ICO Annual Conference 2022

#ICOKilkenny2022

Introduction

The Irish College of Ophthalmologists Annual Conference 2022 will take place from noon Monday 16th to Wednesday 18th May 2022 at the Kilkenny Convention Centre, Lyrath Estate.

We are excited to be planning our reunion at what promises to be an excellent educational meeting. Symposia will include a clinical session on Ocular Surface Disease; a service delivery session on 'Planning for the Future' examining Medical Retina and Telemedicine/Virtual Review, IOP Clinics and Glaucoma Diagnostic Hubs; whilst a separate symposium focused on the Integrated Eye Care Team will highlight the model of eye care implementation at national, regional and community level.

A separate clinical session on Recent Clinical Trials in Glaucoma, Myopia and Retina is also planned.

The College is honoured to invite Prof Stanley Chang, K.K. Tse and Ku Teh Ying Professor of Ophthalmology, Columbia University, New York to present this year's Annual Mooney Lecture. A specialist in vitreoretinal disorders and surgery, Prof Chang has pioneered many of the surgical techniques currently used in this field.

Parallel workshop sessions on Ocular Movement and OCTA, in addition to the paper and poster sessions (ICO medal and prize presentations) and the SOE Young Ophthalmologist Lecture 2022 are just some of the many other highlights on this year's agenda!.

A parallel exhibition will run alongside the three-day scientific conference and the ICO wish to thank all our industry partners for their support at this years meeting.

Monday 16th May

11.00pm	Refreshments and Parallel Exhibition
12.00pm	Official Welcome Mr Tim Fulcher President, Irish College of Ophthalmologists
12.05pm	Paper Session Chairs: Prof Colm O'Brien, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin and Dr Fiona Kearns, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin Effectiveness and Safety of the XEN 45 Gel Stent as a Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery Device in the Management of Open-Angle Glaucoma Simon Neary The Role of Small Incisional Cataract Surgery (SICS) in an Indian Hospital. Joseph Keenan A screening tool to detect chronic ocular graft versus host disease in a Hematology/ Oncology outpatient setting Emily Greenan Clinical evaluation of a new extended depth-of-focus intraocular lens, the PhysIOL Isopure 123, in achieving functional distance, intermediate, and near vision post cataract surgery. James Morris An Analysis of Ophthalmology Inpatient Consults at Cork University Hospital Robert McGrath The use of Autologous Serum in Dry Eyes and Ocular Surface Diseases Azher Aldouri Efficacy of selective laser trabeculoplasty as an adjuvant treatment in open angle glaucoma. Shane O'Regan The Ecological Impact of Cataract Surgery - Single-use Items Consumption and Knowledge of Ophthalmic Theatre Staff in University Hospital Limerick Emilie Mahon
1.00pm	Lunch
2.00pm	Delivering Integrated Care in Ireland Chair: Prof Colm O'Brien, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin The National Clinical Programme for Ophthalmology: Supporting the Delivery of Integrated Care Prof Billy Power Clinical Lead for Ophthalmology and Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin Establishment of a Novel Governance Structure to Transform, Integrate and Deploy Regional Eye Care - the virtual Accountable Care Organisation (vACO) Prof David Keegan Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin Eye Care in the non-Acute Setting Dr Margaret Morgan Consultant Medical Ophthalmologist, Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin and CHO7 The Role of an Optometrist in a Multidisciplinary team. Chriosa O Connor Optometrist, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin
3.30pm	Refreshments
4.00pm	Paper Session Chairs: Mr John Doris, University Hospital Waterford and Prof Conor Murphy, Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin The role of NUAK1 and its inhibition in human glaucoma lamina cribrosa cells Sarah Powell The effect of miR-29b expression on ADAM 12 & ADAM19 in the lamina cribrosa in primary open angle glaucoma Aoife Smyth Application of a recellularised porcine corneal graft in an in vivo leporine anterior lamellar keratoplasty model Robert Brady Hypoxia drives Fibrosis in Pseudoexfoliation Glaucoma via DNA Methylation Deborah Wallace Circadian regulation of the inner blood retinal barrier: a paradigm for dry age-related macular degeneration development Fionn O'Leary Guardian of the Genome p53 dysregulation in glaucomatous lamina cribrosa cells. Kealan McElhinney Autotaxin: A Fibrosis Target in the Lamina Cribrosa in Glaucoma Amy O'Regan
5.00pm	Annual Mooney Lecture 2022 Introduction: Prof David Keegan ‘Improving the Outcomes of Surgery for Retinal Detachment’ Prof Stanley Chang K.K. Tse and Ku Teh Ying Professor of Ophthalmology Columbia University Department of Ophthalmology

