Vision Quest Conference a Great Success
October 03, 2010
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This fall, The Foundation Fighting Blindness held six patient conferences in three cities across Canada. Vision Quest is an opportunity for people living with vision loss to hear directly from eye researchers and to connect with others living with vision loss.
Richard Suggitt has attended three Vision Quest conferences including the 2010 Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) Conference. “It is amazing to see the vision research progress being made, even compared to 2007,” he says. “The ideas and approaches being discussed are really dramatic advances from what I heard last time. We are getting much closer to treatments for RP and other conditions.”
Cheryl Waye attended the Age-Related Macular Degeneration Conference to learn more about her mother’s condition. She says that the information presented on nutrition research gave her more confidence in the approach she and her mom have been taking to diet and supplements. She also enjoyed the presentation on seeking and providing support to people with vision loss.
Sherry and Doug Grant travelled from Vancouver to Calgary for Vision Quest.
“Sherry has cone-rod dystrophy, a form of macular degeneration, and we’ve been doing a lot of our own research, but this conference really helps us put the information in context,” says Doug. The pair talked directly with several of the scientific presenters.
Bernie and Rosanne Janz in Calgary first heard of the Vision Quest two days before it started, which happened to be Roseanne’s birthday. “Hearing about research advances was the best birthday present I could have received,” said Rosanne whose son has RP.
For more about the research presented at the conferences, visit our Vision Quest page!