SWOS membership is available to all career grade ophthalmologists working in the South West of England and South Wales. Ophthalmologists in training grades are eligable for Associate Membership.
Details of the SWOS meetings for 2013 are shown below. There were three meetings held:
9:30: Registration and coffee
10:00: Oral Presentations (I)
Chair:- Professor James Morgan
Research, Published Papers, Audit and Case Reports
submitted to the Society prize competition
11:00: Coffee
11:30: Oral Presentations (II)
12.30: Lunch (sponsored)
13:45: SWOS Annual General Meeting
14:00: Story of Vigabatrin in Ophthalmology
Prof. John Wild
Professor of Clinical Vision Sciences, Cardiff University Sciences
14:40: CTR, sub-laxated/dislocated lens and the role of V-R surgeons.
Mr Som Prasad, Consultant Ophthalmologist, Wirral, UK
15.30: Prize giving
15:45: Tea
16:00: Phaco in Animals
Mr Tim Knott
Rowe Vet Group
16:35: Panel Discussion
18:30: Dinner
Hotel Holiday Inn, Filton, Bristol.
(Consultants only)
12.30: Lunch (sponsored)
13:45: Welcome: Professor James Morgan, Cardiff University
14:00: Ophthalmology pathway development in Wales. Where are we now?
Mr Mike Austin, Singleton Hospital, Swansea
14:35: New methods for the early detection of AMD
Dr Tom Margrain, School of Optometry and Vis Sciences, Cardiff University
15.10: VEGF in the eye: Mastering the angiogenic balance
Dr Melissa Gammons, Bristol University
15:45: What can NIHSCR/NIHR do for you (and your patients)
Tom Margraine, Cardiff University
16.00: Tea: Networking
16:30: The treatment of diabetic retinopthy: past present and future
Professor Simon Harding, St Pauls Eye Unit, Liverpool University
17:30: Thanks: Professor Marcela Votruba, Cardiff University
18:30: Dinner at Park House Restaurant Cardiff
(http://www.parkhouseclub.com)
09:30 registration
10.00 Oral Presentations of Research (1)
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Oral Presentations of Research (2)
12:30 Lunch
13:45 Annual General Meeting
14:00 Mr Nathaniel Knox-Cartwright, Exeter
Corneal Cross-Linking - Current Thoughts
14:40 Miss Susie Mollan, Birmingham
A Safe Path to Neuro-Ophthalmology
15:30 Prizegiving
15:40 Tea
16:10 Richardson Cross Lecture
Mrs Carol Lane, Cardiff
- Oculoplasticity
16:50 Panel Discussion
18:30 Dinner
Holiday Inn, Filton (Consultants)
Dinner to follow meeting
The meeting was organised by Exeter but will be held in Bristol because of its central location within the region.