ICO Winter Meeting, RAMI Winter Meeting & Montgomery Lecture

1 December 2016

The ICO Winter Meeting and RAMI Meeting will take place in the Gresham Hotel, Dublin on Thursday, 1st December

Guest speaker, Mr Brian Murphy, Head of Planning, Performance and Programme Management in the Primary Care Division in the HSE will give a talk on the Primary Care Review Report and planned integration of hospital and community care.

Mr Andy Cassels-Brown, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at the Leeds Teaching Hospital Unit and Leeds Community Eye Health Programme Lead will give a talk on in the experience in Leeds of implementing and delivering an integrated care model.

Programme:

9am                 Welcome Mr William Power, President Irish College of Ophthalmologists

9.05am            Integrating Community and Hospital Care - Transforming Eye Care Services in Ireland

Chair; Mr William Power, Clinical Lead for Ophthalmology                  

Primary Eye Care Services Review

Mr Brian Murphy

Head of Planning, Performance & Programme Management, HSE

             Discussion 

10.00am               Good Practice Guidelines for Patient Consent in Ophthalmology 

Ms Patricia Quinlan, Chair ICO Ethics Committee

Ms Patricia McGettrick, ICO Ethics Committee 

10.30am               Coffee                        

11.00am               Bayer/ICO Clinical Research Fellowship

Presentation by Ms Yvonne Delaney, Dean of Post Graduate Education ICO

To Dr Elizabeth McElnea, Specialist Registrar in Ophthalmic Surgery and 

Dr Andrea Ryan, Specialist Registrar in Ophthalmic Surgery 

11.20am               Integrating Community and Hospital Care - Models of Community Ophthalmology

Chair; Mr William Power, Clinical Lead for Ophthalmology

Update on International and UK Community Ophthalmology

Mr Andy Cassels-Brown, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon/Community Eye Health, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust

Ms Sophie Vickers, Orthoptist, Health Education England Clinical Leadership Fellow 

Discussion

12.30pm               Lunch

1.45pm                 Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland Ophthalmic Section Winter Meeting (programme attached)      

  All those attending must register here      

6.30pm             Montgomery Lecture

"Accepting the Unacceptable: Prevention and Treatment of Rejection of Donor Cornea"

Mr Frank Larkin, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Moorfields Hospital, London 

                           Stanley Querk Lecture Theatre, 

             Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, 152-160 Pearse Street.

The lecture will be followed by a reception.

Mr Frank Larkin MD FRCPI FRCOphth  

'Accepting the unacceptable: Prevention and treatment of rejection of donor cornea’

Mr Frank Larkin, Consultant Ophthalmologist in the Cornea and External Diseases service at Moorfields Eye Hospital, will present the annual Montgomery lecture at Trinity College Dublin on the evening of December 1st.

Mr Larkin’s Lecture 'Accepting the unacceptable: Prevention and treatment of rejection of donor cornea’  will illustrate the varied appearances of corneal transplant rejection, immune privilege of donor cornea and its erosion, pathways to rejection, and the management of high rejection risk patients in 2016.  Mr Larkin undertakes or supervises over 150 transplants annually.

Mr Larkin’s research has mainly concerned corneal transplantation, ranging from the pathways to immune rejection in experimental models and biology of the corneal endothelium to graft outcomes in patients. He has published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals, edited four books and written 12 book chapters.  More generally he is an advocate of research in cornea and external eye diseases, both by supporting trainee clinicians from numerous countries in full-time research and in his role in the UK’s National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre for Ophthalmology, of which he has deputy director since 2007 and director of the NIHR Moorfields Clinical Research Facility since 2008. The BRC has become the major UK government resource for translational research and its corneal theme encompasses limbal stem cell therapy, imaging, pathogenesis studies in inflammatory disorders and transplantation.  

Please note that this year's lecture and meetings are being held on a Thursday not a Friday as is usual - this is to avoid a clash with the Joint Irish & UKISCRS Refractive Surgery Meeting.