08.00 – 08.30
Registration, Tea, Coffee, Pastries and Exhibition 08.30 – 08.45 Welcome and Introduction Saaeha Rauz, President BMEH Alumni Association (Birmingham, UK) 08.45 – 10.15 Session 1: All Systems Are Go! Synopsis: A journey through the systems and how dysregulation can cause ocular inflammation. Chair: Graham Wallace, University of Birmingham (UK) Strict timing: 15 minutes presentations
10.15 – 11.00 Tea, Coffee, Cake, Posters and Trade Exhibition 11.00 – 12.45 Session 2: The 27th Roper-Hall Eye Foundation Prize Medal Competition Synopsis: Case presentations from trainees where there is a message to be learnt or there is a change in practice. Each case will be open to discussion with the judges and the floor before the audience use Sli.do on their smart phones or tablets to vote for the winner. The winner receives a hallmarked solid silver medal and their name is inscribed on the honours board. Chair: Saaeha Rauz, University of Birmingham (UK) and Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre (UK) Strict timing: 9 minutes presentation, 3 minutes rapid fire 11.00 – 11.10 Saaeha Rauz – Introduction and Competition Voting Rules 11.10 – 11.22
11.22 – 11.34
11.34 – 11.46
11.46 – 11-58
11.58 – 12-10
12.10 – 12-22
12.22 – 12.34
12.34 – 12.45 Sli.do Audience Vote – https://www.sli.do/<<code>> 12.45 – 13.45 Judges Meeting, Lunch, Posters and Trade Exhibition 13.45 – 14.15 Session 3: The Great Debate – “Lumper versus Splitter” Synopsis: Experts for and against the motion give a 5-minute résumé to present their case, followed by a 15-minute debate from the floor before the audience use ‘Slido’ on their smart phones or tablets to vote for the winner. Joint Chairs: Douglas Jabs, (The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and The Wilmer Eye Institute, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, (USA) and Alastair Denniston, (University Hospitals Birmingham (UK)) Motion: All non-infectious uveitis is basically the same, and treatment decisions can be based on the location of inflammation not the underlying pathological pathways. Stop making uveitis so complicated!
Sli.do Audience Vote – https://www.sli.do/<<code>> Session 4: Academic Unit of Ophthalmology Alumni: The 11th Sir Adrian Cadbury Lecture 14.15 – 15.15 Miles Stanford, Professor of Ophthalmology, St Thomas’ Hospital, London (UK) with Introduction by Graham Wallace “Ocular Toxoplasmosis in the 21st Century” 15.15 – 15.45 Tea, Coffee, Mince Pies, Posters and Trade Exhibition 15.45-16.55 Session 5: Back to the Future Synopsis: Rapid fire of International Experts giving their vision of ophthalmology ‘through the crystal ball’. We know where we are now, but where were we 30 years ago (1989), and blue-sky thoughts on where will we be 30 years from now in 2049. (mixture of basic and clinical science research, and medical education) Chair: Robert Barry, University of Birmingham (UK) and Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre (UK) Strict timing: 8 minutes presentation, 3 minutes rapid fire
Session 6: Philip Murray, This is your Life! 16.55 – 17.25 Presented by Alistair Fielder, City University, London (UK), Merrick Moseley, formerly City University, London (UK), and Theodoros Potamitis, Pantheo Eye Center, Limassol (Cyprus) 17.25 – 17.40 Exaugural Musings. Philip Murray, University of Birmingham (UK) and Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre (UK) 17.40 – 17.45 Announcement of the Roper-Hall Medal Winner - Michael Roper-Hall 17.45 – 17.50 Closing Remarks and BMEH AA AGM 17.50 – 18.45 Drinks Reception –Bramall Mezzanine (all welcome – included in registration fee) 19.00 – 23.00 Gala Dinner (all welcome with guest tickets sold separately) Fry Room, Edgbaston Park Hotel (https://www.edgbastonparkhotel.com/about/ ) with entertainment by the Soul Providers (https://www.thesoulproviders.co.uk/ ) |