Tsubota, Kazuo ( Ichikawa General Hospital, Japan; Boxer Wachler, Brian S.; Azar, Dimitri T.; Koch, Douglas

• Basic optics of hyperopia and presbyopia, Michael K. Smolek; the Helmholtz mechanism of accommodation, Adrian Glasser; Schachar's theory of the mechanisms of accommodation, Jay S. Pepose and Moonyoung S. Chung; ageing and the crystalline lens -review of recent literature (1998-2001), Leo T. Chylack, Jr; hyperopia, Ivo John Dualan and Penny A. Asbell; surgical treatment options for hyperopia and hyperopic astigmatism, Paolo Vinciguerra and Fabrizio I. Camesasca; laser thermokeratoplasty, ShahzadI. Mian and Dimitri T. Azar; conductive keratoplasty for the correction of low-to-moderate hyperopia, Marguerite M. McDonald, Jonathan Davidorf, Robert K. Maloney, Edward E. Manche, Peter Hersh, and George M. Salib; intracorneal segments for hyperopia,Laura Gomez and Arturo Chayet; anterior chamber phakic IOL in hyperopia, Georges Baikoff; hyperopic phakic intraocular lenses, Thanh Hoang-Xuan and Fran ois Male; hyperopia and presbyopia - topographical changes, Stephen D. Klyce, Michael K. Smolek, M.J.Endl, V. Malineni, M.S. Insler, and Marguerite D. McDonald; corneal surface profile after hyperopia surgery, Damien Gatinel; wavefront changes after hyperopia surgery, Maria Regina Chalita and Ronald Krueger; contrast sensitivity changers after hyperopiasurgery, Lavinia C. Coban-Steflea, Tommy S. Korn, and Brian S. Boxer Wachler; wound healing after hyperopic corneal surgery - why there is greater regression in the treatment of hyperopia, Renato Ambrosio, Jr, and Steven E. Wilson; monovision refractivesurgery for presbyopia, Dimitri T. Azar, Margaret Chang, Carolyn E. Kloek, Samiah Zafar, Kimberly C. Sippel, and Sandeep Jain; multifocal corneal approach to treat presbyopia, Janie Ho; scleral relaxation to treat presbyopia, Hideharu Fukashaku; thescleral expansion procedure, Chris B. Phillips and Richard W. Yee; multifocal IOLs for presbyopia, Hiroko Bissen-Miyajima; refractive lens exchange with a multifocal intraocular lens, I. Howard Fine, Richard S. Hoffman, and Mark Packer; the limits ofsimultaneous ametropia correction in phaco-ersatz, Arthur Ho, Fabrice Manns, Viviana Fernandez, Paul Erikson; accommodating and adjustable IOLs, Dimitri T. Azar, Sandeep Jain, and Rasik B. Vajpayee; accommodative amplitude measurements after surgery forpresbyopia, David L. Guyton; complications of hyperopia and presbyopia surgery, Liane Clamen Glazer and Dimitri T. Azar; future developments, Brian S. Boxer Wachler.