23rd Bowman Club Annual Meeting
Scientific Programme
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07:45 - 08:30: Registration, refreshments, networking and exhibition - Great Hall, Aston Webb Building
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Scientific Sessions - The Bramall, Bramall Music Building (adjacent to Great Hall via walkway)
Professor David Easty Lecture: 16:40pm
Are kids missing out on the lamellar revolution?
Professor Jodhbir Mehta, Singapore
08:30 - 08:45
Welcome - Saaeha Rauz, Birmingham
08:45 - 09:15
Bowman Club Member’s TSC / Post-CCT Fellow’s Prize Presentations
Moderators: Sai Kolli, Birmingham & Darren Shu Jeng Ting, Birmingham
08:45 - 08:55
Analysis and reporting of surgically induced keratometric effect (SIKE)
Fadi Alfaqawi
08:55 - 09:05
Assessment of corneal angiography filling patterns in corneal neovascularization
Alfredo Borgia
09:05 - 09:15
The effectiveness of artificial intelligence in annotating and measuring corneal pathology on OCT
Colby Hart
09:15 - 09:30
Presentation & Panel Discussion: The First 100 days…
Moderators: Ahmed Abdelmaksoud, Hull & Darren Shu Jeng Ting, Birmingham
09:15 - 09:20
Presentation: The First 100 days...
Ahmed Abdelmaksoud, Hull
09:20 - 09:30
Panel Discussion: The first 100 days...
Session participants joined by: Ahmed Bardan, Leeds, Harry Roberts, Exeter
09:30 - 10:45
NHSBT Update
Moderators: Amit Patel, Birmingham & Sunil Shah, Birmingham
09:30 – 09:45
Critical incidents
Amit Patel, Birmingham
09:45 – 10:00
Tissue Sustainability and Shortages
Parwez Hossain, Southampton
10:00 - 10:15
Corneal donation and transplantation trends and outcomes in the UK
Cathy Hopkinson, Bristol
10:15 - 10:30
Serum eye drops
Akila Chandrasekar, Liverpool
10:30 - 10:45
Panel Discussion
Session participants joined by: Emma Hollick, London
10:45 - 11:15
Morning Coffee: Great Hall - Refreshments, networking, posters and exhibitors
11:15 - 13:00
Hot Topics
Moderators: Frank Larkin, London & Stephen Kaye, Liverpool
11:15 - 11:45
Deskilling anterior lamellar surgery
Jodhbir Mehta, Singapore
11.45 - 12:00
UVC for corneal infections
Sunil Shah, Birmingham
12:00 - 12:10
Development of novel human-derived hybrid host defense peptides for infectious keratitis
Darren Shu Jeng Ting, Birmingham
12:10 – 12:20
Measuring Bowman's layer in the clinic
Stephen Kaye, Liverpool
12:20 – 12:30
Simulated lamellar and endothelial keratoplasty using three-dimensional printed and thin-film models
Lana Fu, London
12:30 – 12:40
Small incision lenticule extraction
Ahmed Bardan, Leeds
12:40 – 12:50
Predicting corneal oedema from Scheimpflug images of Fuchs' endothelial corneal dystrophy (FECD)
Sanjay Patel, Rochester, USA
12:50 – 13:00
Posterior stromal ripples increase risk of Descemet's membrane endothelial keratoplasty graft detachment worsening over time
Vito Romano, Liverpool
13:00 - 14:00
LUNCH: Great Hall - Refreshments, networking, posters and exhibitors
14:00 - 15:30
Multi-disciplinary Keynote Speaker Session
Moderators: Sai Kolli, Birmingham & Amit Patel, Birmingham
14:00 - 14:20
Epidermolysis bullosa
Adrian Heagerty, Birmingham
14:20 - 14:40
Drug delivery systems in eye and skin disease
Liam Grover, Birmingham
14:40 - 15:00
Graft-versus-host disease
Paul Tomlins, Cheltenham
15:00 - 15:20
Cystinosis
Susmito Biswas, Manchester
15:20 - 15:30
Panel Discussion
Session participants
15:30 - 16:00
Afternoon Tea: Great Hall - Refreshments, networking, posters and exhibitors
16:00 - 17:30
Paediatric Cornea
Moderators: Ankur Barua, Birmingham & Sunil Shah, Birmingham
16:00 - 16:20
Corneal neurotisation
Manoj Parulekar, Birmingham
16:20 - 16:40
Paediatric keratoconus
Frank Larkin, London
16:40 - 17:30
The David Easty Lecture:
Are kids missing out on the lamellar revolution?
Introduction by Sunil Shah, Birmingham
Jodhbir Mehta
Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
17:30 - 17:40
Panel Discussion
Session participants
17:40 - 17:45
Award of Prizes and Close
Saaeha Rauz, Birmingham & Sunil Shah, Birmingham
18:30
Bowman Club Gala Dinner - Lloyd Suite, Hornton Grange, Edgbaston Park Hotel
Drinks from 18:30, sit down to dinner 19:00
Posters in the Great Hall.
e-posters, vignettes and video available on the Bowman Club website from 3 March 2023
1 - Breaking the ICE (abstract category: Videos or vignettes)
Ahmed Bardan, Leeds
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2 - The dos and don'ts in phakic DMEK (abstract category: Videos or vignettes)
Ahmed Bardan, Leeds
3 - Quadruple procedure (abstract category: Videos or vignettes)
Ahmed Bardan, Leeds
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4 - Epimax-related ocular surface toxicity (EROST): The Glasgow experience (abstract category: Case/case series)
David Lockington, Glasgow
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5 - Why is the cornea often much thinner than expected after DMEK? A retrospective review and discussion of the clinical implications (abstract category: Case/case series)
David Lockington, Glasgow
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6 - DMEK in cases with aphakia & aniridia. Three-year experience with the safety net technique (abstract category: Case/case series)
Alfonso Vasquez-Perez, London
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7 - Necrotising blepharoconjunctivitis and keratitis in human monkeypox (abstract category: Case/case series)
Alfonso Vasquez-Perez, London
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8 - Topical insulin eye drops in infective keratitis (abstract category: Case/case series)
Davide Romano, Leicester
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9 - Factors associated with the disparity between manifest refractive cylinder and keratometric astigmatism in keratoconic eyes (abstract category: Research)
Jesse Panhtagani, Southend
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10 - Descemet's membrane endothelial keratoplasty without peripheral iridotomy: Outcomes and safety profile (abstract category: Research)
Liam Price, London
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11 - Refractive outcomes of patients undergoing combined Descemet's membrane endothelial keratoplasty and phacoemulsification surgery (abstract category: Research)
Radhika Patel, London
12 - An innovative technique for practising peeling of donor Descemet's membrane for Descemet's membrane endothelial keratoplasty
Shakeel Ahmad, Exeter (abstract category: Research)
13 - "No Nonsense" DMEK: Safety and efficacy of postureless DMEK with deferred post-operative review until one week (abstract category: Research)
Shakeel Ahmad, Exeter