BEAVRS Programme 2023
Please note: This is a preliminary programme
Thursday 9th November
| Time | |
|---|---|
| 07.30-09.00 | Registration & Welcome Tea/Coffee |
| 09.00-09.10 | Introduction |
| 09.10-10.20 | Session 1: Free Paper Session: Macular Hole/Retinal Detachment |
| 10.20-10.30 | BEACON Trial – OPTIMA Study – Mariantonia Ferrara |
| 10.30-11.00 | New VR Curriculum – Shohista Saidkasimova & David Yorston |
| 11.00-11.30 | Tea/Coffee/Exhibition |
| 11.30-12.40 | Session 2: Diagnostic and Management Dilemmas |
| 12.40-12.50 | BEACON Trial – LARGO Trial – Francesco D’Alterio |
| 12.50-14.00 | Lunch/Exhibition |
| 14.00-15.10 | Session 2: Free Paper Session: Secondary IOL / Trauma / Endophthalmitis / Misc |
| 15.10-15.45 | Debate: Yamane Technique is the best scleral fixated secondary intraocular lens fixation technique – Mr Stephen Lash vs. Mr Aman Chandra |
| 15.45-16.30 | Tea/Coffee/Exhibition |
| 16.30-17.00 | Guest Lecture – Prof Marc de Smet – Title TBC |
| 19.00-late | Dinner at Birmingham Council House |
Friday 10th November
| Time | |
|---|---|
| 08.00-09.00 | Registration & Welcome Tea/Coffee |
| 09.00-10.00 | Session 3 – Sustainable / New Surgical Techniques / AI |
| 10.00-10.20 | Mr Mahi Muqit – PRIMA Bionic Vision System for Geographic Atrophy in Agerelated Macular Degeneration: 4 year Study Results
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| 10.20-11.00 | Tea/Coffee/Exhibition |
| 11.00-12.20 | Session 4 – Cases from around the world (previous vitreo-retinal fellows from BMEC) Ibrahim Elaroud (Canada) Walter Andreatta (Switzerland) Patrick Talty (Ireland) Despoina Kokosiouli (Greece) Kwesi Amissah-Arthur (Ghana) David Karl (Austria) Petros Petrou (Greece) |
| 12.20-13.30 | Lunch/Exhibition |
| 13.30-14.00 | BEAVRS AGM – members only |
| 14.00-15.10 | Session 4 – Paediatric VR / Gene Therapy / Oncology |
| 15.10-15.40 | Tea/Coffee/Exhibition |
| 15.40-17.00 | Fellows Video Competition |
| 17.00 | Meeting Close and Handover to BEAVRS 2024 |