Tuesday 17th May

8.00am	Breakfast Sponsored Session Neovascular AMD - Kindly supported by Bayer
9.15am	Ocular Surface Disease Symposium Chair: Ms Nikolina Budimlija, Institute of Eye Surgery, Waterford Allergic eye disease: Myths, Mysteries and Modern medicine Mr Tom Flynn Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Bon Secours Hospital, Cork Paediatric Ocular Surface Disease: JOMO to FOMO Mr Samer Hamada Clinical Lead and Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, UK Conjunctival Inflammation From Beyond! Diagnosis and Management of Cicatrising Conjunctival Disease. Prof Conor Murphy Professor of Ophthalmology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin Ménage à Trois: Sex, Sex Steroids and Dry Eye Disease. Mr David Sullivan Chairman, Board of Directors, Tear Film & Ocular Surface Society (TFOS), Boston, US and former Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
10.45am	Coffee
11.15am	ICO National Training Programme Miss Yvonne Delaney Dean of Postgraduate Education, Irish College of Ophthalmologists
12.00pm	European Society of Ophthalmology (SOE) Lecture 2022 Introduction: Ms Patricia Logan Oculoplastics and Orbit Today! Ms Elizabeth McElnea Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, University Hospital Galway
12.30pm	Irish College of Ophthalmologists Annual General Meeting Chair: Mr Tim Fulcher, President, ICO ICO Members Only
1.00pm	Lunch
2.00pm	Recent Clinical Trials Chairs: Ms Janice Brady and Dr Muhammed Akram, Waterford University Hospital The Treatment of Advanced Glaucoma Study - Outcomes at 24 months Prof Anthony King Consultant Ophthalmologist, Nottingham University Hospital, NHS Honorary Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology at the University of Nottingham, UK Myopia Mr Ian Flitcroft Consultant Ophthalmologist, Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) Temple Street, and Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin Clinical trials – trials and tribulations of using the results in everyday practice Prof Tunde Peto Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology, Queen’s University, Belfast
3.00pm	Refreshments
3.30pm	Parallel workshops Ocular Motility Workshop The Basics Ms Edel Cosgrave Consultant Ophthalmologist, University Hospital Waterford Seeing is Believing Jaina Byrne Orthoptist, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin Strabismic Thinking Mr Edward Loane Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin OCTA OCT Angiography in practice Mr Tomas Burke Consultant Ophthalmologist, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin
4.30pm	Sponsored Session Uveitis Challenges - Kindly supported by Alimera Sciences

