Programme

09.00 – 09.20am         Coffee and Registration

09.20 – 09.30am         Welcome and Introduction                                   

Cataract surgery session – Interactive session led by panel:

09.30 – 10.15am         Co-morbidities and challenges in cataract surgery

10.15 – 11.00am         Cataract surgery – what do YOU do?

11.00 – 11.30am         Coffee break

11.30 – 12.30pm         GCA and optic neuropathies

                                    Mr Eoin O’Sullivan, Kings College Hospital, London

12.30 – 1.10pm           Lunch

1.10 – 2.00pm             Regional Consultant meeting

                                    Trainee session

2.00 – 3.00pm             The diagnosis and management of uveal melanoma

Professor Ian Rennie, Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

3.00 – 3.45pm             Medicolegal pitfalls in Ophthalmology: ‘Doctor, I am not happy…….’

                                    Dr Sally Barnard, The MDU                    

3.45 – 4.00pm             Feedback and close

Sponsorship gratefully received from:

Abbott Medical Optics

Alcon UK

Allergan Ophthalmology

Bausch & Lomb Incorporated

Bayer

Moorfields Pharmaceuticals

Novartis Pharmaceuticals

Rayner

Santen UK

Scope Ophthalmics

Spectrum Thea Pharmaceuticals

Ophthalmology Regional Meeting

At the Apex Centre, Bury St Edmunds

Friday 24^TH June 2016

Programme of Events

9.00-9.25         Registration/Coffee

9.25-9.30         Introduction  

Retina Symposium (new horizons)

9.30-10:15       Mr Markus Groppe (Consultant, Stoke Mandeville Hospital)

                        Gene Therapy

10-15-11:00     Miss Jayashree Sahni (Translational Medicine Leader                                                       Ophthalmology, Roche Pharma Research and Early Development

                   Emerging therapies in Retinal Disease            

11.00-11.15     Coffee

11.15-12.00     Miss Stella Hornby (Consultant Oxford Eye Hospital)

                        Emergency Ophthalmology and Primary Care

12.00-12.30     Mr Paul Ursell (consultant, St. Helier, Sutton and Epsom)

                        Multifocal IOLs

12.30-1.15       Anglian Ophthalmology Development Group Meeting         

1.15-2.15         Lunch 

                        Glaucoma Symposium

2.15-3.00         Mr Tarun Sharma (Consultant Worcester Hospital)

                        Micro-invasive Glaucoma Surgery

3.00-3.45         Mr Peter Wishart (Consultant Broomfield Hospital)

                        Nice Glaucoma Guidelines can help control clinic numbers

3.45                 Meeting Close            

Approved for 5 CPD points