Uveitis Course in Moorefields

30 September 2011 - 1 October 2011

A PRACTICAL CLINICAL APPROACH TO THE DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF INTRAOCULAR INFLAMMATION AND INFECTION

COURSE ORGANISERS:  Professor Sue Lightman (UK) &                                               Professor Peter McCluskey (Australia)

SPEAKERS:Professor Sue Lightman (UK), Professor Peter McCluskey (Australia), Professor J P Dunn (USA), Professor Douglas Jabs (USA), Mr Hamish Towler (UK), Mr Simon Taylor (UK)

Friday 30^thSeptember 2011

MORNING SESSION:  Assessment and Treatment of the infected/inflamed eye
CHAIRMAN:  Professor Peter McCluskey

9.30 – 10.00                Assessing anterior uveitis – Professor Peter McCluskey
10.00 – 10.30              Sorting out scleritis – Professor Douglas Jabs
10.30 – 11.00              Post cataract surgery inflammation  - Professor JP Dunn
11.00 – 11.30              COFFEE
11.30 – 12.00              Uveitis in children – Professor Sue Lightman
12.00 – 12.30              Intraocular lymphoma  - Professor Peter McCluskey
12.30 – 1.00                Ocular toxoplasmosis – Professor J P Dunn
1.00 – 2.00                  LUNCH

AFTERNOON SESSION: Medical and surgical management of uveitis

CHAIRMAN:  Professor Sue Lightman

2.00 – 2.30                  Using systemic therapy– Professor Douglas Jabs
2.30 – 3.00                  Local therapy  options in uveitis – Mr Simon Taylor
3.00 – 3.30                  Using biologics - Professor Douglas Jabs
3.30 – 4.00                  TEA
4.00 – 4.30                  Managing the IOP – Professor J P Dunn
4.30 – 5.00                  Glaucoma surgery – Professor Peter McCluskey

SATURDAY 1^stOctober 2011

MORNING SESSION:  each session 45 mins then all groups rotate

9.30 – 11.00                Patient examination 1 – Professor J P Dunn
                                       Patient examination 2 – Professor Douglas Jabs
11.00 – 11.30              COFFEE        
11.30 – 1.00                How to inject Ozurdex and the results of the Huron Trial –           Professor Sue Lightman, Interactive cases – Professor Peter McCluskey
1.00 – 2.00                  LUNCH

AFTERNOON SESSION:   

2.00 – 3.30                  Patient examination  3 – Professor JP Dunn                            
                                      Patient examination  4 – Professor Douglas Jabs
3.30 – 4.00                  TEA   
4.00 – 5.30                  Cataract surgery in uveitis  – Mr Hamish Towler, Professor Peter McCluskey, Interactive cases – Professor Sue Lightman, Mr Simon Taylor
 

Cost £500 including tea/coffee/ sandwich lunch
Location:  Institute of Ophthalmology Bath Street London  EC1V   9EL UK

For Further Information Please Contact;

Sarah Mayhew, 5 Lyster Avenue, Great Baddow, Chelmsford, Essex  CM2 7DF telephone: 07791 261580 email: sarahmayhew9@gmail.com