You will find the agenda from our most recent symposium below. To view previous years, please click the relevant date below.
Meetings
2017 SYMPOSIUM
Saturday 28th January
| TIME | SESSION | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00-11:00 | TEA & REGISTRATION | |
| 11:00-11:15 | Welcome | Keith Barton Nick Strouthidis (on behalf of Glaucoma Service) Thea Pharmaceuticals |
| 11:15-12:40 | Session 1: The future of the universe – the Big Bang debates | Chairs: Richard Wormald and Parham Azarbod |
| 11:15 | The future of glaucoma medical therapy is preservative free medication | For GAZZARD | Against TINA WONG |
| 11:35 | Routine glaucoma should be managed by optometrists not ophthalmologists | For LEON AU | Against CAPRIOLI |
| 11:55 | No bleb, no pressure control: Malik Kahook vs Deborah Kamal | For D KAMAL | Against KAHOOK |
| 12:15 | Gene therapy has no future in the treatment of glaucoma | For VISWANATHAN | Against KEITH MARTIN |
| 12:40-13:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 13:00-14:30 | Session 2: Nightmare cases from the experts: Learning from my biggest mistake | Chairs: Debbie Kamal and Ian Murdoch |
| 13:00 | Case 1 | Sanjay Asrani |
| 13:10 | Case 2 | Philip Bloom |
| 13:20 | Case 3 | Keith Barton |
| 13:30 | Case 4 | Ali Martins |
| 13:40 | Case 5 | Tanuj Dada |
| 13:50 | Case 6 | Prin Rojanapongpun |
| 14:00 | Discussion | |
| 14:30-15:30 | LUNCH BREAK | |
| 15:30-15:45 | Moorfields Eye Charity | |
| 15:45-17:00 | Session 3: Lessons from the lab | Chairs: Jonathan Clarke and Peng Khaw |
| 15:45 | Under Pressure? Lessons to help hold your nerve | Hari Jayaram |
| 16:00 | Some like it hard | Colm O’Brien |
| 16:15 | Adding some Sparc to healing | Tina Wong |
| 16:30 | In through the outflow | Malik Kahook |
| 16:45 | Discussion | |
| 17:00-17:30 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 17:30-18:30 | Session 4: Mini MIGS at MIGS | Chairs: John Brookes and Emma Jones |
| 17:30 | Size isn’t everything: Microshunts and how to use them | Nick Strouthidis |
| 17:45 | Migs… For a few dollars more | Keith Barton |
| 18:00 | Too Big for MIGS: Primary TVT outcomes at one year | Sheng Lim |
| 18:15 | New glaucoma drugs and drug delivery devices | Sanjay Asrani |
| 18:30 | THANK YOU AND GOODBYE | |
| 18:45-19:15 | DRINKS RECEPTION AT RCP |
Sunday 29th January
| TIME | SESSION | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| 08:30-09:30 | TEA & REGISTRATION | |
| 09:30 | Welcome to day 2 | Keith Barton |
| 09:40-10:55 | Session 1: Angle closure: The evidence for treatment | Chairs: Winnie Nolan and Elina Nikita |
| 09:40 | Should we treat a narrow angle? | Hon Tym Wong |
| 09:55 | Implications from EAGLE | Augusto Azuara Blanco |
| 10:10 | Still Small and hard – acute angle closure in the 21st Century | Paul Foster |
| 10:25 | G Is the role of iridoplasty going, going..gone? | Tina Wong |
| 10:40 | Discussion | |
| 10:55-11:15 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:15-11:30 | International Glaucoma Association | Val Goss |
| 11:30-12:45 | Session 2; What Your Glaucoma Service Can Learn From Me | Chairs: Dilani Siriwardena and Rashmi Mathew |
| 11:30 | California dreamin’ | Joe Caprioli |
| 11:45 | Slinging back in Singapore | Hon Tym Wong |
| 12:00 | Nurses of the world, unite and take over | Adam Mapani |
| 12:15 | Sharing the load | Paul Spry |
| 12:30 | Discussion | |
| 12:45-14:00 | Session 3: Dragons Den | Dragons: Keith Barton, Papadopoulos, Tina Wong, Tanuj Dada, Prin Rojanapongpun, Sanjay Asrani, Malik Kahook, Joe Caprioli, Hon Tym Wong |
| 13:00 | Case 1 | Vaneeta Sood |
| 13:15 | Case 2 | Evripidis Sykakis |
| 13:30 | Case 3 | Mark Doherty |
| 13:45 | Case 4 | Jibran Mohamed Noriega |
| 14:00-14:15 | THANK YOU AND GOODBYE |
