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BEAVRS 2025 promises two days of focused retinal education, expert-led discussion, and valuable face-to-face engagement, right in the heart of Glasgow.
🔍 What’s coming up at BEAVRS Glasgow 2025?
Cutting-edge retina content. Real surgical dilemmas. World-class faculty.
We’re excited to share a first look at some of the educational sessions in development for the programme… with a slightly different twist to usual.
- Retinal detachment epidemiology
- Lamellar macular holes
- Floaterectomy; where do we stand?
- Euretina Spotlight: Distortion in surgical maculopathies
- Debate: Pre-emptive surgery in severe proliferative diabetic retinopathy — helpful or harmful?
- Keynote: Prof. Tom Wolfensberger ‘Vitreoretinal Surgery: The Next Decade’
- 💬 “What would you do now?” A 90-minute audience-led session with SLIDO voting and four top surgeons tackling nightmare surgical dilemmas
Posters at BEAVRS 2025
All accepted abstracts will be showcased as e-posters; you can view last year’s submissions here:
🔗 https://beavrs.org/beavrs-e-posters-2024
New for 2025:
We’re excited to introduce a printed poster display within the industry exhibition area. Dedicated viewing time will be included in the scientific programme, giving your work even greater visibility.
If you’d like your abstract to be considered for the printed poster display and judging, please indicate this when completing the submission form.
BEAVRS 2025 Programme
| Time | Session Title | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday 27th November 2025 | ||
| 08.00 - 09.00 | REGISTRATION & INDUSTRY EXHIBITION | |
| 09.00 - 09.15 | Welcome & Introduction | David Yorston |
| 09.15 - 10.00 | Retinal detachment epidemiology | Moderator: David Yorston & Mariam el-Abiary |
| 09.15 - 09.25 | Overview | Aman Chandra |
| 09.25 - 09.35 | RD in pseudophakia and the elderly | Mariantonia Ferrara |
| 09.35 - 09.45 | Incidence of RD in Scotland | Mariam el-Abiary |
| 09.45 - 09.55 | Incidence of RD in the Netherlands | Redmer van Leeuwen (video link) |
| 09.55 - 10.00 | Discussion | |
| 10.00 - 10.40 | Floaterectomy | Moderator: Gerry McGowan & Sarit Lesnik Oberstein |
| 10.00 - 10.15 | Maximising Patient Satisfaction in floaterectomy: indications, expectations & technique | Julio Gonzalez-Lopez |
| 10.15 - 10.30 | Floaters: Are they mad? | Niall Patton |
| 10.30 - 10.40 | Floaterectomy survey | Gerry McGowan |
| 10.40 - 11.10 | COFFEE & INDUSTRY EXHIBITION | |
| 11.10 - 12.00 | Debate - Diabetic retinopathy | Moderators: Rumana Hussain & Tom Williamson |
| 11.10 - 11.30 | All patients with PDR should have PPV: For | Rodrigo Anguita |
| 11.30 - 11.50 | All patients with PDR should have PPV: Against | Alistair Laidlaw |
| 11.50 - 12.00 | Summary & voting | |
| 12.00 - 12.40 | BEAVRS AGM | Steve Winder, BEAVRS President |
| 12.40 - 13.40 | LUNCH & INDUSTRY EXHIBITION | |
| 13.40 - 14.20 | International Guest Lecture: Vitreoretinal surgery over the next decade | Tom Wolfensberger |
| 14.20 - 15.45 | Free Papers | Moderators: Tom Wolfensberger, Harry Bennet & Noemi Lois |
| 14.20 - 14.25 | Morphological characteristics of retinal reattachment following scleral buckling in fovea-involving rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. | Hannaa Bobat |
| 14.26 - 14.31 | Vitrectomy with Air Tamponade for Retinal Detachment repair: 5 years experience | Dong Young Park |
| 14.32 - 14.37 | Clinical features and outcomes of progressive retinoschisis-associated retinal detachment: a large multicentre case control study | Beatrice Gallo |
| 14.38 - 14.43 | What effect does circumferential 360-laser have on the success rate of rhegmatogenous retinal detachments managed with oil tamponade? | Megan Quinn |
| 14.44 - 14.49 | Incidence of Retinal Displacement Following Vitrectomy with Gas Tamponade with Immediate on the table Adoption of One-Hour Face-Down Posturing (FDP) for Macula Off Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment (RRD) | Mohammed Elsayyed |
