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2026 PROGRAMME
Tuesday 9th June 2026
Li Ka Shing Centre
Registration - from 09:00
7 self-accredited CPD points available from the RCOphth.
09:25 - 09:30
Introduction
Martin Snead
09:30 - 09:50
Microarray PCR and metagenomics in sight threatening ocular infections
Madhavan Rajan
09:50 - 10:10
Multiple bilateral periocular hidrocystomas: a manifestation of hyperprolactinaemia?
Cornelius Rene
10:10 - 10:30
UNDERSTANDING THE APPLICATION AND POTENTIAL OF RETINAL ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY IN INHERITED RETINAL AND NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE
Keynote speaker: Omar Mahroo
Professor of Retinal Neuroscience at University College London. Moorfields Eye Hospital, London
10:30 - 10:45
COFFEE
10:45 - 11:05
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN HUMAN COLOUR VISION
Keynote speaker: John Mollon
Professor of Visual Neuroscience, Cambridge University
11:05 - 11:25
Functional vision assessment in patients with Inherited optic neuropathies
Nisha Nixon
11:25 - 11:45
Inherited Optic Neuropathies: From Natural History to Multiomic Biomarker Discovery
David Wong
11:45 - 12:05
40 YRS OF OPTIC NEURITIS
Keynote speaker: Gordon Plant
Honorary Associate Professor at University College London (UCL)
12:05 - 12:25
Assessing the optic disc – from fundoscopy to ancillary imaging
Brinda Muthusamy
12:25 - 12:45
PET AS A TOOL FOR TAILORED THERAPY IN MS
Keynote speaker: Franklin Aigbirhio
Professor of Molecular imaging Chemistry at the University of Cambridge
12:45 - 13:45
LUNCH
13:45 - 14:05
EGS patient and public involvement
Stylianos Georgoulas
14:05 - 14:25
Surgical management of patients with cataract and co-existing glaucoma
Ian Tapply
14:25 - 14:45
Translating neuroprotection and neuro-recovery in glaucoma
Tasneem Khatib
14:45 - 15:05
How should we screen for hydroxychloroquine toxicity?
Bhairavi Bhatia
15:05 - 15:25
TEA
15:25 - 15:45
Perthes disease – an opportunity to prevent blindness?
Robert Smyth
15:45 - 16:05
Prevention of retinal detachment in children
Thomas Nixon & Alex Fleet
16:05 - 16:45
Retinopathy of prematurity – an update on screening and treatment
Elena Novitskaya
16:45 - 17:00
Debrief / closing discussion
Cornelius Rene
CET Chair
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