7e Symposium universitaire canadien en optométrie
7th Canadian University Conference on Optometry
Agenda
- Friday Dec 3
4:00 - 6:00 pm - Arrivals and check in at Hotel
Marriott Springhill Suites, Old Montreal
445 St-Jean Baptiste, Montreal
Tel: 514-875-4333 - 6:00 pm
- Welcome Reception and dinner
Les Trois Brasseurs
105 St-Paul, Old Montreal Tel: 514-788-6100 - Welcome message from Dr. Jacques Gresset (Director EOUM)
- Saturday Dec 4
- 7:00 am
- Breakfast (Hotel)
- 7:45 am
- Meet in Lobby for travel to Université de Montréal
- Morning session
8:00 am - Arrivals
- 8:10 am
- Introduction (Dr. Gresset and Dr. Freddo)
- 8:30 am
- Insights from Darkness: The Anatomy of Blindness
Dr. Maurice Ptito, Université de Montréal - 9:00 am
- CSEye Waterloo: The Trials and Tribulations of a Forensic Optometrist
Dr. Graham Strong, University of Waterloo - 9:30 am
- Neurovascular Coupling in the Human Retina
Dr. John Lovasik, Université de Montréal - 10:00 am
- Group photo
- 10:20 - 11:40
- Coffee break and AM poster session
- 11:45 am
- Finding the Causes and Means of Preventing Myopia: Nature vs Nurture
Dr. Jacob Sivak, University of Waterloo - 12:15 - 1:30
- Lunch
- Afternoon session
1:30 pm - Will Contact Lenses Still Exist in 2020 ?
Dr. Lyndon Jones, University of Waterloo - 2:00 pm
- Barriers to Vision Rehabilitation: The Montreal Story
Dr. Olga Overbury, Université de Montréal - 2:30 pm
- Adaptation and Satisfaction with Progressive Addition Lenses
Dr. Natalie Hutchings, , University of Waterloo - 3:00 - 4:20 pm
- Coffee break and PM poster session
- 4:25 pm
- Hardwiring of the Neurovisual System : Role of Cannabinoids
During Development
Dr. Jean-François Bouchard, Université de Montréal - 5:00 pm
- Award presentation
- 5:15 pm
- Bus tour of UdeM campus and return to hotel
- Evening
- 7:15 - 8H00 pm
- Cocktail
- 8:00 - 9:30 pm
- Dinner
- 9:45 - 00:00 pm
- Dancing with “The Lost Faculties”
Restaurant Le Saint Gabriel
426 rue St-Gabriel, Old Montreal
Tel: 514-878-3561
(Parking available at the Marriott Springhill Hotel) - Sunday Dec 5
- 7:00 - 8:25 am
- Breakfast (Hotel) and check out of hotel
- 8:30 am
- Meet in Lobby for travel to École d'optométrie, Université de Montréal
- 8:45 -9:00 am
- Ophthalmology Rounds-case preparations (Dr. Freddo)
- Morning session
9:00 - 12:15 -
Tour of the school/clinic and research labs with student ambassadors as guides
School/ Clinic/Research Lab Tour
* Frenette/Diaconu/Vaucher/Bouchard/Casanova/GiassonClinic, INLB, School
Research Labs *
Research Labs **
9:00-10:00
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
10:00-11:00
Group 3
Group 1
Group 2
11:00-11:15
BREAK
BREAK
BREAK
11:15-12:15
Group 2
Group 3
Group 1
** Lovasik/Kergoat/Ptito/Faubert
- Break in faculty room (6th floor - room 6450)
- 12:15
- Closing remarks (First floor - Auditorium 107)
- 12:30
- Lunch (Box lunch on the bus) and Departure