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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

 

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