BiOptic Driving Network - CONFERENCE 2004 Program Schedule

Full Program timing for both Consumers and Researchers tracts is below. Any question?

Schedule includes Consumer tract for those with a vision impairment and opportunities for questions relating to your own vision.

The conference is intended to be fascinating for Optometrists, Ophthalmologists and other researchers; as well as adults, or relatives of those, with albinism, nystagmus, cataracts, and corneal diseases, as well as macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and other conditions that affect the central macular area. See our conference goals. For more information about the presentations and speakers, please see links above.

1:30 - 1:45 Welcome And Opening Session Introductions Simon Phillips and Christopher Huhne MEP

1:45 - 2:15 Questions And Answers Proposed About Driving With A Visual Impairment: A Literature Of Controversy Greg Goodrich

2:15 - 2:45 Driving With BiOptics – The Early Years Richard Feinbloom, President, Designs for Vision, Inc.

3:00 - 3:30 Driving Under Adverse Visibility Conditions: Implications For Licensing Of Low Vision Drivers Kent E. Higgins

3:30 - 4:00 BiOptic Telescope And EU Driver’s Licence Mark L.M. Tant, Guido Baten

Dinner is at 7 pm @ the Kings Brasserie in Chelsea Village Hotels. This is optional and not included in registration fee. Menu [18 Kb PDF Format]

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8:00 - 8:30 Fitting BiOptic Telescopes: Determining Location And Mounting Angle With BiOptic Fitting Apertures Robert B. Greer

8:30 - 9:00 Impaired Vision Does Not Exclude Practical Fitness To Drive Aart Kooijman, Wiebo W. Brouwer, Ruud A. Bredewoud, Tanja R.M. Coeckelbergh, Frans W. Cornelissen, Mark L.M. Tant

9:00 - 9:30 The BiOptic Prescription, Patient And Pre-driving Training Ian Bailey

10:15 - 10:45 Visual Impairment, Age And Driving Christine Dickinson, Marliana Mahmud

10:45 - 11:15 Caring For The Driver With Vision Loss In The USA: An Optometrist's Perspective Lori L. Grover

11:15 - 11:45 A Controlled Study Of The Use Of BiOptic Telescopes By Patients With Macular Degeneration For Driving With Follow-Up Janet Szlyk

1:30 - 2:30 The Functional Fields Of BiOptics: Implications For Driving Eli Peli

2:30 - 3:00 The Influence Of Monocular Peripheral Sector Prisms On Driving In People With Homonymous Hemianopia Bart J.M. Melis-Dankers, Alex Bowers, W.H. Brouwer, Eli Peli, G. Dobbe, M.L. Tant, R.A. Bredewoud, . A.C. Kooijman

3:00 - 3:30 Training Compensatory Viewing Strategies: Feasibility And Effect On Practical Fitness To Drive In Subjects With Visual Field Defects Tanja RM Coeckelbergh, Wiebo H Brouwer, Frans W Cornelissen, & Aart C Kooijman

3:45 - 4:15 Bioptic Drivers In The USA: Survey Of Driving Habits And Telescope Use Alex Bowers, Eli Peli, Doris Apfelbaum

4:15 - 4:45 Bioptic Simulation In Virtual Video Applications Fernando Vargas-Martín, Maria D. Peláez-Coca, Mariano Flores

4:45 - 5:15 Aniseikonic Lens Magnification To Maintain Driving For Patients With Borderline Visual Acuity Peter Derksen, Anton Verezen

Saturday, 19 June, 2004

Consumer Session - Moderator: Anton Verezen

8:15 - 9:00 Teaching Strategies For Integrating The BiOptic While Driving Rene Paquin

9:00 - 9:30 BiOptic Driving In Quebec: An Innovation In Visual Rehabilitation Services For Low Vision People Micheline Descent, Jean-Paul LaChance

9:30 - 10:00 Low Vision Driving In Maryland – Legislation, Legality And Limitations Jim Deremeik

10:00 - 10:15 BREAK

10:15 - 10:45 BiOptic Systems For Driving - An Egyptian Experience Tarek Badawy

10:45 - 11:15 BiOptics – The South African Way Allan Kaye, Rodney Stedall

11:15 - 11:45 Driving With Low Vision In Spain: Present Situation And Future Trends Manuel Cejudo, Angel Barañano

11:45 - 12:00 Questions To Panel Anton Verezen

12:00 - 1:30 LUNCH provided for registered delegates only. To register, click here

Consumer Session - Moderator: Robert Greer

1:30 - 2:00 Brit Driving In Ohio Susan Baillely

2:00 - 2:30 BiOptic Driving From Texas To Taiwan: A Personal Experience Ching-Jen Rock Lin

2:30 - 3:00 Blind People Driving And The Multi-Sensory Experience Leon W. Gilbert

3:00 - 3:15 BREAK

3:15 - 4:15 Is BiOptic Driving For Me? An Opportunity To Ask An Optometrist, An Experienced BiOptic User And A BiOptic Trainer Robert Greer, Susan Baillely, Rene Paquin

4:15 - 4:30 Questions To Panel Robert Greer

Dinner is optional. If you're interested in joining our speakers and guests, please contact us.

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9:00 - 9:30 BiOptics Are Not Just For Driving: A Protocol For Understanding The Social Impact Of BiOptic Telescopes Henry Greene, President, Ocutech, Inc.

9:30 - 10:00 Driving With The BiOptic Telescope In California: DMV Perspective David Hennessy

10:00 - 10:30 “Driven To Distraction” – An Update On The Rules And Regulations On Vision And Driving In The UK Nicholas J. Rumney

11:00 - 11:15 Questions/Conference Closing Remarks Robert Greer, with Tea / Coffee and biscuits

11:15 - 12:30 Open Forum for Scientists and Eye Care Professionals Only: An Opportunity to Exchange Ideas Eli Peli

Lunch is at 12.30 @ Fishnets Restaurant in Chelsea Village Hotels. This is optional and not included in registration fee. Menu [37 Kb PDF Format]

We recommend public transport to Chelsea Village Hotels, and information about that is available here. Car Parking is available 08.00 to 18.00 @ £1 per hour for the first 3 hours, £1.20 for the fourth hour, and £6 for every hour after the fourth. 18.00 to 08.00 £1 per hour, 8 hour special rate is £15.00, 24 hour special rate is £24. More

Registration and payment was required in advance to attend the conference, via this website. Registration and payment not possible at the conference.

International BiOptic Driving Conference

18-20 June 2004, London

Program schedule