Optometry Tomorrow 2016 preview brochure

2016

Annual conference, trade exhibition and AGM 13-14 March 2016 Hilton Birmingham Metropole The must-attend clinical event for all UK optometrists

50% off tickets

Earn up to 15 interactive CET points!

Deadline 14 December 2015

Platinum sponsor

Gold sponsors

optometrytomorrow.org @ CollegeOptomUK #OptometryTomorrow

The must-attend clinical conference programme highlights Acquire new knowledge and skills to take back into practice. Learn, engage and be inspired.

Lectures include:

Interactive sessions:

• latest in glaucoma treatment • neuro-ophthalmology • bionic eye • blue light.

Seminars include:

In this session, delegates will spend 30 minutes at two exhibition stands as part of an hour-long CET session. There are two interactive sessions on the programme:

• paediatric dispensing • managing dry eye in contact lens patients • red eye • fundus photography and diabetic eyes.

• What can you do with OCT? • Wet, wet, wettability!

• New frontiers in imaging the vitreo-retinal interface • Discover what’s new in dry eye diagnosis and management.

Workshops include:

Sponsor sessions:

• managing blepharitis • OCT interpretations • BV diagnosis, treatment and management • RGP fitting and aftercare.

Details about sponsor sessions will be available on the Optometry Tomorrow website.

New for 2016: Working in partnership with BCLA, a dedicated contact lens seminar stream has been added to the conference programme, offering sessions on various aspects of contact lenses, from paediatric to multifocal lenses, and clinical decisionmaking. This stream covers competencies for both optometrists and contact lens opticians.

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Keynote The Charter Lecture: The doors of perception Professor Sir Colin Blakemore

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Vision is the most complicated task performed by the brain. If the eyes are the doors of perception, the brain is the world within.

Summary Superficially, the eye is like a movie camera. It has a lens system, with variable power (if you are young enough) and a diaphragm (the iris), focusing a wide-angle image on a light sensitive surface.

But there the analogy between eye and camera breaks down. First the eye trembles, drifts and jumps around three times a second as if in the hands of the worst photographer in the world!

And the retina is unlike any photographic emulsion or digital image sensor. Its task is to compress signals from 125 million photoreceptors for transmission along 1.5 million optic nerve fibres. Only information from the central few degrees of the image is tightly conserved. Although we have the impression that our eyes provide us directly with our glorious, detailed, uniformly rich view of the entire visual field, our perceptions are created in our brains.

Much of what we see is invented by an extraordinary computational process, which compares a continuously evolving set of expectations about the outside world with the fragmentary information received from the eyes. One third of the human cerebral cortex is devoted to vision.

Biography Sir Colin Blakemore is Professor of Neuroscience and Philosophy at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at Oxford. He studied Medical Sciences at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and did a PhD in Physiological Optics in the School of Optometry at the University of California, Berkeley. He taught at Cambridge University for 11 years and then in 1979, moved to Oxford University as Waynflete Professor of Physiology, and later, Director of the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience.

From 2003-2007 he served as Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council. His research has been concerned with vision, development of the brain, plasticity of the cerebral cortex and neurodegenerative disease. He now leads a major project aimed at integrating philosophical and scientific approaches to the study of perception, and he is continuing work on the earliest stages of development of the human brain. He has been President of the British Science Association, the British Neuroscience Association, the Physiological Society and the Society of Biology. He is also passionately committed to engagement between science and the public, and to the importance of science in government. He was knighted in 2014 for ‘services to scientific research, policy and outreach’.

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Conference programme Sunday 13 March LECTURE

SEMINAR STREAM Registration & exhibition

8am-9.15am

Welcome

9.15am-9.30am 9.30am-10.30am

10.35am-11.35am

Latest in glaucoma treatment Leon Au

How do you manage patients with red eye?

SKILLS: Warming, squeezing or scrubbing? What would you do? A guide to cleaner lids 1 Colin and Amanda Davidson & Sheetal Patel

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Lids, lumps and bumps

10 difficult discs how to assess and grade them Rupert Bourne

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3.05pm-4.05pm

Evening

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Glaucoma conundrums: interactive case-based discussion Dr Robert Harper & Patrick Gunn

DISCUSSION: OCT & the retina 1

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Sponsored by Topcon

Lunch, trade exhibition & poster presentations There’s more to this blob of jelly than meets the eye Richard Haynes

Community schemes: two case studies from the Enhanced Scheme Evaluation Project (ESEP) Professor John Lawrenson & Dr Robert Harper

