ICO annual conference May 15-17ICO Winter Meeting and Annual Montgomery Lecture 2023
1 December 2023
The ICO Winter Meeting will take place on the afternoon of Friday, 1st December, followed by the Annual Montgomery Lecture that evening.
Venue: Albert Lecture Theatre, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Time: 2 - 5pm
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The Winter Meeting will have a session of short presentations followed by a session on Clinical Audit.
2.00pm Welcome: Mr John Doris, President, Irish College of Ophthalmologists
2.05pm Short Presentations
Chair: Mr Sean Chen, Chair, ICO Scientific and Professional Competence Committee
3.15pm Break
3.30pm Improving Patient Outcomes with National Clinical Audit
The Benefits of Selected Measurement with National Clinical Audit to Maximise Impact for Patients
Dr Brian Creedon
Clinical Director of the National Office of Clinical Audit, RCSI, Dublin and Consultant Palliative Medicine Physician, University Hospital Waterford.
Dr Creedon has practiced as a consultant palliative medicine physician for 14 years in the south east of Ireland (University Hospital Waterford). He is a Senior Lecturer (RCSI & UCC) and previously was in a tenured role as Senior Fellow in Palliative Medicine (TCD & UCD). This fellowship focused on the development, with colleagues, of patient outcome measurement in palliative care. Dr Creedon believes that this approach will allow our healthcare system to evolve around the needs of patients (and their families).
He continues to advocate for the use of national clinical audit, clinical audit and quality improvement in healthcare to create an improvement culture for patients, families, students, trainees and staff. He has previously served in various leadership roles in healthcare including National Clinical Lead for Palliative Care, chair of the Irish Palliative Medicine Consultants Association and chairman of the board of directors of the Solas Cancer Support Centre.
Irish National Orthopaedic Register; Lessons Learned on Implementing an Implant Registry
Ms Suzanne Rowley
Audit Manager, Irish National Orthopaedic Register, National Office of Clinical Audit, RCSI, Dublin
Ms Suzanne Rowley is the manager for the Irish National Orthopaedic Register (INOR) at the National Office of Clinical Audit in RCSI.
The INOR aims to improve the quality of services and care provided to patients having joint replacement surgery. Through the use of patient scoring systems and recording on implant performance and patient outcomes, INOR aims to monitor the safety of implants and support hospitals should an implant recall occur.
Suzanne has extensive experience in clinical audit having previously been the cancer audit manager at St James's Hospital, Dublin. Suzanne started her career in healthcare as a Radiation Therapist at St Luke's Hospital. She achieved her radiography degree at Ulster University and has a number of post graduate qualifications covering Information Technology, Statistics and Risk Management and Quality in Healthcare.
She sits on the INOR Governance Committee in the National Office of Clinical Audit.
UK AMD Audit – Results, Challenges and Plans
Mr Martin McKibbin
Clinical Lead for the UK AMD Audit (Royal College of Ophthalmologists and National Ophthalmology Database); Consultant Ophthalmologist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Mr Martin McKibbin will present the summary data from the first year report of the UK National Ophthalmology Database Audit on Age related macular degeneration published earlier this year and highlight the planned new features in the year 2 report.
Martin McKibbin has worked as a consultant ophthalmologist at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust since 2001. He has clinical and research interests in age-related macular degeneration, vascular and inherited retinal disease. In 2020, he was appointed Clinical Lead for the UK AMD Audit, managed by the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and supported by the National Ophthalmology Database.
Mr McKibbin is the AMD lead in Leeds Teaching Hospitals and provides inherited eye disease clinics in several local hospitals. He has been chief and principal investigator for a number of interventional and observational studies, both commercial and non-commercial.
Annual Montgomery Lecture 2023
Drinks Reception: 5.00pm
Montgomery Lecture: 6pm
Paediatric Cataract Diagnostics - and the Role of Genetics in Improving Precise Diagnosis
Lecturer: Professor Christopher Lloyd,
Consultant Paediatric Ophthalmologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London
Professor Christopher Lloyd is a Consultant Paediatric Ophthalmologist and Head of the Department of Ophthalmology at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London. He is a Senior Lecturer at University College London and holds an honorary Chair from the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester.
His training included undergraduate studies at St Bartholomews' Hospital London, SHO and registrar posts at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and 2 years as a clinical fellow at Great Ormond Street. He returned to Manchester as a senior registrar/lecturer in 1993. .He became Manchester's first sub-specialist consultant paediatric ophthalmologist in 1995 and together with his colleagues (particularly Sus Biswas, Jane Ashworth and Cecilia Fenerty) built up and developed the MREH paediatric eye service into a large tertiary referral and teaching centre. He took up his current post at Great Ormond Street in 2016.
Chris has over 100 published papers, 12 book chapters and co-edited a text book (with Prof Scott Lambert of Stanford University, California) on congenital cataract diagnosis and management.
He regularly lectures nationally and internationally. He received an “Honor award” from AAPOS (the American Association for Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus) in 2017 and served until 2021 on the AAPOS ophthalmic genetic task force. He was the UK board member of the European Paediatric Ophthalmology Society from 2012 to 2016. He received the University of Sydney's Claffy medal in 2006 and 2019, the 2018 BIPOSA Claud Worth medal and in 2023 the Montgomery medal (Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland).
He has a longstanding clinical and research interest in the diagnosis and management of infantile and childhood cataract and other inherited eye disorders. He collaborated with Professor Graeme Black and the ManGen team in the development of a targeted next generation sequencing panel for improving diagnostic precision in children with cataract. Over the last 19 years he has contributed to many teaching workshops at AAPOS, the AAO (American Academy of Ophthalmology) and the Annual Congress of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists.
For 5 years Chris was chair of the Paediatric Sub-committee of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and is currently a board member and Vice-President of the British and Irish Paediatric Ophthalmology Association (BIPOSA).