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DOG Congress Newsletter, 23rd of July 2013
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"We have to attract the best minds” - Interview with DOG-President Professor Berthold Seitz
Professor Seitz, this year, the DOG Congress takes place under the motto "Excellent Vision - Vision of Excellence”. What are the means to further increase the promotion of excellence?
Ophthalmology faces competition from all the other medical disciplines. It is not only the professional society that is challenged but also the university departments. It is imperative to attract the best minds for the field of ophthalmology and to retain them. Empathic training of students (e.g. within a system of "eye block courses”) is important to promote enthusiasm among students, doctoral candidates and future residents ("No effect without affect”). A precisely defined and reliable curriculum is indispensable for resident doctors. Only when young doctors are convinced that ophthalmology is a choice that is sustainable in the long term and holds promise will they choose to study our wonderful subject and remain loyal to it for a lifetime. Besides medical aspects, the issues of leadership and motivation play an increasingly important role today for the so-called Generation Y. In other words: "In the long run, every boss has the staff he deserves.”
What task does the professional society have in this context?
In times of ever-increasing workloads, it is often research that ultimately suffers. This trend is an alarming development for a professional society. This is why the DOG has already been concentrating its efforts on promoting the next generation of scientists for some years. By offering numerous awards and grants, the DOG supports and motivates young scientists to propose and carry out research projects. In addition to structural and financial offers, this year we are placing particular emphasis on offers with content for young scientists within the framework of the congress: the symposium "Young Investigator Network”, which offers discussion of different scientific issues each year, is aimed specifically at interested young researchers. The symposium "Combining the Demands of Research, Clinic and Family” - a symposium in the Program for Young Scientists aims to present solutions for a healthy work-life balance; the courses on "Skill Building” and "Team Establishment” impart knowledge and skills necessary in scientific work; the symposium "Excellence needs Education and Examination” is on the program for the first time at a DOG Congress and provides information on the various national and international training and examination models (e.g. German board certification of specialists, FEBO, ICO examinations etc.). Doctoral students and students are particularly welcome to attend our conference. Especially in the newly designed poster sessions today - in contrast to earlier years - an intensive dialogue between "young” and "old” or between clinicians and basic researchers has developed.
What important innovations are there at this year’s congress?
This year we have extended the tried and trusted program formats with several new features. Our aim was to address even more closely the specific needs of various groups of attendees. The DOG-Update - State of the Art 2013 is targeted at ophthalmologists wishing to be brought up to date in a compact and comprehensive manner in all the important individual fields of ophthalmology. This free update program is to be continued in the next few years always taking place on the congress weekend. The course program "Medicine and Management” is for ophthalmologists who aim to or have to take on managerial responsibilities. The courses in the "Skill Building” program introduce young colleagues to the methodology of research work.
What highlights can congress attendees look forward to?
A joint symposium of the Section DOG-Cornea and the US American Cornea Society on the topic "Update on Common Corneal Conditions” will have its premier this year. In future, this symposium will alternate yearly as the "Joint Meeting” between the DOG Congress and the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Annual Meeting.
The three unrivaled Keynote Lectures by experts on the subjects of "Diabetic Retinopathy”, "Pseudoexfoliation Syndrome/Glaucoma” and "Innovative Reconstruction of the Cornea” will be given around midday. In the very successful format "Interactive Ophthalmic Surgery Videos” introduced by my predecessor in office, crucial microsurgical aspects of glaucoma, cataract and refractive surgery, the cornea and the retina will be presented and discussed with the audience interactively by means of TED voting.
For the rest, in remembrance of Albrecht von Graefe "partially indulging in innocuous leisure”, the particular charm of our DOG Congress also lies in enjoying the company of intelligent and humorous people while having animated conversations in the corridors or during the supporting program, which will bring us a touch of the Saarland region.
What can the congress attendees take away with them for practical application?
