BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//PYVOBJECT//NONSGML Version 1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Africa/Johannesburg BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20000101T000000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=1 TZNAME:SAST TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20261111T190335Z - 41464@19---xneelo-5 DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20270917T080000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20270919T150000 CREATED:20261111T190335Z DESCRIPTION: ContactConnect 2027\nAccommodation Bookings: Click Her​e Program Gui de The prelim program will be released soon. Program - Friday Program - Sa turday Program - Sunday ContactConnect 2027 - Our Speakers Dr Obinwanne Ch ukwuemeka Junior Dr Obinwanne Chukwuemeka Junior is a clinician-scientist specialising in cornea\, contact lenses\, ocular surface health and myopia . He leads the Cornea\, Contact Lens and Myopia Management Department at D e Lens Ophthalmics in Abuja\, Nigeria\, and is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Cape Coast\, Ghana. He earned his Doctor of Optometry degree from the University of Benin in 2012\, completed a two-year fellowship in cornea\, specialty contact lenses and anterior segment at LV Prasad Eye I nstitute\, India\, and holds a master’s in research optometry from the U niversity of KwaZulu-Natal\, South Africa. A Fellow of the American Academ y of Optometry\, Dr Obinwanne is the first African Diplomate of its Cornea \, Contact Lenses and Refractive Technologies section. He is also the firs t West African Fellow of the Scleral Lens Education Society and serves as its International Chair. He has contributed to work with the Tear Film and Ocular Surface Society and British Contact Lens Association. A certified myopia management expert\, he fits specialty and medically necessary conta ct lenses. His clinical and research interests include keratoconus\, child hood myopia\, scleral lenses\, corneal disease and ocular surface health. He also contributes to research\, peer-reviewed publications and professio nal education for eye-care clinicians locally and internationally. Dr Kate Gifford Dr Kate Gifford is an internationally renowned clinician-scientis t optometrist\, Visiting Research Fellow at Queensland University of Techn ology (QUT)\, Australia and co-founder of Myopia Profile\, the world-leadi ng educational platform for childhood myopia management. Kate holds a PhD in contact lenses [...] DTSTAMP:20261111T190335Z LOCATION:NH Johannesburg Sandton\, 138 Rivonia Rd\,\, Sandown\,\, Sandton\, 2196\, South Africa SUMMARY:ContactConnect 2027 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:ContactConnect 2027\nAccommodation Bookings: Click He r​e Program Guide The prelim program will be released soon. Program - Fr iday Program - Saturday Program - Sunday ContactConnect 2027 - Our Speaker s Dr Obinwanne Chukwuemeka Junior Dr Obinwanne Chukwuemeka Junior is a cli nician-scientist specialising in cornea\, contact lenses\, ocular surface health and myopia. He leads the Cornea\, Contact Lens and Myopia Managemen t Department at De Lens Ophthalmics in Abuja\, Nigeria\, and is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Cape Coast\, Ghana. He earned his Doctor of Optometry degree from the University of Benin in 2012\, completed a two-y ear fellowship in cornea\, specialty contact lenses and anterior segment a t LV Prasad Eye Institute\, India\, and holds a master’s in research opt ometry from the University of KwaZulu-Natal\, South Africa. A Fellow of th e American Academy of Optometry\, Dr Obinwanne is the first African Diplom ate of its Cornea\, Contact Lenses and Refractive Technologies section. He is also the first West African Fellow of the Scleral Lens Education Socie ty and serves as its International Chair. He has contributed to work with the Tear Film and Ocular Surface Society and British Contact Lens Associat ion. A certified myopia management expert\, he fits specialty and medicall y necessary contact lenses. His clinical and research interests include ke ratoconus\, childhood myopia\, scleral lenses\, corneal disease and ocular surface health. He also contributes to research\, peer-reviewed publicati ons and professional education for eye-care clinicians locally and interna tionally. Dr Kate Gifford Dr Kate Gifford is an internationally renowned c linician-scientist optometrist\, Visiting Research Fellow at Queensland Un iversity of Technology (QUT)\, Australia and co-founder of Myopia Profile\ , the world-leading educational platform for childhood myopia management. Kate holds a PhD in contact lenses [...] END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR