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OSN Symposium will expand beyond glaucoma in 2006
LAS VEGAS — In 2006, the focus of the Ocular Surgery News Symposium, Glaucoma: Improving Your Odds, will expand beyond glaucoma to additionally cover cataract and refractive surgery. The change comes at the suggestion of past meeting attendees, according to meeting officials.
The 2006 co-course-directors, Louis B. Cantor, MD, and Richard L. Lindstrom, MD, plan to lead an esteemed panel at the meeting, to be held here June 8-10, 2006, at the Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino.
“This meeting will expand in order to address the wide variety of anterior segment problems faced by comprehensive ophthalmologists, optometrists and specialists in eye care,” Dr. Cantor said in an interview at this year’s meeting.
In 2006, the meeting will expand to 3 days, and new topics will be included in cataract surgery, lens-based and cornea-based refractive surgery.
Drs. Cantor and Lindstrom plan to cover topics that will improve the surgeon’s odds of achieving the best care for patients.
“Join us for another year of education, camaraderie and entertainment in Las Vegas, where what happens in Vegas goes home with you,” Dr. Cantor said.