10:00-11:00 | Tea and Registration | |
11:00 | Welcome from Keith Barton (Moorfields Eye Hospital) | |
11:05 | Welcome from Nick Strouthidis (Moorfields Eye Hospital) on behalf of glaucoma service | |
11:10 | Welcome from Thea | |
11:25 | What is glaucoma? | Jim Kirwan (Portsmouth) |
11:40 | Session 1: Glaucoma as a political football Chairs: Nick Strouthidis and Winnie Nolan (Moorfields Eye Hospital) | |
11:40-11:50 | Running a Brexit service | Declan Flanagan, Medical Director, Moorfields Eye Hospital |
11:50-12:00 | Affordable care and Trumponomics | Leon Herndon, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA |
12:00-12:10 | Russian revolutions: Ophthalmic Innovation and the challenges of the Modern World | Boris Malyugin, Deputy Director, Stanislav I Fyodorov Eye Microsurgical Institute, Moscow, Russia |
12:10-12:20 | Managing Ophthalmology with exploding demand | Ningli Wang, Director and the Vice President of the Eye Center of Beijing Tongren Hospital, China |
12:20-12:40 | Discussion | |
12:40-13:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |
13:00-14:30 | Session 2: Glaucoma as a worn out nerve | Chairs: Hari Jayaram and Paul Foster |
13:00-13:15 | Neurodegeneration and glaucoma | Mark Moster, Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, USA |
13:15-13:30 | Hypotonous brains and glaucoma | Jost Jonas, University of Heidelberg, Germany |
13:30-13:45 | Constantly moving eyes and glaucoma | Michael Girard, National University of Singapore |
13:45-14:00 | Big eyes and glaucoma | Jost Jonas, University of Heidelberg, Germany |
14:15-14:30 | Discussion | |
14:30-15:30 | LUNCH | |
15:30-15:45 | Moorfields Eye Charity | |
16:00-17:30 | Session 3: Glaucoma as a “business” – what will become of the consultant? | Chair: Keith Barton and Ian Murdoch |
16:00-16:15 | The former NHS: Collaborating with private providers | Dan Lindfield, Royal Surrey County Hospital |
16:15-16:30 | The new NHS: Getting other people to do the work | Dilani Siriwardena, Moorfields Eye Hospital |
16:30-16:45 | When there is virtually no NHS: Doing it on your own | Divya Mathews, Stanley Eye Unit, Abergele, Wales |
16:45-17:00 | When there is no NHS: Practical experience with low income populations | Winnie Nolan, Moorfields Eye Hospital |
17:00-17:15 | Why patients pay me to treat their glaucoma | Michael Coote, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Australia |
17:15-17:30 | Discussion | |
17:30-17:50 | COFFEE BREAK | |
17:50-19:35 | Session 4: The Debates | Moderator: Nick Strouthidis and John Brookes |
17:50 | Target IOP is Balderdash | |
17:50-18:00 | For | Alan Rotchford, Glasgow |
18:00-18:10 | Against | Felipe Medeiros, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA |
18:10-18:15 | Vote | |
18:15 | Phaco is detrimental to the success of glaucoma surgery | |
18:15-18:25 | For | Marlene Moster, Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, USA |
18:25-18:35 | Against | Tom Samuelson, Minnesota Eye Consultants, Minneapolis, USA |
18:35-18:40 | Vote | |
18:35-18:40 | Vote | |
18:40-19:10 | Trab has no role in angle closure | |
18:40-18:50 | For | Ningli Wang, Director and the Vice President of the Eye Center of Beijing Tongren Hospital, China |
18:50-19:00 | Against | Gus Gazzard, Moorfields Eye Hospital |
19:00-19:10 | Vote | |
19:10-19:35 | Standalone MIGS as first line surgery for POAG | |
19:10-19:20 | For | Chelvin Sng, National University Hospital, Singapore |
19:20-19:30 | Against | Leon Herndon, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA |
19:30-19:35 | Vote | |
19:35 | CLOSE OF DAY ONE | |
19:45-20:15 | Drinks Reception at Royal College of Physicians | |