Low Vision Academy XXII Congress, September 29-30, 2023
The 22nd National Low Vision Congress, titled “Age-Related Macular Degeneration: updates in rehabilitation and clinic-therapeutic settings,” will be held on Sept. 29-30 in Lecce, Italy.
The Low Vision Academy is the organ most accredited scientific institutions in Italy in the field of research on low vision. Annually organizes a national conference where you can meet all the experts in the industry.
The National Low Vision Congress 2023, will consist of plenary sessions, keynote lectures and practical courses, on rehabilitative, clinical-therapeutic and surgical aspects in ophthalmology and low vision.
In addition to the awarding of the “Nicola Pescosolido Scholarship” to the best postgraduate or doctoral thesis in ophthalmology for the 2021/2022 academic year, the congress will also include the participation of numerous professionals, such as physicians and orthoptists.
We report the talk by Stefano Linari, CTO and co-founder of Linari Medical, during the plenary session on Saturday, September 30, starting at 9:30 a.m., a session entitled “Visual Rehabilitation: the Rational of the Rehabilitation Pathway.”
The main topics covered during the congress will be:
- Non-neovascular AMD therapeutic perspectives
- genetics, molecular biology, and AMD
- nutraceuticals: physiological and clinical aspects
- reading techniques in the maculopathic patient from theory to practice
- AMD: Screening guidelines and diagnostic therapeutic pathway anti VEGF and other intravitreal therapies
- Exudative AMD: therapeutic actualities
- “Hospital and Territory. Therapeutic principles for intravitreal therapy with Ranibizumab, Bevacizumab, Brolucizumab, Aflibercept, Faricimab, Ozurdex, Taioftal
- vitreoretinal surgery in AMD
- AMD and loss of existential chance: medical-legal aspects
- visual rehabilitation: the rationale for the rehabilitation pathway
- cataract surgery in AMD and other rehabilitative surgery in AMD
- maculopathy surgery, state of the art, presentation of complex clinical cases
- interaction and integration between low vision centers and patient associations
- the present and near future of visual rehabilitation.
Participation in the 12th National Low Vision Congress will also provide 20 ECM credits, which can be acquired through a CME FAD course.
Full details are available on the event’s official website, while the program at this link.
Linari Medical will be present with its own booth. Come and visit us!
So we look forward to seeing you in Lecce on September 29-30 at the Hilton Garden Hotel.