Goals of the Eye Complication Study Group

• to study complications of the diabetic eye and their treatment by all available methods (epidemiological, clinical, physical, surgical, medical)
  
• to provide the diabetologic community with models of improvements in diagnosis and treatment of diabetic eye complications
  
• to produce and diffuse to the diabetologic community information periodically on the state of the art in ophthalmo-diabetology.

  
  

President:

Dr. Carl-David Agardh
Department of Endocrinology
University Hospital MAS
SE-205 02 Malmö, Sweden
Tel: +46 40 331016
Fax: +46 40 337366
e-mail: carl-david.agardh@endo.mas.lu.se

Past-President:

Henrik Lund-Andersen, Denmark

Vice President:

Francesco Bandello, Italy

Secretary:

Pascale Massin, France

Treasurer:

Elisabet Agardh, Sweden
e-mail: elisabet.agardh@oftal.mas.lu.se

Next Meeting:

12th Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetic Eye Complications (EASDEC)
Udine, Italy, 24-26 May 2002

Scientific Programme:

Keynote Lectures:

• Effects of pancreas transplantation on late complications of diabetes
• Hypertension and diabetic retinopathy
• Post-prandial hyperglycemia, oxidative stress and diabetic retinopathy
• Modern concepts about microcirculation in the retina .Macular oedema
• Modern treatment of diabetes

Case presentations:
Elisabet Agardh, Malmö (Sweden) Pascale
Massin, Paris (France)

Oral and Poster Presentations

Invited Speakers:
Antonio Ceriello, Udine (Italy)
Gaetano Crepaldi, Padua (Italy)
John V. Forrester, Aberdeen (UK)
Anselm Kampik, Munich (Germany)
Claudio Noacco, Udine (Italy)
Antonio Secchi, Milan (Italy)