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SWOS Meeting November 2022

SWOS research presentations, Friday 25th November 2022

The meeting was held on 25th of November in The Clifton Pavillion, Bristol zoo gardens. The program is shown below and a downloadable pdf for printing is available here »
 

November Programme

15 minutes for each presentation, 1-2 questions only if time available:

09.30 - 10:30 Registration
 
10.00 Trainee presentations
 
  1. 10.00 ‘Pseudophakic negative dysphotopsia and IOL orientation: a prospective double-masked randomised controlled trial’ Acta Ophthalmologica 2020. Gemma S L Manasseh, Edward W J Pritchard, Alice E J Rothwell and Johnathan Luck. Royal United Hospital, Bath. (Published)
     
  2. 10.15 ‘Anterior approach ptosis surgery: comparison of absorbable polyglactin sutures and non-absorbable polyester sutures. Does vicryl stand the test of time?’ Orbit 2021. Gemma S L Manasseh, Samantha V Hunt, Helen Garrott, Rebecca L Ford, Richard Caesar and Richard A Harrad. BEH and GHNHSFT (Published)
     
  3. 10.30 ‘Thyroid eye disease in children (A national survey)’ Shivam Goyal and Patrick Watts. University Hospital Wales and Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Wales. (ARVO?)
     
  4. 10.45 ‘Real-life outcomes of sutureless scleral-fixated IOL implantation using Yamane’s technique’ Joshua Feyi-Waboso, Francesco Maria D’Alterio and Salem Murjaneh. Royal Cornwall Hospital. (ARVO?)

11:00 Coffee

  1. 11.30 ‘At the top of their game: a qualitative study on how expert ophthalmic surgeons and professional athletes manage stressors to maximise and maintain performance’ Sarah Schimansky. Bristol Eye Hospital. (ARVO?)
     
  2. 11.45 ‘Multimodal characterisation of the infant response to retinopathy of prematurity screening and treatment’ Miranda Buckle, C Hartley, K Pillay, T adjei, G Schmidt Mellado, C K Patel and R Slater. John Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. (ARVO)
     
  3. 12.00 ‘Trends in uveal melanoma across the SW: a clinical audit’. Gavin Reynolds and Denise Atan. Bristol Eye Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital. (ARVO?)
     
  4. 12.30 ‘6 year results of combined phacoemulsification and endoscopic cyclophotocoagulation (phaco-ECP) surgery in patients with uncontrolled glaucoma and no previous glaucoma surgery’ Leo Feinberg, Andrew J Swampillai, Daniel Byles, Michael Smith. West of England Eye Unit, Royal Devon and Exeter. (Accepted for publication in Graefes)
     
  5. 12.45 ‘A smartphone lens improves the quality of referrals to eye casualty’ Sunil Malhotra, Oliver Riley, Jordan Chervenkoff (presenting author), Panayiotis Maghsoudlou, Alexander Chui, Johnathan Boulton and Jonathan Luck. GNHSFT, Royal United Hospitals Bath and College of Ophthalmologists. (ARVO?)
 
12.30 Lunch
Annual general meeting for regional committee representatives
 
13.45 Awards
 
14.00 Refractive options for cataract surgery.
Mr Omar Elhaddad
 
14.25 ‘Paediatric CVI grows up...’
Prof Cathy Williams
 
15.00 Break
 
15.30 “Papilloedema-more than just a headache!”
Dr Denize Atan
 
16.00 “My experience of the independent sector ophthalmology.
Demystifying the ISTC”. Mr Johannes Keller
 
16.30 Closing