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 |
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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 |
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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 |