURSE IN INTRAOCULAR MICROSURGERY featuring the Ocusystem sponsored by Surgical Design

September 25-27, 1986

Chairpersons: Steven P. Shearing, M.D. Tamara C. Suslov, M.D.

Location: Hotel La Rose Sebastopol, California

Contact: Angie Steinborn, Program Coordinator Surgical Design 24-05 Jackson Avenue Long Island City, New York 11101 (718) 392-5022

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• CURRENT CONCEPTS IN OPHTHALMOLOGY SEVENTH CLINICAL CONFERENCE sponsored by the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Maryland School of Medicine

September 26, 1986

Columbia Inn Columbia, Maryland

Contact: Terry Slade Young, Program Coordinator Program of Continuing Education University of Maryland School of Medicine 10 South Pine Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201 (301) 528-3956

• DIABETIC RETINOPATHY IN 1986 sponsored by the Wilmer Institute of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

October 10, 1986

The Tremont Plaza Baltimore, Maryland

Program Director: Robert P. Murphy, M.D.

Program reviews diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of patients with diabetic retinopathy

AMA credit

Contact: Diane Heydinger

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Office of Continuing Education The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Turner 22, 720 Rutland Avenue Baltimore, ~aryland 21205 (301) 955-6046

FIRST INTERNATIONAL COURSE ON MISSION EYE SURGERY TRIPS

October 10-12, 1986

St. Luke's Cataract and Intraocular Lens Institute Tarpon Springs, Florida

Course will cover all phases of manual ECCEs and will emphasize how to go on mission eye surgery trips most efficiently. Speakers will be Edward Maumenee, M.D., James P. Gills, M.D., Robert C. Welsh, M.D., C. William Simcoe, M.D., Dennis L. Williams, M.D., Mark D. Stern, M.D., Azis Anis, M.D.; also speakers from U.S.-based organizations that specialize in mission eye surgery, such as Orbis, S. E. E., International Eye Foundation. Admission is free to those planning mission trips and to previous mission eye surgeons who will summarize their experiences; for others, tuition is $350.

Contact: St. Luke's Cataract and Intraocular Lens Institute 1570 U.S. Highway 19 North Tarpon Springs, Florida 34286-5000 (800) 282-9905 (Florida) (800) 237-4121

• THE MANAGEMENT OF COMPLICATED RETINAL DISEASES sponsored by the Wilmer Institute

October 24, 1986

The Wilmer Institute of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Maumenee Building, 600 North Wolfe Baltimore, Maryland

Contact: Catherine Sentman, Program Coordinator Turner 22, 720 Rutland Avenue Baltimore, Maryland 21205 (301) 955-6046

• EIGHTH ANNUAL ROYAL HAWAIIAN EYE MEETING sponsored by the Hawaiian Eye Foundation

February 1-7, 1987

Kona Surf Resort Hotel and Convention Center Kailua-Kona, Hawaii

Course Director: John M. Corboy, M.D.

Topics include anterior segment surgery, computers, laser therapy, refractive surgery, cataract/implant complications; nurses and technicians program included

CME credit

Contact: Patricia Olive

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Hawaiian Eye Foundation 606 Kilani Avenue Wahiawa, Hawaii 96786 (808) 621-8448

THE SYMPOSIUM ON CATARACT, IOL AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY sponsored by the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

April 6-10, 1987

Marriott's Orlando World Center Orlando, Florida

Scientific papers, courses, symposia, film festival

CME/ AMA credit

Contact: American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery 3700 Pender Drive

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Suite 108 Fairfax, Virginia 22030 (703) 591-2220

ELEVENTH CONGRESS OF THE ASIA PACIFIC ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

June 7-12, 1987

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Abstracts due by December 31, 1986

Contact: Keshmahinder Singh, M.D . Malaysian Ophthalmological Society 124 J alan Pahang 53000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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• INTERNATIONAL CATARACT, IMPLANT AND MICROSURGICAL MEETING sponsored by the International Intraocular Implant Club and the Asia-Pacific Intraocular Implant Association

June 13-15, 1987

Location: Shangra-La Hotel Singapore

Contact: Arthur S.M. Lim, M.D.

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3 Mt. Elizabeth #0605-0608 Mt. Elizabeth Medical Centre Singapore 0922

THIRD INTERNATIONAL CATARACT AND INTRAOCULAR LENS SYMPOSIUM OF THE SOCIEDADE BRASILEIRA DE IMPLANTES INTRAOCULARES/FIRST INTERNATIONAL REFRACTIVE SURGERY SYMPOSIUM

June 24-27, 1987

Rio Palace Hotel Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Latest developments in cataract, intraocular lens, and refractive surgeries and related subjects will be covered in courses, panel

discussions, free communications, films, video tapes, and technical and scientific exhibitions

Course Directors: Miguel A. Paolilha, M.D. Carlucio Andrade, M. D.

Contact: Sociedade Brasileira de Implantes Intraoculares Rua Visconde de Silva, 52/501 Botafogo-22281-Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (021) 226-1582 or (021) 246-3594

• FIFTH CONGRESS OF THE EUROPEAN INTRAOCULAR IMPLANTLENS COUNCIL

September 13-18, 1987

Jerusalem Hilton Hotel Jerusalem, Israel

Chairperson: Michael Blumenthal, M.D.

Topics include biodegradation of plastic material, explantation of IOLs, prevention of cataracts, manufacturing and design of IOLs, refractive surgery, and a film festival

Contact: Secretariat P.O. Box 50006 61500 Tel Aviv Israel

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