Sessions at VISIONS 2013

VISIONS 2013 offers a variety of session types to enhance your overall experience at the conference. The sessions include the following:

Disease Overview and the Latest Advancements

Disease overview sessions will cover the basic disease and research information related to a specific condition. They serve as a nice "refresher" at the start of the conference to catch everyone up to speed. The Disease Overview Sessions will be break-out sessions organized by disease.

Science & Information Sessions

These sessions cover a variety of topics of interest to those in the retinal degenerative disease and visually impaired community. They are held multiple times throughout the conference and attendees can choose to attend the sessions which most interest them.

The Doctor Is In

In these interactive sessions, attendees gather in smaller groups to ask their own questions to doctors who specialize in retinal disease research and treatment. The Doctor Is In sessions do not include formal presentations; rather, they focus entirely on patient/doctor Q&A. Traditionally, these sessions have been broken into groups organized by disease. In 2013, we will have one series of The Doctor Is In Sessions organized by disease and another series organized by research area to include topics such as gene therapy, stem cells, etc.

Meet & Mingle Networking Sessions

These informal social gatherings allow guests to meet others in similar life situations who share their hopes and challenges of living with vision loss.

Individual Coping and Science Session Information can be viewed by visiting the VISIONS 2013 Schedule.