Programme
Preliminary Schedule
- Sunday evening: start opening and registration
- Monday & Tuesday evenings: social evenings
- Wednesday afternoon: free
- Thursday evening: banquet & dance party
- Friday morning: end
Programme
| Sunday, 19th August | |
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| 19:00 - 21:30 | Welcome and Walking Dinner Reception |
| Monday, 20th August | |
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| 08:30 - 08:45 |
Opening address and organizational matters, Paul Casaer, professor emeritus of Pediatrics, KU Leuven, Belgium |
| 08:45 - 09:20 |
Plenary Lecture:Clinical relevance of cerebral oxygenation monitoring in the preterm infant. Frank van Bel, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| 09:20 - 10:05 | Free presentations (3x15 min) |
| 10:05 - 10:30 | Coffee break and poster viewing |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Free presentations (6x15 min) |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Poster flash (poster presentations) |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 14:35 |
Plenary Lecture: Muscle oxygenation. Peter Hespel, KU Leuven, Research Centre for Exercise and Health |
| 14:35 - 15:35 | Free presentations (4x15 min) |
| 15:35 - 16:00 | Coffee break and poster viewing |
| 16:00 - 16:35 |
Plenary Lecture: Monitoring of tissue oxygenation in anesthesia and
intensive care. Patrick Wouters, University Hospital Ghent, Department of Anesthesiology, Belgium |
| 16:35 - 17:35 | Free presentations (4x15 min) |
| 17:35 - 18:00 | Poster flash (poster presentations) |
| 18:30 - 20:30 | Social event: Animation at Halve Maan; Dinner included |
| Tuesday, 21th August | |
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| starts at NOVOTEL (congress venue) with a special breakfast session organised for the PhDs, a unique opportunity inviting them to ‘Meet the Experts’. | |
| 08:30 - 09:05 |
Plenary Lecture “Kovach Lecture”: Tumor oxygenation status: Appraisal
of the past and present concepts, and a look into the future. Peter Vaupel, University of Mainz, Germany |
| 09:05 - 10:05 | Free presentations (4x15 min) |
| 10:05 - 10:30 | Coffee break and poster viewing |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Free presentations (6x15 min) |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Poster flash (poster presentations) |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 14:35 |
Plenary Lecture: Pathophysiological responses to hypoxia in vascular
remodeling by hypoxia-inducible factors. Shuhei Tomita, Department of Pharmacology, University of Tokushima, Japan |
| 14:35 - 15:35 | Free presentations (4x15 min) |
| 15:35 - 16:00 | Coffee break and poster viewing |
| 16:00 - 16:35 |
Plenary Lecture: Models of tissue oximetry and validation. Martin Wolf, University Hospital Zurich, Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory, Clinic of Neonatology, Switzerland |
| 16:35 - 17:35 | Free presentations (4x15 min) |
| 17:35 - 18:00 | Poster flash (poster presentations) |
| 18:30 - 22:00 | Social event: Reception at City Hall and Dinner at Maximiliaan Van Oostenrijk |
| Wednesday, 22th August | |
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| 08:30 - 09:05 |
Plenary Lecture: Oxygenation measurement with hybrid optical
technologies. Terence Leung, University College London, Department Medical Physics and Bioengineering, UK |
| 09:05 - 10:05 | Free presentations (4x15 min) |
| 10:05 - 10:30 | Coffee break and poster viewing |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Free presentations (6x15 min) |
| 12:00 - 12:35 | Plenary Lecture “Memorial Lecture about Mamoru Tamura's contributions to biomedical optics” by Prof. Dr. Eiji Takahashi, Advanced Technology Fusion, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saga University, Saga, Japan |
| Morning ends with a FORUM-debate, new and unique event launched for the first time and organised by the Chair (prof. dr. ir. S. Van Huffel) for the PhDs, around 2 selected major topics chosen by the PhDs, contributing in getting the students a pole-position for tackling today's challenges on oxygenation in all its aspects. |
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| 13:35 - | Free afternoon and evening: social activities with suggestions for participants |
| Thursday, 23rd August | |
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| 08:30 - 09:05 |
Plenary Lecture: Monitoring tumor hypoxia to improve the radiation
outcome (including EPR oximetry and other new techniques) Bernard Gallez, UCL, Ecole de Pharmacie, Unité de Résonance Magnétique Biomédicale, Belgium |
| 09:05 - 10:05 | Free presentations (4x15 min) |
| 10:05 - 10:30 | Coffee break and poster viewing |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Free presentations (6x15 min) |
| 12:00 - 12:35 |
Plenary Lecture: Oxidative metabolism and glucose consumption Michelle Puchowicz, Case Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center, OH, USA |
| 12:35 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 14:35 |
Plenary Lecture: Near-infrared optical imaging of human prefrontal cortex
activity for visual-verbal N-back tasks Qingming Luo, Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan, P. R. China |
| 14:35 - 15:35 | Free presentations (4x15 min) |
| 15:35 - 16:00 | Poster flash (poster presentation) (special coffee break included) |
| 16:00 - 16:10 | Concluding remarks and closing of congress meeting |
| 16:10 - 17:10 | Annual General meeting of the International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue |
| 18:30 - 23:00 | Gala Dinner and Award Ceremony at Concert Hall |
| Friday, 24th August | |
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| Morning departure of participants | |
