October 7th & 8th 2020 - Berlin
International Society of Ocular Trauma
ISOT 2020
Dear Colleagues,
injuries are among the most underestimated dangers to health. Approximately 750,000
people in the US alone suffer from monocular blindness caused by trauma; 90% of those
injuries are deemed avoidable, and epidemiological studies in the past were able to
present effective measures for the prevention of the vast majority of such injuries.
In the past decades, it was thus possible to reduce the number of eye injuries occurring at the workplace, in traffic accidents and during sports activities in certain countries. Obviously,
further improvement is necessary on a worldwide basis.
Conversely, terrorist attacks, wars, and civil uproars significantly increased the number of
eye injuries in some parts of the world. Attacks by terrorist and extremists causing mass casualties can, sadly, occur anywhere in the world today at any time. Thus, triage and psychological care of the victims are completely new tasks that an ophthalmologist is also confronted with. The dramatic improvements the development in vitreoretinal surgery brought can be implemented only to a partial extent in many countries due to limited resources and lack of expertise. All this yields a great variety of topics for an international exchange, so that everybody can learn from everyone.
For this purpose, we invite you on behalf of the International Society of Ocular Trauma and the German Ophthalmological Society, to our joint meeting in Berlin, Germany, from October 7th & 8th, 2020.
The meeting will be dedicated to Albrecht von Graefe, one of the most important German ophthalmologist of the 19th century and citizen of Berlin. 2020 is not only a symbolic number for our specialty but the 150th anniversary of his death.
This joint ISOT/DOG meeting will be virtual, due to the pandemic.
The Trauma submissions will be presented online on Friday October 9 on 2 out of 7 channels (Channel Highlights and Channel Helmholtz).
The keynote lectures will appear on Channel Highlights throughout the day.
For details of the program see:
The time that is mentioned in the program is the Central European Summer Time (CEST). It is UTC (Universal Time Coordinated) plus 2 hrs.
Aside from the keynote lectures the submissions for ISOT will be presented in 4 sessions:
1. 12:30 – 13:15
Prognostic factors in and scoring of ocular trauma
Moderators:
Sahil Agrawal, New Delhi, India
Ferenc Kuhn, Birmingham, United States
Angelina Meireles, Porto, Portugal
2. 13:30 – 14:15
Diagnostic measures in ocular trauma
Moderators:
Ameli Gabel-Pfisterer, Potsdam
Hugo Ocampo, Cali, Colombia
Zlatko Slezak, Vara, Croatia
3. 14:30 – 15:15
Anterior segment and eyelid injuries
Moderators:
Ferenc Kuhn, Birmingham, United States
Arne Viestenz, Halle/Saale
Jose Dalma Weiszhausz, Mexiko City, Mexico
4. 16:30 – 17:15
Posterior segment and complex trauma
Moderators:
Wolfgang Schrader, Würzburg
Armin Wolf, Ulm
Angelina Meireles, Porto, Portugal
In addition to the ISOT-Program there will be an additional session on trauma of the ocular annexes, organized by the special interest group of oculoplastic surgeons and orbital surgeons:
5. 18:30 – 19:15
Traumatology of the ocular adnexes
Moderators:
Jens Heichel, Halle/Saale
Anja K. Eckstein, Essen
For details for the presenters see the speakers information site of the DOG:
Ferenc Kuhn, M.D. PhD (Birmingham, USA)
President, ISOT
Prof. Dr. Hans Hoerauf (Göttingen, Germany)
President, DOG
Prof. Dr. Arne Viestenz (Halle, Germany) and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang F. Schrader (Würzburg, Germany)
local organizing team of the AG DOG-Traumatology
International Society Ocular Trauma
Society of Ophthalmology (DOG)
