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Caitriona DunneFighting Blindness
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01 6789 004
Retina 2016 - Public Engagement Day - Saturday, November 12
The Retina 2016 Public Engagement Day is a unique opportunity to speak to leading doctors and researchers and learn about specific conditions and the research that is aiming to find therapies to treat it.
Registration is essential!
Attendance at Retina 2016 is free for Fighting Blindness members. For non-members, a nominal fee of €10 will apply on the day. Please call 01 6789 004 to check the status of your membership.
You can register online by clicking 'Register Now'. Please note that registration is limited and will close once all available spaces have been filled. You must register for one of the condition specific break-out sessions and state the number of guests, if any, who will be attending with you. For more information please contact 01 6789 004 or research@fightingblindness.ie or please visit www.Retina.ie.
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Public Engagement Day Programme
10:00am Registration and Tea/Coffee
10:30am Welcome & Introduction: Kevin Whelan, Fighting Blindness CEO
10:45am Jason Smyth and Orla Comerford, Paralympic Sprinters
‘Limited Sight, Unlimited Vision’
Session 1 Chair: Prof Tom Cotter, University College Cork
11am Dr David Gamm, University of Wisconsin – Madison
‘Taking the first steps toward a stem cell-based therapy: What keeps researchers awake at night (besides everything)?’
11.20am Dr Daniel Chung, Spark Therapeutics
Developing Patient-Relevant Outcomes in Gene Therapy Clinical Trials
11.40am Prof John Flannery, University of California, Berkeley ‘
‘An Overview of Current Vision Research’
12pm Condition specific breakout sessions
1.15pm Lunch
Session 2 Chair: Dr Breandán Kennedy, University College Dublin
2.15pm Dr Sally Ann Lynch, Consultant Clinical Geneticist Temple Street Children’s Hospital
'What's in a genome?'
2.45pm Caitriona Dunne, Fighting Blindness
'Advocacy - Power in Numbers'
Session 3 Chair: Mr David Keegan, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin
3.00pm Panel Discussion: ‘Patient and Public Involvement in Research and the Importance of Patient Reported Outcomes’
Emily Liu, Spark Therapeutics
Dr. Paul Kenna, Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital
Christina Fasser, President of Retina International
Ms Giuliana Silvestri, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
3.45pm Christina Fasser, President Retina International
3:55pm Dr Fionnuala Hickey, Fighting Blindness Research Manager
4.00pm Visionaries Choir Performance