ICO Winter Meeting & Montgomery Lecture 2025

Date:  Friday, 21st November 2025

Venue: Albert Theatre, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

ICO Winter Meeting 

The focus of the Winter Meeting will be on Neuro Ophthalmology.

Date:    Friday, 21st November 2025

Venue: Albert Theatre, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Programme Overview

2.00pm  Introduction and Welcome 

Mr Gerry Fahy, President, Irish College of Ophthalmologists

2.05pm Neuro Ophthalmology Session

Co-chairs:   

Ms Lisa McAnena, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Beaumont Hospital and Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin

Ms Áine Ní Mhéalóid, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin 

Guest Speakers

Dr Tasanee Braithwaite

Consultant Ophthalmologist in Neuro-ophthalmology and Uveitis, The Medical Eye Unit, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London; Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences and School of Population and Life Course Sciences, King's College London

Miss. Ruchika Batra

Consultant in Neuro-ophthalmology, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Paddy Nicholson

Consultant Neurointerventional Radiologist, Beaumont Hospital and Beacon Hospital, Dublin; Honorary Clinical Associate Professor of Radiology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland 

Annual Montgomery Lecture 

Drinks Reception: 5pm

Lecture: 6pm 

"Journey of an Accidental Academic"

Professor Anthony King

Professor Anthony King is a Consultant Ophthalmologist with a subspecialist interest in glaucoma at Nottingham University Hospital and an Honorary Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Nottingham. His primary research interest is in the clinical management of glaucoma, particularly advanced glaucoma. He is currently the Chief Investigator of the NIHR funded Treatment of Advanced Glaucoma Study (TAGS). He is a past President of the UK & Eire Glaucoma Society and was the Royal College of Ophthalmologist glaucoma lead for the development of a national ophthalmic database for trabeculectomy.

In his Montgomery Lecture “Journey of an Accidental Academic” Professor King will chart his experience along this pathway from rookie researcher to a RCT - and be informative about glaucoma, the realities of undertaking research and look to encourage a few juniors to embark on this journey.