SKILLS: Welcome to the chamber of secrets: the dark art of gonioscopy (for beginners) 1 Dr Dan Rosser

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You found it, I removed it. I got the bottle of wine! (neuro-ophthalmology) Roddy O’Kane

Mini-me? We shall see! (paediatric dispensing) Alicia Thompson

SKILLS: Welcome to the chamber of secrets: the dark art of gonioscopy (for beginners) 2 Dr Dan Rosser

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Break, trade exhibition & poster presentations

4.05pm-4.30pm 4.30pm-5.30pm

SKILLS: Warming, squeezing or scrubbing? What would you do? A guide to cleaner lids 2 Colin and Amanda Davidson & Sheetal Patel

AMD Clare Bailey

1pm-2pm 2pm-3pm

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Break, trade exhibition & poster presentations

11.35am-12noon 12noon-1pm

WORKSHOP STREAM 1

Binocular vision Professor Brendan Barrett

Domiciliary eye care

DISCUSSION: Integrating OCT into glaucoma assessment 1 Patrick Gunn

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Gala dinner, The National Motorcycle Museum

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Sponsored by Topcon

CS Core skills Suitable for those returning to work or newly qualified optometrists

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Number in bottom left corner indicates expected number of CET points

CONTACT LENS STREAM (in association with BCLA)

THERAPEUTICS STREAM

INTERACTIVE SESSIONS

Registration & exhibition Welcome DISCUSSION: BV for busy community practices 1 Paul Adler

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DISCUSSION: BV for busy community practices 2 Paul Adler

Little eyes, big vision problems.

Let’s talk contact lenses Stephanie Campbell 1

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Contact lens clinical decision-making Judith Morris

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Corneal conditions Sophie Harper 1

Clinical governance: how to use IP in practice

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Alcon ‘Wet, wet, wettability’ Topcon ‘New frontiers in imaging the vitreo-retinal interface’ 3

Break, trade exhibition & poster presentations DISCUSSION: Managing lid disorders - case studies: how to treat 1

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Multifocal lenses Caroline Christie

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The complexities of anterior uveitis -investigations, diagnosis, treatment and complications Alison Weston 1

Lunch, trade exhibition & poster presentations DISCUSSION: Assessment & interpretation of the optic nerve 1

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DISCUSSION: Assessment & interpretation of the optic nerve 2

Keratoconus in a nutshell Matthew Carter 1

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How do you manage dry eye in contact lens patients?

Sarah Farrant 1

Allergic eye disease Professor Roger Buckley 1

Drug interactions: avoiding unintended consequences of independent prescribing John Buchan 1

Break, trade exhibition & poster presentations DISCUSSION: Managing lid disorders - case studies: how to treat 2 3

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Bugs, bugbears and contact lenses!

Dr Andrena McElvanney 1

Therapeutics peer discussion

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Gala dinner, The National Motorcycle Museum

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Conference programme Monday 14 March LECTURE

SEMINAR STREAM Registration & exhibition

8am-9am 9am-10am

The NICER study: childhood refractive error in the 21st Century Professor Kathryn Saunders 1

10.05am-11.05am

Sponsored by The EyeBag Company

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DISCUSSION: Fields: 10 images of fields 2 Dr Tony Redmond

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Blue light Professor John Lawrenson

How to treat and manage dry eye Michael Johnson

DISCUSSION: OCT & the retina 3

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Sponsored by Topcon

Lunch, trade exhibition & poster presentations The Charter Lecture: The doors of perception Professor Sir Colin Blakemore

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The College of Optometrists’ AGM

2.30pm-3.15pm

Break, trade exhibition & poster presentations

3.15pm-3.45pm Flashes & floaters

Seeing red: interpreting abnormal OCT results David Sculfor

SKILLS: Low vision 1

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No lecture in this timeslot

The world of the diabetic fundus in 10 cases Wendy Newsom 1

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DISCUSSION: Fields: 10 images of fields 1 Dr Tony Redmond

Break, trade exhibition & poster presentations

1.30pm-2.30pm

4.50pm-5.50pm

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Orthoptics for the busy optometrist Professor Bruce Evans

12.30pm-1.30pm

3.45pm-4.45pm

Analysing anisometropia Sally Bates

Bionic eye Paolo Stanga

11.05am-11.30am 11.30am-12.30pm

WORKSHOP STREAM 1

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SKILLS: Low vision 2

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WORKSHOP STREAM 3

PEER DISCUSSION STREAM

INTERACTIVE SESSIONS

Registration & exhibition DISCUSSION: OCT & the retina 2 3

SKILLS: Tonometry – first contact? 1 Michelle Hanratty

Sponsored by Topcon

DISCUSSION: Integrating OCT into glaucoma assessment 2 Patrick Gunn

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SKILLS: Tonometry – first contact? 2 Michelle Hanratty

Sponsored by Topcon

Peer discussion 1

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Peer discussion 2

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Carl Zeiss ‘What can you do with OCT?’ Scope Ophthalmics ‘Discover what’s new in dry eye diagnosis and management.’

