Please note that the language of the SightCity Forum is exclusively German and the recordings only contain the audio track, even if the links go to YouTube.
12:00-12:30 Patient symposium: AMD – current treatment options
Speaker: Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Norbert Schrage, Clinics of the City of Cologne, Merheim Eye Clinic
12:40-13:40 Netzwerk berufliche Teilhabe – labour market-oriented and innovative
Organisation of vocational support and training centres (BFWs and BBWs)
Organiser: Dr. Inge Jansen, BFW Düren
Seizing opportunities – vocational training centres in times of the pandemic
Dr Inge Jansen for the vocational training centres in Düren, Halle (Saale) and Mainz
Local and modular services for people with visual impairments
Speaker: Susanne Mendrzyk for the Stuttgart, Soest and Chemnitz vocational training centres
Unfortunately there is no recording of this part of the programme.
13:50 to 14:20 Patient symposium: Macular diseases: Diagnostics 4.0
Speaker: Dr Andreas Cordes, Sehwerk Eye Centre Bonn
14:30-15:00 Specific causes, diagnosis and treatment options for sleep disorders in blind and visually impaired people
Speaker: Dipl.-Psych. Werner Cassel, Clinic for Internal Medicine with a focus on Pneumology, Sleep Medicine Centre, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg GmbH, Marburg site
15:10-15:40 Aren’t modern smartphones just far too expensive? What they cost and what they actually do for us.
Speaker: Jürgen Fleger, Apfel-Fleger, computer knowledge for the blind, Marburg
15:50-16:20 Patient symposium: Glaucoma
Speaker: Dr Daniel Kampik, University Eye Clinic Würzburg
16:30-18:00 Block on genetic diseases
Including the following thematic units:
Hereditary retinal diseases – examples from consultations Speaker: Prof. Dr Sandra Liakopoulos, Eye Clinic, University Hospital Cologne
Human genetic diagnostics and counselling for hereditary retinal diseases Speaker: Prof. Dr Hanno J. Bolz, Senckenberg Centre for Human Genetics, Frankfurt
Therapeutic prospects: the PRO RETINA patient register and more Speaker: Dr Sandra Jansen, PRO RETINA Deutschland e. V.
18:10-18:40 Patient symposium: Limbal stem cell transplantation for corneal blindness
Speaker: Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Norbert Schrage, Clinics of the City of Cologne, Merheim Eye Clinic
10:00-10:30 a.m. The new openness – operating aids in Windows 10 for blind and visually impaired people
Speaker: Domingos de Oliveira, freelancer, Bonn
10:40-11:10 a.m. Corona patient symposium
Speaker: Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Norbert Schrage, Clinics of the City of Cologne, Merheim Eye Clinic
11:20-11:50 Participation – the role of self-help in times of pandemic
Speaker: Franz Badura, Member of the Board of PRO RETINA Deutschland e. V.
12:00-12:30 Live sports reports for the blind and visually impaired in times of the pandemic
Speaker: Broder-Jürgen Trede, T_OHR Centre for Reporting on the Visually Impaired and Blind in Society and Sport, Mainz
