DATE

Tuesday,
June 5

Wednesday,
June 6

Thursday,
June 7

Friday,
June 8

Saturday,
June 9

07:00

Interest Group Breakfast
07:00-08:15
pre-registration required

07:30

08:00

08:30

Official Introduction/
Welcome Plenary
08:30 - 10:0
• Opening Overview
• Establishment of the IPA
• Keynote Address
• AE Profio Memorial Lecture

Plenary 3
08:30 - 10:00
• Photosensitizer
• Light Sources
• Dosimetry

Plenary 5
08:30 - 10:00
• Mechanism of Action of PDT - Cellular Mechanisms
• Molecular Mechanisms Moving to Clinical Treatments
• Cardiovascular PDT

Plenary 7
08:30 - 9:30
• Upper GI PDT
• Immune Modulation

09:00

Satellite Meeting
9:00-11:00
Hosted by Berlex Laboratories Inc.

The Emerging Role of 5-Ala PDT in Dermatology.

09:30

10:00

Break/Exhibits/Posters
10:00 - 10:30

Break/Exhibits/Posters
10:00 - 10:30

Break/Exhibits/Posters
10:00 - 10:30

Break
9:30 - 10:00

10:30

Plenary 2
10:30 - 12:00
• Regulatory Issues in PDT
• Clinical Applications of PDT in Ophthalmology
• Gynecology

Plenary 4
10:30 - 12:00
• Clinical Applications of PDT in Thoracic Medicine
• Clinical Applications of PDT in Dermatology
• Photodynamic Diagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy of Brain Tumors

Plenary 6
10:30 - 12:00
• PDT in Urology
• Clinical Applications of PDT in Biliary and Pancreatic Diseases
• Head & Neck Cancer

Plenary 8
10:00 - 12:00
• Drug Discovery and Clinical Trials

11:00

11:30

12:00

Lunch Break
Exhibits/Posters
12:00 - 13:30

Lunch on the Exhibit Floor, and IPA AGM with lunch

Lunch Break
12:00 - 13:30
Visudyne™ Session
12:00 - 13:15
• Visudyne™ Therapy for the Treatment of Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration pre-registration was required

12:30

13:00

Satellite Meeting
13:00-15:00
Hosted by
Axcan Scandipharm Inc.

Photodynamic Therapy. Gastrointestinal Applications

13:30

Concurrent Symposia
13:30 - 15:00
• Cardiovascular
• Light Sources & Delivery (1 of 2)
• Ophthalmology (1 of 2)
• Thoracic
• Mechanisms of Action (1 of 3)

Concurrent Symposia
13:30 - 15:00
• Dermatology 1 of 2
Non-Oncologic
• Mechanisms of Action (2 of 3)
• Upper GI (1 of 2)
• Dosimetry (1 of 2)
• Urology/Gynecology (1 of 2)

Concurrent Symposia
13:30 - 15:00
• Dermatology (2 of 2)
• Infectious Diseases / Topical PDT (1 of 2)
• Optical Diagnosis (2 of 2)
• Photosensitizers (3 of 3)
• Urology/Gynecology (2 of 2)

14:00

14:30

15:00

Break/Exhibits/Posters
15:00 - 15:30

Break/Exhibits/Posters
15:00 - 15:30

Break
15:00 - 15:30

15:30

Concurrent Symposia
15:30 - 17:00
• Ophthalmology (2 of 2)
• ENT
• Advances in PDT
• Photosensitizers (1 of 3)
• Light Sources & Delivery (2 of 2)

Concurrent Symposia
15:30 - 17:00
• Optical Diagnosis (1 of 2)
• Biliary/Pancreatic/ Lower GI
• Neurology
• Photosensitizers (2 of 3)
• Upper GI (2 of 2)

Concurrent Symposia
15:30 - 17:00
• Regulatory Issues & Outcomes Research in PDT
• Topical PDT (2 of 2)
• Immunomodulation
• Mechanisms of Action (3 of 3)
• Dosimetry (2 of 2)

16:00

Satellite Meeting
16:00-18:00
Hosted by QLT

Expanding Horizons in PDT

16:30

17:00

17:30

Evening

Welcome Reception
18:45
Buses leave from Melville St. entrance

Banquet
19:00