| 14.50 - 14.55 | Surgical Video Analysis in the Port Delivery Platform With Ranibizumab (PDS) Clinical Trials: Lessons Learned | Johannes Keller |
| 14.56 - 15.01 | Artificial Intelligence to support Vitreo-Retinal Surgery Training in the RCOphth 2024 Curriculum | Will Purcell |
| 15.02 - 15.07 | The significance of baseline foveal ectopia in primary idiopathic epiretinal membrane | Teresa Sandinha |
| 15.08 - 15.13 | Novel Therapeutic Strategies To Restore Vision In Ocular Hypotony (STRETCH). Results from a prospective pilot series. | Karla Orsine Murta Dias |
| 15.14 - 15.19 | ILM Flaps Outperform Peeling in Macular Hole Surgery: An Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis of Randomised Trials | Nik Tzoumas |
| 15.20 - 15.25 | Outcomes of Paediatric Retinal Detachment repair in a UK tertiary centre, 2010–2025. | Ibrar Ahmed |
| 15.26 - 15.31 | Patient-reported outcomes after surgery for proliferative vitreoretinopathy: post hoc analysis of a randomized controlled trial | Ben Kirkpatrick |
| 15.32 - 15.40 | Late Breaking: Restoration of sight with the PRIMA retinal implant system for atrophic AMD | Mahi Muqit |
| 15.41 - 15.50 | Questions and discussion | |
| 15.50 - 16.20 | TEA & INDUSTRY EXHIBITION | |
| 16.20 - 17.05 | BEAVRS Video Competition Case Contest Semi-Finals | Moderator: Shohista Saidkasimova |
| 16.20 - 16.25 | Retinal incarceration after scleral windows | Chris Holmes |
| 16.26 - 16.31 | Retinal detachment complicated by uveitis | Ahmed Abdelhalim |
| 16.32 - 16.37 | BraveEYE | Raffaele Raimondi |
| 16.38 - 16.43 | IOFB PPV | Ahmed Salama |
| 16.44 - 16.49 | Learning from my first Carlevale | Alasdair Simpson |
| 16.50 - 16.55 | Sailing with a Carlevale | Huda Al Hayouti |
| 16.55 - 17.05 | Summary & close | David Yorston |
| 19.00 | A BEAVRS Scottish night out AT THE KELVINGROVE MUSEUM |
IF YOU HAVE SELECTED TO ATTEND THE BEAVRS DINNER, WE HAVE ‘FIRST COME-FIRST SERVED’ COACH TRAVEL BOOKED. 2 COACHES WILL LEAVE THE RADISSON BLU AT 18.45 AND 2 COACHES WILL LEAVE FOR THE RETURN JOURNEY AT 22.30. ALTERNATIVELY IT IS A VERY PLEASANT 20-MIN WALK OR A SHORT TAXI JOURNEY. |
| Friday 28th November 2025 | ||
| 08.00 - 08.30 | REGISTRATION & INDUSTRY EXHIBITION | |
| 08.30 - 09.30 | Challenging VR cases - what would you do next? | Moderator: Jennifer Hind |
| 08.30 - 08.40 | Case 1 | Katarzyna Chwiejczak |
| 08.40 - 08.50 | Case 2 | Jennifer Hind |
| 08.50 - 09.00 | Case 3 | Tsveta Ivanova |
| 09.00 - 09.10 | Case 4 | Beth Yang |
| 09.10 - 09.20 | Case 5 | Rodrigo Anguita |
| 09.20 - 09.30 | Case 6 | Alan Cox |
| 09.30 - 10.10 | Lamellar macular hole | Moderator: Dr. Gerry McGowan |
| 09.30 - 09.45 | Surgical technique: Diagnosis & aetiology | David Steel |
| 09.45 - 10.00 | Surgery for lamellar macular holes | Assad Jalil |
| 10.00 - 10.20 | COFFEE & INDUSTRY EXHIBITION | |
| 10.20 - 12.15 | POSTER SESSION in the Industry exhibition | Moderator: Alan Cox |
| P1 | PLiS Fix: AI Personalised Liverpool Scleral-Fixated IOL Calculator | Raffaele Raimondi |
| P2 | Carlevale sutureless scleral fixated (Soleko) IOL: Functional outcomes, haptic exposure rates and the use of anterior segment OCT to determine T-bar haptic depth | Ashley Simpson |
| P3 | Visual and Surgical Outcomes Following Oculentis IOL Explantation: Capsular Bag Preservation vs. Scleral Fixation | Matthew George |
| P4 | Update on Ophthalmic Microsurgery Robot (OmSR) as a platform to educate and facilitate robotic surgery. | Aleksandra Goch |
| P5 | A Scoping Review of the Use of Artificial Intelligence Models in Automated OCT Analysis and Prediction of Treatment Outcomes in Diabetic Macular Oedema | Mohaimen Al-Zubaidy |
| P6 | Outcomes of tissue plasminogen activator & C3F8 gas for sub macular haemorrhage in 115 consecutive cases from a single centre - analysis of patients treated before and after 14 days post onset | Ian Reekie |
| P7 | Carry On ... Injecting! Is There Such Thing as an Optimum Number of Intravitreal Injections? | Theodor Stappler |
