Annual Congress 2018
Monday 21 – Thursday 24 May 2018
The Royal College of Ophthalmologists Annual Congress 2018 took place at the Arena & Convention Centre (ACC), Liverpool.
Congress Prize Winners
The Royal College of Ophthalmologists was pleased to award the following prizes at the 2018 Congress
Johnson and Johnson Innovation Prize for best poster
Dr Paul Steptoe, University of Liverpool
Evolving Regions of Ellipsoid Zone Hyporeflectivity Associated with Retinal Lesions of Infectious Aetiology. Longitudinal Ultra-Widefield (UWF) Retinal Imaging Observations in a Cohort of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Survivors, Sierra Leone
Runner up Johnson and Johnson Innovation Prize for best poster
Dr Sohaib Rufai, Leicester Royal Infirmary
Is structural grading of foveal hypoplasia in infants compared to quantitative segmentation analysis using handheld optical coherence tomography in the prediction of future visual acuity? A longitudinal cohort study
Wallace Foulds Trophy for Best Rapid Fire
Stephen Stewart, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast
UK National Surveillance of Emergency Canthotomy & Cantholysis
RCOphth/ Bausch and Lomb sustainability prize
Conor Reid, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge
CatCam: A novel device for congenital cataract screening
The Royal College of Ophthalmologists and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Researcher of the Year Award
David Steel (Consultant)
Stephen Kaye (Consultant)
Pouya Alaghbad (Trainee)
Desmond Wright Shield for best exhibitor
Alcon
Programme
The 2018 RCOphth Congress programme is available to download. PDF programmes for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday can be downloaded which include synopses, talks and speaker details. Subspecialty day programmes for Thursday 24 May, can be downloaded below. The programme can also be found on the Congress app, it can be downloaded in Google Play, Apple App Store and there is a website version.
You can view the programme for:
RCOphth Annual Congress 2018 – Monday 21 May Programme
| Time | Session |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | President’s Session |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee & Posters |
| 11.00 – 12.00 | Parallel Sessions
Finding the needle in the haystack: The epidemiology of rare eye diseases Headaches for ophthalmologists Anti-VEGF therapy for diabetic retinopathy Orbital cellulitis: Clinical presentation, diagnosis and management |
| 12.00 – 13.00 | Lunch |
| 13.00 – 14.30 | Parallel Sessions
Progress in diabetic retinopathy screening The role of surgery in glaucoma |
| 14.30 – 15.00 | Tea & Posters |
| 15.00 – 16.00 | Rapid fire session |
| 16.00 – 17.00 | Barrie Jones Lecture – Professor Clare Gilbert Public health approaches to the control of visual loss in children in low and middle income countries |
| 17.00 – 18.30 | Poster session and drinks reception |
RCOphth Annual Congress 2018 – Tuesday 22 May Programme
| Time | Session |
| 09:00 – 17:00 | |
| 08:00 – 09:00 | Parallel Sessions
Driving standards: Assessment in cases of visual field defects VISION 2020 LINKS Programme – Tackling diabetic retinopathy in challenging contexts |
| 09:05 – 10:05 | Bowman Lecture – Professor Usha Chakravarthy Ruminations on age-related macular degeneration: a journey of distractions |
| 10.05 – 10.30 | AGM |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee and posters |
| 11.00 – 13.00 | Parallel Sessions
Improving outcomes in corneal transplantation |
| 13.00 – 14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 – 15.00 | Duke Elder Oration – Professor Rubens Belfort Classic, emergent and unknown intraocular infectious diseases |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Tea and posters |
| 15.30 – 17.30 | Parallel Sessions
Horrible histories: Infectious uveitis Ocular surface tumours: What’s new? |
| 15.30 – 18.30 | Ophthalmic Trainees Forum |
RCOphth Annual Congress 2018 – Wednesday 23 May Programme
| Time | Session |
| 08:00 – 09:00 | Parallel Sessions
OCTA – practical tips for real-world use Phacoemulsification surgery supervision Keeping your ophthalmic service safe |
| 09:05 – 10:05 | Horizon Scanning |
| 09:05 – 12:05 | Training the trainers |
| 10.05 – 10.20 | Awards Ceremony |
| 10.20 – 10.40 | Coffee and posters |
| 10.40 – 12.10 | Parallel Sessions
Building research into everyday practice |
| 12.15 – 13.00 | The Great Debate: All suitable cataract patients should be offered multifocal lenses |
| 13.00 – 14.00 | SAS Forum Dr Lesley Kaye will give a talk entitled Autonomous Working. Lunch is provided at this session |
| 13.00 – 14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 – 15.00 | Optic UK Lecture – Dr Harold Quigley 21st Century glaucoma treatment |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Tea and posters |
| 15.30 – 17.00 | Parallel Session
Grand rounds: FFA/Medical retina Neuro-ophthalmology for the general ophthalmologist – when to worry Grand rounds: Anterior segment Dislocated intraocular lenses- Failing well and relocation, relocation, relocation |
RCOphth Annual Congress 2018 – Thursday 24 May Programme
| Subspecialty Day
09:00 – 17:00 |
Glaucoma
A survival guide to inflammatory disease of the eye and orbit |