10.2015 | Pratical Course on Laservitreolysis for floaters

TEACHERS: Scott Geller, Feike Gerbrandy, Carlo Orione

ROME, Monday October 12, 2015

PRIMAVISTA, Ophthalmic Center, G.B. De Rossi street, 22, Rome

LIMITED NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS COURSE
METHOD AND REGISTRATION ON LINE ONLY WRITING TO
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On the occasion of participation in the VII˚ International Ophthalmic and Ophthalmoplastic Training Courses from October 7 to 10 in Acireale and the National Meeting of AIMO on 15 and 16 October in Rome, Scott Geller, Feike Gerbrandy and Carlo Orione, organize a Course with examination and treatments of patients on Monday October 12 in Rome, at the Ophthalmic Center “Primavista”.

09.00/09.30: Course introduction: Materials and methods, C. Orione
09.30/13.00: Visit of the patients (the LASER will be connected to a camera that will broadcast images in the meeting room and the teachers will comment the visits and treatments)

13.00/14/00: Ellex Light Lunch

14.00/14/30: Laservitreolysis: The technique, S. Geller
14.30/15/00: How to avoid possible complications, F. Gerbrandy
15.00/18.00: Laservitreolysis treatments with Ellex laser UltraQ
18.00/19.00: Discussion with Teachers
19.00: End of Course

TEACHERS

Scott Geller (Fort Myers, USA), a Board Certified Ophthalmologist, pioneered and perfected laser treatment of eye floaters. He have founded the World’s premier Eye Floater Specialty Center: The South Florida Eye Foundation / South Florida Eye Clinic has been treating eye floaters for 27 years. Dr. Geller has the largest and longest series of patients treated with laser in the world.
He presented his first series of successful cases at the International Congress of Ophthalmology in Singapore 1989, and has presented his data to other Ophthalmologists at conferences in the US, Europe, and Asia about treating eye floaters with laser.
Since 2012 he participates every year at the International Congress organized in Italy by dr. C. Orione and, after the Meeting, stops in Italy a few days for the Open Day where, with C. Orione, visit and treats patients with floaters.

Feike Gerbrandy (Amsterdam, Netherlands), has specialized in the laser treatment of vitreous floaters. He started Floaterlaser Amsterdam Eye Clinic, a clinic dedicated to this treatment. In 2011 he joined forces with Opsis Eye Hospital in Amstelveen, a suburb of Amsterdam.
Many international patients have found their way to dr Gerbrandy in Amstelveen.
Dr Geller and dr Gerbrandy founded the Vitreous Floaters Study Group.
The members of this group are all vitreous floaters specialists. The purpose of the VFSG is to cooperate in research and establish guidelines for treatment.
In 2012 it was transformed into the International Society of Vitreous Laser Surgery (ISVLS), of which he is a Board Member with Scott Geller, James Johnson and Carlo Orione, with the aim to work closely and do research.

Carlo Orione (Nizza Monferrato/Genova, Italy), the only Italian member of ISVLS, began, first in Italy, in 2009 to take an interest and care for laservitreolysis to vaporize floaters and, to date, has performed more than 1,000 laser treatments.
In 2011 he has traveled to Florida by Scott Geller to perfect the technique.
Since 2012 he organizes every year an Open Day in Italy to visit and treat patients suffering from floaters with Scott Geller.
From 2013 it is provided, first in Italy, the new Ellex Yag laser for vitreolysis.
In October, 2013, in Amsterdam, at the European Congress ESCRS, he was invited as the only Italian expert, at the International Forum to outline the guidelines for laservitreolysis.
He drafted the Informed Consent for laservitreolysis approved in the month of July 2013 by AIMO as consent of reference for all italian ophthalmologists.

The course will be held in Rome at the
Ophthalmic Center “PRIMAVISTA”, in G.B. De Rossi street, 22
Monday October 12, 2015

LIMITED NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS COURSE
METHOD AND REGISTRATION ON LINE ONLY WRITING TO

info@orioneye.com