| P8 | Visual Outcomes and Complications Following Phacoemulsification Surgery Performed in the Vitreoretinal Department of a Large Center: Moorfields Vitreoretinal Cataract Study | Mohamed Elnaggar |
| P9 | Establishing an indirect indentation and indirect laser retinopexy simulation session | Shaman Dolly |
| P10 | Repeat intraocular sampling and microbiological testing in infectious endophthalmitis: A 27-year prospective observational study at an Australian statewide tertiary referral centre | Maedbh Rhatigan |
| P11 | Ocular Dominance: Is it of any value to the Vitreoretinal Surgeon? A study of Epiretinal Membrane in the dominant eye vs non-dominant eye | Alex Vittorio |
| P12 | Measuring subjective quality of vision and metamorphopsia before and after epiretinal membrane and macular hole surgery: MQUEST | Francis Sanders |
| P13 | What factors affect the change in vision after anatomically successful macular hole surgery? | Alasdair Simpson |
| P14 | Air versus Gas Tamponade for Repair of Macular Holes: A Meta-analysis | Abdulmalik Alsaif |
| P15 | High-Resolution Optical Coherence Tomography in Pathology of the Vitreomacular Interface | Enrico Bernardi |
| P16 | Incidence Rates of Severe Vision Loss after Pars Plana Vitrectomy for Retinal Detachment and Full Thickness Macular Hole | Evita Muller |
| P17 | Outcomes of Scleral Buckling in Paediatric Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment: The Manchester Buckle Study | Anthony Gigon |
| P18 | Analysing the frequency of hospital admissions for retinal detachment and vitreo-retinal surgery in England 2000-2024: the COVID-19 pandemic effect and recovery. | Jordan Chervenkoff |
| P19 | Macular oedema in retinal detachment complicated by proliferative vitreoretinopathy: causal factors, prognosis and treatment | Mohamed Katta |
| P20 | Human Factors Influencing Compliance with Post-Operative Posturing After Retinal Detachment Surgery: A Tertiary Centre Observational Study | Sean Zhou |
| P21 | Pneumatic retinopexy made easy: conclusions from a case series | Katarzyna Chwiejczak |
| P22 | Epiretinal Membrane and Cystoid Macular Oedema After Vitrectomy for Giant Retinal Tear/Related Retinal Detachment: The Manchester GRT Study | Peter Kiraly |
| P23 | To Drain or Not to Drain? The Manchester Buckle Study | Peter Kiraly |
| P24 | Scleral Rupture during Cryo-retinopexy: A Case Series | Asterios Diafas |
| P25 | Two-Year Outcomes of Air compared to Sulphur Hexafluoride as a Tamponade in Primary Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment Repair: Experience from the West of Scotland | Huda al-Hayouti |
| P26 | Timing of Retinal Detachment after Open Globe Injuries | Shaman Dolly |
| P27 | Conflict-Zone Ophthalmology; A report of two vitreoretinal surgical missions to Gaza strip between May and August 2025 | Mohamed Oshallah |
| P28 | Please scan this QR code to take you to the original submitted abstract for each of the posters. Please take the time during this session to interact with the authors. We hope you enjoy this new poster session at BEAVRS Glasgow. | |
| 12.15 - 12.55 | LUNCH & INDUSTRY EXHIBITION | |
| 12.55 - 13.55 | Beyond Visual Acuity | Moderators: David Yorston & Mariantonia Ferrara |
| 12.55 - 13.10 | VR-QoL and metamorphopsia in MH and ERM | David Yorston / Armin Moroder |
| 13.10 - 13.25 | Aniseikonia after RD | Tom Williamson |
| 13.25 - 13.40 | MEMO study | David Steel |
| 13.40 - 13.55 | Minimising metamorphopsia after RD surgery | Roxane Hillier |
| 13.55 - 14.05 | COMFORT BREAK - TEA/COFFEE IN AUDITORIUM | Working break |
| 14.05 - 14.58 | Innovations in VR surgery | Moderator: Shohista Saidkasimova |
| 14.05 - 14.13 | Tembo robot | Lyndon da Cruz |
| 14.14 - 14.22 | Early vitrectomy for endophthalmitis | Mahi Muqit |
| 14.23 - 14.31 | Supra-choroidal ozurdex | Siegfried Priglinger (video link) |
| 14.32 - 14.40 | Gene therapy updates | Dominik Fischer |
| 14.41 - 14.49 | Gasless macular hole surgery | Tim Jackson |
| 14.50 - 14.58 | VIKING study | Shohista Saidkasimova |
| 14.58 - 15.05 | Meeting Close and Handover to Oxford 2026 | David Yorston & CK Patel |