Wednesday 18th May

9.00am	Paper Session Chairs: Dr Muhammad Akram, Sligo University Hospital and Ms Elizabeth McElnea, University Hospital Galway Differential experience-dependent plasticity of form and motion mechanisms in anisometropic amblyopia. Sean Chen Is point wise analysis of the Humphrey visual field feasible as a primary outcome in idiopathic intracranial hypertension? Aine Ní Mhealoid Improving quality of a claiming process for paediatric spectacles: results of a regional healthcare collaborative initiative Aniela Krezel The Ophthalmic Care of Children with Intellectual Disability Kirk Stephenson Conjunctival Melanoma: Analysis of risk factors and outcomes over 12 years at RVEEH Alison Greene What is the prevalence of true papilledema among patients referred to the eye casualty service for suspected disc swelling? Bridget Moran Retinopathy Screening in the Republic of Ireland in 2021 Sarah Chamney Five Year Trends in New Blind Registrations in Ireland (2017-2021) Rory Murphy
10.00am	Planning for the Future Chair: Mr Tim Fulcher, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin The idiosyncrasies of Telemedicine in Ophthalmology Ms Dawn Sim Lead Medical Director of Ophthalmology, Genentech Roche; Director of Telemedicine, Moorfields Department of Digital Medicine; Associate Professor at the University College London, Institute of Ophthalmology. Transitioning Stable Glaucoma Care to the Community Ms Aoife Doyle Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital and St James's Hospital, Dublin Set up and safe assessment of diagnostic (virtual) clinic pathways Mr Jonathan Clarke Consultant Ophthalmologist, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London Transitioning Emergency Eyecare During the Pandemic Ms Evelyn O'Neill Consultant Ophthalmologist, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin
11.30am	Refreshments
12.00pm	Paper Session Chair: Ms Niamh Collins, Mater Private Hospital, Cork and Dr Geraldine Comer, The Galway Clinic, Galway Iluvien Use for Posterior Uveitis and Cystoid Macular Oedema: Real-world Experience in RVEEH Barry Power Development and launch of the National Uveitis Registry (NUR) of Ireland. Mehera Yousif Non-attendance rates of patients attending treatment centres for diabetic retinopathy Stephen Kelly Assessment of Diabetic Retinal Screening Programme referrals to Diabetic Retinal Treatment Clinic in Mater Misericordiae University Hospital for the purpose of evaluating pigmented retinal lesions as non-diabetic retinal disease Rashid Nahar Report on Multidisciplinary team approach on Genetic Service for Inherited Retinal Diseases Julia Zhu The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Number of Cases and Clinical Characteristics of Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment in a Tertiary Referral Centre. Amy Coman Outcome of Early Vitrectomy in Endophthalmitis Patients Esraa Hegazy The Natural Evolution and Effect of Covid-19 on Referrals from the Diabetic Retinal Screening Programme 2017 to 2021 Alan Hopkins Presentation of 2022 ICO Medals Sir William Wilde Medal for Best Poster Barbara Knox Medal for Best Paper John Blake Medal for Best Scientific Research Paper
1.00pm	Conference Close