Ophthalmologists come to the DOG Congress with very different expectations - this includes clinicians and doctors in private practice, those working traditionally or in surgery, junior doctors and specialist physicians, scientists engaged in basic and clinical research. One of the important tasks of the congress, as I see it, is to prepare the current findings in ophthalmological research and science for these target groups in such a way that the respective needs for further training are met to the optimum. We have developed a wide range of offers with various courses, symposia poster and update sessions that enable the attendees to compile their own individually tailored program. The gain in information found in an extensive industry exhibition, which is now organized around the main auditorium, should not be underestimated. "You name it - we play it!”
What is your personal recommendation for the conference?
I am especially looking forward to the opening address by Prof. Dr. Christian Scholz of Saarbrücken on "High Performance Requires Dissonance” as well as the Consilium diagnosticum on Saturday afternoon, where for years knowledge has been imparted to a wide audience interested in something special by means of spectacular case studies presented in a cheerful and relaxed atmosphere. The book "Spitzenforschung in der Ophthalmologie” (Top-Level Research in Ophthalmology) will be published for the first time on the occasion of this year’s DOG Congress and will be provided cost-free for every attendee either for careful reading or simply as an insight for orientation in the key areas of research in ophthalmology at university level in Germany.
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Program now available online
The Scientific Program covering 164 sessions and over 900 presentations is now available online in the tried and true format Session Planner.
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To aid relaxation - music, a movie and a morning run
The supporting program offers attendees a varied counter balance at the congress. Lovers of classical music should mark the "DOG in Concert” in their agendas - the benefit concert in aid of Stiftung Auge (the Eye Foundation) starts on Friday at 6.30 pm in the Passionskirche in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district. Those who prefer sport can take part in the Eye Run on Friday at 7 am. The entry fees for the five-kilometer run will also be donated to Stiftung Auge. Culinary and cinematic highlights are on the program at the Social Evening and DOG Clubbing. This year, both events take place in the most popular cinema of the former GDR. A three-course dinner in Kosmos Cinema, music by the band "Blue Moon” hailing from the Saarland region and a further assortment of entertaining interludes await the guests at the Social Evening. DOG Clubbing begins at 8.30 pm with the documentary film "Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte” (Eye to Eye - A German Film History). Following this at 11 pm the dance floor opens to hot live music by the group Beat’n Blow.
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Photographic Art Auction in Aid of Stiftung Auge
Under the motto "Sight in Focus” Stiftung Auge has organized its first photography competition this year. The ten best photographs will go on show at the DOG Congress and then be sold to the highest bidders in a silent auction. Photographers who capture an unusual perspective of the word with their lenses are invited to enter the competition. Particular emphasis is placed on high artistic and professional standards.
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Symposia Discuss New Strategies
Ocular Graft-versus-Host Disease (GvHD) is a potentially sight-threatening disease mainly of the ocular surface that develops frequently following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. As survival rates after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation have increased significantly over the last years, GvHD also increases in frequency. The symposium "Ocular Graft-versus-Host Disease” is meant to bring together current knowledge of pathogenesis, diagnosis, and therapy of ocular GvHD in order to discuss new strategies for evidence-based diagnostic and therapy.
As nano(bio)technological approaches increasingly find their way into more and more fields in ophthalmology, the symposium "Nanotechnology in Ophthalmology” gives insight into recent developments in drug, molecule delivery or bioengineering. International experts and leaders in their fields will also show data with respect to potential application in clinic.
In the symposium "Acanthamoeba Keratitis - Epidemiology, Diagnostics and Therapeutics" national and international specialists will focus on this rare, but severe form of microbial keratitis. Current knowledge of amoeba biology, epidemiology, diagnostic and therapeutic options will be presented.
The joint "German-Japanese Retina Symposium” provides an overview of current clinical and experimental developments in the field of systemic and inherited diseases of the retina. For each topic, a clinical and a matching research oriented presentation will be contributed by a Japanese and a German expert in the field. In addition, the joint symposium will bring together clinicians and scientists from both countries and aims at a future closer relationship of the national professional societies. With the kind support of the companies Eyenovation GmbH (Bielefeld), Roland Consult GmbH (Brandenburg) and RetinaScience (Bonn).
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