In 2020, Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital (BMEH) celebrates its 197th anniversary. During this time hundreds of ophthalmologists and other healthcare professionals from around the world have been trained and have passed through its corridors.
The annual scientific meeting is open to both BMEH Alumni Association members and to anyone working in eye and vision health . Established in partnership with the University of Birmingham’s Academic Unit of Ophthalmology Alumni, it embeds the Academic Unit’s eponymous lecture, the Sir Adrian Cadbury Lecture, delivered by a prominent UK Ophthalmologist and now in its twelfth year. The meeting is underpinned by the showcase Roper-Hall Prize Medal competition founded by Miss Erna Krtizinger and Mr Michael Roper Hall in 1993. A competition is open to any member of the junior medical staff within the Health Education England Postgraduate Schools of Ophthalmology Training Schemes, junior research fellows and more senior clinical trainees undertaking specialty fellowships, the winner is awarded a hallmarked silver medal supported by the Roper-Hall Eye Foundation Charity for a clinical case with a salutary tale.
A meeting that brings together Alumni, friends and colleagues of BMEH and the academic unit, past, present and future, the 2020 meeting shadows COVID around the world and for the first time, will be held virtually in a webinar format. So join us as we link between our Alumni Friends for a globe-trotting, east to west on 4th December 2020: all from the luxury of your own home!
The annual scientific meeting is open to both BMEH Alumni Association members and to anyone working in eye and vision health . Established in partnership with the University of Birmingham’s Academic Unit of Ophthalmology Alumni, it embeds the Academic Unit’s eponymous lecture, the Sir Adrian Cadbury Lecture, delivered by a prominent UK Ophthalmologist and now in its twelfth year. The meeting is underpinned by the showcase Roper-Hall Prize Medal competition founded by Miss Erna Krtizinger and Mr Michael Roper Hall in 1993. A competition is open to any member of the junior medical staff within the Health Education England Postgraduate Schools of Ophthalmology Training Schemes, junior research fellows and more senior clinical trainees undertaking specialty fellowships, the winner is awarded a hallmarked silver medal supported by the Roper-Hall Eye Foundation Charity for a clinical case with a salutary tale.
A meeting that brings together Alumni, friends and colleagues of BMEH and the academic unit, past, present and future, the 2020 meeting shadows COVID around the world and for the first time, will be held virtually in a webinar format. So join us as we link between our Alumni Friends for a globe-trotting, east to west on 4th December 2020: all from the luxury of your own home!