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Break, trade exhibition & poster presentations TBC

DISCUSSION: Integrating OCT into glaucoma assessment 3 Patrick Gunn 3

Sponsored by Topcon

Peer discussion 3

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Lunch, trade exhibition & poster presentations The Charter Lecture: The doors of perception Professor Sir Colin Blakemore

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Peer discussion 4 3

The College of Optometrists’ AGM

Break, trade exhibition & poster presentations SKILLS: RGP fit assessment: practice this dyeing art! 1 Louise Munns

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SKILLS: RGP fit assessment: practice this dyeing art! 2 Louise Munns 3

SKILLS: Detecting & managing AMD 1

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SKILLS: Detecting & managing AMD 2

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Enjoy our social events

Sponsored by

Welcome reception Date Saturday 12 March Time 6 – 8pm Venue Hilton Birmingham Metropole, The NEC Birmingham, Pendigo Way, Birmingham B40 1PP Dress code Smart casual Cost Free for all conference delegates

Marking the official start of Optometry Tomorrow 2016, the welcome reception will be held in the exhibition area of the conference, creating the perfect setting to meet exhibitors ahead of the conference, network with your industry peers and pre-register for the event.

Gala dinner Date Sunday 13 March Time 7.15pm – midnight Venue The National Motorcycle Museum Coventry Road, Solihull B92 0EJ Dress code Black tie and cocktail dress Cost £50

The gala dinner is the main social event of Optometry Tomorrow and for 2016 will be held at the National Motorcycle Museum. The theme for 2016 is ‘a night circus’, guaranteed to thrill the audience.

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Don’t miss out – book now!

No price increase

One-day ticket 50% off offer Until 14 December

Two-day ticket

Early bird

Full rate

From 15 December

From 30 January

50% off offer Until 14 December

Early bird

Full rate

From 15 December

From 30 January

College member

£115

£165

£230

£165

£250

£330

Newly-qualified member

£105

£145

£210

£155

£230

£310

Student (UK full-time student) / pre-reg optometrist

£70

£90

ABDO / BCLA only member - contact lens stream

£165

£235

£120

£135

N/A

Non-member

£480

£520

Gala dinner

£50

£50

All costs stated above are inclusive of VAT. To be eligible for the College member rate, you must be a member of the College at the time of the event.

To be eligible for the newly-qualified member rate, you must be a full College member who qualified after July 2013.

The ABDO / BCLA member rate is only available to ABDO or BCLA members who are not College members. This ticket gives delegates access to the contact lens stream only.

The 50% off offer is available until 14 December 2015.

The early bird rate is available from 15 December 2015 until midnight on 29 January 2016.

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Book today Online: Visit www.optometrytomorrow.org Post: Complete and return the enclosed booking form Phone: Call +44 (0)20 7766 4347

Ticket type

Lectures

Therapeutics Contact lens stream stream

Unlimited seminars

One peer discussion included in ticket

One workshop included in ticket

*Ability to purchase more workshops

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Non-members can only pre-book onto two seminars

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*More workshops will be available for fully-qualified members to purchase at ÂŁ30 each from 6 January 2016.

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Silver sponsors

Bronze sponsors

“The College Conference improves year on year and has become a highlight of the annual calendar for optometric training. It is a one stop shop for all things optometric and provides a comprehensive toolkit for the optometrist who wishes to keep up-to-date and enjoy learning in a friendly and social atmosphere.”

Professor Bruce Evans, 2015 speaker

“Optometry Tomorrow is quite simply the best optometry conference of the year providing high quality, evidence-based education for exceptional value for money. It is a privilege to be invited to present a seminar.”

Wendy Newsom, 2015 speaker

“Yet another fantastic conference. It just gets better each year and I’m returning to work with a new zest to deliver the best to my patients. Can’t wait for next year.”

Julie Rafaluk, 2015 attendee

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