9th Annual Scientific Meeting

Friday 22nd September 2023

Kimpton Clocktower, Manchester
Emergency Eye Care: “What’s new?”
09:00 Registration and Coffee at the trade exhibition
09.30 Welcome – Mr. Felipe Dhawahir-Scala, Manchester, President of BEECS
09.35 New immune modulating drugs and their eye side effects – Professor Tariq Aslam,
Professor of Ophthalmology and Interface Technologies, Manchester University &
Consultant Ophthalmologist, Manchester Royal Eye Hospital
10.00 Virtual clinics for swollen discs – Miss Revelle Littlewood, Consultant Ophthalmologist,
Manchester Royal Eye Hospital
10.25 Innovative impression cytology for corneas + video of process - Miss Su Yin Koay,
Consultant Ophthalmologist, Cornea & External Disease, Moorfields Eye Hospital
10.50 Q&A

11.15 Tea & Coffee Break

11.45 Short free paper presentation competition chaired by Mrs. Sarah Anderson, York

11.47 Initiation of an Orthoptic-led emergency eye care service within Eye Casualty for paediatric patients
attending a tertiary referral centre - Rahilah Bukhari, UHCW NHS Trust
11.52 Evaluation of false positive referrals in the Manchester COVID19 Urgent Eyecare Service (CUES) - Afeefa
Lili Rahim, Manchester University
11.57 Right Superior Ophthalmic Vein Thrombosis Induced by Pansinusitis - Ahmed Elsaadawy, Fairfield General
Hospital
12.02 Implementation of a novel cloud-based referral and triage platform between primary and secondary eye
care for emergencies: Efficacy, cost and sustainability analysis - Meera Radia, Moorfields Eye Hospital
12.07 A Multifaceted Quality Improvement Project to Improve Initial Assessment and Referral of Eye
Presentations in the Emergency Department - Elliott Taylor, Frimley Park Hospital
12.12 ‘Doctor, I see blobs in my vision’. Acute Retinopathy in a Leukemic Patient and the role of Microperimetry
- Ahmed Zewar, Sheffield Teaching Hospital
12.17 Analysis of management of patients with post operative endophthalmitis - Hannah Whelan, Leeds
Teaching Hospitals Trust
12.22 EyeV Emergency triage audit - Thomas Robbins, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust
12.27 The Management of Posterior Vitreous Detachment In The Emergency Eye Department: Validation Of A
Proposed Risk Stratification System - Harshika Chawla - Royal Victoria Infirmary
12.32 Blurred Disc Margin Service: One-stop Clinic to Improve Patient Pathway - Nita Odedra, University
Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
12.37 Efficacy of artificial intelligence in triaging of patients visiting eye casualty and its comparison with triaging
by clinicians - Samreen Khanam, University of Leicester

12.42 Moderator’s round up Miss Sarah Anderson, York

12.45 Lunch
13.45 How urgent and emergency eye services are commissioned? How devolved nations
commission their services: Chaired by Mrs Helen Wilson, Manchester
 Ms Deirdre Burns for Northern Ireland, Specialist Optometrist, Belfast Health and
Social Care Trust
 Mr Frank Munro for Scotland, Clinical Advisor for Optometry Scotland
 Ms Sharon Beatty for Wales, Clinical Advisor for Optometry Wales

14.45 Q&A

15.15 Tea & Coffee Break

15:45 Hot Hat Traffic Light Debates

Theme of Imaging modality
Chaired by Mr Freddy Beer, Portsmouth & Mr Rhys Harrison, Bristol
16:45 Prize Giving
16.55 Closing remarks - Mr Felipe Dhawahir-Scala, Manchester, President of BEECS
17.00 AGM and farewell drink

5 CPD points & CPD points for optometrists applied for

www.beecs.co.uk @emergeye