Posters

ICO Annual Conference 2022 Posters

An Uncommon Source of Insidious Ocular Toxicity.
Eimear O'Leary
Post-partum haemorrhage associated choroidopathy: https://casereports.bmj.com/content/15/3/e249226
Sarah Powell
Cataractous Intraocular Lens Implants.
Joseph Keenan
Childhood strabismus patterns in North-West Ireland, a ten years review
Marwa Mohamed
Analysis of Cataract Referrals from Community Optometrists and General Practitioners and Subsequent Clinic Visit Outcomes in a University Hospital in The West of Ireland
Patrick Canning
Ataxia with a lot of retinal nerves!
Aine Ní Mhealoid
Audit of Outcomes Following Attendance at the CityWest Drive Through IOP Glaucoma Clinic during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sarah Powell
Novel potential nuclear genetic modifier in Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy in Wolfram Syndrome-associated variant WFS-1 c.799G>A
Clare Quigley
Complex penetrating eye injury with intra-scleral foreign body; staged surgical management
Saad Martini
Candidaemia and the eye - should we really be screening everyone?
Brian Woods
Poppers retinopathy
Jay Jun Lee
Exercise induced Cluster Migraine with Visual disturbance
Michael Waldron
Posterior staphyloma in the absence of high myopia
Luke O'Brien
Ocular oncology service during the COVID-19 outbreak: uveal melanoma characteristics presenting in 2019 compared to 2020
Aisling McGlacken-Byrne
Leber's Miliary aneurysms
Michael Waldron
The Impact of Covid-19 on the attendance rate to the eye casualty in Cork University Hospital
Mohammed Mohamed
Incidence of Posterior Capsule Rupture (PCR) and Post-PCR Complications in CUH (January 2019 - December 2019)
Mohammed Mohamed
A comparison of outcomes between conventional cyclodiode laser (CL) and micropulse cyclodiode transcleral photocoagulation (MP-TSCPC) in the reduction of intraocular pressure (IOP) in patients with glaucoma.
Sam Quill
A rare choroidal metastasis of unknown origin
Alison Greene
Addressing Technical Failures in a Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Programme
Darragh Garrahy
The impact of the National Diabetic Retinal Screening Programme on the training of Ophthalmology Trainees in the performance of diabetic laser procedures.
Miollie Kelly
Central Retinal Vein Occlusion- Four-year follow up of a patient with a poor presenting visual acuity
Liam Connolly
The implementation of a logbook for the documentation of telephone consultations for on-call NCHDs.
Edward Ahern
Eikenella corrodens canaliculitis. A case report.
Mary Walsh
A review of the ‘long waiters’ for ophthalmology outpatient services in Cork University Hospital and its impact on planning for the new Integrated Eye Care Team
Rubeena N Shaffi
Evaluating the Efficiency of the Irish National Diabetic Retinal Screening Service's Treatment Pathway
Ian Brennan
Adherence of patients with age-related macular degeneration to AREDS 2-recommended vitamin supplements
Ammr Alghamdi
Anatomical and Visual Outcomes of Full-Thickness Macular Hole Repair Surgery
Grace McCabe
Investigating inner blood retinal barrier integrity in rare neurological disorders
Deirdre Harford
Bing there, done that! Just another GCA Case?
Aine Ní Mhealoid
Review of The Eye Clinic Liaison Service (ECLO)
Hilary Devlin
Analysis of Metformins effect on Human Glaucomatous Lamina Cribrosa cells
Daire Hurley
Congenital free floating pigmented Vitreous Cyst
Jay Jun Lee
A focus on ocular parameters and their impact on quality of life measures in patients with Primary Sjögrens Syndrome
Emily Greenan
A case report of paediatric Vogt Koyanagi Harada(VKH) treated successfully with adalimumab (Humira)
Christine Goodchild
Evaluating Medical Students Experience of Near-Peer Led Teaching in Ophthalmology
Alexandra McCreery
Review of Prescribing Practices in University Hospital Limerick Ophthalmology Department
Emilie Mahon
Xen Gel Stents – The Cork University Hospital experience
Mohammed Mohamed
12-year analysis of the microbiological profile of infectious keratitis (IK) in an Irish tertiary hospital.
Kealan McElhinney
Clinical and Genetic Re-Evaluation of Inherited Retinal Degeneration Pedigrees following Initial Negative Findings on Panel-Based Next Generation Sequencing
Julia Zhu
2.5-year analysis of photo-dynamic therapy for chronic central serous chorioretinopathy in an Irish tertiary hospital.
Kealan McElhinney
Effectiveness, Capacity And Referral Patterns Of Ophthalmology Consultations In A Non-Emergency Service Provision Hospital
Alexandra McCreery
Case Study: The boy with the eyesore tattoo.
Robert Brady
Retinoblastoma in Ireland - A Review of the Caseload, Genotyping and Molecular Profiles of Patients over the Past 20 Years.
Alison Greene
Internuclear ophthalmoplegia secondary to ischaemia in a young patient with ampiginous choroiditis
Aisling Naylor
Students experience and outcomes following a targeted, blended teaching module during their ophthalmology rotation
Micheál Troy
Post-operative outcomes of MRSA positive patients who received intracameral Vancomycin during cataract surgery
James Morris
12-month analysis of emergency argon laser retinopexy in an Irish tertiary hospital
Rory Holohan
Anterior segment findings in patients with Multiple Myeloma treated with Belantamab
Mary Walsh
Ocular manifestations of syphilis - a case series of six patients.
Edward Ahern
Neurological complications of orbital cellulitis Beware!
Joséphine Behaegel
Cystoid Macular Oedema rates after Artisan versus Scleral Fixated Lens Implantation
Amy O'Regan
Moving Glaucoma Care into the Community - Experience from RVEEH and CH07
Shane O'Regan

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