WEBINAR — Imaging RPE cells and pigment migration in retinal diseases
In this 30-mn webinar on December 11th, three ophthalmologists are to discuss their recent experience with a new clinical imaging modality for examining the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). These experts will share clinical findings and insight, based on investigations using an adaptive optics retinal camera with transscleral illumination (rtx1-TFI). The discussion will address new possibilities of direct visualizations of individual RPE cells as well as pigment migrations in patients’ retinas. Questions from the audience are very welcome.
About the panelists:
Michel Paques, MD PhD, is a professor of ophthalmology and researcher at the Quinze-Vingts National Eye Hospital and Vision Institute in Paris. His research addresses the medical applications of ultrahigh-resolution retinal imaging in humans. Prof. Paques has pioneered the development of clinical applications for adaptive optics ophthalmoscopy in a variety of retinal diseases, including geographic atrophy secondary to AMD.
Kiyoko Gocho, MD PhD, works as a researcher at CIC1423 Inserm & Quinze-Vingts National Eye Hospital in Paris. She is also a visiting associate professor of ophthalmology at the Nippon Medical School and a visiting ophthalmologist at the Kobe Eye Center in Japan. She has dedicated her clinical research to translating new retinal imaging techniques from laboratory inception to clinical adoption. Her studies focus on new adaptive optics imaging modalities, progression of geographic atrophy, as well as phenotyping and progression assessment of inherited retinal disease .
Ysé Borella, MD, is an ophthalmologist at the Quinze-Vingts National Eye Hospital in Paris, where she is currently doing a PhD in collaboration with the Rossi lab at University of Pittsburgh Medical School. Her research investigates the mechanisms that underly the progression of geographic atrophy in AMD, using high-resolution imaging techniques in patients as well as histology in donor eyes affected by AMD.
