The SILMO Academy by IOA will be taking place 12 April - 14 April in Singapore. Dr Weizhong Lan will be talking about potential Environment-based strategies for myopia prevention and control.
Dr Weizhong Lan is a full professor in Central South University, China and the vice director of Aier Institute of Optometry and Vision Science, Aier EYE Hospital Group. He finished his clinical training as an Ophthalmologist in Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center (China) and achieved his M.D / Ph.D of Neuroscience in University of Tuebingen (Germany). His main interest is to understand the pathogenesis of myopia and to develop new approaches to correct and control myopia. He has led more than 10 clinical trials investigating the efficacy and safety of anti-myopia interventions. He is also the co-inventor of the first wearable device to collect myopia-related environmental factors in the world, called Clouclip®. Recently he and his team just won the bid of hosting the International Myopia Conference (IMC) 2024 in China.
Rapid increase of myopia prevalence in the past decades indicates environment plays a significant role in myopia pathogenesis. Modifiable factors of environment might include outdoor time, viewing time/distance/pattern of nearwork, light intensity, spatial frequency spectrum of viewing field, etc. The talk will discuss the attempts to modify these environmental factors for myopia prevention and control .
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