Travel update for those using the London underground – there may be strike action on Friday 13 April, resulting in a reduced District line service – information available here. General status updates available here.
The meeting programme is now finalised although there are stil a couple of free slots on Friday afternoon for any additional late-notice presentations.
The meeting has been awarded 9 CPD points by the RCOphth for full attendance (5 for Thursday, 4 for Friday).
Information for presenters
Free papers are given 15 minute slots (12min for the presentations, 3min for discussion). Please prepare your talk as a Powerpoint presentation. We prefer that you bring it on a USB stick which can be uploaded to the PC in the conference room. It is not obligatory to provide an abstract, although if you send one in electronically, it will be distributed in the delegate packs.
Meeting programme
THURSDAY 12 APRIL |
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0915-0950 | Registration and tea/coffee | |
0950-1000 |
Welcome and housekeeping |
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Session 1 | Chair: Fiona Roberts | |
1000-1015 | *David Ik Tuo Sia | CIN in a child |
1015-1030 | Godfrey Heathcote | Sinonasal NUT carcinoma and birdshot chorioretinitis |
1030-1045 | Joe Shaw | Manchester microphthalmia medley |
1045-1100 | *Ibrahim Sheriff | Clinicopathological correlation of malignant ocular medulloepithelioma |
1100-1115 | Phil Luthert |
Eosinophilic myositis |
1115-1130 |
Tea/coffee |
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Session 2 | Chair: John McCarthy | |
1130-1145 | *Alejandro Suarez-Bonnet | A “potpourri” of veterinary ocular pathology (Part 1) |
1145-1200 | Peter Stewart | Predicting patterns of retinal haemorrhage |
1200-1215 | *Laura Abbeel | Caruncular lesion: case discussion |
1215-1230 | *Hannah Fieldhouse |
Life on the English Riviera: better than a poke in the eye? |
1230-1330 | Lunch | |
1330-1430 | Business meeting | |
Session 3 | Chair: Luciane Irion | |
1430-1445 | *Lindsay McGrath | Squamous cell carcinoma in the anophthalmic socket – a series of 4 cases with HPV-16 profiling |
1445-1500 | Simon Priestnall | A “potpourri” of veterinary ocular pathology (Part 2) |
1500-1515 | *Hasan Naveed |
Cribra Orbitalia: An Orbital Roof Pathology |
1515-1530 | Tea/coffee | |
Dr John Harry Memorial Lecture | ||
1530-1630 | Professor Gary Misson |
Seeing things in a different light: polarized light microscopy revisited |
Award of Dr Jean Campbell Trophy for best trainee presentation (*) |
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1900 | BAOP dinner |
FRIDAY 13 APRIL |
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0900-0930 |
Registration and tea/coffee |
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0930-1045 | EQA discussion and scoring | |
1045-1115 |
NSOPS IQI and Consensus Panel |
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1115-1130 | Tea/coffee | |
Session 4 | Chair: Aditya Shivane | |
1130-1145 | Fiona Roberts | Hiding behind the KAMRA |
1145-1200 | Hardeep Mudhar | Unsteady gait and an orbital tumour |
1200-1215 | Hardeep Mudhar | An intraocular tumour with lung metastases |
1215-1230 | Alice Davidson |
Identifying novel genetic causes of posterior polymorphous corneal dystrophy (PPCD) |
1230-1245 | Group photo | |
1245-1345 | Lunch | |
Session 5 | Chair: Chee Koon Thum | |
1345-1400 | Dominic O’Donovan | Vital dye staining properties in human cornea as surgical marker to the peripheral Descemets’ Membrane |
1400-1415 | Adam Meeney | Schnyder’s corneal dystrophy: diagnostic difficulties |
1415-1430 | Santosh Kafle | Eye pathology in Nepal |
1430-1445 |
Gordon Hay |
Amyloidoma of the choroid |
1445-1500 |
Tea/coffee |
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Session 6 | Chair: Simon Priestnall | |
1500-1515 | Samanta Fonseca | Nuances of impression cytology |
1515-1530 | Chee Koon Thum | Doctor! Should I be seing double after cataract operation? |
1530-1545 | Caroline Thaung | Grossing |
1545-end | Remainder of late-notice presentations |